Here the name _Cineal Eoghain_, which had been translated _genus Eoghain_, _i.e._, race or progeny of _Eoghan_, by all the early Irish writers, is made to signify the principal division of the northern county of the Oll or Bolgæ. Let us examine how this interpretation has been wrested from _Cineal Eoghain_. In the first place, he spells the name incorrectly, though we cannot see that he gains any point by doing so; next he takes asunder what he conceives to be its component parts, first metamorphosing the word _Cineal_, which is cognate with the Latin _genus_ and the English _kind_, _kindred_, into _Cean all_, which he made to signify “principal division,” and resolving _Eoghan_, a man’s name, into _Eogh-an_, to make it signify I know not what; but as the four vocables thus obtained would not answer his purpose, he took the liberty of adding one more of his own coining, thus making five distinct words of the two original ones. But even allowing that these five vocables are legitimately obtained from the two original ones, I have still a further objection to them, for they do not grammatically coalesce, or bear the meaning he affixes to them, as there is no word among the five to express _principal division_ or _county_. And granting further that the five words thus formed could really bear the signification he gives them, it would not follow that the name _Cineal Eoghain_ is so compounded, while in opposition to the testimony of all authentic history; and we have the testimony of all the authentic Irish annals, the lives of the Irish apostle, and of the most ancient genealogical books, to prove that the great northern race called _Cineal Eoghain_ took that appellation from their great ancestor _Eoghan_ (the son of Niall of the Nine Hostages), who was contemporary with St Patrick, as did a neighbouring race that of _Cineal Conaill_, from Eoghan’s brother, Conall Gulban.