This is also full of bold assertions, unsupported by history or etymology. _Conmaicne_ does not mean the chief tribe, but the race of a chieftain called Conmac; _Conmaicne mara_, which is now anglicised Connamara, was never called _Conmaicne ira_, and _Conmaicne mara_ and _Iar Connaught_ are not now coextensive, nor were they considered to be so at any period of Irish history. _Conmaicne mara_ was never called Hy Iartagh, and O’Flaherty was not the ancient chief of _Conmaicne mara_, for O’Flaherty was located in the plains of Moy Seola, lying eastwards of Lough Corrib, until he was driven across that lake into the wilds of Connamara by the De Burgos in the 13th century. Again, the surname O’Flaherty does not mean “the chief of the nobles of the western district,” but is derived from _Flaithbheartach_, who was chief of _Hy Briuin Seola_, not of _Conmaicne mara_, in the tenth century; and this chief was not the first who received the name, for it was the name of hundreds of far more distinguished chieftains who flourished in other parts of Ireland many centuries before him, and O’Flaherty became the name of a far more powerful family located in the north of Ireland; which shows that the name has no reference to north or west, but must look for its origin to some other source. Now, to any one acquainted with the manner in which compound words are formed in the Irish language, it will be obvious that the name _Flaithbheartach_ is not derived from a locality or territory, but that it is formed from _flaith_, a chief, and _beart_, a deed or exploit, in the following manner: _flaith_, a lord or chief, _flaithbheart_, a lordly deed or exploit; and by adding the adjective and personal termination _ach_ (which has nearly the same power with the Latin _ax_), we have _flaithbheartach_, meaning the lordly-deeded, or a man of lordly or chieftain-like exploits. According to the same mechanism, which is simple and regular, are formed several other compound words in this language, as _oirbheart_, a noble deed; _oirbheartach_, noble-deeded, &c. Finally, Mr Beauford is wrong in the extent which he gives to _Conmaicne mara_. He is wrong in giving _Morogh_ as the name of a modern barony, for there is none such in existence; and we have the most indisputable evidence to prove that the territory of _Conmaicne mara_, now called Connamara, never since the dawn of authentic history comprised more than one barony. It is to be regretted that these etymological phantasies of Mr Beauford about the country of O’Flaherty are received as true history by the O’Flahertys themselves, and repeated in modern topographical and literary productions of great merit. I shall give one specimen more of this writer’s erroneous mode of explaining topographical names, and I shall then have done with him.