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/ 7 -, aY ^IT^^MS toclAit)!) Aift U^tb lejr ;
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n é bA |ti3 Ai]t AT) T)-5]téf5 bf5.
* SlftAtjt) KiJkc, G/en 0/ <Ac Raths. Not traceable in the Four Masters,
nor in the publications of the Irish Archaeological Society.
" Smn, (he river Suir. This river has its source in Sliabh Ailduin,
better known as Greim an Diabhail, (the Devil's Bit mountain), in
the county of Tipperary. It takes a circuitous rout by Thurles, Holy-
cross, Caher, Aráfinan, Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir, and Waterford ;
and, being joined by the rivers Nore and Barrow, aij Fbeojtt Asuf ^n
bljeATibA (hence the appellation " Sister Rivers"), at Cheek Point, six
miles below Waterford, falls into the British Channel. Domichadh Ruadh
Mac Conmara, a Munster Poet of great celebrity, describes its waters
thus, (see Poets and Poetry of Munster, p. 48) : —
' ' Ujrse t)A Smine A5 bttúccAó 't)A flósAjó,
Coir bivi).cf)0)C eifteAi)Tj 0|5."
While the waves of the Suir, noble river ! ever flow,
Near the fair Hills of Eire, O !
The poet Spenser, in his Faerie Queen, describes the scenery of these
rivers (with which we happen to be familiarly acquainted), thus. See
Book IV., Canto XL, Verse XLIII. •—
" The first, the gontlo Shure, that maUinf? way
Bj sweet Clonmell, adorncs rich Waterfordc ;
The next, the stubborne Nowre, whose waters gray.
By fair Kilkenny and Rosieponte boord ;