_Indarba Ullad a h-Erend a Manand la Cormac hui Cond. As de ba Cormac Ulfada dia ro cuir Ul. a fadh_.—_Ad an._ 254. Footnote 128: Genealach Corca Laidhe.—_Misc. Celtic Soc._, pp. 4, 5. Footnote 129: _Ib_. p. 67. Footnote 130: _Ibid_. p. 5. Footnote 131: See _Annals of the Four Masters_, under dates, and Keating’s _History of Ireland_. Tighernac under 322, 326, 332. Footnote 132: Cormac’s Glossary, edited for the Irish Arch. Society by Mr. Whitley Stokes, p. 111. Footnote 133: _Annals of the Four Masters._ Footnote 134: _Tribes and Customs of Hy Fiachrach_, p. 19. Footnote 135: From the Book of Leinster. The substance is given in O’Curry’s _Lectures on the MS. Materials_, p. 287. Footnote 136: Dean of Lismore’s Book, p. 157. Footnote 137: This poem is preserved in McFirbis’ _Book of Genealogies_, p. 410, where the prose tales will also be found. The original of the poem is printed in the Appendix No. VI. Footnote 138: McFirbis, in his Genealogical MS., says—‘This account I found among the Books of Fardorough McFirbis, who was a sennachaidhe well acquainted in Alban and much frequented it.’ He lived about 1560. Footnote 139: Fergus filius Eric ipse fuit primus qui de semine Chonare suscepit regnum Alban.—_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 130. Footnote 140: _Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 18. Footnote 141: _Stat. Acc._ (1791-99), vol. xiv. p. 602. Footnote 142: Cath a sreith in terra Circin inter Pictones invicem in quo cecidit Bruidhi mac Mailchon.—_Tigh. Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 76. Footnote 143: _Chron. of the Picts and Scots_, pp. 320 and 526. Footnote 144: O’Curry, _MS. Materials of Ancient Irish History_, p. 319. The story of the children of Uisneach, from which the quotations are here made, will be found in the _Transactions_ of the Gaelic Society of Dublin. Footnote 145: The old Gaelic names of the leading physical features of the Highlands have been so perverted by the numerous guide-books to which the attraction of the country to tourists has given rise, that the older forms well known some thirty years ago are almost gone. The writers of these books seem to have invented an orthography of their own, which they suppose to represent Gaelic words, but are neither one thing nor another. One of their most successful inventions is that of the _Cuchullin_ hills in Skye. Footnote 146: A translation from the oldest copy of it will be found in the introduction to the Dean of Lismore’s Book, p. lxxxvii. Footnote 147: _Ib_., p. lxxxviii. note. Footnote 148: _Chronicles of the Picts and Scots_, p. 319. Footnote 149: Cormac’s Glossary, edited by Mr. Whitley Stokes, p. 72. Footnote 150: The form of this name as we find it in St. Berchan’s prophecy is identical with that of Erin or Ireland.—See _Chron. Picts and Scots_, pp. 84, 88, and 98. Footnote 151: _Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 165. Footnote 152: