Suggests that the theme of roasting people in an iron house in Mesca Ulad, Orgain Denna Ríg and others derives from an earlier but lost account in which the house is *Érntéch or house typical of the Érainn. This is suggested to be the triple-walled structure of Early Iron Age date found at Navan and Knockaulin.
Discusses the association of Fert Conmáel with Apollo Cunomaglos inscription from Wiltshire, leading to the suggestion that Apollo is local god at Emain and model for Cú Chulainn; also references to Emain in Lebor na Cert. Bibliography in p. 72.
Suggests that a counterpart of classical Apollo was known and
worshipped in pagan Ireland, and that his attributes were
transferred to local divinities which subsequently surface in Irish literature as Conmáel mac Ébir and later but more importantly Cú Chulainn.