The fact that the wealth of the Chiefs in cattle was
out of proportion to their power of dealing with the
tribal lands, and the fact, that the tribesmen were
every now and then severely pressed by the necessity
of procuring the means of tillage, appear to me to
supply the best explanation of the system of giving
and receiving stock, to which two sub-tracts of the
Senchus Mor are devoted, the Cain-Saerrath and the
Cain-Aigillne, the Law of Saer-stock tenure and the
Law of Daer-stock tenure.
The interest of these two compendia is very great.
