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ei BEI bes BES
port tliem. ' Honos alit Artes '\ H. 2. IG.
Paper fragment hound up with the vellum.
One of the antiquaries here mentioned by
O'Rod)', was doubtless the celebrated Duald
Mac Firbis.
beAjMiA óeA]i5, a celebrated gap in the mountain
0Í Sliabh Caoin, lying on the borders of
the counties of Limerick and Cork. The
road from Kilmallock to Cork passes through
this gap, which is situated one mile to the
south of the parish church of Killlin. This
gap is well known to Irish Historians as the
place where Mahon, the brother of Brian
Boru, was murdered by his Eugenian rivals,
in the year 976. This gap lies between the
Kills of Kilcruaig and Red Chair, the fonner
on its east, and the latter on its west side.
be^imAc, toothless. C'Oonor. ad. ann. 1233.
béAjuió^n Bite, the name of a parish in the
barony of Ikerrin, county of Tipperary, taking
its name from the conspicuous gap now called
the Devil's Bit. " Uo g^bi^AC v^i(\ y]\uT:M]\
TiA bóini ininiokj nib)\e5 aja^- niroe ipen iriAg
téiiA in mucce-ook ic Umc«í)i celt, riA]; b)iO]'-
TiAcoiib blAwnio, A clé ]\a beApnok nieoi]i>.\ in-
gini ci\e5