From all that we have said it clearly appears that carefully as the Christianised Irish strove to euhemerise their pantheon, they were unable to succeed. If, as Keating acknowledges, Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba were gods, then _à fortiori_ much more so must have been the more famous Lugh, who compassed their death, and the Dagda, and Angus Óg. Keating himself, in giving us a list of the famous Tuatha De Danann has probably given us also the names of a large number of primitive Celtic deities--not that these were at all confined to the De Danann tribes. It is remarkable that there is no mention of temples nor of churches dedicated to these Irish gods, nor do we find any of those inscriptions to them which are so common in Gaul, Belgium, Switzerland, and even Britain, but they appear from passages in Cormac's Glossary[18] to have had altars and images dedicated to them. We are forced, then, to come to the conclusion that the pagan Irish once possessed a large pantheon, probably as highly organised as that of the Scandinavians, but owing to their earlier and completer conversion to Christianity only traces of it now remain. [1] In modern times spelt Eíbhear [Ævir] and Eireamhóin [Æra-vone]. [2] It is just as likely that, as the only name of any people known to the early Irish antiquaries which bore some resemblance to their own was Scythia, they said that the Scoti came from thence. [3] "The race of the warrior of Spain" continued until recent times to be a favourite bardic synonym for the Milesians. There is a noble war ode by one of the O'Dalys which I found preserved in the so-called "Book of the O'Byrnes," in Trinity College Library, in which he celebrates a victory of the O'Byrnes of Wicklow over the English about the year 1580 in these words:-- "_Sgeul tásgmhar do ráinig fá chrióchaibh Fáil_ _Dá táinig lán-tuile i nGaoidhiltigh (?) Chláir._ _Do chloinn áird áithiosaigh Mhile Easpáin_ _Toisg airmioch (?), ar lár an laoi ghil bháin._" It is to be observed that of the four great Irish stocks the descendants of Ith are often called the Clanna Breógain.