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Extract from the Carney Travel Guides:
North of Drumcliff, the first left turn off the main road (signposted "Lissadell") leads to
CARNEY
village, to the north of which is an area known as
COOLDRUMMAN
, where the
Battle of the Book
took place. This battle followed the refusal of St Columba to hand over a psalm book copied from the original owned by St Finian of Moville, in defiance of the High King, who ruled that just as a calf belongs to its cow so every copy belongs to the owner of the book from which it is made. Columba won the battle at a cost of three thousand lives. Repenting the bloodshed he had caused, he then went int...
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