We _mere Irish_ assume to be descended from a Phoenician colony; the word _Milesian_ is not Irish, the families so designated being known in the Irish language only as "Clonna Gäel" (I spare the English reader the _mute_ consonants, which _would rather bother him_ to get his tongue round). Our tradition is, that the leader of the said colony saw Ireland from a tower, still said to exist near Corunna; he bore the style of _Mileadle Spaniogle_, for which no better translation is offered than "the soldier of Spain." His brothers and sons, the chief himself having deceased, are said to have conducted the expedition to Ireland; and if your correspondent wishes for a full account of their adventures, he should consult Keating's _History of Ireland_, which will, at all events, afford him some amusement. As to the round towers, Mr. Petrie's book on _The Ecclesiastical Antiquities or Architecture of Ireland_ has set that question at rest. He has shown that they are undoubtedly Christian buildings intended as _Bell-houses_, which their name in Irish signifies; and further, probably, for the safe keeping of the sacred vessels, &c., in time of war or tumult. It is unfortunately too certain that agitation was always rife in Ireland. On all points connected with Irish antiquities, the safest and best reference is to the Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. If this answer attract any of your correspondents to visit the museum of that establishment, I venture to prophecy that they will account themselves well repaid for their trouble, even though they should miss visiting the Great Exhibition thereby. KERRIENSIS. THE TANTHONY. (Vol. iii., pp. 105. 229. 308.) I remember hearing a worthy citizen of Norwich remark, that it was very odd there should be three churches in the city called after saints whose names began with the letter T. Having been myself resident in that city many years, without being aware of this fact, I took the liberty of inquiring to which three he alluded; when I was unhesitatingly told, "Why, Sain Tandrew's, Sain Taustin's, and Sain Tedmund's, to be sure!" Let me then be allowed to repeat ARUN'S question, and to ask, "Why not Tanthony for Saint Anthony?"