Dinn-Righ in Magh-Ailbhe, Ireland
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Nothing remains of the pa- the brink of the River Bearbha [the Barrow], ... and the place is called Dinn-Righ in Magh-Ailbhe, and the house or palace.
Dinnrigh. - One of the most noted, and probably the oldest, of the Leinster palaces was Dinnrigh (Dinnree: the ‘dinn or fortress of kings’). Besides being very often mentioned in the records, it was the scene of a tragedy which is related in detail in the historical story call “The Destruction of Dinnree,” contained in the Book of Leinster, which has been edited and translated by Dr. Whitley Stokes. Some two centuries and a half before the Christian era, Cobhthach (Coffa) the Slender murdered the king of Ireland - his own brother - and also the king’s son Ailill, and usurped the throne. But Ailill’s son, Lavra the Mariner, who fled to the Continent, returned after some years with a party of Gauls, and landed at Wexford, where he was joined by large contingents of the men of Leinster and Munster, who hated the usurper. Marching quickly and silently by night to Dinnree, where the king then happened to be holding court, ... (See more at: |
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