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- The Placenames in the Book of Cuanu, Eoghan O Mordha, in Seanchas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis John Byrne , pp. 189–191. Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2000.