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The Expulsion of the Dessi (Author: Unknown)
paragraph 14
There in the east by the meeting of the Three Waters on a point of the land of Tigernach they dwelt. Early one morning, after they had built their dwellings, the King of Ossory saw them. ‘Yonder,’ he said, ‘are a thousand houses (mile tige) and a thousand smokes.’ Hence Miledach is so-called. He put fire to them, and all their dwellings are burnt. After that there was no place for them in the east to stay in. They fared forth and went along the sea westward until they settled in Irchuilenn in the (south-)west.