This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...Righ at Cuil Dreinine, and defeated him, St. Colum Cille praying on their side, and saying, --"Oh, God Why dost thou not ward off the Mist, That we might reckon the number Of the host which has taken judgment from us, A host that marches round a cairn, And a son of storm that betrays us, My Druid--he will not refuse me--is The Son of God;--with us he will act How grandly he bears his course--Baedan's steed--before the host! In A.d. 5C5 is recorded the death (quies) of St. Brenainn of Bir, and a mysterious transaction, for whose explanation we have looked in the notes without any profit. "In this year the Muirgeilt (wild sea woman, mermaid), i.e. Liban, daughter of Achy Mac Muiredha, was caught on the strand of OUarbha in the net of Bedan, son of Iunle, fisherman of Conngall of Bennchair." The quiet historian, sitting in his quiet room in his quiet monastery, adding one piece of information to another, was glad of the visit of any inhabitant of the outer world who could or would furnish him with an interesting fact for insertion. It may be reasonably supposed that the thoughtful but often-credulous annalist would be at times victimized by some ancestor of the Baron Munchausen, who, in absence of any stirring authentic news, would communicate some choice fancy of his own, such as the above, or that of the gigantic woman farther on. The reader must not set chronicles such as this in the same class with the romantic annals, for everything heTe is put down in good faith, the writer being left pretty much at the mercy of his news-imparters. "A.D. 598. The battle of Dun-hJ(Fort of the Sacks, County Wicklow), gained on the fourth of the Ides of-January, by Brandubh (Rlack Raven) aad the Lagenians, in which Aedh, son uf Ainmire, ...