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Eibhear and his division of the fleet

Eibhear and his divided fleet succeeded in landing again at Inbhear Sceine, called after Sceine wife of the poet Aimheirgin, who was drowned there.    Tradition, rightly or wrongly, still points out the place at Cuas na Fuirinne and Cuas na gCraobh on the bleak promontory south of Derry-nane.    Three days later they encountered Eire,  at  Sliabh Mis, where a great battle was fought.    Though the royal ladies  Scota  and   Fas were  among  the  slain,   and  buried there,   the   Tuatha   De   Danann   were   completely   routed. Eire,  surviving,  hastened  to Tara with  the news.    Mean-time Eireamhon and his followers had sailed from Inbhear Sceine   right   around   to   Inbhear   Colpa,   now   Drogheda, where  Colpa of  the  Sword, born  in  Gothia, was drowned. By  a coincidence which would  seem  to  have  more in  it of strategy than chance, they were met, on landing, by their relatives, the survivors of Sliabh Mis.    Thus strengthened, they marched to Tailltin, and there fought a battle in which the three kings of   Ireland and  their   queens  Eire,  Banba and Fodhla were slain and the remnant of the Tuatha De Danann put to flight.    In pursuing them northwards, two of the Milesian   chiefs, Cuailnge and Fuad,   fell at Sliabh Cuailnge and Sliabh Fuaid respectively.

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