of Ulster (a kind of Northern), Dublin, and Wexford (a kind of Southern).
No map of dialects is here given in illustration, because it is practically impossible to define their boundaries accurately.

Such a map was once given by Dr Ellis, but it is only arbitrary; and Prof.
Wright expressly says that, in his work also, the boundaries suggested are inexact; they are only given for convenience, as an approximation to the truth.

He agrees with Dr Ellis in most of the particulars.
Many of the counties are divided between two, or even three, dialects; I somewhat simplify matters by omitting to mention some of them, so as to give merely a general idea of the chief dialectal localities.

For fuller information, see the _Dialect Grammar_.
I.The dialects of Scotland may be subdivided into nine groups: 1.

Shetland and Orkney.