CHAPTER XXX.
AWAITING THE END.
When he came out of that sleep the sun was shining upon him from the east, and it was nice and comfortable, without too much heat in it. The sky was cloudless and the ground was clear of mist, and you would think there was a hive of bees, with a swarm rising out of it, somewhere near the place, the humming of the bees was so vigorous and so lively in the heather round about. Shiana had a view of the country for twenty miles, eastward and southward and westward. There to the east was Knock Raheen,[1] and Little Mushera,[2] and Big Mushera,[3] and Moul na hornan,[4] and Muine Fliuch,[5] and Derryliah,[6] and Cabarach. There to the south-east was Carriganyilla,[7] and further to the south-east Sleeveen,[8] near Macroom, and twenty miles east from that the mist over the city of Cork. There in front of him, due south, were Dun da ryarc,[9] and Kilmurry, and Magh Shanaglish,[10] and the districts of Ross Carbery, and a great deal of beautiful land on the sea-coast. There to the west were Sheha[11]
- ↑ Cnoc Ráiṫín, "the hill of the little rath."
- ↑ Muisire Beag.
- ↑ Muisire Mór.
- ↑ Meall na h-Órnan, "the knoll of the barley."
- ↑ An Muine Fluiċ, "the wet moor."
- ↑ An Doire Liaṫ, "the grey oak-wood."
- ↑ Caraig an Ġiolla, "the gillie's rock."
- ↑ An Sléiḃín, "the little mountain."
- ↑ Dún dá Raḋarc, "the fort (or hill) with two prospects.
- ↑ Máġ Seanaglais, "the plain of the old church."
- ↑ Seiṫe. as a common noun=a hide; skin.
