Lough Corrib : its shores and islands ; with notices of Lough Mask (1872)
Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876 · Dublin : McGlashan & Gill · leaf 214
ld. This warlike pastime ended in the defeat and death of thethrice nine youths of the Dananns, over whom was erected thegreat earn or stone monument figured on the next page, andwhich would appear to be that called in the MS. Carn-an-chhdthe, or the monument of the game; and the valley of THE CARN… … as that which commemorates the spot on the shore of Attica,where the Athenians fell beneath the long spears of the Per-sians on the field of Marathon. Next day, supposed to be the 11th of June, in the yearof the world 3303, the battle commenced ; it lasted four days,and it is said 100,000 men were…
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