If the newcomers were few and their new homes were in the remote west beyond Carmarthen (Maridunum), formal consent would hardly have been required.

Other Irish immigrants probably followed.

Their settlements were apparently confined to Cornwall and the south-west coast of Wales, and their influence may easily be overrated.
Some, indeed, came as enemies, though perhaps rather as enemies to the Roman than to the Celtic elements in the province.

Such must have been Niall of the Nine Hostages, who was killed--according to the traditional chronology--about A.D.405 on the British coast and perhaps in the Channel itself.
[Footnote 1: Professor Rhys, _Cambrian Archaeol.Assoc.Kerry Meeting_, 1891, and _Celtic Britain_ (ed.

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