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;70 THE HISTORYenacted under King Achaius* the 1st.; tho'others, who will have this to be but the reviving ofan old law, maintain it was first established byKing Tigernmhas.VIII. As the Druids were commonly wont toretire into grots, dark woods, mountains, andgroves f, in which last they had their numerousschools, not without houses as some have foolishlydreamt, so many such places in France, Britain, andIreland, do still bear their names : as Ureux, theplace of their annual general assemby in France;Kerig-y-Dnidion, or Druid-stones, a parish socaird in Denbighshire, from a couple of their altarsthere still remaining. In Anglesey there isthe village of Tre'r Driii^ the. town of the Druid,next to which is Trer Beirdh or Bards-town: asalso in another place of the same island Blaen-y-Drun, that is, the Druid's stone ; and Caer-Dreuin,or the city of the Druids^ in Merioneth-shire.The places in Ireland and the Hebrides are infinite.The present ignorant vulgar, in the first ofthe last-mention'd places, do believe, that those inchanterswere at last themselves inchanted by th.eirapostle Patric and his disciples, miraculously confiningthem to the places that so bear their names* Eochaid Eudghathach.+ These groves for pleasure and retirement, as well as for aweand reverence, were different from the lurking places in forestsand cares, into Tvhich they were forc'd "when interdicted in Gauleand Britain.