[FOOTNOTES:]
[1] This story has been published by Dr Wh. Stokes in Rev. Celt. xxix. (1908), since the above was written.
[2] The raths or earthworks of Emain Macha are still to be discerned two miles west of Armagh, at a place now called Navan Fort.
[3] Cruachan (now Rath Crogan) is in Co. Roscommon; tumuli mark the site of the ancient kingly fort.
[4] From Dr George Sigerson’s Bards of the Gael and Gall. The translation is in the metre and style of the original.
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