Note 16 — THE CHILDREN OF LIR

Page 73. The ‘Lia Fail,’ and Ogham lore revered. The ‘Lia Fail,’ or ‘Stone of Destiny,’ was the stone on which the Irish ‘Chief Kings,’ or Ard-Righs, were crowned at Tara. It was subsequently used for the same purpose during many centuries in Scotland, to which it had been brought by the Dalriad Irish recorded by Bede, at the coronation of her Kings of Irish race. It was removed by Edward the First from Scone to Westminster Abbey, where it still supports the chair of Edward the Confessor. (See ‘Hist. of Scotland’ by Sir Walter Scott, vol. i. p. 34.)