_The Geographical Names in this Incident._--_Temoria_ (LA) is Tara (Irish _Teamair_), Co. Meath, the site of the dwelling of the Kings of Ireland. _Midhe_ (LA) means the province of Meath; LA is, however, in error in placing the Latronenses therein. The _Connachta_ are the people who give their name to the province of Connacht. _Mag Ai_, variously spelt, is the central plain of Co. Roscommon; _Raith Cremthainn_ ("the fort of Cremthann") was somewhere upon it, presumably near the royal establishment of Rathcroghan, but the exact site is unknown. _Isel Chiarain_ (VG), a place reappearing later in the Life, is unknown, but doubtless it was close to Clonmacnois. _Cluain maccu Nois_, the "Meadow of the Descendants of Nos," now Clonmacnois, stands on the right bank of the Shannon about twelve miles below Athlone. Extensive remains of the monastery founded by Ciaran are still to be seen there. As for _Tech meic in tSaeir_, "the house of the wright's son," we might have inferred that this place was also somewhere near or in Clonmacnois; but a note among the glosses of the _Martyrology of Oengus_ (under 9th September) says that it was "in the house of the son of the wright" that Ciaran was _brought up_. It is therefore to be identified with the mysterious place corruptly spelt "Templevickinloyhe" (church of the son of the ----?) in the extract from the _Annals of Clonmacnois_ printed above.[11] _The Verses in this Section of VG._--The epigram on Ciaran's parents is found in many MSS. The rendering here given expresses the sense and reproduces the rhythm of the stanza, but does not attempt to copy the metre in every detail. This is known as _cro cummaisc etir casbairdne ocus lethrannaigecht_, and consists of seven-syllable lines with trisyllabic rhymes, alternating with five-syllable lines having monosyllabic rhymes. Literally translated the sense would run, "Darerca my mother / she was not a bad woman // Beoit the wright my father / of the Latharna of Molt." The second stanza is misplaced, and should properly have been inserted in the following paragraph. Its metre is _ae freslige_--seven-syllable lines in a quatrain, rhyming _abab_: _a_ being trisyllabic, _b_ dissyllabic rhymes. The stanza is obscure and probably corrupt; so far as it can be rendered at all, the literal translation is: "He healed the steed of Oengus / when he was in a swathe, in a cradle // there was given ... / from God this miracle to Ciaran." III. HOW CIARAN RAISED THE STEED OF OENGUS FROM DEATH (LA, LB, LC, VG)