Note 1062 — Chapter XI · MOTTE-CASTLES IN IRELAND

The poetical list enumerates the places which were “of the right of Cashel in its power.” The prose version, which may be assumed to be later, is entitled “Do phortaibh righ Caisil,” which O’Donovan translates “of the seats of the king of Cashel.” But can one small king have had sixty-one different abodes? Professor Bury says “The Book of Rights still awaits a critical investigation.” Life of St Patrick, p. 69.