Breas fled to the Hebrides, to his father, Elatha, the chief of the Fomorians, where, collecting a mighty host of their sea-robbers, in as many ships as filled the sea from the Hebrides to Ireland, they swarmed into Eirinn--and gave battle to the De Danaan at Northern Moytura, in Sligo.  In this, their second great battle, the De Danann were again victorious.  They routed their enemy with fearful slaughter, and overthrew the Fomorian tyranny in the island

forever.  The famous Fomorian chief, Balor of the Evil Eye, whose headquarters was on

Tory Island, off the Northwest coast, was slain, by a stone from the sling of his own

grandson, the great De Danann hero, Lugh.  But Balor had slain King Nuada before he was

himself dispatched. This famous life and death struggle of two races is commemorated by a multitude of cairns and pillars which strew the great battle plain in Sligo--a plain which bears the name (in Irish) of "the Plain of the Towers of the Fomorians."
     The De Danann were now the undisputed masters of the land.   So goes the honored legend.