General Notes

Corc shunned the unnatural love of his stepmother and fled in his youth to
Scotland, where he married Mong-Fionn, daughter of King Fionn Cormac of the
Picts [who, in Irish, are callend "Cruithneach" or "Cruithneans"]. By her, he
had several sons including Main Leamhnaa, who remained in Scotland, and who
was the ancestor of Mor Mhaor Leamhna, the great Stewards of Lennox, from whom
are descended the Kings of Scotland and England of the Stewart and Stuart
dynasties. This Corc, although never converted to Christianity, was one of
the three Kings or Princes appointed by the triennial parliament held at Tara
in Saint Patrick's time, "to review, examine, and reduce into order all the
mounments of anticquity, genealogies and chronicles and records of the
kingdom"; the other two being Daire or Darius, a Prince of Ulster, and Leary
the Monarch. Whith these three were associated for that purpose, Saint
Partick, Saint Benignus, Saint Carioch. Together with Dubhthach, Fergus, and
Rosse Mac Trichinn, the chief antiquaried of Ireland. From Corc, the city of
Cork is called. Corc was the eldest son of Lughaidh.