[Footnote 74: _i.e._ ships.]

[Footnote 75: Irar. (_orig._), _i.e._ Irish. As the native Irish had
suffer'd so much from the Scandinavians it is improbable they would
apply for assistance to the _Siol Lochlin na beum_. We may therefore
reasonably conclude that the People here mentioned were the
descendants of those Norwegians or Ostmen, who long inhabited the
eastern coast of Ireland and founded some of its best towns. A. D.
1201 those Ostmen or Easterlings were still so considerable that, at a
recognition taken of the diocese of Limerick, the arbitrators
consisted of 12 English, 12 Irish, & 12 Ostmen. Edw. I. gave
Gilchrist, William, & John Gilmorys, with other Ostmen in the County
of Waterford, peculiar privileges; &, by the rolls of Edw. II. they
evidently subsisted, as a distinct people, during the reign of that
prince.]

[Footnote 76: Kumr-eyiar (_orig._), _i.e._ the Islands of the
Cumbrians, two small islands to the West of Scotland.]

[Footnote 77: Skipa-fiörd in Islandic, and Loch-Lhong, in Gaelic,
signifies the Bay of Ships.]

[Footnote 78: Allan & Dougal his brother were, I imagine, the sons of
Rudri (see the note on page 34.) This Allan we may suppose to be the
same who, in Rymer's Foedera, is called "Alanus filius Rotherici," &
who A. D. 1284 was one of the Barons that engaged to support Margaret
of Norway's title to the crown of Scotland. Dugal was probably the
predecessor of McDougal of Dunoly _i.e._ Olave's tower. The place
might receive this name, from having been the residence of Olave, the