Here, then,--_a circumstance which I cannot imagine how it could have escaped all before me!_--we have this disputed question at length settled, and incontrovertibly adjudicated by the very head of _that body_ which Montmorency had assured us never alluded to those edifices as a subject of national boast--I mean the _Bards_. For, whether we admit this Amergin to have been the person above described,[438] the actual contemporary and successor of the Tuatha-de-danaans, or as the other of that name who belongs to the Christian age, and the time of St. Patrick, the supposition is equally valid, to prove the existence of those structures anterior to _their_ respective eras! and the ascription in either case remains unshaken and irrefragable, which in the word _Tuathan Tower_ unites the _Tower_ erectors with the colony of the _Tuatha_! My opponents may now demolish, if they can, all my foregoing deductions, as speedily as they please,--nay, did the destructiveness of fire, or other untoward accident, deprive me of the deductions of my preceding labours, to _this one stanza_ would I cling, as the palladium of my truth; to this landmark would I adhere as my “ne plus ultra” against error, in its encroachments upon history![439] In the whole catalogue of Irish deposits, there exists not one of more intrinsic value to the lover of antiquities, so far as the right settlement of history is concerned, than what those four lines present. For, in the first place, we learn that the celebrity of Teamor[440] arose not from any gorgeous suit of palaces of a castellated outline. Its renown consisted in being the central convention for religious celebration to all the distant provincials once in every year; who, after attending the games in the adjoining district of _Tailtine_, now Telltown, adjourned, for legislative deliberations, to the Hill of Tarah, where they propounded their plans, not within the confined enclosures of any measured dome, but under the open canopy of the expanded firmament. Teamor, then, was not a palace at all, but one of the Round Towers, or Budhist Temples, belonging to the Tuath-de-danaans; and this is further proved by the result of researches, made to explore the foundation of an edifice, confirmatory of a regal mansion, having all ended in the most confuting disappointment--no vestiges could be found save those of the Round Tower! The importance which attaches to the _Tailtine_ games above noticed, makes it necessary that I should bestow upon them something more than a cursory glance. Let me, therefore, first state what other writers have said respecting them.