To Magsliabh at the great Monadh.
The Gael will shout around his head.
His death was the end of it.[[541]]
A.D. 995-997.
Constantin, son of Cuilean, king of Alban.
He was succeeded by Constantin, the son of his predecessor[predecessor] Cuilean, but his accession was not unopposed, as he had barely reigned two years when we are told by Tighernac that a battle took place between the men of Alban in the year 997, in which Constantin mac Cuilindain was slain with many others.[[542]] The later chronicles say that he was slain at Rathinveramon, or the fort at the mouth of the river Almond, by Kenneth, son of Malcolm.[[543]] Fordun places this battle on the banks of the Almond in West Lothian, and says that this Kenneth was an illegitimate brother of the deceased king.[[544]] This latter statement may be true, as we have no other clue to his identity, but St. Berchan clearly places the battle on the Tay.
A great battle shall be fought in Alban
With the shame of his head colours shall be changed.
The leader of the hosts was he
At Sruthlinn, or the Pool, which is called Toe.
The allusion in the second line is to the epithet given him of Constantin the Bald, and by the name Toe the Tay is meant.