Ancestors of Frank E. Masland IV

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reigned 227-263, he was compared to Solomon so wise and respected washe. He rebuilt and extended palace at Tara, including the Banquet Roomknown as Teach Mi Chuarta, which was 760 ft. He had a retinue of over3,000 from all over Europe, including
Gauls, Franks, Romans, Friesians, Caledonians, Picts, and Saxons. Hebrought the first watermill to Ireland. in 263 his son Cellachinsulted a woman of the Deisi and their king Aonghus put out Cormac'seye in battle. A high king can have no blemish
on his person, and he had to step down. He wrote several books in hisretirement, although several attributed to him actually were writtenmuch later.

Tara is the ancient seat of the Ard Righ. The only thing thatsurvives of it today is the Rath na Rithe "Fort of Kings" whichcontains the Stone of Fal, which shrieks when the rightful kingtouches it. At Samhain there was always an assembly of
nobles held. This was the ancient rite of triple killing of the king-wounding, burning, drowning, when a new king was selected. There wasanother druidic ritual that always happened at tara of king findingcalled tarbhfhess "bull sleep". This was
where one druid would sacrifice a bull, eat of its flesh, drink abroth in which it was cooked, then sleep, through which 4 druids wouldchant, and the sleeper would recieve a vision of the next king.
-from _Kingdoms of the Celts: A History and Guide_ by John King 1998.

by Thomas Moore:
The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls
As if that soul were fled.
So sleeps the pride of former days,
So glory's thrill is o'er,
And hearts that once beat high for praise
Now feel that pulse no more!
No more to chiefs and ladies bright
The harp of Tara swells;
The chord alone that breaks at night
It's tale of ruin tells.
Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes,
The only throb she gives
Is when some heart indignant breaks,
To show that still she lives.

The great High King Cormac macAirt, grandson of Conn of the HundredBattles, was said to have established a new Royal capitol at theancient site of Teamhair (Tara). Cormac was ancestor to latergenerations of Kings and High Kings ruling Gaelic
dynasties of the northern provinces of Connacht, Midhe and Ulster.

In the year 226 AD the battle of Crinna (in Co. Meath) was foughtbetween Cormac mac Airt, king of Ireland, and the Ulstermen underFergus, son of Imchadh. Cormac defeated the Ulster forces with theassistance of Tadg (or Teige), son of Cian and for
this service the king bestowed on Tadg a large territory whichextended from the Liffey (in Dublin) northwards to Drumskin in Co.Louth. Tadg's descendants were called Cianachta i.e. "the race ofCian", from his father and the territory was afterwards
known by this name.

226 AD - Fearghus Duibhdeadach, son of Imchadh, was king over Irelandfor the space of a year, when he fell in the battle of Crinna, byCormac, grandson of Conn, by the hand of Lughaidh Lagha. There fell byhim also, in the rout across Breagh, his two
brothers, Fearghus the Long Haired and Fearghus the Fiery, who wascalled Fearghus Caisfhiaclach of the Crooked Teeth. In the army ofCormac came Tadhg, son of Cian, and Lughaidh, to that battle; and itwas as a territorial reward for the battle that
Cormac gave to Tadhg the land on which are the Ciannachta, in MaghBreagh, as is celebrated in other books.

240 AD - The battle of Magh Techt, and the fleet of Cormac sailedacross Magh Rein (i.e. across the sea), this year, so that it was onthat occasion he obtained the sovereignty of Alba Scotland.

241 AD - These are the battles of Cormac fought against Munster thisyear: the battle of Berre; the battle of Loch Lein; the battle ofLuimneach; the battle of Grian; the battle of Classach; the battle ofMuiresc; the battle of Fearta, in which fell
Eochaidh Taebhfada of the Long Side, son of Oilioll Olum; the battleof Samhain, in which fell Cian, son of Oilioll Olum; and the battle ofArd Cam.

241 AD - The massacre of the girls at Cleanfearta, at Teamhair, byDunlang, son of Enna Niadh, King of Leinster. Thirty royal girls wasthe number, and a hundred maids with each of them. Twelve princes ofthe Leinstermen did Cormac put to death
together, in revenge of that massacre, together with the exaction ofthe Borumha with an increase after Tuathal.

Of all the ancient kings of Ireland, Cormac, who reigned in the thirdcentury, is unquestionably considered greatest by the poets, theseanachies, and the chroniclers. His father Art was the son of Conn ofthe Hundred Battles, and was known as Art the
Lonely, as he had lost his brothers, Connla and Crionna - both slainby their uncles. It was at the court of Lugaid at Tara, that Cormacfirst distinguished himself, and gave token of the ability and wisdom,which were, afterwards, to mark him the most
distinguished of Eirinn's monarchs.
From his exile in Connaught, Cormac, a green youth , had returned toTara, where, unrecognised, he was engaged herding sheep for a poorwidow. Now one of the sheep broke into the queen's garden, and ate thequeen's vegetables. And King Lugaid, equally
angry as his queen, after he heard the case, ordered that for penaltyon the widow, her sheep should be forfeit to the queen. To theamazement of Lugaid's court, the herd boy who had been watching theproceedings with anxiety, arose, and, facing the
king, said, "Unjust is thy award, O king, for, because thy queen hathlost a few vegetables, thou wouldst deprive the poor widow of herlivelihood?" When the king recovered from his astoundment, he lookedcontemptuously at the lad, asking scathingly:
"And what, O wise herd boy would be thy just award?" The herd boy, notone little bit disconcerted, answered him "My award would be that thewool of the sheep should pay for the vegetables the sheep has eaten -because both the wool and the green
things will grow again, and both parties have forgotten their hurt."And the wonderful wisdom of the judgement drew the applause of theastounded court. But Lugaid exclaimed in alarm: "It is the judgementof a King." And, the lad's great mind having
betrayed him, he had to flee. He returned and claimed the throne whenLugaid was killed, but at a feast which he gave to the princes whosesupport he wanted, Fergus Black Tooth of Ulster, who coveted the ArdRighship, managed, it is said, to singe the
hair of Cormac - creating a blemish that debarred the young mantemporarily from the throne. And he fled again from Tara, fearingdesigns upon his life. Fergus became Ard Righ for a year - at the endof which time Cormac returned with an army, and,
supported by Taig, the son of Ciann, and grandson of the great OilillOlum of Munster, completely overthrew the usurper in the great battleof Crionna (on the Boyne) where Fergus and his two brothers were slain- and Cormac won undisputed possession of
the monarchy. Taig was granted a large territory between Damlaig(Duleek) and the River Liffi, since then called the Ciannachta. Hebecame the ancestor of the O'Hara's, O'Gara's, O'Carroll's, and othernow Northern families. In Cormac's time, the world
was replete with all that was good and the food and the fat of theland, and the gifts of the sea were in abundance in this king's reign.There were neither woundings nor robberies in his time, but every oneenjoyed his own, in peace. Cormac rebuilt
the palace of Tara, with much magnificence. He built the Teach MiChuarta, the great banqueting hall, that was 760 feet by 46 feet, and45 feet high. Until quite recently, the outline of the foundations ofthis great hall with the traces of its
fourteen doorways, were still to be observed on Tara Hill. In the Bookof Leinster is related "Three thousand persons each day is what Cormacused to maintain in tara; besides poets and satirists, and all thestrangers who sought the king; Galls, and
Romans, and Franks, and Frisian, and Longbards, and Albanians andSaxons, and Picts, for all these used to seek him, and it was withgold and with silver, with steeds and with chariots, that he presentedthem. They used all to come to Cormac, because
there was not in his time, nor before him, any more celebrated inhonour, and in dignity, and in wisdom, except only Solomon, the son ofDavid. The remarkable king died in the year 267 - more than a centuryand a half before the coming of St. Patrick.
By reason of his extraordinary wisdom, the righteousness of his deeds,judgements and laws, he is said to have been blest with the light ofthe Christian faith seven years before his death. The traditions aboutCormac also state that having been
inspired by the faith he made dying request that he should be buried,not with the other pagan kings at their famous burying ground, whencewould dawn the holy light that should make Eirinn radiant.Disregarding his dying wish, the Druids ordered that
he should be interred with his ancestors at Brugh of Boyne. But when,in pursuance of this, the bearers were bearing his body across theriver, a great wave swept it from their shoulders, down the stream,and cast it up at Ros na Riogh, where,
according to his wish, he was then buried.

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Queen Medb Lethderg of Leinster is part of a legendary livingrepresentation of Eireann. Said to have been the wife of 9 successiveArd Righ's, including 4 generations of Father & Son, ending withCormac. She was "the Intoxicating One," the Queen of
Plenty.

139284828410347522. Domaldi Visbursson,² son of Visbur Vanlandsson, was born in 340 in Sweden.^²

Penardun married Marius King ²Marius King died in 125.^² Another name for Marius King was Meurig.

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