The copy of the tracts from which I have compiled this meagre narrative, is in existence, and in the British Museum.

It was written on vellum, about the year 1460, by Gilla-Riabhach O'Clery; but there is unquestionable authority for its having existed at a much earlier period.

It is quoted by Cormac Mac Cullinan in his Glossary, in illustration of the word _Nes_, and Cormac was King of Munster in the year of grace 885, while his Glossary was compiled to explain words which had then become obsolete.

This narrative must, therefore, be of great antiquity.

If we cannot accept it as a picture of the period, in the main authentic, let us give up all ancient history as a myth; if we do accept it, let us acknowledge that a people who possessed such officials had attained a high state of intellectual culture, and that their memory demands at least the homage of our respect.
The plain on which this battle was fought, retains the name of the Plain of the Towers (or Pillars) of the Fomorians, and some very curious sepulchral monuments may still be seen on the ancient field.
In those days, as in the so-called middle ages, ladies exercised their skill in the healing art; and we find honorable mention made of the Lady Ochtriuil, who assisted the chief physician (her father) and his sons in healing the wounds of the Tuatha De Danann heroes.