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The Expulsion of the Dessi (Author: Unknown)
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The men of Ossory were routed eastward as far as the Andobur, and there they turn and take their
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wounded and their dead nobles into the front part of Rath Machuthnoe (on the bank of the Andobur) in the east. Again they were routed from the Andobur to the Lainnen (which is the boundary between the Dessi and the men of Ossory till Doom. They ran away like deer (ossa).) As the Dessi were returning from the east they killed the wounded men whom those of Ossory had left behind in the front part of the fortress. Hence the Road of Death along the front of the fortress is so called.