Cormac Mac Airt reigned as High King at Tara for forty years, the greatest and wisest of Ireland's mortal kings, whose court at Tara was famed for its justice and the magnificence of the Banqueting Hall.
Lugh assumed the High Kingship at Tara when Nuada yielded the throne to the master of all arts, and from Tara he marshaled the Tuatha Dé Danann against the Fomorian host at the Second Battle of Moytura.
Nuada Airgetlám held the High Kingship of the Tuatha Dé Danann at Tara for seven years before the First Battle of Moytura, lost it when Sreng's blow cost him his arm, and reclaimed it after Dian Cécht fashioned him a silver hand — only to yield the throne willingly to Lugh when the Fomorian war demanded a champion without equal.
The Lia Fáil, the Stone of Destiny brought by the Tuatha Dé Danann from the city of Falias, stands upon the Hill of Tara and cries out beneath the feet of the rightful High King of Ireland.
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