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The twelfth-century commentator of Dorban's poem states:
"The nobles of the Tuatha De Danann (with the exception of seven of
them who were interred at Talten [which was the third 'Cemetery of
the Idolaters']) were buried at Brugh, _i.e._, Lugh, and Oe, son of
Ollamh, and Ogma, and Carpre, son of Etan, and Etan (the poetess)
herself, and the Dagda and his three sons (_i.e._, Aedh, and
Oengus, and Cermait), and a great many others besides of the
Tuatha De Dananns, and Firbolgs and others."[89]
But, afterwards, "the race of Heremon, _i.e._, the kings of Tara," who
used to bury at Cruachan (because that was the chief seat in their
special principality of Connaught) came to bury at Brugh. "The first
king of them that was interred at Brugh" was a certain Crimthann,
surnamed _Nianar_, the son of Lughaidh Riabh-n-derg;[90] and the reason
why Crimthann decided to abandon the burying-place of his forefathers
was "because his wife Nar was of the Tuatha Dea, and it was she
solicited him that he should adopt Brugh as a burial-place for himself
and his descendants, and this was the cause that they did not bury at
Cruachan.
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