Materials_, p.47.

Mr.Petrie writes, if possible, more strongly.

He says: "It is difficult, if not impossible, to conceive how the minute and apparently accurate accounts found in the various MSS.

of the names and localities of the Attacottic tribes of Ireland in the first century, could have been preserved, without coming to the conclusion that they had been preserved in writing in some work."-- _Essay on Tara Hill_, p.46.Elsewhere, however, he speaks more doubtfully.
[106] _Land_ .-- Four Masters, p.

117.
[107] _Collas_ .-- They were sons of Eochaidh Domlen, who made themselves famous by their warlike exploits, and infamous by their destruction of the palace of Emania.
[108] _Groans_ .-- Bede, _Eccl.Hist_.c.