Note 3 — Chapter V
Reading edition
"The race of the warrior of Spain" continued until recent times to be a favourite bardic synonym for the Milesians. There is a noble war ode by one of the O'Dalys which I found preserved in the so-called "Book of the O'Byrnes," in Trinity College Library, in which he celebrates a victory of the O'Byrnes of Wicklow over the English about the year 1580 in these words:—
"Sgeul tásgmhar do ráinig fá chrióchaibh Fáil Dá táinig lán-tuile i nGaoidhiltigh (?) Chláir. Do chloinn áird áithiosaigh Mhile Easpáin Toisg airmioch (?), ar lár an laoi ghil bháin."
It is to be observed that of the four great Irish stocks the descendants of Ith are often called the Clanna Breógain.