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by some writers supposed to be written by Cormac Mac Art, 
monarch of Ireland, who commenced his reign A. D. 254, but by 
others more generally, and certainly with more truth, attributed to 
Cormac Mac Cullionan, King of Munster, and Archbishop of 
Cashel, who was killed in the battle of Beallach Mughna (Balagh 
Moona) A. D. 908. In this tract reference is frequently made to 
the ancient laws, and the quotations from these Institutes are nu- 
merous. 
In the Leabhar Gabhala( Leavar Gayawla) or book of Invasions, 
or Conquests, compiled by the o’Clerys, we find the following pas- 
sage—“ Ro ghabh tra ollamh Fodhla mac Fiacha Fionnscothaigh 
“ righe Eireann. As aire do gairthi Ollamh Fodhla de ar a bheith 
na righ agus na ollamh. Eochaidh a ched ainm. Do raghsat fir 
Kireann Ollamh in a righ uaiste, ar tomat a fheasa agus a 
fhoghloma, do choimhed a reachta agus a riaghia, agus ar a 
chalmacht aga niomcosnamh i ccathaibh agusi cconghalaibh 
eachtrann. As e cedas do ordaigh toiseach ar gacha iriocha ced ; 
brughaidhe ar gach baile agus a ffoghnamh uile do righ Erenn. 
As e cedna righ las a ndearna Fes Teamhrach a muir Ollamhain 
t tTeamhraigh, &c.”—< Then Ollamh Fodhla (Ollav Folla) 
son of Fiacha Fionnscothaigh (Feeagha Finn-scohay) took the 
sovereignty of Ireland. The reason that they called him Ollav 
Folla was on account of his being a king and an Ollav (a Pro- 
fessor or Doctor). His first name was Kohy. ‘The men of Ire- 
land elected Ollav as king over them, on account of the great- 
ness of his knowledge and his learning, to preserve their laws and 
“ regulatiuns, and on account of his valor to defend them in bat- 
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a line of it. If he were capable of reading the book, he might have satisfied himself of its be~ 
ing still extant, as he had access to the College Library, where in Class H. 25. he might have 
found an ancient copy written on vellum. The copies in private hands are numerous. 
