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The Gowra (Gabhra) Valley lies ...How the first mill in Ireland was build at Tara<br />
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The Gowra (Gabhra) Valley lies between the Hills of Tara and Skryne <br />
and the Valley is crossed by the Gabhra river. The river owes its <br />
origin in part to two springs on the eastern flank of the Hill of Tara, <br />
one is known as St Patrick’s Well (possibly Liaig). <br />
The second spring, possibly Nemnach, named in the texts on the <br />
placenames in Tara. This is situated close to Ráith Lóegaire <br />
and it reputed to be the site of the first mill in Ireland. <br />
The connection between the spring and the river is reflected <br />
by the literature in the explanation of the reason for building <br />
a mill in that area. The king of Tara, Cormac mac Airt, <br />
made pregnant his female slave, Ciarnait, and to ease her <br />
burden he brought a mill to Ireland for the first time. <br />
Ciarnait is credited in certain sources as the mother of <br />
Cormac’s son, Cairpre Lifechair, who later dies in the <br />
Gabhra Valley in the Battle of Gabhra. <br />
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The Metrical Dinnshenchas says of Nemnach in the poem Temair 111: <br />
“Temair, whence Temair Breg is named,<br />
Rampart of Tea wife of the son of Miled,<br />
Nemnach is east of it, a stream through the glen<br />
On which Cormac set the first mill. <br />
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Ciarnait, hand-maid of upright Cormac, <br />
Used to feed from her quern many hundreds,<br />
Ten measures a day she had to grind,<br />
It was no task for an idler. <br />
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The noble king came upon her at her task<br />
All alone in her house,<br />
And got her with child privily;<br />
Presently she was unable for heavy grinding.<br />
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Thereupon the grandson of Conn took pity on her,<br />
He brought a mill-wright over the wide sea;<br />
The first mill of Cormac mac Airt<br />
Was a help to Ciarnait. <br />
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The Banshenchas (The Lore of famous women) recognises Ciarnait <br />
as the mother of Cairpre Lifechair and this is reiterated <br />
by an unpublished poem in the Book of Lecan. <br />
In the story of the Death of Cond Cétchathach in the Book of Fermoy, <br />
she is the mother of Cellach son of Cormac, the man who caused <br />
the Expulsion of the Déisse and the wounding of Cormac mac Airt <br />
and his self-imposed exile to Achall. <br />
The existence of mills in the Gabhra Valley is further borne out <br />
by the placename Lismullin (from muileann “mill”). <br />
Lismullin House also lies in the path of this proposed motorway. <br />
The connection is established then between Ciarnait, <br />
Cairpre and the Nemnach that is one of the origins of the <br />
Gabhra River in the Valley.