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Cobha, in the vicinity of Downpatrick, in the cemetery of which 
the body of Magnus was interred. 
Torfeus (p. 146), in giving a summary of the character of 
Magnus, says—he was a great and magnanimous Prince ; 
strenuous, valiant, distinguished by strength of body and en- 
ergy of mind, too ambitious of power and glory, persevering 
in his designs, intrepid in their execution; to his country, by 
his levies and expeditions, burdensome ; to his soldiers indul- 
gent, and, consequently, an object of their love and admiration. 
When blamed by his friends for too rashly endangering his life 
by hazardous enterprises, he said, ‘life was not to be esti- 
mated nor measured by length of years, but by victory and 
renown.” 
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encircled raths, various monuments—Pagan and Christian, monastic and 
military. The County Survey of Down says that the Danes penetrated into 
the country as far as Armagh, and that the raths are commonly known by 
the name of Danish forts. Certain golden ornaments have also been dis- 
covered from time to time, and among them a beautiful crescent, which ap- 
pears by the description of it to be like one of those in the Museum of the 
Royal Irish Academy. 
In vol. vi. p. 52, of ‘* NorEs AND QuenrtEs,” there is a notice of the burial- 
place of Magnus, by John W. Hanna, of Downpatrick. Having heard that 
M. Worsaae, in a recent visit to Ireland, had pointed out a place at some 
distance from the cathedral of that town, where Magnus was interred, he 
was anxious to find the spot, but could hear of no tradition concerning it, 
nor of any place named Slat Manus. He seems to have entertained a hope 
that M. Worsaae might know of some Danish map or history mentioning the 
particular locality, but without success. 
“ Magh Cobha, the plain of Eochaidh Cobha, the ancestor of the tribe 
‘ealled Ui Eathach Cobha, who were seated in the present baronies of Upper 
and Lower Iveagh,” in the county of Down.—See O’ Flaherty, Ogygia, part 
iii. c. 78. The Four Masters, and from them, Colgan, have erred in placing 
this plain in Tyrone.... The older writers place in it the monastery of 
Druim Mor (Dromore), and the church of Domh-mach Mor Muighe Cobha, 
which is unquestionably the present “ Donaghmore” (in Upper Iveagh), 
“ nearly midway between Newry and Loughbrickland.” 
The curious reader may see more on this topic by referring to the note, 
pp. 165, 166, in Mr. John O’Donovan’s translation of Leabhar na g-Ceart, i.e. 
the Book of Rights. 
