[18] Quelna or Cooley, the ancient name of the hilly peninsula lying between the bays of Carlingford and Dundalk: the name Cooley is still retained.
[19] The translation that follows is quite new, and is now published for the first time. On this fine story is founded the poem of "Deirdre" by Robert Dwyer Joyce, M.D.
[20] Ulaid (pron. Ulla), Ulster.
[21] The druids professed to be able to foretell by observing the stars and clouds.
[22] "Deirdre" is said to mean "alarm."
[23] That is 1665. This inverted method of enumeration was often used in Ireland. But they also used direct enumeration like ours.
[24] This and the other places named in Deirdre's Farewell are all in the west of Scotland.
[25] Irish name Drum-Sailech; the ridge on which Armagh was afterwards built.
[26] These champions, as well as their wives, took care never to show any signs of fear or alarm even in the time of greatest danger: so Naisi and Deirdre kept playing quietly as if nothing was going on outside, though they heard the din of battle resounding.
[27] The "Three Tonns or Waves of Erin" were the Wave of Tuath outside the mouth of the river Bann, off the coast of Derry; the Wave of Rury in Dundrum Bay, off the county Down; and the Wave of Cleena in Glandore Harbour in the south of Cork. In stormy weather, when the wind blows from certain directions, the sea at those places, as it tumbles over the sandbanks, or among the caves and [fissures] of the rocks, utters a loud and [solemn] roar, which in old times was believed to forebode the death of some king.