Folio 62

ay & is not the boy
of Letterkenny as good
as the " Ramelton boy"
at cutting a bog or
at heaving the peat!

- . Many traditional stories
of the Giant race of the
fins & their great
Cheiftain Fin Macoul . -
& gaelic songs said
to be remembered &
recited by the old
Men in the wild
Glens of Mucruss ,
& Arokil .-

Letterkenny

Letterkenny is a large town in County Donegal, Ireland, on the River Swilly in the north-west of Ulster.

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Ramelton

Also known as Rathmelton. A town and townland in County Donegal, Ireland.

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Mucrish

Muckish, one of the Derryveagh Mountains. See the poem 'Mucrish and Arokil, ye pair...' in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for 1836, vol. iii, p. 252. See also Memoirs, vol. 1, pp. 287 ff.

Arakil

Arokil is the Errigal mountain of the same range; the handwriting on page 69 in notebook 15B was reproduced by John Davy along with the poem 'Mucrish and Arokil, ye pair...' in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for 1836, vol. iii, p. 252. See also Memoirs, vol. 1, pp. 287 ff.

Fionn mac Cumhaill

Finn McCool. A hero in Irish mythology, as well as in later Scottish and Manx folklore. Legend has it he built the Giant's Causeway as stepping-stones to Scotland, so as not to get his feet wet.