Matheson Collection > Aislinge Meic Conglinne

I02 TJie Vision of MacConglinne.
king's month, the son of malediction darted forth,
fixed his two claws in the piece that was in the
student's hand, and taking it with him across the
hearth to the other side, bore it below the caldron
5 that was on the other side of the fire. And the
caldron was overturned upon him. (And hence
is said lonchoire, viz., from the demon — Ion — of
gluttony that was in Cathal's throat being under
the caldron.)
10 This is not what (some) story-tellers relate, who
say that it was down the throat of the priest's
gillie he went, and that the gillie was drowned in
the millpond of Dún-Cáin opposite the fortress of
Pichán, son of Mael Finde, in the land of the men
IS of Féne. But it is not so in the books of Cork,
which state that he was put into the caldron, and
was burned under it.
" To God and Brigit we give thanks," said Mac-
Conglinne, clapping his right palm over his own
20 mouth, and his left palm over the mouth of Cathal.
And linen sheets were put round Cathal's head and
he was carried out.
"What is most necessary for us to do now?" asked
Pichán.
25 " The easiest thing in the world," said MacCon-
glinne. " Let the hosts and multitudes, the kings
and queens and people, the herds, flocks and cattle,
and the entire gold and silver treasure of the fortress
be taken out beyond the fortress."
30 And the learned say, that the price of a chafer's leg
of any kind of property was not left in the large
central royal pavilion of the fort, except the caldron
that was about the demon's head.