MACCECHT. Danaan king, husband of Fohla, 132; member of Conary’s retinue at Da Derga’s Hostel, 175; his search for water, 175, 176 MACCUILL (quill). Danaan king, husband of Banba, 132; at fortress of Aileach, 132 MACGRENÉ. Danaan king, husband of Eriu, 132; mythical name Son of the Sun, 132 MAC INDOC´, THE PLAIN OF. Laery and St. Benen on, 239 MACKERVAL, DERMOT. Rule of, in Ireland, and the cursing of Tara, 47, 48. See Dermot MACPHERSON. Pseudo-Ossian poetry of, 238 MAC ROTH. Maev’s steward, named, and the Brown Bull of Quelgny, 202; sent to view host of Ulster men, 223 MACEDON. Attacked by Thracian and Illyrian hordes, 23 MACHA. Daughter of Red Hugh, 151; slays Dithorba and compels Kimbay to wed her, 151; captures five sons of Dithorba, 151, 152; forms an instance of the intermingling of the attributes of the Danaan with the human race, 152; a super-natural being, 178; goes to dwell with Crundchu, 178; her race against Ultonian horses, 179; gives birth to twins and curses the Ultonians, 180; her curse on men of Ulster, 203-221; the curse removed from men of Ulster, 222 MAELDŪN. Son of Ailill Edge-of-Battle, 310; departs to his own kindred, 311; sets out on his wonderful voyage, 311-331 MAELDŪN, VOYAGE OF (mayl’-doon). Found in MS. entitled “Book of the Dun Cow,” 309; reference to Dr. Whitley Stokes’ translation in the “Revue Celtique,” 309; theme of Tennyson’s “Voyage of Maeldune” furnished by Joyce’s version in “Old Celtic Romances,” 309; narrative of, 311-331 MAEN TYRIAWC (ma’en tyr’i-awc). Burial-place of Pryderi, 379 MAEV (mayv). Queen of Connacht, 122; Angus Ōg seeks aid of, 122; debility of Ultonians manifested on occasion of Cattle-raid of Quelgny, 180; Fergus seeks aid of, 202; her famous bull Finnbenach, 202; her efforts to secure the Brown Bull of Quelgny, 204-246; host of, spreads devastation through the territories of Bregia and Murthemney, 209; offers her daughter Findabair of Fair Eyebrows to Ferdia if he will meet Cuchulain, 216; Conor summons men of Ulster against, 222; overtaken but spared by Cuchulain, 225; makes seven years’ peace with Ulster, 225; vengeance of, against Cuchulain, 228-233; mac Datho’s hound and, 241-244; retires to island on Loch Ryve, 245; slain by Forbay, 245 MAGA. Daughter of Angus Ōg, wife of Ross the Red, 181; wedded also to Druid Cathbad, 181 MAGI. Word magic derived from, 60; treated by Pliny, 61 MAGIC. The religion of Megalithic People that of, 59; origin of word, 60; Pliny on, 61; religion of, invented in Persia and by Zoroaster, 61; traces of, in Megalithic monuments, 63; Clan Calatin learn, in Ireland, Alba, and Babylon, to practise against Cuchulain, 228-233 MAITRE, M. ALBERT. Inspector of Musée des Antiquités Nationales, 64 MALORY. Anticipated by Wace, 338, 339; Cymric myths and, 388