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212 wrecked on the pillar-stone of Clegliile, and the warriors would all be cut off in the reign of Flann Ciothach. For a reason not assigned, Cleghile appears to have been fixed upon as the terminus for the course of the Wheel, which is called in such legends the Roth Rámach; but the allusion to Cleghile enables one to recognize a reference to the same thing in Cormac's Glossary, namely, under the word Foi, which is explained to have meant the place called Cnámchoill, 'Cleghile.' So far as it can be translated without context as it stands, the passage represents the druid Mog Ruith saying that somebody or something would perish because the Roth Fáil would come as far as the king of Durlas west of Foi, i.e. west of Cnámchoill. I am not aware that the Wheel is called Roth Fáil anywhere else; the passage in the Glossary, however, proves the identity of the Roth Fail with the Roth Rámach.

But what, you will ask, does all this mean, and especially the introduction of Simon Magus? The appearance of Simon on Celtic ground is not very difficult to