School: Drumcormack (roll number 13201)
- Location:
- Drumcormick, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Nora Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0228
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- (continued from previous page)Mac Art, the renowned High King, who lived about 200 years before Saint Patrick, but whose fame as a wise and just ruler - a kind of Solomon - fills scores of pages in our old books and is yet remembered in song, story and proverb.
Cormac's father was Art son of Conn of "the Hundred Battles" Art had a competitor for the crown in the person of Ludhaidh Mac Con, and they submitted their cause to the arbitrament of the sword in the battle of Mucrime. Art had a presentment that he should lose his life and the crown in the battle, so he advised his wife Etan, (and the mother of Cormac) to fly for safety to a friend of his called Lugna(continues on next page)
