In the early thirteenth-century Accallam na Senórach (‘Tales of the Elders of Ireland’) the ultimate ancestor of Brian Boru is said to have met his death in the parish of Galbally in east Limerick: ‘Cormac Cas [the Curly] son of Ailill Áulomm [Grazed Ear] attacked Eochaid Abratrúad [of the Red Eyelashes], the king of Ulster ... Read more
