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Catal is this day in battle, though bound to peace in the presence of kings; Though Catal is without a father, his father is not without vengeance. Estimate his terrible revenge from the account of it related: He slew six men and fifty; he made sixteen devastations; I had my share like another in the revenge of Ragallac, I have the gray beard in my hand, of Maelbrigde son of Motlacan."
Here again, under the year 701, is the word of a man then living: "After Loing Seac son of Angus son of Domnall had been eight years in the sovreignty of Ireland, he was slain in the battle of Ceann by Cealleac of Lough Cime, the son of Ragallac, as Cealleac himself testifies: "'For his deeds of ambition he was slain in the morning at Glas Cuilg;
To Greek, Hebrew was added, so that both Old and New Testaments were known in their proper tongues. About the time when "Ragallac son of Uatac was pierced on the back of a white steed," Saint Camin in his island school at Inis Caltra, where red mountains hem in Lough Derg of the Shannon, was writing his Commentary on the Psalms, recording the Hebrew readings on the margin of the page.
We give the Chronicler's own words: "645: The sixth year of Conall and Ceallac. Mac Laisre, abbot of Bangor, died on May 16. Ragallac son of Uatac, King of Connacht, was killed by Maelbrigde son of Motlacan, of which was said: "Ragallac son of Uatac was pierced on the back of a white steed; Muiream has well lamented him; Catal has well avenged him.
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