The peasantry still use the pagan name.

It is a compound word, signifying "summer" and "end." [82] _Breifne_ .-- In the present county Cavan.

We shall refer again to this subject, when mentioning St.Patrick's destruction of the idols.
[83] _Colours_ .-- Keating says that a slave was permitted only one colour, a peasant two, a soldier three, a public victualler five.

The Ollamh ranked, with royalty, and was permitted six--another of the many proofs of extraordinary veneration for learning in pre-Christian Erinn.
The Four Masters, however, ascribe the origin of this distinction to Eochaidh Eadghadhach.

It is supposed that this is the origin of the Scotch plaid.