Noble thy spouse, O Leamhan! Alun oge, the son of Muireadhach, His waving hair without blackness, Descendant of Lughaidh of Liathmhuine. Good thy luck in white-skinned spouses, Since the time thou didst love thy first spouse, For the son of the king of Bealach it was ordained That Leamhain should be his spouse. Gearr-Abhann was thy name of old, In the reign of the kings, Until Corc of Munster came over the sea With waving hair above his eyes. When came Fearadhach Fionn, Son of the king of Alban of the Carpets of Gold, When he made with Corc alliance. Upon coming into his lordship Fearadhach gave—to me it seems well— His daughter to fair-haired Corc. Full of his renown is Tara of Meath, Leamhain was the name of the daughter. A queenly birth brought forth Leamhan, Maine, son of Corc of the long hair. She cherished in her bosom the bird For Corc of Cashel of the hounds. One day that Leamhain was (The mother of Maine of the slender fingers) With fifty maidens of white soles, Swimming in the river’s mouth, She is drowned in the bosom of the port. Leamhain, the daughter of Fearadhach, Thou art named Leamhain after that, A remembrance not bad to be related. Seldom was the tramp of a Gall battalion Upon thy green borders, O river! Oftener with thee, O Leamhain! The son of a hind above thy Innbhears. There has grown up to thee Alun oge, Son of Mureadhach of the smooth roads, Splendid the colour of his pure fresh hands, A scion of the wood of the first Aluin. Not alone drinking ale Is Alun oge, descendant of Oilleall. The branch of the race of Alun sits With an hundred to drink from the same gallon. Though there should be but one tun of wine To the race of Corc of the comely kings, Not happy the fair-headed son of Corc Should he save the wine from death. The Mormaer of Leamhan of the smooth cheek, The worthy son of Ailin’s daughter, His white hand, his side, his foot; Noble is thy spouse, O Leamhan![137] Such, then, being the record of these supposed conquests of Alban and settlements in the country presented to us in the early history of Ireland, their general effect upon the Gaelic population of Scotland is thus given in another ancient document preserved to us by the Sennachie McFirbis:— ‘The Clan Domnall, Clann Ragnall, Clann Alasdair, Clann Tsithig (Sheehy), Clann Eachan, Clann Eadhain, Clann Dubhghal, and Clann Ragnall mic Domnall Ghlais, are of the race of Eremon.