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 43 2 THE HIS T O R Y Book L the peninfula of land that lies along the river Ibernus or Dingle Sound, and perhaps fume adjoining parts of Kerry. The Velaborii ranged along the fmall remainder of Kerry, and -over the whole of Limerick to the Senus or Shannon, having the river Durius or the Caflicen flowing through their dominions 7, and owning Regia, Limerick, or fome town near it for their metropolis. The Cangani lived in the county of Clare, Macolicum near the Shannon 1X, perhaps Fcakle, being their principal town, a point in the Bay of Galway near Glaniny being denominated Beni- famnum Promontorium, and the adjoining ifles of Arran being called from them Inlute Canganse V The Auterii were iettled in the county of Galway, winding along the deep recefs of the Sinus Aufoba or Bay of Galway, ftretching towards the north as far as the Libnius or the river that bounds the county of Galway in part, and pofleffing the fmall portion of Mayo county which iies to the fouth of that river ; were fubje£t to Auterium, Atterith* or Athenree; and have left their name to the divifion of Athenree, .The Nagnatae occupied the reft of the large county of Mayo, on the fouth-caft, and all Fermanagh to Balyfhannon and Logh Krne ; being bounded by the Rhebius or the river of Balyfhannon and the Lake Rhebius or Logh Erne, having a deep bay, called Magnus Sinus, curving along Mayo Sligo and Letrim coun- ties, and acknowledging Nagnat, Necmaht, or Al-necmaht ,s f the town of the Nagnatae, for their capital. And the Hardinii and the Venicnii were two tribes confederated together under the title of the Venicnian nations, extending from Balyihannon to the North- Cape, and pofleffing all Donegal !e except the two whole divifions of Raphoc and Enis-Owen and the eaftern part of Killmacrenen divifion ; the Venicnii lying along the immediate margin of the {hore, giving name to the Promontorium Ve- nicnium or Cape Horn and to the Infula Venicnia or North-Arran Ifland, and their metropolis Rheba being (cated upon the Lake Rhebius and in the country of the Hardinii on the fou Ji-eaft Upon the northern (hore and along the margin of the Dencale- jdoniiui ocean were only the Robogdii, inhabiting the reft of Donegal le,
 * 1) 11 Siigo and all Rofcommon, all Letrim as- far as Logh Allin