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Having landed their forces, they marched to a plain in the barony of Tirerrill (co.
Sligo), where they waited an attack or surrender of the Tuatha De Danann army.
But the magical skill, or, more correctly, the superior abilities of this people, proved them more than equal to the occasion.
The chronicler gives a quaint and most interesting account of the Tuatha De Danann arrangements.
Probably the Crimean campaign, despite our nineteenth century advancements in the art of war, was not prepared for more carefully, or carried out more efficiently. Nuada called a "privy council," if we may use the modern term for the ancient act, and obtained the advice of the great Daghda; of Lug, the son of Cian, son of Diancecht, the famous physician; and of Ogma Grian-Aineach (of the sun-like face).
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