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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OP DUBLIN. 55
it, and, sailing up the LifFey, " encamped at Cenn BOOK i
uait," now Confey, near Leixlip, the extreme
boundary of the Dyflinarskiri, 1
while "Ragnall,
grandson of Imhar, with another fleet went to the Watford,
foreigners of Loch-Dachaech (Waterford)," over whom
and the foreigners of Limerick, Ragnall, or Reginald,
apparently claimed dominion.
Thus "
assisted, the foreigners
"
of "Waterford
spoiled all Minister. They slew "Gebennach, son of Danes of
Aedh," and these pagan descendants of Ivar, who are spoil MUH
there termed " the people of To mar, carried away his
head " " "
; Munster being so completely ravaged by
them " that there was not a house or a hearth from
the river Lin [Lee] southward" that year. 8
It is not to be supposed that the Irish tamely sub- Irish vicr
r
* tories in
.
initted to this devastation of their country. In 915 Munster,
"a slaughter was made of the foreigners by the
Munsterinen." "Another slaughter was made of
(them) by the Eoghanachta, and by the Ciarraighi,"
i ["Cenn Fuait," "Fuat's Head." valley over Tigh Moling," which
This place, Dr. O'Donovan con- may signify either Tiraolin,
in the
jectures (Four Mast/915, notes, pp. south of the county of Kildare, or
589, 590) is now Confey, in the St. Mullin's on the Barrow, in the
county of Kildarc, near Leixlip, south ofthe county of Carlow. The
(the Danish Lax-lep y Salmon Leap), latter place may have been ap-
in the barony of Salt (Saltus Sal- preached by water, from Waterford,
monis). But the Annals of Ulster, and as it is situated at the foot of
at 916 (Four Mast. 915), tell us Brandon Hill, the battle may have
that Cenn Fuait was i naifiiufi
been in some " valley over Tigh
Laigin "in the East, or anterior
partof Leinster," and it must have
been near the sea,
Moling," and the Danish fortress
called Cenn Fuait on 8Omc head
as Sitric "with bis fleet
in the mountain, accessible to light
" settled there. A poem
quoted by the Four Mast, seems to
:k of the battle (if it be the
same)
shIP s by the Barrow. Wars of the
Uaedhil with the Gaill, p. Ixxxix.,
n> J
as having taken place in "a
2
Cttw- cha P-
xxviii ' P- 31