“For the olden memories fast are flying from us Oh! that some kind hand would come And bind them in a garland e’re the present hardens And the past grows cold and dumb.” Anon The name first appears in the Annals of the Four Masters as “Inver Brena” - the mouth of the Bren river and identifies the narrow neck of water through which the tide rushes into Loch Cuan. Willie Crea, Chairman. 1