But when they woke up on the morrow morn, they found themselves in the Queen's chamber in the royal palace of Tara, and by Cormac's side were found the bell-branch and the magical cup and the cloth of gold that had covered the table where they sat in the palace of Mananan.

Seven months it was since Cormac had gone out from Tara to search for his wife and children, but it seemed to him that he had been absent but for the space of a single day and night.
IX DESCRIPTION OF CORMAC[33] [33] The original from the BOOK OF BALLYMOTE (14th century) is given in O'Curry's MS.

MATERIALS OF IRISH HISTORY, Appendix xxvi.

I have in the main followed O'Curry's translation.
"A noble and illustrious king assumed the sovranty and rule of Erinn, namely Cormac, grandson of Conn of the Hundred Battles.

The world was full of all goodness in his time; there were fruit and fatness of the land, and abundant produce of the sea, with peace and ease and happiness.