Confey.

XIV. - Confey.

Confey is another boundary line between the Lucan and Leixlip districts. It joins Lucan at “Pass-if-you-can,” the lands of which are in the three counties of Dublin, Meath, and Kildare. Confey has a historical association.

In O’Curry’s “Manuscript Materials” there is a description of the prophecy of St. Moling, who foretold the battle of Confey. St. Moling, of Tigh Moling (St. Mullin’s, Co. Carlow), died in 696. The battle of Confey was in 915. The prophecy is called the *Bhaite Mholing, *or “Ecstasy of Moling.” It consists of 47 stanzas, or 188 lines, on the Succession of the Kings of Leinster, Having foretold the slaying of Kings Fergal and Aedh, the prophecy passes from 733 to the death of Cormac Mac Cullinan in the year 903, when he was slain in the battle of Magh Ailbé. Though no allusion is made to the Danish invasion, it foretells that the cattle of Cilb Ansaillé (Killossy, near Naas) will be carried off by the Danes. The Danes were then to be almost annihilated by Ugairé, the son of Aillel, King of Leinster.

Now, it was really Ugairé, the King, who, with the warlike chiefs of Leinster, fell in the arms of victory on the battle-field of Ceannfuait (Confey, near Lucan), in 915, when the Danes were thoroughly routed and slain, and their camp, into which the Danes had lately poured, and in which they were strongly entrenched, was completely destroyed.

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