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NOTES.
of the Pale prohibiting the use of gold in horse furniture,
but to persons of a certain rank.
A gold corselet weighing nine ounces was, a few years
since, sold to a siWersmith in the city of Limerick, by a
farmer of Tulla, in the county of Clare, and it was sup-
posed that many more were found at the same time.
O'Hax-loran.
Folio 164.
And join'd in palaces and towers
Were Tarah's and Emania's powers.
The royal palace of Emania, next to Tarah, the most
magnificent public structure in ancient Ireland, was
erected by Thiaravaoth, A. M. 3539, and was destroyed
by Muireadach, sovereign of Tarah, A. D. 336. That
prince wishing to add the rich and fertile province of
Ulster to his dominions, recollected Uiat Feargus the
great grandfather of the present king of Emania, had
insulted his great grandfather beyond forgiveness, by
causing his beard and hair to be burned ; and to revenge
that indignity, near a century later, he sends an army
of seven caithaghs (twenty-one thousand men) to conquer
the descendant of his ancestor's enemy. Fcargus Fohga,