Mochuda's father was a rich and powerful chieftain owning two strong liosesone, on the south side of Slieve Mish, and the other, in which Mochuda first saw the light, beside the River Maing [Maine].

[Slieve Lougher] to the sea.

About the same time clerics came across Slieve Luachra in the territory of Kerry to the church of Ita, honoured

For this Aodhan alluded to Mochuda likewise built another cell in the land of Ui Torna close by Slieve Luachra, and speaking prophetically he said to him: "The remains of your fellow-disciple, Fiachna, will be carried to you hither and from him will this place be named."

Mochuda questioned Columcille who had a true prophetic gift"In what other place then will my resurrection be?" Columcille told him"The place where from the summit of Slieve Gua you saw the host of angels building a chair of silver with a statue of gold therein on the bank of the Nemhthere will your resurrection be, and the chair of silver is your church in the midst of them

The king answered:"I have a place, convenient for fish and wood, beside Slieve Gua on the bank of the Nemh

He crossed Slieve Gua

On yet another occasion Declan was in his own regiontravelling over Slieve Gua in the Decies, when his horse from some cause got lame

[Tubrid] and this is where it is:in the western part of the Decies in Ui Faithe between Slieve Grot

Mochuda's father was a rich and powerful chieftain owning two strong liosesone, on the south side of Slieve Mish, and the other, in which Mochuda first saw the light, beside the River Maing [Maine].

[Slieve Lougher] to the sea.

About the same time clerics came across Slieve Luachra in the territory of Kerry to the church of Ita, honoured

For this Aodhan alluded to Mochuda likewise built another cell in the land of Ui Torna close by Slieve Luachra, and speaking prophetically he said to him: "The remains of your fellow-disciple, Fiachna, will be carried to you hither and from him will this place be named."

Mochuda questioned Columcille who had a true prophetic gift"In what other place then will my resurrection be?" Columcille told him"The place where from the summit of Slieve Gua you saw the host of angels building a chair of silver with a statue of gold therein on the bank of the Nemhthere will your resurrection be, and the chair of silver is your church in the midst of them

The king answered:"I have a place, convenient for fish and wood, beside Slieve Gua on the bank of the Nemh

Mochuda blessed the king and his wife as well as the nobles and all the people and taking leave of them and receiving their homage he journeyed across Slieve Gua till he came to the church called Ceall Clochair [Kilcloher].

Past towering headlands they sailed; then, drawing in towards the shore, they crept under the great cliffs of Slieve League, that rose like a many-colored wall from the sea to the skyso high that the great eagles on their summits were but specks seen from beneath, so high that the ships below seemed like sea-shells to those who watched them from above.

Some thirty miles to the west of Brugh, on the Boyne, a low range of hills rises from the central plain, now bearing the name of Slieve na Calliagh, the Witch's Hill.

On the hillsides of Slieve na Calliagh are other pyramids of stone, in all things like those of Brugh, and with the same chambered sanctuaries, but of lesser size; belonging, perhaps, to a later age, when the De Danaans were no longer supreme in the land, but took their place beside newcome invaders.

These amber beads, like so many things in the De Danaan history, call us to far northern lands by the Baltic, whence in all likelihood the De Danaans came; for in those Baltic lands we find just such pyramid shrines as those at Brugh and on the hillsides of Slieve na Calliagh, and their ornaments are the same, and the fashion of their spear-heads and shields.

They may have come by Bantry Bay or the Kenmare River or Dingle Bay; more probably the last, for tradition still points to the battlefield where they were opposed, on the hills of Slieve Mish, above the Dingle fiord.

His early slavery, his time of probation, was spent in Antrim, on the hillside of Slieve Mish, and in the woods that then covered its flanks and valleys.

In 802, and again in 806, the Scottish Iona of Colum of the Churches was raided, and the next year we find the pirates making a descent upon Inismurray, off the Sligo coast, between the summit of Knocknarea and the cliffs of Slieve League.

They arrived in Tir-Eogain, and allotted the part of it north of Slieve Gullion,now the eastern part of Derry,to Nial Ua Lochlain for two hostages, and allotted the part of the country of the clan to the south of the mountain to Aed Ua Neill for two other hostages.

Then the men of Ireland returned back southwards over Slieve Fuaid, through Tir-Eogain and Tir-Connaill, and over Assaroethe Cataract of the Erneand Ruaidri Ua Concobar escorted the lord of Deas-muma with his forces southwards through Tuaid-muma as far as Cnoc-Ainéin Limerickand the lord of Deas-muma departed with gifts of many jewels and riches.