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So the annals of the country tell us that the "foreigners" were destroyed in 812 by the men of Umhall in Mayo; by Corrach, lord of Killarney, in the same year; by the men of Ulidia and by Carbry with the men of Hy-Kinsella in 827; by the clansmen of Hy- Figeinte, near Limerick, in 834, and many more. But the hydra had a thousand heads, and new expeditions were continually arriving.
Report, p. 97. MS. notes taken down from Mr. Egan. Joseph Crosfield's Report to the Society of Friends, p. 145. James H. Tuke's report to the same Committee, p. 147. In Irish corrac, pr. corrach or currach. This primitive boat was made of a slight frame work of timber and covered with skins, whence its name. In early times corrachs were used in all the British islands.
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