Identifier: journalofroyalso506roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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anished him so that in them MuredachMucnaibecame gray,7 Was it after some such conquest in Bearethat the same race inscribed the great monolith of Faunkill to MacDegaid ? All up the coast even recent folk tale recalls 1 Continued from vol. xliii. p. 324. 2 The invasion of the Tuatha De and their defeat by the Celtsis only found in our literature about a.d. 975, but they would have beenregarded as conquerors and divine allies at all times. 3 Eriu, viii, p. 13. * Leabhar Gabhala (ed. Macalister and MacNeill), I, xiii, p. 251.Professor MacNeill doubts the identification (Phases of Irish His-tory, pp. 94, 95). The first defeat of their own gods (the Tuatha De)was in Glen Fais in Corcaguiny, which seems much off the line of anymarch from Kenmare River. 5 Cath. Finntragha (ed. Kuno Meyer). 6 Battle of Magh Leana and the corresponding tale Tochmarch MoMera (ed. OCurry, Ir. Archaeol. Soc). 7 Silva Gadelica (tr. S. H. OGrady), II, p. 349, Revue Celtique, xm,p. 437. Plate XII) (To face page 141
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PEOMONTOEY FOETS OF BEAEE AND BANTEY 141 such events as the Battle of Cross in the Mullet of Mayo,where are shown the Hollow of Blood and the MunsterKings tomb.8 Even the Icelandic Saga, nine centuries ago,after the battle of Clontarf foretold how the new coming races,who on outlying headlands abode ere the fight will rule Ireland.9In this paper I close wha,t is probably a nearly complete surveyof the fortified headlands and the adjoining remains of the Irishcoasts from Sligo 10 to Wexford. Save some low portions devoidof fort names, I have seen and usually explored every probablereach. Only two headland forts had been adequately describedbefore, Dubh Cathair by Dr. John ODonovan and Dunbeg atFahan by Professor Macalister. Valuable sporadic notes on thelast fort, by Du Noyer and Windele, and on Dimnamo, by Otwayand ODonovan, alone were forthcoming and the plans, saveProfessor Macalisters, were all of great inaccuracy. Of spur forts,not actually on the Coast, Caherconree had been caref

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