Footnote 175: _Bass Conaill mic Comgaill Ri Dalriada_ xiii anno regni sui qui oferavit insolam Ia Colaimcille.—_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 67. Footnote 176: Quæ videlicet insula ad jus quidem Brittaniæ pertinet, non magno ab eo freto discreta, sed donatione Pictorum, qui illas Brittaniæ plagas incolunt, jamdudum monachis Scottorum tradita, eo quod illis prædicantibus fidem Christi perceperint.—Bede, _H. E._, B. iii. c. 3. Footnote 177: _Amra Choluim Chilli_, translated by O’Beirne Crowe, p. 65. The expression ‘definite for indefinite’ is obscure, but means probably a ‘definite title from the tribe.’ Footnote 178: O’Donnel, who introduces this statement into his Life, supposes they were Druids in disguise; but there is no warrant for this. Footnote 179: This plain is termed by Adamnan Occidentalis Campulus. It is now called the _Machar_. The hillock is now called _Sithean Mor_, but the circle of stones has long since disappeared. Footnote 180: This tract is termed by Adamnan “Saltus,” or wilds, and is now called _Sliabh Meanach_. Footnote 181: The author may be permitted here to enter his protest against the cockneyism which, under the inspiration of the guide-books, has transformed the name of the Coollin hills into the Cuchullin hills, now universally adopted. The change has taken place within the author’s recollection, and forty years ago was quite unknown. Martin terms them in 1702 the Quillins. The name Cuillin has no connection whatever with Cuchullin. Footnote 182: Such was the impression produced upon a party of archæologists who sat one day in 1876 on the brow of the hill. The knolls bounding the plain on the north are called _Cnuic na Bearna_, ‘the knolls of the gap’; the highest of the two isolated hillocks, _Cnoc na briste clach_, and the other _Cnoc an tuim dharich_. The lake is called _Lochan Mor_, and the stream _Sruth a Mhuilinn_, or ‘the mill stream.’ Footnote 183: The original of this interesting poem is in one of the Irish MSS. in the Burgundian Library at Brussels. It was transcribed and translated for the late Dr. Todd by the late Professor O’Curry, and was kindly given to the author by Dr. Reeves, Bishop of Down and Connor, then Dean of Armagh, in 1866. Footnote 184: Bede, _H. E._, B. iii. c. 4. Footnote 185: Adamnan, B. i. c. 29. Footnote 186: _Ib._, B. i. c. 35. Footnote 187: Pennant, who visited the island in 1772, after describing the existing ruins and the small rising ground on the west of them called the Abbot’s Mount, says, ‘Beyond the mount are the ruins of a kiln and a granary, and near it was the mill. The lake or pool that served it lay behind.’ Footnote 188: Adamnan, _Vit. S. Col._, B. i. c. 35; B. iii. c. 24. Footnote 189: _Ib._ B. i. c. 18. Footnote 190: _Ib._ B. ii. c. 3. Footnote 191: _Ib._ B. iii. c. 7. Footnote 192: _Ib._ B. ii. c. 46. Footnote 193: