Note 301 — Chapter VII

Harris, Antiq. of Ireland, c. i. p. 10. O’Brien gives this as two words “Lia fail,” the fatal stone, otherwise cloch na cinncamhuin, an ominous accident or destiny, genit. cinncamhua. Both concur in the great veneration in which it was held by the ancient Irish, on account of its “miraculous virtues.” Antiquities ut sup. p. 10, 124. See also Ledwich’s Antiq. of Ireland, p. 308.