Ossian Collection > Morison's edition of the Poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal

NOTES ON FINGAL. icf
1 Croni-leach lignified a place of wcrfliip among the
Druids. It is here the proper name of a hill on the coaft
«f Ullin or Ullter,
^ So when th' embattled clouds in dark array,
Along the Ikies their gloomy Imes difpiay ;
The low-hung vapours motionlefs and ftill
Reft on the fummits of the Ihaded hill. Fope,
■ Ireland, fo called from a colony that fettled there call-
ed Falans. Innis-fail, /. e. the ifiand of the Fa-il or Falans.
° Ccnnal, the friend of CuchuUin, was the fon of Cath-
bait prince of Tongorma or the ijland of blue zvaves, pro-
bably one of the Hebrides. His mother was Fioncoma the
daug!:ter of Congal. He had a fon by Foba of Conachar-
rcflar, v^ho was afterwards king of Ulfter. For his fervices
in the war againft Swaran, he had lands conferred on him,
which, fi-om his name, were called Tir-chonnuil or Tir-
connel, i. e. the land of Connal.
P Erin, a name of Ireland ; from ear or iar Wefr, and
in an ifiand. This name was not always confined to Ire-
land, for there is the higheft probability that the lerne of
the ancients was Britain to the North of tlie Forth. For
lerne is faid to be to the North of Britain, which could not
be meant of Ireland.
Strabo, lib. 2. et 4. Cafanb. lib. i.
^ Calra-er, a flrong man.
■" The Gaelic name of Scandinavia in general; in a more
confined fenfe that of the peninfula of Jutland.
^ Innis-tore, the ijland of r^vhalcs, the ancient name of
the Orkney iflands.
^ Dubhchomar, a black •voeU-JJ^aped man,
" Fear-guth, the man of the 'word ; or a commander of
an army.
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