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Thus by reviving and confirming old laws, and fram that the new ing fame ones, he opened a direcT: road for abilities to notice and he increafed the dignity, fecured the privileges, protected the perfons and eftates of the Bards, and prevented their order from be coming a burthen to the ftate (w). He ; Teamor, called MUR-OL LAwhich the youth of the nation were to receive their education under the Filidhe. Here they were taught the powers of verfe and fong, by being initiated in the myfteries of metrical cadence, vocal harmony, and graceful adion.
33 raviflier to the court of miftrefs to Neffa, determined to facrifice his perfidious at Eamania, he found arrived Bard the When of his the manes patron. Concovar and his court, together with the amorous fugitives, walking Concovar Mac extenfive on the top of a rock called Rincbin Beara, enjoying the Blanaid happening to detach herfel profped which it commanded. that part of from the reft of the company, flood wrapt in meditation on Bard flopping up to The a precipice. which deep the cliff overhung for then fuddenly fpringing converfation began an adulatory himfelf with her head and his in throwing arms, her feized he ward, to pieces (o).
In the middle age. Vide WAR. TO N S a work in which the author has difplayed an almoft boundlefs erudition. ald Mac Firbis (who was murdered at Dunflin, in the county clofed the line of the hereditary antiquaries of Lecan, in TirPacraon the reports and hiftoric^il collections, Ogygia vindicated, of Sligo, A. D. Moy have derived great credit to the country. ; a family 1670) whofe laws, O CONNOR S Pref. to p. 9. OLLAMH- THE IRISH BARDS, OLLAMH-RE-SEANACHA arms of Ulfter is ftill The was charged. maintained &c.