Faery Places

Sen Magh Ealta (Old Plain) Magh Sen (Plain of Ages) Magh-n-Elta (Plain of the Flocks)

Without hap or mishap we came at last to the domain of the King of Senlabor. Baun went to sing for the King’s foster-daughters, and Deelish went to work at the little loom in the King’s chamber. Two youths came there from the court of the King of Ireland – Dermott and Downal were their names. There was a famous sword-smith with the King of Senlabor and these two came to learn the trade from him. And my two foster-sisters fell so deeply in love with the two youths that every night the pillow on each side of me was wet with their tears.

The King had a dish of such fine earthware with beautiful patterns upon it. “It may be,’ he said, “ that these two youths will bring what my Queen longs for – a berry from the Fairy Rowan Tree that is guarded by the Giant Crom Duv: Dark Bent One.“ (147)

(pron. SHAWN MOY) Beginnings and wisdom. The place where the fowl of Eri used to bask in the sun. Edair: Oak located at Clontarf. Four years after the eruption of Brena, the death of Parthalon took place. In Sen Magh Ealta he was buried. The reason, moreover, why that is called Sen Magh is because no tree ever grew there. – Chronicon Scotorum [Parthalón means ‘Shapely Woman’] (133, 189, 251).[Worlds List] (133)