... though it has been erroneously stated in some modern publication that the large pillar stone, which stands on the mound or bRath/b, at Tara is the Stone of Destiny, an assertion opposed to the statements of O'Flaherty, the O'Connors, ... The books of bLeacan/b and Ballymote state that the Tuatha de Danaans (B.C. 719), a people learned in arts and sciences, who, through devious wanderings, had reached Egypt, and there sojourned contemporaneously with the Israelites, ...
