Sketches of Some of the Southern Counties of Ireland, Collected During a Tour in the Autumn, 1797, in a Series of Letters
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171 shipped the Sim, and swore by its head (i. c. Cean grioth). St. Patrick, in his confession, which lie wiotc by way of epistle to the Irish, says, " The splendour of the sun shall not al- ways reign, nor have continuance for ever; but all who adore him shall unhappily fall into eternal punishment." This was, very probably, an altar dedicated to the sun*. Within about a mile to the east is their inclinmg posture. Mr. Rowland, in his Mona Anti- qua, conjectures, that the word is derived from t...he Hebrew, Carum luach (i e. a devoted table, or altar). In Esodus, chap. XX. verse 25, there is an injunction to erect their al- tars of unhewn stone j •' for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it;" yet, in some, I have obsen-ed a groove, or hollow, along the centre of the great stone, which was probably to permit the blood of liie victim to flow olf. * Diodorus Siculus has preserved an account out of Heca- teus, a very ancient author, " of a nortliem island, little less than Sicily, situated over against the Celtx, and inhabited by those whom the Greeks called Hyperboreans.
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