. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . rates had left there their boats,and after the battle the peninsula was a place of refuge for thefugitives.^ In spite of this defeat, it was not until the middle ofthat century that the soverei„aity of the Norsemen was finallybroken in Fingal. No sooner had it ended than war broke outamong the Irish themselves, and the men of Leinster encoun-tered the men of Munster at Howth. Under the year 1087 theFour Masters^ thus record the result of the battle:— The battl
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . rates had left there their boats,and after the battle the peninsula was a place of refuge for thefugitives.^ In spite of this defeat, it was not until the middle ofthat century that the soverei„aity of the Norsemen was finallybroken in Fingal. No sooner had it ended than war broke outamong the Irish themselves, and the men of Leinster encoun-tered the men of Munster at Howth. Under the year 1087 theFour Masters^ thus record the result of the battle:— The battleof Rath-Etar between the men of Leinster and Munster, whereMuircheartach Ua Briain and the men of Munster defeated theLeinstermen, and Domhnall son of Maelnambo and DiarmaidUa Briain and Enda son of Diarmaid, and where a great slaughterwas made of the Leinstermen together with the son of MurchadhUa Domhnaill, Lord of Ui Drona, and Conall Ua Ciarmhaic, andUa Neill of Maghda(ihon. 1 Four Masters under 1012; cf. Lebhar Gabhala, , p. 224. * Todd, op. cit., pp. clxxii, 156. * Cf. Orpens Ireland under the Normans, i, Device ox Tomh. A A / t^w,,.,-! i^. . O < /^f i ^tifJ, li aJ gr. f/etf. I .
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