Lia Toll
Also spelled: the Pierced Standing-Stone
A standing stone in Crích Rois where the Ulster boy-troop fell and where Cethern pierced a pillar-stone.
Overview
Lia Toll is a standing stone, called the Pierced Standing-Stone in the text. The boy-troop of Ulster fell there in a fight that Ailill set up against them, and only Follamain got out alive. The text says the name comes from Cethern, who drove his sword through a pillar-stone there in Crích Rois.
Events here
- Ailill sends three times fifty warriors against the Ulster boy-troop, and they all fall at one another's hands at Lia Toll. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage. Involves: Ailill.
- Cethern drives his sword through a pillar-stone with Ailill's crown on top of it, and the stone takes its name from that. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs. Involves: Cethern son of Fintan, Ailill.
In their dread, they put Ailill’s crown on top of a pillar-stone, and Cethern attacked the pillar-stone and drove his sword through it, and his fist after the sword.
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Related places
- Crích Rois (The district where the stone stands)
Connected to
- Lerga (Where the boy-troop met the army while he slept)
- Smirommair (The Pierced Stone in Crích Rois, where Cethern drove his sword through a pillar)