"Eight steeds to the king of Eile, of the gold Eight shields, eight swords are due, Eight drinking-horns to be used at the feast, Eight coats of mail in the day of bravery"--(pag. 79.) To which verse O'Donovan adds the following note:-- "_Eile._ This was the name of a tribe and an extensive territory, all in the ancient Mumha or Munster. They derived the name from Eile, the seventh in descent from Cian, the son of Oilioll-Ollum ... The ancient _Eile_ comprised the whole of Eile Ui-Chearbhail, which is now included in the King's County ... and also the baronies of _Ikerrin_ and Elyogarty in the county of Tipperary.... Ikerrin and Elyogarty were detached from O'Chearbhail shortly after the English invasion, and added to Ormond, but _the native chieftains O'Meachair_, i.e. _O'Meagher_, and O'Fogartaigh, i.e. O'Fogarty, were left in possession". 7. We will not fatigue the reader by citing a long series of authorities in which similar statements recur. Two will suffice for all, and we shall take them from the works of the late lamented professor of our Catholic University, Eugene O'Curry. One is a genealogical extract, in which Michael O'Clery, the chief of the 'Four Masters', commemorates some of the most illustrious families of the Milesian race. From Heber, he says, the Son of Milesius, were descended thirty of the kings of Ireland, and sixty-one saints. Amongst these royal chieftains must be reckoned _Teadgh_ (_i.e._ Thaddeus), grandson of Oiliol Ollum, and he adds: "The descendants of this _Teadgh_ branched out and inhabited various parts throughout Ireland, namely, the race of _Cormac Gaileng_, in Luighne Connacht, the two Ui-Eaghra in Connacht, the O'Eaghra of the Ruta, O'Chearbhaill of Eile.--_O'Meachara in Ui-Cairin_, and O'Conor, etc". (_Curry's Lectures_, etc., pag. 147). The other extract to which we wish to refer is published in the Appendix to the 'Battle of Magh Rath', which was translated and edited for the Celtic Society by the same great Irish scholar in 1855. The eighth genealogical Table (pag. 175) in this work, extracted "from O'Clery's _Pedigrees_, and Mac Firbis", tells us that "_Mechair_, from whom O'Meachair or Meagher", was fourteenth in descent from Oiliol Ollum, and the following note of O'Clery is added to his name:-- "There is a steed and a suit of clothes from each new chief of them to the Comharba of St. Cronan of Roscrea, together with Innisnambeo; and he (the Comharba) is to go around the chief to proclaim him chief; and the Comharba is entitled to sit at his shoulder, and the chief should stand up at his approach: and this _Meachair was King of Eile_". From all this we are surely justified in concluding that the historic date of _solum Cariense_ and _regia progenies_ are precisely those which we should expect to find in a commemoration of an illustrious member of the family of the O'Mahers.[4]