60 Mr. Peteie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 



Four Masters, whose chronology at this period is very inaccurate, place the death 

 of this monarch in the year 267 : according to the chronology of Tighearnach, 

 the year would be 255 ; but the true year, according to OTlaherty's corrected 

 chronology, is 277- It should be observed, however, that the reign of this 

 prince, though given in all the historical poems, &c., is not noticed in the Annals 

 of Tighearnach, because, as Dr. O' Conor judiciously remarks, that annalist 

 sometimes omits illegitimate kings. 



2. Cairbre Lifeachair, son of Cormac Mac Art, and the one hundred 

 and twenty-eighth monarch of O'Flaherty's list, succeeded, and, according to 

 Tighearnach, after a reign of twenty-five years, was killed in the battle of Gabhra, 

 near Tara, in the year 283. O'Flaherty, however, allows only sixteen years* 

 reign to this prince, and dates the battle of Gabhra at 297. 



3. FiACHA Sraibhtinne, son of Cairbre Lifeachair, reigned twenty-seven 

 years, according to Tighearnach ; thirty-seven, according to the Four Masters ; 

 and thirty, according to the Book of Lecan and O'Flaherty ; and was killed in 

 the year 322, or, according to O'Flaherty, in 327. 



4. CoLLA Uais, grandson of Cairbre Lifeachair by his son Eochaidh Doimh- 

 len, reigned four years, and was driven from the throne into Scotland in the 

 year 326, or, according to O'Flaherty, in 331. 



5. Muireadhach Tireach, son of Fiacha Sraibhtinne, succeeded after 

 having been king of Connaught ; and, after a reign of thirty years, according 

 to Tighearnach, or twenty-six, according to O'Flaherty, was killed at the battle 

 of Dabhall, in Oriel, in the year 366, or, according to O'Flaherty, in 357. 



6. CoELBADH, of the line of the Dalaradian kings, after a reign of less than 

 a year, was killed by his successor. This monarch, like Eochaidh Gunnat, is 

 omitted, as an usurper, by Tighearnach. 



7. Eochaidh Muighmheadhoin, son of Muireadhach Tireach, ascended 

 the throne in the year 358, and, after a reign of eight years, died at Tara. 



8. Crimthann, son of Fidhach, succeeded, according to the Four Masters, 

 in 366, and, after a reign of thirteen years, was poisoned in 378. 



9. NiALL Naoigiallach, or Niall of the Nine Hostages, son of Eochaidh 

 ■Muighmheadhoin, by Carinna, a Saxon lady, ascended the throne, according to 

 the Four Masters and O'Flaherty, in 379 ; and, after a reign of twenty-seven 

 years, was killed near the Ictian Sea, in 405. Although the events of the reign 



