School: An Muileann (roll number 9208)

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1. The Magic Lamp of the Tuatha Dé Dananns (continued)

   

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   Milesians, divided the country amongst themselves, but did not long reign in peace with each other and when their kingdom became divided and sub-divided amongst their descendants in accordance with the custom gavelkind (or distribution of property amongst members of a family) the whole country, in course of time was governed or misgoverned by an number of petty kings all aiming towards ascendancy or high Kingship.
   It was in this way with each petty king following the example of he predecessors building forts on the lines of those originally constructed for the protection, and probably the extension of his own particular territory, that the whole country eventually became covered with these seemingly everlasting memorials of our warlike ancestors, it is now necessary for the purpose of the narrative, to revert to the Danaans and what befell them after their defeat at Tailtean and the causes that lead to that defeat.
   They have been described as a brave chivalrous and highly cultured race,

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Michael Beirne

   Gender

   Male

   Occupations

   Ex-sergeant at Dublin Castle

   Farmer

   Address

   Grallagh, Co. Roscommon