591
591 to Afrika MacMuthuna (F)
597
597 to Ailen O'Curragh (M)
612
612 to Sinna Mac Ard (F) The young lover of Ailen O'Curragh,
622 who after O'Curragh's early death married Teador Mac Ard, then the RB of a fiefdom within what is now Tuath Gabair.
622 to Bryth Beirne (nee Mac Ard) (F) Daughter of Sinna and 648 Teador Mac Ard. It is during Bryth’s holding that the
Inish cloudmages began to secretly plot to bring the cloch back to the island. Negotiations were begun with Bryth, including possible ar-rangements of marriage to the RB of Inish Thuaidh, but she refused despite RB Mac Ard’s interest in that political union, and eventually married Anrai Beirne, a tiarna of Tuath Infochla.
648 to Rowan Beirne (M) Bryth’s son Rowan foolishly allowed 651 himself to be drawn north out of Falcarragh to a
supposed parley with the Inishlanders, where he was ambushed and murdered by assas-sins in the employ of the Inish cloudmage Garad Mhullien. Lamh Shabhala was taken from Rowan’s body and brought to the island. 651 to Garad Mhullien (M) The cloch returns to Inish Thuaidh.
662 Garad would die testing himself against the Scrudu.
663 to Rolan Cileachair (M)
669
669 to Peria O RBain (F) Mother of Severii, lover to Tadhg 671 O’Coulghan. She died in Thall Coill testing herself against the limits of the cloch with the Scrudu. Tadhg would take the cloch from her body and become Holder himself.
671 to Tadhg O’Coulghan (M) Founder of the Order of 701 Inishfeirm based on the tiny island of the same name just off the coast of Inish Thuaidh. Tadhg was the da of Severii, the Last Holder. It was Tadhg who began the process of codifying and bringing together all the lore of the clochs na thrintri, as well as Lamh Shabhala.
701 to Severii O’Coulghan (M) The last person to hold an active 730 Lamh Shabhala until the mage-lights returned in 1129. The mage-lights had ebbed to nothing by 726.
730 to Loman Blake (M) Lover of Severii, and a wastrel who
731 sold Lamh Shabhala to pay off gambling debts.
731 to Donnan McEvoy (M) Kept Lamh Shabhala, hoping that 741 the mage-lights would return. They didn’t. Donnan, a gambler, was killed in a tavern brawl in Dun Kiil, after which the stone passed into the possession of Kmnat Morain, who owned the tavern and confiscated the dead McEvoy’s belongings.
741 to Kinnat Morain (F)
753
753 to Edana O Broin (F) The daughter of Kinnat Morain, who 779 found the stone in her mam’s jewelry chest after her death due to the Bloody Flux. Edana and her husband took over the tavern. She had no idea that the stone was Lamh Shabhala; she kept it only because it had been her mam’s. She happened to be wearing it on the day Doyle Baroid came to Dun Kiil on business and stopped in the tavern for a drink and a meal.
779 to Doyle Baroid (M) A Brathair of the Order of Inishfeirm, 831 who recognized that the unprepossessing stone around Edana's neck was similar to the description of Lamh Shabhala in the Order's library. He purchased it from Edana, and brought it back to Inishfeirm. He would eventually become Maister of the Order. On his death, the cloch was put in the collection of the Order.
831 to During these two and a half centuries, there was no single 1075 Holder of the stone. The stone resided in the Order of Inishfeirm's collection of clochs na thrintri.
1075 Kerys Aoire (F) Kerys fell in love with a man named to Niall, one of the Brathairs of the Inishfeirm Order. Niall, 1093 as a pledge of his love, stole the cloch and gave it to
Kerys. Because the Brathairs were contracted by their families to the Order and were forbidden to marry,
Kerys and Niall fled Inishfeirm. Their small currach foundered in a storm; Niall drowned, but Kerys, pregnant, survived. She would give the cloch to her son, also named Niall.
1093 Niall Aoire (M) In traveling, he came to Tuath Gabair to and the village of Ballintubber, where he fell in love with 1113 and married a woman named Maeve Oldspring. Niall would lose the stone (or perhaps the stone lost him) while walking on Knob top, a hill near Ballintubber.
| Waterfire(color: sapphire) | Tuatha | ? Aron O Dochartaigh | Produces blue st |
| Snapdragon (color: yellow laced with red) | Tuatha | ? A tiarna of the Tuatha | Creates a whiplil chews at the fles |
| Rogue | Tuatha | ? A tiarna of the Tuatha | Creates a tsunan |
| Sharpcut | Tuatha | ? A tiarna of the Tuatha | Calls into being c unseen infantry. |
| Weaver | Tuatha | ? A tiarna of the Tuatha | Creates a stingin |
| Nightmare | Tuatha | ? A tiarna of the Tuatha | Give the Holder worst fears or gr |
| Wolfen (color: amber crackled with black) | Tuatha | ? A tiarna of the Tuatha | Calls into being g |
| Tornado (color: black) | Tuatha | ? A tiarna of the Tuatha | An energy-sucke draining it |
| GodFist | Tuatha | ? A tiarna of the Tuatha | Creates an ether effect is (such as |
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My appreciation to Padraic Lavin, Treasa Lavin, Daragh O'Reilly and Johnny Towey, who comprise the musical group OSNA, whose self-titled CD Osna (Celtic Note, CNCD 1002) I purchased while in Ireland. When-ever I wanted some special inspiration or needed to fall into the mood of the novel, I put their CD in the player. I've been unable to find any other recordings by this group in the U.S., but this is one fine effort. Thank you for the sonic inspiration! You can find Celtic Note at http://www.celticnote.ie on the internet.
And while I'm mentioning the music which was always playing in the background, I should also give a nod to Capercaillie and Cherish The Ladies, both groups which also found quite a lot of time on the CD player during the course of the writing.