part 13

Everyone from Wicklow Harbour to the Stream of the mountain came to the plain fiercely, strongly and valiantly.                      175

Everyone from Breilteamh to Lecan and from Lecan to Bearna came with one accord -- valiant warriors for fighting.

When the swift powerful people of the potatoes were together, their majority of numbers achieved victory over the men of the grain.

Then the hosts attacked each other roughly and sternly like the sea against the harbor or the rush of a great flood of [?] a mountain.

One would see a horse on the top of its rider, leaping and jumping until his bones would be broken -- a sorry part for my brother.

One would see two people with their hooks firmly stuck into each other; one would see a person with a flail knocking down five men with ease.                                                    180

One would see a spade and a shovel about the ear of a man of the grain; one would see a plough-staff scoundrelly crashing the Spaniards.

The people of the grain and the ploughmen ran like a ball down a slope, when the ball is being cleverly driven by a hurley.

Much bread and cheese and bags of bacon were left on the roads by the doers of great deeds.

Many a lump of brown george (i.e. a hard biscuit) was dissolving on the roads; many good pieces of meat were on the grass.

There was pursuing and defeat on the people of the peas and the porridge from mid-day on Sunday till the dawn of the morning.    185

Like flocks running from wolves, these multitudes fled in this rout to the lovely hill of Howth where there was a swift fight.

Richard Tipper from Clogliran comes on a tall-headed, copper-coloured, well-fed horse; he was warrior-like, valiant, brave, and he was gentle in pleasant times.