Mane Honeyworded had five hundred. Mane
Grasp-them-all had seven hundred. Mane the Loquacious had seven hundred.
Each of the others had five hundred in the body of his marauders.
There was a valiant trio of the men of Cualu of Leinster, namely, the
three Red Hounds of Cualu, called Cethach and Clothach and Conall. Now
rapine was wrought by them, and twelve score were in the body of their
marauders, and they had a troop of madmen. In Conaire's reign a third of
the men of Ireland were reavers. He was of sufficient strength and power
to drive them out of the land of Erin so as to transfer their marauding
to the other side (Great Britain), but after this transfer they returned
to their country.
When they had reached the shoulder of the sea, they meet Ingcel the
One-eyed and Eiccel and Tulchinne, three great-grandsons of Conmac of
Britain, on the raging of the sea. A man ungentle, huge, fearful,
uncouth was Ingcel. A single eye in his head, as broad as an oxhide, as
black as a chafer, with three pupils therein.
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