An additional suggestion may here be made to the effect that the eldest son and daughter of Beoit were twins. Their names, _Lug-oll_ "big Lug," and _Lug-beg_ "little Lug," are in correspondence, as twins' names often are. [Footnote 1: For brevity we shall refer to certain books, frequently quoted in these Annotations, by the following symbols-- LL. _Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore_, ed. Stokes. CS. _Codex Salmaticensis_ (Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae), ed. de Smedt and de Backer. VTP. _Vita Tripartita Patricii_, ed. Stokes. VSH. Plummer's _Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae_. TT. _Trias Thaumaturga_ (Colgan's collection of the lives of SS. Patrick, Brigid, and Colum Cille).] [Footnote 2: There is a different version, which need not be given here, in the _Martyrology of Oengus_ (Henry Bradshaw Society edition, p. 204).] [Footnote 3: Mentioned in _Annals of Ulster_, anno 1166, _Annals of Loch Ce_, anno 1189, _Annals of the Four Masters_, annis 1121, 1166.] [Footnote 4: A collection (in Irish) of the traditions of this person will be found in _Targaireacht Bhriain ruaidh ui Chearbhain_, by Micheal o Tiomhanaidhe (Dublin, 1906).] [Footnote 5: The passage would then read thus--_Rothircan Bec mac De condebairt andsin_-- "_A maic in tsaeir, cot clasaib, cot coraib, It casair chaeim, cot cairpthib, cot ceolaib._" The transposition has probably been caused by the error of some scribe who copied first the parts of the two lines preceding the caesura.] [Footnote 6: The roll of the Kings of Tara was evolved from various sources by the Irish historians of the early Christian Period. Tigernmas was properly a pagan culture-hero, to whom was traditionally attributed the introduction of gold-smelting and of other arts, and who was said to have perished, apparently as a human sacrifice, at some great religious assembly.] [Footnote 7: This is certainly the reading, curiously misread in LL p. 356, (Irish text), and in VSH i, p. li, note 3.] [Footnote 8: Ossianic Society's _Transactions_, vol. v, p. 84 ff.] [Footnote 9: Edited by Dr. Hyde in _Celtic Review_, vol. x, p. 116 ff.] [Footnote 10: On this whole subject see Chapter IV of MacNeill's _Phases of Irish History_, a book which may be unreservedly recommended as giving a clear and accurate view of the early history of the country.] [Footnote 11: It may be noted for the benefit of the reader unaccustomed to Irish nomenclature, that persons are named in one of the following formulae: "A mac B" (_mac_, genitive _mic_, in syntactic relation _mhic_ [pronounced _vic_] = son): "A o B" (_o_ or _ua_, genitive _ui_ = grandson or descendant): and "A maccu B" (_maccu_ = descendant, denoting B as the name of a remote ancestor). Of course the name B will in every case be in the genitive.]