An Inquiry Concerning the Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland
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O'Halloran, a Philo- Milesian, informs us, that it was customary with the Seanachies to reckon a new eera ' from all uncommonly remarkable events. '™ In consequence, some historiographers commence their history from the building of Eahhan Macha, a real or fictitious metropolis ^^ In the 9th century, Asser, though a man of learning, attempted to trace the genealogy from Adam down to JEliied the great Anglo-Saxoa King. Johan. Asicrus dc iElfr. Reb. Gest. P. I. « O'Halloran's Introd. To the Study ...of the History and Antiquitie* of Irelaod, p. J 7. 204 INQUIRY INTO THE of the Ukonians or Voluntii, which, they say, was founded 306 years before Christ ; a date which preceded the arrival of that tribe about three and a half centuries. Other Seanachies, probably in compliment to their chieftains, computed more recent transac- tions from an annual supper, which, they say, was first given A. D. 455 by Laoghaire ; or, from the year 478, in commemoration of a remarkable battle, which, it is said, had been fought between a son of this Laoghaire and Oiliol.
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