School: Cill Dara (Pres. Convent) (roll number 15599)
- Location:
- Cill Dara, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Sr. Philomena
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0779, Page 032
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- (continued from previous page)and his mother of the fair neck, daughter of Teige or Siogmon[?]
Fionn was married to Ailbhe, daughter of King Cormac MacAirt, who commended to reign in A.D. 227, and was the Commander of the Fenians,or standing army, of his royal father-in-law. Fionn was killed in the Battle of Ath-Brea upon the Boyne A.D. 283.
Besides his palace at Allen Finn had another at Magh. Elle now oyally in the King's County.
Allen came into possession of Finn by right of his mother
In an Irish poem called Oisin's Buille or Rhapsody Allen is described as a splendid palace.
"I saw in my time
With Fionn, for all sorts of drinking,
Ten hundred goblets and fleasgs,
With cneasaib of gold,(continues on next page)
