Killeshandra, the name of a town in the county of Leitrim, on the borders of the county of Cavan, signifies, in Irish, “the temple of the moon’s cycle,” or circle. In Sanscrit, which is a dialect of the aboriginal Irish,[228] it denotes exactly the same. We find besides Herodotus making mention, B. xi. c. 98, of a city in Egypt, during the Persian dominion, called Archandra, that is, “the city of the moon.” He asserts that it is not Egyptian, neither derived from the wife of Danaus, the daughter of Archander: yet the opposite may be well supported without at the same time injuring this derivation, for the daughters of Danaus were certainly initiated in the _Phallic rites_; nay, they were the persons who first imported them into Attica: and it is eminently worth notice, that this was the very spot[229] where the Tuath-de-danaan kings happened to be stationed upon the first Scythian deluge; the word “Kill” having been _prefixed_ to it only upon the introduction of Christianity. Granard, the name of a town in the county of Longford, is compounded of the words _Grian_, the sun, and _ard_, a height, that is, the sun’s high-place. Nor, I suspect, will it be deemed an over-effort of criticism, if I repeat, that in our Irish _Grian_ is to be found the root of that epithet of Apollo, _Grynæus_,[230] which was also the name of a city of Asia Minor, consecrated to his worship, and favoured, as Strabo informs us, with a grove, a temple, and an oracle of that deity. The river Granicus, too, was derived therefrom, because its source lay in Mount Ida, sacred to _Grian_, or the sun, whereon was situated the _Idean stone_, upon which, we are told, Hector was wont to sacrifice; and corresponding to the _Cromleachs_, so common throughout this island. The word _Carne_, also, meaning a heap of stones, on which an inferior order of clergy, thence called _Carneach_, used to officiate, belongs to the same root, as both Ovid and Macrobius declare that it was called, by the ancients, Grane.[231] As Lough _Rea_ had been dedicated to the moon, so was the other luminary also honoured with a lake,--called after his name,--which we find in the adjoining country, where Lough _Grany_ signifies the Lake of the _Sun_; as we do also _Beal-ath_, or Ath-en-righ, that is, the _Ford of Baal_, or the _Ford of the King_, _i.e._ the _Sun_; corresponding to _Ath-lone_, or _Ford of the Moon_.