dubhghall doyle ratheadon of the dal riada kings and heber and heremon milesians kings of eire

i have come here to declare the maternal side of my birthrite ainm name of the dalriada kings and heber and heremon milisian kings of eire og i seek your denial of my birthrite ainm name did not begin circa 850ad at ratheadon

doile doyledoyel

Doine done donne doyon doyn doyne duin duinn dun Dunn dunne dyne

Hua duinn

Mc dunn

Odienne Odoghon Odoyne Oduin oduinn odunne oduyne

Ua duinn ui duinn ui dhuinn house

1. Adam

2. Seth

3. Enos

4. Cainan

5. Mahalaleel

6. Jared

7. Enoch

8. Methuselah

9. Lamech

10. Noah divided the world amongst his three sons, begotten of his wife Titea: viz., to Shem he gave Asia, within the Euphrates, to the Indian Ocean; to Ham he gave Syria, Arabia, and Africa; and to Japhet, the rest of Asia beyond the Euphrates, together with Europe to Gadea (or Cadiz).

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14. sliab betha the wild bulls home slieve beagh parish of clones in northern fermanagh

i behold the grave of a stranger from afar the monument of a leader crowned with sad splendourwhose name brought in lustre was bith son of noah vast of vigour forty days by the tale before the doleful deluge to erin came the shortlived swarma multitude in numbered array hither came bith skilled in battlemarching before his noble wives five and twenty wives by firm bondmade up his familyas for bith the chieftains time was short shaking seized him and sore sicknesshis own wives dug a grave on the mountain for his burialfrom him high above the planets path is named sliabh betha the wild bulls homethe body of the cosair who lived not long lies yet under the cairn thou seesto christ unshaken above all coasts thou didst not abandon bith eternallybe mine no saddness in the dwelling yonder when i have told of each thing i see

dinshenchus 1160ad giolla na naomh hua duinn topographical poems of erin 293 88b traig eba coast of sligo

traig eba whence the name not hard to saywhen cesair daughter of bith son of noah came with a boats crew to erineba the leech woman came with her she fell asleep on the strand and the waves drowned her

hence these places were called fend eba and traig eba from that time forth

Cessair In Irish mythology, Cessair (also spelt Cesair and Ceasair; anglicized Kesair) was,according to the Book of Invasions, leader of the first inhabitants of Ireland before the Biblical Flood.[1]The story is an attempt at the Christianisation of a legend that pre-dates the conversion,[1]but may alternatively be the product of post-conversion pseudohistory.She was daughter of Noah's son Bith and his wife Birren.[1]According to legend,when her father was denied a place in the ark by Noah,Cessair advised him to build an idol.This idol advised them that they could escape the Deluge in a ship.Cessair, along with three men, Bith, Fintan and Ladra, and fifty women,set off and sailed for more than seven years.They landed in Ireland at D?n na mBarc (Donemark, on Bantry Bay in County Cork),forty days before the Flood,in Age of the World 2242[2] according to the Annals of the Four Masters,or 2361 BC according to Seathr?n C?itinn's chronology.This article includes a list of references,but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations.Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (October 2010)The three men shared out the women as wives between them.Cessair and sixteen others went with Fintan,seventeen, including Barann, went with Bith andsixteen, including Balba, with Ladra, but Ladra died andhis wives were shared between Fintan and Bith.Then Bith died.Fintan found himself with all the women, and fled.Six days before the Flood,Cessair died of a broken heart at Cuil Ceasrach in Connacht.She is said to be buried at the summit of Cnoc Meadha,six miles south-west of Tuam, County Galway (Lynch, 2006). The rest of Cessair's people were wiped out in the Flood,with the exception of Fintan, who turned into a salmon.After a series of animal transformations he eventually became a man again and told his people's story. A variant version of the legend,apparently contained in the Book of Druimm Snechta,says that it was Banba who came to Ireland with three men and fifty women,two hundred and forty years before the Flood (2490 BC by his chronology).Her people lived in Ireland for forty years and died of plague.In the usual scheme Banba is numbered among the Tuatha D? Danann, who lived in Ireland much later.Seathr?n C?itinn also refers to a legend that three fishermen from Spain,Capa, Laigne and Luasad, were driven to Ireland by a storm a year before the Flood.They liked it, so they went home to get their wives,returned shortly before the Flood, and were drowned.Cessair is also the name of a daughter of the king of Gallia whomarried the High King of Ireland, ?gaine Mor, in the 6th or 5th century BC.

In Irish mythology Fintan mac B?chra (modern spelling: Fionnt?n),known as "the Wise",was a seer who accompanied Noah's granddaughter Cessair to Ireland before the deluge.B?chra may be his mother, or may be a poetic reference to the sea.He was one of only three men in the expedition, along with fifty women,so he, Cessair's father Bith, and the pilot, Ladra,had sixteen wives each. Fintan's wives are named:Cessair, Lot, Luam, Mall, Mar, Froechar, Femar, Faible,Foroll, Cipir, Torrian, Tamall, Tam, Abba, Alla, Baichne, and Sille.He married Ebliu later.His only son was Illann. His wives and children were drowned when the flood arrived buthe survived in the form of a salmon,remaining a year under the waters in a cave called Fintan's Grave.[1]He then turned into an eagle andthen a hawkthen back to human form.He lived for 5500 years after the Deluge,becoming an advisor to the kings of Ireland.In this capacity he gave advice to the Fir Bolg king Eochaid mac Eirc when the Tuatha D? Danann invaded,and fought in the first Battle of Magh Tuiredh.He survived into the time of Fionn mac Cumhail,becoming the repository of all knowledge of Ireland and all history along with a magical hawk who was born at the same time as him.They meet at the end of their lives and recount their stories to each other.They decide to leave the mortal realm together sometime in the 5th century, after Ireland was converted to Christianity.Due to his ability to shape shift into a salmon and his honorific title as, "The Wise",Fintan mac B?chra is sometimes confused with a similarly named animal figured in Irish mythologymore commonly known and referred to as the Salmon of Wisdom.

11. Japhet was the eldest son of Noah. He had fifteen sons, amongst whom he divided Europe and the part of Asia which his father had allotted to him.

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hither came to his death cloen son of ingor a scorpion that was never crushedthe king of ail cluaides grandson hearken who crossed the high seas many a timedumbarton in the clydecloen son of ingor who spent fame whose home was alba rich in horsesfirst inhabitant before parthalonwas the first man cheerful of countenance that came with wealth to erincloen of the hard curved swords though he ransacked many a chilly coasthis fatal faintness came not on him till he reached cloenlochhence men speak everywhere of cloenloch let not its name be hiddena prince that was hacked by spear play not his death finally here

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83b inis samer island in river samair lower erne near assaroe

inis samer whence the name not hard to saywhen partholan lived in that island with his wife delgnat and his servant toba and his dog samerpartholan went off alone to explore the landnow in his absence his wife and his servant came togetherand they both drank out of a cup that partholan hadthen partholan came home and asked for a drink and his cup was brought to himand he drank a draught through the golden pipe that projected from itand he noticed thereby that the pair had drunk from itand divined that they had behaved amissthen his dog comes up to him and he gives it a blow with his open hand and kills itso that was the first journey in erin and from this dog the island was called inis samer and the river was called the samerso this was the first jealousy and the first lust in erinthereafter the servant escaped fleeing at random and was eaten by dogs and birdsit was sixteen years from that time to the death of partholan

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97b mag etrige

mag etrige whence the name not hard to saywhen this plain was being cleared and ploughted by partholanone of the four oxen that were ploughing it for him died therethrough the greatness of his exertions its name was etraigeand from it the plain is called mag etrige as the poet has saidliag and lecman with his sheen imaire and etrige were the team of four oxenwith the right of companies who ploughed partholans landplains cleared 1.mag neitrighe in connacht 2.mag nithe in leinster 3.mag lii in ui mc uais breagh 4.mag latharne in dal araide 5.mag tuired (nedara) in connacht mac netrige 6.mag sere in connacht 7.mag nitha in leinster 8.mag iatrainn in dal araidhe 9.lecmagh in hui mic uais

dinshenchus 1160ad giolla na naomh hua duinn topographical poems on erin 81-83-85-87 16. coire breccain breccans cauldron where it lies without........without contention may i never come till i die drunkenly to the cauldron of a hundred measures four seas wrapt in gloom ever in flood unvexed range hither from every quarter they gather at the whirlpool from east and west no passing gust the sea of orkney and the sea of the cold britonsmeet for fierce eager fame betwixt alba and erin where meet after thier journeying the water of diversions darkly they coil however it be each of them about its fellowwide spreads the circle meet home for one doomed to wretched fate a small thing to fill it all toldwere the entire host of old adams seed

there lives not the man that would cover at speed long the space the cauldrons circuit from edge to edge within a month a tireless taskno generous chieftain that reached it ever returned hither again from its white paven floorsince breccan of berne went his way breccan son of partholan that seer of old drank no wholesome draught he was drowned here with his fifty ships by the crowding waves of the whirpool i know the tale sages tell of the mighty whirpools home whence comes to denote it perpetually the familiar name and its clear reason i have heard of famous breccan whose is the loud roaring grave him that enriched every hearth of ui neill busily plying in his vessel a brisk tradebreccan son of maine rich in graces the cauldron drowned with its red sprayand he lies under the heavy high piled strand with his ship and his valiant followingthough it has buried unforgotten breccanhis name endures in story with his bark and its burthen that lie beneath the whirlpools stormy waterthe hosts of the three parts of the world were they set there side by side with allpeople that have yet been born it were too little to fill the cauldron

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63a. loch laiglinde laig linne one of partholans three sons

loch laiglinde lake of waves through what unequal conflict did it get its namethough this was its name it was not so aforetime until laiglinde was drowned therelaiglinde the well attended warrior came with fifty fighting men in shipsthe chieftain perished in the glen beside a spring of water from the delugea wave burst forth from the brimming well over the plain far and wideand turned it into a shoreless lake and drowned laiglinde the well of dera mac scera was also its name it was called deras well until laiglinde was drowneddelgnat daughter of fierce lochtach wife of partholan after the primal floodwas mother of famous laiglinde on whom the wave wrought dire vengance fifty women great was the deed attended delgnat the high kings wife she went into the grave mound when all were dead and died of mourning for the tidings

i am fintan here alive in penitence i know (yet am not therefore honoured)the legend of loch laiglinde fintan escaped the deluge which drowned his fellow sinners lived to be baptized by saint Patrick

13. Boath, one of the sons of Magog; to whom Scythia came as his lot, upon the division of the Earth by Noah amongst his sons, and by Japhet of his part thereof amongst his sons.

14. Ph?niusa Farsaidh (or Fenius Farsa) was King of Scythia, at the time when Ninus ruled the Assyrian Empire; and, being a wise man and desirous to learn the languages that not long before confounded the builders of the Tower of Babel, employed able and learned men to go among the dispersed multitude to learn their several languages; who sometime after returning well skilled in what they went for, Ph?niusa Farsaidh erected a school in the valley of Senaar, near the city of ?othena, in the forty-second year of the reign of Ninus; whereupon, having continued there with his younger son Niul for twenty years, he returned home to his kingdom, which, at his death, he left to the oldest son Nenuall; leaving to Niul no other patrimony than his learning and the benefit of the said school.

15. Niul, after his father returned to Scythia, continued some time at ?othena, teaching the languages and other laudable sciences, until upon report of his great learning he was invited into Egypt by Pharaoh, the King; who gave him the land of Campus Cyrunt, near the Red Sea to inhabit, and his daughter Scota in marriage; from whom their posterity are ever since called Scots; but, according to some annalists, the name "Scots" is derived from the word Scythia.

It was this Niul that employed Gaodhal [Gael], son of Ethor, a learned and skilful man, to compose or rather refine and adorn the language, called Bearla Tobbai, which was common to all Niul's posterity, and afterwards called Gaodhilg (or Gaelic), from the said Gaodhal who composed or refined it; and for his sake also Niul called his own eldest son "Gaodhal." [The following is a translation of an extract from the derivation of this proper name, as given in Halliday's Vol. of Keating's Irish History, page 230: "Antiquaries assert that the name of Gaodhal is from the compound word formed of 'gaoith' and 'dil,' which means a lover of learning; for, 'gaoith' is the same as wisdom or learning, and 'dil' is the same as loving or fond."]

16. Gaodhal (or Gathelus), the son of Niul, and ancestor of Clan-na-Gael, that is, "the children or descendants of Gaodhal". In his youth this Gaodhal was stung in the neck by a serpent, and was immediately brought to Moses, who, laying his rod upon the wounded place, instantly cured him; whence followed the word "Glas" to be added to his named, as Gaodhal Glas (glas: Irish, green; Lat. glaucus; Gr. glaukos), on account of the green scar which the word signifies, and which, during his life, remained on his neck after the wound was healed. And Gaodhal obtained a further blessing, namely-that no venomous beast can live any time where his posterity should inhabit; which is verified in Creta or Candia, Gothia or Getulia, Ireland, etc. The Irish chroniclers affirm that from this time Gaodhal and his posterity did paint the figures of Beasts, Birds, etc., on their banners and shields, to distinguish their tribes and septs, in imitation of the Israelites; and that a "Thunderbolt" was the cognisance in their chief standard for many generations after this Gaodhal.

17. Asruth, after his father's death, continued in Egypt and governed his colony in peace during his life.

18. Sruth, soon after his father's death, was set upon by the Egyptians, on account of their former animosities towards their predecessors for having taken part with the Israelites against them; which animosities until then lay raked up in the embers, and now broke out in a flame to that degree, that after many battles and conflicts wherein most of his colony lost their live, Sruth was forced with the few remaining to depart the country; and, after many traverses at sea, arrived at the Island of Creta (now called Candia), where he paid his last tribute to nature.

19. Heber Scut (scut: Irish, a Scot), after his father's death and a year's stay in Creta, departed thence, leaving some of his people to inhabit the Island, where some of their posterity likely still remain; "because the Island breeds no venomous serpent ever since." He and his people soon after arrived in Scythia; where his cousins, the posterity of Nenuall (eldest son of Fenius Farsa, above mentioned), refusing to allot a place of habitation form him and his colony, they fought many battles wherein Heber (with the assistance of some of the natives who were ill-affected towards their king), being always victor, he at length forced the sovereignty from the other, and settled himself and his colony in Scythia, who continued there for four generations. (Hence the epithet Scut, "a Scot" or "a Scythian," was applied to this Heber, who was accordingly called Heber Scot.) Heber Scot was afterwards slain in battle by Noemus the former king's son.

20. Baouman;

anno mundi 3046 = 318 years after birth of abraham = 2153bc before birth of christ

viz., the Nemedians, who planted Ireland, Anno Mundi three thousand and forty-six, or three hundred and eighteen years after the birth of Abraham, and two thousand one hundred and fifty-three years before Christ.

anno mundi 3263 = 535 years after birth of abraham = 1936 bc before the birth of christ

The Nemedians continued in Ireland for two hundred and seventeen years; within which time a colony of theirs went into the northern parts of Scotland, under the conduct of their leader Briottan Maol, from whom Britain takes its name, and not from "Brutus," as some persons believed.

anno mundi 3266 = 538 years after birth of abraham = 1933 bc before the birth of christ

From Magog were also descended the Belgarian, Belgian, Firbolgian or Firvolgian colony that succeeded the Nemedians, Anno Mundi, three thousand two hundred and sixty-six, and who first erected Ireland into a Monarchy. [According to some writers, the Fomorians invaded Ireland next after the Nemedians.] This Belgarian or Firvolgian colony continued in Ireland for thirty-six years, under nine of their Kings;

anno mundi 3302 = 544 years after birth of abraham = 1897 bc before the birth of christ

when they were supplanted by the Tuatha-de-Danann (which means, according to some authorities, "the people of the god Dan", whom they adored), who possessed Ireland for one hundred and ninety-seven years, during the reigns of nine of their kings;

21. Ogaman; and

22. Tait, were each kings of Scythia, but in constant war with the natives; so that after Tait's death his son,

23. Agnon and his followers betook themselves to sea, wandering and coasting upon the Caspian Sean for several (some say seven) years in which time he died.

24. Lamhfionn and his fleet remained at sea for some time, after his father's death, resting and refreshing themselves upon such islands as they met with. It was then the Cachear, their magician or Druid, foretold that there would be no end of their peregrinations and travel until they should arrive at the Western Island of Europe, now called Ireland, which was the place destined for their future and lasting abode and settlement; and that not they but their posterity after three hundred years should arrive there. After many traverses of fortune at sea, this little fleet with their leader arrived at last and landed at Gothia or Geulia-more recently called Lybia, where Carthage was afterwards built; and, soon after, Lamhfionn died there.

25. Heber Glunfionn was born in Gothia, where he died. His posterity continued there to the eighth generation; and were kings or chief rulers there for one hundred and fifty years-some say three hundred years.

26. Agnan Fionn;

27. Febric Glas;

28. Nenuall;

29. Nuadhad;

30. Alladh;

31. Arcadh; and

32. Deag: of these nothing remarkable is mentioned, but that they lived and died kings in Gothia or Getulia.

33. Brath was born in Gothia. Remembering the Druid's prediction, and his people having considerably multiplied during their abode in Geulia, he departed thence with a numerous fleet to seek out the country destined for their final settlement, by the prophecy of Cachear, the Druid above mentioned; and, after some time, he landed upon the coast of Spain, and by strong hand settled himself and his colony in Galicia, in the north of that country.

34. Breoghan (or Brigus) was king of Galicia, Andalusia, Murcia, Castile, and Portugal-all of which he conquered. He built Breoghan's Tower or Brigantia in Galicia, and the city of Brigantia or Braganza in Portugal-called after him; and the kingdom of Castile was then also called after him Brigia. It is considered that "Castile" itself was so called from the figure of a castle which Brigus bore for his Arms on his banner. Brigus sent a colony into Britain, who settled in that territory now known as the counties of York, Lancaster, Durham, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, and, after him were called Brigantes; whose posterity gave formidable opposition to the Romans, at the time of the Roman invasion of Britain.

35. Bil?; was king of those countries after his father's death; and his son Galamh [galav] or Milesius succeeded him. This Bil? had a brother named Ithe

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71b umall

umall whence its name not hard to say umall the servant of fintan mac bochra perished there at the hands of the tuatha de danann when the first batte of mag tuired was fought between them and the fir bolgafterwards he was buried in mag reid for that was its name before it was called umallhence it was said umall servant of noble fintan was buried in mag reidhide not from assemblies of the clans the reason of the name umall or again umallthat is to say the brazen cliff that manannan mac lir put around it there for a long season by his magicand from that brazen cliff per chance man called the place umall

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79b sliab badbgna a range of hills in eastern roscommon

sliab badbgna whence the name not hard to saywhen the formonians came to the hostings of the battle of mag turedthere came hither the four kingly warriors goll and irgoll omna and badbgnathe four sons of innech son of tuire the stark smiterwhen the battle broke thereafter against the formorians each fighter pursued his man out of the battlegoll and irgoll fell each on his mountain and from them sliabh guill and sliab irguill are calledsliabh guill ross guill goll sliab irguill ross irguill irgoll omna fell at his ford and from him comes ath omna on the buill ford=ath boyle=buill badbgna was slain on his mountain on the eastern sideand from him sliab badbgna is called also fer da iaarc fell by the buill and from him ath da iaarc on the buill has its nameath=ford buill=boyle these fell by the hand of lug lam fota clarach fell at corann from him clarach is called cnama fell at cul cnama

36. Milesius, in his youth and in his father's life-time, went into Scythia, where he was kindly received by the king of that country, who gave him his daughter in marriage, and appointed him General of his forces. In this capacity Milesius defeated the king's enemies, gained much fame, and the love of all the king's subjects. His growing greatness and popularity excited against him the jealousy of the king; who, fearing the worst, resolved on privately dispatching Milesius our of the way, for, openly, he dare not attempt it. Admonished of the king's intentions in his regard, Milesius slew him; and thereupon quitted Scythia and retired into Egypt with a fleet of sixty sail. Pharaoh Nectonibus, then king of Egypt, being informed of his arrival and of his great valour, wisdom, and conduct in arms, made him General of all his forces against the king of Ethiopia then invading his country. Here, as in Scythia, Milesius was victorious; he forced the enemy to submit to the conqueror's own terms of peace. By these exploits Milesius found great favour with Pharaoh, who gave him, being then a widower, his daughter Scota in marriage; and kept him eight years afterwards in Egypt. During the sojourn of Milesius in Egypt, he employed the most ingenious and able persons among his people to be instructed in the several trades, arts, and sciences used in Egypt; in order to have them taught to the rest of his people on his return to Spain. [The original name of Milesius of Spain was "Galamh" (gall: Irish, a stranger; amh, a negative affix), which means, no stranger: meaning that he was no stranger in Egypt, where he was called "Milethea Spaine," which was afterwards contracted to "Mil? Spaine" (meaning the Spanish Hero), and finally to "Milesius" (mileadh: Irish, a hero; Lat. miles, a soldier).] At length Milesius took leave of his father-in-law, and steered towards Spain; where he arrived to the great joy and comfort of his people; who were much harassed by the rebellion of the natives and by the intrusion of other foreign nations that forced in after his father's death, and during his own long absence from Spain. With these and those he often met; and, in fifty-four battles, victoriously fought, he routed, destroyed, and totally extirpated them out of the country, which he settled in peace and quietness. In his reign a great dearth and famine occurred in Spain, of twenty-six years' continuance, occasioned, as well by reason of the former troubles which hindered the people from cultivating, and manuring the ground, as for want of rain to moisten the earth - but Milesius superstitiously believed the famine to have fallen upon him and his people as a judgment and punishment from their gods, for their negligence in seeking out the country destined for their final abode, so long before foretold by Cachear their Druid or magician, as already mentioned - the time limited by the prophecy for the accomplishment thereof being now nearly, if not fully, expired. To expiate his fault and to comply with the will of his gods, Milesius, with the general approbation of his people, sent his uncle Ithe, with his son Lughaidh [Luy], and one hundred and fifty stout men to bring them an account of those western islands; who, accordingly, arriving at the island since then called Ireland, and landing in that part of it now called Munster, left his son with fifty of his men to guard the ship, and with the rest travelled about the island. Informed, among other things, that the three sons of Cearmad, called Mac-Cuill, MacCeacht, and MacGreine, did then and for thirty years before rule and govern the island, each for one year, in his turn; and that the country was called after the names of their three queens - Eire, Fodhla, and Banbha, respectively: one year called "Eire," the next "Fodhla," and the next "Banbha," as their husbands reigned in their regular turns; by which names the island is ever since indifferently called, but most commonly "Eire," because that MacCuill, the husband of Eire, ruled and governed the country in his turn the year that the Clan-na-Mil? (or the sons of Milesius) arrived in and conquered Ireland. And being further informed that the three brothers were then at their palace at Aileach Neid, in the north part of the country, engaged in the settlement of some disputes concerning their family jewels, Ithe directed his course thither; sending orders to his son to sail about with his ship and the rest of his men, and meet him there. When Ithe arrived where the (Danann) brothers were, be was honourably received and entertained by them; and, finding him to be a mail of great wisdom and knowledge, they referred their disputes to him for decision. That decision having met their entire satisfaction, Ithe exhorted them to mutual love, peace, and forbearance; adding much in praise of their delightful, pleasant, and fruitful country; and then took his leave, to return to his ship, and go back to Spain. No sooner was he gone than the brothers; began to reflect on the high commendations which Ithe gave of the Island; and, suspecting his design of bringing others to invade it, resolved to prevent them, and therefore pursued him with a strong party, overtook him, fought and routed his men and wounded himself to death (before his son or the rest of his men left on ship-board could come to his rescue) at a place called, from that fight and his name, Magh Ithe or "The plain of Ithe" (an extensive plain in the barony of Raphoe, county Donegal);

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19. mag itha plain in the south of donegal barony of raphoe where the rivers finn and deele converge to meet the foyle near strabane

the plain where we are met in silence high mag itha of the chilly bankswas called mag bolg mighty in battle till the death of illustrious ith ith son of breogan numerous in expolits came leading the bands of his noble kin till he found erin abounding in hidden peril he rested not in his resolute career he reached the ailech of the rock that ancient land of nobles with its king of broad fotla and the three sons of cermait then said he in fluent speech dwell ye together in kinship and unitygoodly is the island where you are no paltry renownplentiful its fish and its various fruitagetemperate its heat and coldhappy the kings that own it of night never found i land or territory to match its mingled colourshe journey from thence it was no mean array till he reached mag bolg of the cow pasturesa glittering host came without warning to slay and destroy himith son of breogan lasting his fame was killed and conquered thereeven in mag bolg of the cattle lord whoever he be he ranked as chief of many a plain

whence his son, having found him in that condition, brought his dead and mangled body back into Spain, and there exposed it to public view, thereby to excite his fri