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Place and tribal names

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(Onom. = Onomasticon Goedelicum)
(FM. = Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, ed. O’Donovan)
(Mis. = Miscellany of the Celtic Society, ed. O’Donovan)

In addition to the above online sources, identification of the placenames below is based on the Fascicles of the following publication, where available:

HDGP = Historical dictionary of Gaelic placenames (Ó Riain et al.)

The following article contains information about some of the placenames mentioned in this saga:

Seán Ó Coileáin, The Structure of a Literary Cycle, Ériu, 25, 1974, pp. 88-125.
Digital Edition at JSTOR

The placenames marked with a star (*) below have been identified and appear in the Google Map above.

*Cell Coinchinne, Killagh Abbey, in Kilcolman townland, barony of Trughanacmy (Map), Co. Kerry (HDGP iii p. 144, s.n. Ceall Choinchinn; iii p. 120, s.n. Ceall Achaidh Choinchinn) (Onom. ‘c. coinchinne’), §6

Cell Letrech = Cell Letrach, unidentified in Déise territory; “it seems inevitable that it was sited near or at Dún Letrach on the River Siur” (Ó Coileáin, op. cit., p. 111) (O’Keeffe, op. cit., p. 35) (HDGP iv p. 9, s.n. Ceall Leitreach) (Onom. ‘c. letrach’, ‘d. letrach’), §9

*(Cluain Ferta Brenaind), ecclesiastical sites in the townlands of Glebe, Abbeyland Little and Nunsacre, parish of Clonfert, barony of Longford (Map), Co. Galway (HDGP v p. 120, s.n. Cluain Fearta (1)) (Onom. ‘c. ferta brenaind’), §5

Connachta, the territory west of the River Shannon (HDGP vi p. 48, s.n. Connachta) (Onom. ‘connachta’), §1

Corco Duibne, (Corco Duibne), (Map – Corca Duibne), people and territory in the baronies of Corkaguiny, Iveragh and Magunihy (Map), Co. Kerry (HDGP vi p. 65, s.n. Corca Dhuibhne) (Onom. ‘c. duibne’), §1

Dési Muman, (Déisi Mumhan), (Map – Déisi Mumhan), branch of the Déise who settled in the region approximately corresponding to the Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, Co. Waterford, and in South Co. Tipperary and in East Co. Cork (FM. i p. 115, note n) (HDGP vii p. 75, s.n. Déise (Mumhan)) (Onom. ‘dési muman’), §§3, 9

Loch Sing = Loch Seing, in Connachta (Onom. ‘l. seing’), §6

Muma, Munster (Onom. ‘muma’), §3

(Ui Maic Iair-Conchinn = Ui Meic Eirc Chonchinne = Cenél Coinchinne), a territory in Corca Laoighdhe, Co. Cork (Ó Coileáin, op. cit., pp. 108-109) (Mis. p. 33, p. 37) (HDGP iv, p. 108, s.n. Ceinéal Coinchinne) (Onom. ‘ui maic iair-conchinn’, ‘c. coinchinne’)