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Name / Location | O Breislein's house in Dun an Chairbrigh |
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Scene | land |
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Cause | Eoin and Mac Gofradha were engaged in a trip to Ireland in pursuit of pleasre and ship timber. O Breislein invited Eoin and friends to his house where ""they were billeted over all the land"" (Leabhar Chlainn Suibhne, p. 11) and attempted to treacherously murder all their party. |
Classification | Political Conflict |
Result | Eoin mac Suibhne and followers left for Scotland and went to get the timber they had sailed to O Breisleins house with. 'MacGofradha cast a magic mist over [the timber they had sailed from Scotland with], so that no one might discover it till they came back to it again. But since he was slain, that timber was never found. And it is the famous wood wherin Clann Suibhne are fated to sail to Scotland at some future date.' (Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne) |
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Individuals Involved in Battle / Event | Eoin mac Suibhne |
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Forces Involved - For | Eoin mac Suibhne and his foster-father, Mac Gofradha of the Isles and all his followers |
Forces Involved - Against | O Breislein and his sons and all his people |
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Victory / Defeat / Neither | Defeat |
Casulties For: Dead | Mac Gofradha |
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Casulties Against: Dead | O Breislein and his sons and all his people |
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Title | MS 24 p. 25 edited in 1920 by Paul Walsh who titled the MS 'Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne'. (Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne ed. Rev. Paul Walsh (Dublin, 1920) from MS 24 p. 25 in R.I.A. (MS composed between 1513 and circa 1544).) |