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 | | Their names were MacCuill, MacCecht, and MacGrene, and their wives were named respectively Banba, Fohla and Eriu. |
 | | The names of the three queens have each at different times been applied to Ireland, but that of the third, Eriu, alone has persisted and in the dative form, Erinn, is a poetic name for the country to this day. |
 | | Ith, on landing, finds that the Danaan king, Neit, has just been slain in a battle with the Fomorians, and the three sons MacCuill and the others, are at the fortress of Aileach, in Co. Donegal, arranging for a division of the land among themselves. |
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