set out for Erinn with the great fleet of Alban, and they give battle to the Ulster men and defeated them. Every man that came into battle with Lughaidh carried a stone, and thus the carn was formed, and it was on it Lughaidh was standing while the battle was fought;’ and an old poem quoted in this tract says, Lughaidh Mal, who destroyed much, Was banished out of Erinn. With a fleet of seven ships the king’s son sailed From Erinn to the land of Alban. He fought for the eastern country In battles, in conflicts, From Eadain to the wide-spreading Lochlann, From the islands of Orc to Spain. When he obtained the powerful kingdom, He brought with a numerous army, So that the harbours of Uladh were filled, With the barks of a fierce champion.[129] Lughaidh Laidhe, the eldest son of Daire Sirchreachtach, was also called _Macniadh_, or son of the champion, and had a son Lughaidh, called _Maccon_, or the son of the dog. He is said by the Four Masters to have reigned in Ireland from the year 196 to 225. His sons were said to be the three Fothadhs—Fothadh Airctheach, Fothadh Cairptheach, and Fothadh Canann. The first is said to have been king of Ireland for one year in 289, and to have slain his brother; and of the third, Fothadh Canann, we are told that he obtained the government of the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and took hostages of the streams, the birds, and the languages, and that from him descended the tribe of Mac Cailin, or the Campbells, in Scotland.[130] These three brothers are by other books stated to be of the race of the Ui Eachadh of Uladh or Ulster, that is, of Pictish descent. [Sidenote: The race of Colla in Scotland.]