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A r?0r?5-C2tc2l, or MARTIAL ODE, >«§• at the 

 Battle of Cnucba by FERGUS, Son of FINN, a7id 

 addreffed to GOLL, the Son of MORN A; with a literal 

 Tranflation and Notes. By SILVESTER O'HALLORAN, 

 Efq; M.R.LA. ^c. Communicated by the Right Hotiourabk the 

 Earl of CHARLEMONT. 



VJ O L L, the hero of the foilowing rhapfody, was faid to be of Read Jan. 

 the blood royal of the Danaan princes, who ruled over Ireland '°' '7 9- 

 for near two centuries before the arrival of the Clana-Mile, 

 commonly called Milefians. He fucceeded his father as here- 

 ditary grand mailer of the knights of Connaught. Thefe had been 

 called the Heroes of Irrus, from the feat of their principal 

 academy or college in the county of Mayo ; but fo great was the 

 glory arid renown acquired by Morna, that from him they were 

 called, The Followers of Morna ; by which name they are 

 known, and by no other, at this day. Goll having finillied his 

 academic exercifes, and taken the lafl and folemn vows of chi- 

 valry, proved himfelf, by a variety of exploits, wortliy that place 



( N ) which 



