1 Clounish 2 Devenish Isle 3 Downpatrick 4 Dromifkin 5 Drumboe 6 Drumlane 7 Drumcliff 8 Killala 9 Mahera 10 Monafterboife 11 Newcastle near Foxfort 12 Ram Isle, (Loughneagh) (M, 510.) (M, 510.) MANANAN, a Manx Chronicle, tranflated from the original, MANANAN beg, hight Mac y Ler Not with his fword or with his bow, Around the coaft on every height, Thus from all enemies fecure, And his dominions all in peace, He long maintained a regal fway Their yearly tribute but a load Some were obliged to carry it up, Thus Thus lived the inhabitants of man, But now Saint Patrick soon arrives, And o'er the waves Mananan drives With all fubmiffion to the very ingenious editor of Fingal, nothing feems more evident than that the perfonage characterized by the King of the Mifts, (p. 4.) and in the poem (p. 13.) must have been no other than this fabulous King of the Isle of Mann, and not any King of Sky or the Hebrides as the compiler fuppofes. Thus the province of Ulfter in Ireland, and the Western part of Scotland, being made the dominion of Fingal, nothing could be more natural than for the Bard to introduce Mann, an ifland lying in full view of both. (a) There is a tradition that Mananann was fon to the King of Ulfter, and brother to Fergus the Ild. King of Scotland, placing him in the third century, in the fame manner as the Bards bring Offian down to the time of Patrick; but these are all the inventions of idle Monks and Bards of modern times. The Kings of Mann were Kings of the whole or the greatest part of the Hebrides, Sky and all, as appears from the ancient records of Mann, where it is affirmed that the Reprefentatives or Keys (b) as they are called, were chofen 16 from the elders of Mann and eight from the other islands, so that the poet might call him either King of Mann or of the Hebrides. (a) See Preface. (b) Ce or Ke, Hib. Magnates, Perficè Ke Princeps. ! The The Manx poets are not behind their neighbours in compofi- Ubi multa pulchritudo, ibi multa deceptio; (c) Oshin Mac Owm, or the fon of Om, the God of Terror. See INDEX |