History of Kilsaran union of parishes in the County of Louth, being a history of the parishes of Kilsaran, Gernonstown, Stabannon, Manfieldstown, and Dromiskin, with many particulars relating to the parishes of Richardstown, Dromin, and Darver, comprising a large section of mid-Louth . narch of Ireland died at Dromiskin in the Countyof Conaille. In evidence of which event Fothadh said : Five years over twenty, ten hundred and five thousand From Adam the beautiful to the death of Hugh may benumbered Seventy and eight hundred and six years numbered Without error from the birth of Christ to the d
History of Kilsaran union of parishes in the County of Louth, being a history of the parishes of Kilsaran, Gernonstown, Stabannon, Manfieldstown, and Dromiskin, with many particulars relating to the parishes of Richardstown, Dromin, and Darver, comprising a large section of mid-Louth . narch of Ireland died at Dromiskin in the Countyof Conaille. In evidence of which event Fothadh said : Five years over twenty, ten hundred and five thousand From Adam the beautiful to the death of Hugh may benumbered Seventy and eight hundred and six years numbered Without error from the birth of Christ to the death of Ailech. The sweet twelfth calend of December, after repentance Died the great heart (?) Hugh Ailech, supreme King of the Gaels of the Irish. The Annals of Ulster place his death in 878, and preservethe following stanzas concerning him :— On the twelfth of the musical Kalends Of December, fierce its tempests, Died the noblest of princes Aedh of Ailech. chief king of the Gaedhil. A steady, manly man [was he].Of whom territorial Temair was full ;A shield againsl hidden dangersI >f the atoul stock of Milidhs he was buried within the precincts of the mon-astery, or, as some suppose, in the rath near the villagewe know not. M 170 Chap. V.—Dromiskin Front of Ancient Cross, Dromiskin Churchyard.
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