The druids then commence practising counter arts of magic, in which they soon succeeded, but not until five of the eight brothers were lost.

Four, including Donn, were drowned in the wild Atlantic, off the coast of Kerry.

Colpa met his fate at the mouth of the river Boyne, called from him Inbhear Colpa.

Eber Finn and Amergin, the survivors of the southern party, landed in Kerry, and here the battle of Sliabh Mis was fought, which has been already mentioned.
The battle of Taillten followed; and the Milesians having become masters of the country, the brothers Eber Finn and Eremon divided it between them; the former taking all the southern part, from the Boyne and the Shannon to Cape Clear, the latter taking all the part lying to the north of these rivers.
This arrangement, however, was not of long continuance.

Each was desirous of unlimited sovereignty; and they met to decide their claims by an appeal to arms at Geisill,[61] a place near the present Tullamore, in the King's county.