Reanadampaun

Rero Na dteampan - "Mountain Plain of the round boulders". "The tampauns" are five great standing stones, which seem to be portion of a dismantled dolmen; they are now in corporate in a fence. Cian "na Mionn Oip" (of the golden diadems), from whom Kilkenny is named, was a druid and possessed of a famous "plat Opaoroeacta" or "Rod of Enchantment". On a certain day three brothers, wayfarers, with their mother whom they carried on their shoulders, called at the druid's house seeking hospitality. The master happened to be from home, but a maid, who was kneading bread for dinner, requested them to await Cian's return. The strangers, not liking the slovenly appearance of the girl and the manner in which she manipulated the dough, refused to stay. When Cian returned for dinner and heard flew into a rage that his hospitality should be spurned and seizing his magic mountain plain, where, with a touch of his druidic slat, he changed pillars (the two travelers) support a third (the mother); two smaller pillars are the petrified wolf dogs. Area, 1,003 acres.

(a) Mom a'Cuite - "Bog of the pit (or pits)".
(b) Cliat dub - " Black Dyke".
(c) Cnocan Na Bpon - "Little hill of the Handmill".

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