Memoir of Ugaine Mor

Ugaine Mor who reigned thirty, perhaps forty, years is reputed to have held sway over the islands of western Europe. He was married to Ceasair Chruthach, daughter of " the king of the French." He divided Ireland between his twenty-five children, and fixed rents and duties that obtained for three hundred years—to the time of Eochaidh Feidlioch. The ensuing two reigns lasted, one a day and a half, the second, two years, and culminated in the treacherous death at Dionnriogh, on the banks of the Barrow, of Laoghaire Lore at the hands of his cruel and jealous brother Cobhthach Caol mBreagh, who himself was slain at the same place on Christmas Eve by Maon.