Cinéal Eoghain and Inis Eoghain; Cinéal Conaill and Tír Chonaill; Cinéal Éanna and Tír Éanna; Cinéal Luighdheach and Tír Luighdheach; Cinéal Baghaine and Tír Baghaine; Tír Ainmhireach; Tír Aodha; Dún na nGall/Donegal; Early Christian settlement names [cluain; tulach]; Secular habitation sites as ecclesiastical sites [ráth]; Generic ecclesiastical settlement terms: domhnach; díseart; teach; cill.
Reviews the various traditional and modern etymologies of Temair, and suggests a derivation from PIE *tem-r-is ‘cut-off, demarcated area’ (cf. PIE *tem- ‘to cut’). Includes a discussion of the corpus Temair-names attested throughout Ireland.