Moy Tura. The ancient heroes there interred were those who, as
Fir-bolgs, preceded the reign of the Tuath De Danan, coming long
after the Clanna Nemedh in the divine cycle, who were themselves
preceded by the children of Partholan, who were subsequent to the
Queen Keasair. Such then being the position in the divine cycle of
the Fir-bolgs, an examination of the Firbolgic raths on Moy Tura
has revealed only implements of stone, proving demonstratively that
the early divine cycles originated before the bronze age in
Ireland, whenever that commenced. Those heroes who, as Fir-bolgs,
received divine honours, lived in the age of stone. So far is it
from being the case, that the mythological record has been extended
and unduly stretched, to enable the monkish historians to connect
the Irish pedigrees with those of the Mosaic record, that it has, I
believe, been contracted for this purpose.

The reader will be now prepared to peruse with some interest and
understanding one or two of the mythological pedigrees. To these I
have at times appended the dates, as given in the chronicles, to
show how the early historians rationalised the pre-historic record.

Angus Og, the Beautiful, represents the Greek Eros. He was surnamed
Og, or young; Mac-an-Og, or the son of youth; Mac-an-Dagda, son of
the Dagda. He was represented with a harp, and attended by bright
birds, his own transformed kisses, at whose singing love arose in
the hearts of youths and maidens. To him and to his father the
great tumulus of New Grange, upon the Boyne, was sacred.

"I visited the Royal Brugh that stands
By the dark-rolling waters of the Boyne,
Where Angus Og magnificently dwells."