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TARA na RÍ
The following was received from a professor of Celtic Studies quickly after a short discussion...
(This is where the relevant build up to the cursing begins)
Section from The Death of Diarmaid son of Fearghus Cearrbéal
(Diarmaid and his followers set out for Connacht
(p 76) They went then to the house of Aodh Guaire in the land of Maine in Connacht. They had to attack the dwelling with the king’s javelin. Aodh got angry and killed the hearld with the javelin. Then he fled from Diarmaid after that in Crích Músgraighe under the protection of the Bishop Seanach because they were two sisters – the mother of Bishop Seanach and the mother of Aodh Guaire. After that Bishop Seanach brought him to Ruadhán Lothra and he left him under his protection. Ruadhán had two sisters, Caol and Ruadhnad and they taught Bishop Seanach. Ruadhán escorted Aodh Guaire to Britain because he could not stay in Ireland because of Diarmaid. So great was Diarmaid’s power and his rule over all that he could not stay in Scotland or Britain either so he returned to Ireland, to Ruadhán. Ruadhán hid him in the ground. The place where Ruadhán was is where Poll Ruadháin is today. Diarmaid was told that Aodh Guaire had returned to Ireland and that Ruadhán had hidden him in his land.
Diarmaid went searching for Ruadhán after that and he sent a chariot messenger to take Aodh Guaire by force from him. The charioteer went to the church and his eye was taken from him immediately. The king was furious and he himself went to the place where Ruadhán was and asked him where Aodh Guaire was. He knew that Ruadhán would not tell a lie.
“I do not know where he is”, said Ruadhán, “unless he is under the place you are”.
The king left the church. He considered what the cleric said and realised that Aodh Guaire was under the ground. Diarmaid returned to the church and saw the candle lighting under the ground where Aodh Guaire was.
Diarmaid sent a man, Donnán his name, to search for Aodh. He began to dig in the ground but his strength was taken from his hands immediately. He went to Ruadhán after that and submitted to him and the man who had been blinded did likewise. They were with Ruadhán after that and they are saints at Poll Ruadháin.
(p 77) Diarmaid himself went to the church and he himself took Aodh Guaire from the ground and that is Poll Ruadháin today. Aodh Guaire was taken in restraints to Teamhair by the king where he was hung and it was done in that way.
Ruadhán went to Bréanainn of Birr for his protection and they both went to Teamhair. They were looking for their protection from the king.
He said that it was not right for the church to give protection to one who would destroy the royal rule. There was violation of God and people there. After that the clerics chanted psalms of curses and they beat their bells at the king. Twelve sons of kings died at Teamhair that night .i. twelve fosterers of the king. Their foster fathers went to the clerics and pleaded for the resuscitation of the boys. The clerics prayed and brought the boys back to life.
After that the clerics cursed Diarmaid for a full year and playing wonder upon him. And Diarmaid was making wonders back at them. They were unable then to do anything for him until they promised heaven to the steward (of receiving guests) and he said to Diarmaid that the clerics had finished their portions. The steward went to Diarmaid and told him that the clerics had finished their portion and that they were in danger of fasting against him.
Diarmaid saw a vision that night .i. a large tree at Teamhair with its tip reaching to the clouds of heaven and it was sheltering all Ireland. He sees fifty foreigners and 2 notable foreigners between them hacking the tree and everything they took from it was healed immediately so that they placed a strap on the tree together and they felled the tree. It was the sound of the tree falling that woke him up.
“It is true”, said Diarmaid, “that I am the tree and the foreigners hacking it are the clerics who are curtailing my life and it is by them that I shall fall”.
The king gets up the next morning and he went to the place were the clerics were.
“It is evil what you are doing”, said Diarmaid, “Destroying my sovereignty because I am protecting the truth”.
“What will be”, said Diarmaid, “the first church in Ireland that will be destroyed in Ireland will be your church Ruadhán, and your monks leaving you”.
“May I soon weary of your kingship”, said Ruadhán.
“May your city be deserted Ruadhán”, said Diarmaid. “And may pigs dig up its graveyard”.
“May Teamhair be deserted”, said Ruadhán. “And may there not be a dwelling place upon her forever”.
“May there be a blemish upon your body”, said Diarmaid.
Ruadhán’s half eye burst immediately.
“May your body be maimed by enemies”, said Ruadhán, ‘and may your limbs be scattered so that they are not left in one place”.
(p 78) “May a wild boar”, said Diarmaid, “dig up the dwelling so that the place may not be seen and that your corpses may be scattered. May there be the howl of wild dogs around your cemetery at each nones and screaming there at every midday”.
“May that knee not be lifted before me then”, said Ruadhán, “until it is buried with your body”.
With that Ruadhán called up the black gloom in the dwelling so that there would never again be smoke from the houses in Teamhair.
Diarmaid was looking at the ridgepole of the house.
“That ridgepole is your enemy whoever it is looked at”, said Ruadhán. “It is that ridgepole that will smite your face after you have been levelled by the foreigners”.
“Your satisfaction cleric”, Diarmaid says.
The victim is lowered from it after that and they make peace. So that Diarmaid said of this:
“Woe to him who contends with the clergy of the churches”
“It is bad that the clergy are trying to destroy my sovereignty”, he said, “because Ireland was never better than it is these days.”
There was peace then between Diarmaid and the clerics.
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