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PART-OLON IN SCOTLAND & IRELAND 75

district is significantly the chief seat of the Ogam-inscribed monuments in the British Isles.1 The old saga says :‘“ They landed from their safe barks, In the clear blue port of the fair land, In the bay of bright shields of Scene.”’*

The devastating “‘ plague ’’ above referred to was possibly the hostile attack of the aboriginal race in Erin called Fomori, who, the Irish Chronicles tell us, attacked Part-olon and his party, but were defeated by him in a great battle ;* though Geoffrey's Chronicles, on the other hand, state that his descendants continued to live in and colonize ultimately the whole of Erin; and the Irish Chronicles refer to these descendants of his sons there in later times.

But his inscription in Aberdeenshire now shows that he himself eventually left Kerry for the North of Scotlandpossibly through a spirit of adventure for fresh worlds to conquer—leaving, according to tradition, two sons settled in Kerry.!

Some details of Part-olon’s voyage from Spain wa Ireland to the North of Scotland are preserved in Geoffrey's traditional Chronicles, but these appear to confuse his emigration northwards to Aberdeen with his settlement on the Irish coast of Kerry. Geoffrey records that Part-olon arrived in Ireland during the reign of the Briton king named Gurgiunt, who, about 407 B.c., succeeded his father King Belinus, the twenty-second in direct succession from Brutus (see Appendix 1), and who ruled nominally the whole of Britain from Cornwall to Caithness,’ with his chief capitals as Osc (or Caerleon) on the Usk, and Tri-novantum (latterly London) on the Thames. He also inherited from his father the province of ‘“‘ Dacia’ (which, from the context, was obviously in Denmark, and not the Dacia of the

* Of the 193 Ogam-inscribed monuments in Ireland g2 are in Kerry ; and in the district of Scene in that county are 46 (B.O.I., 378).

* Book of Ballymote, trans. by Dr. Connellan, f. 12; and compare K.H.LJ., 67. “Scene” is spelt in ancient texts “ Sgene,’’ obviously ee to ‘‘Scone,” the crowning place of the ancient Scot kings near : Aran, 589.

‘Irish Chronicles call these sons Slainge and Rudraige (Roderick) KH, 62. G.C) 3, 5.