According to an old Irish legend, Irusan was a huge cat, the size of a cow no less! He lived a regal life of royal splendour in a cave at Knowth near the village of Donore, Co. Meath, Ireland. Learning that a poet had made satirical remarks about him, the large feline carried the offensive poet off and was killed by a saint who drove a red-hot iron though his body.

There is a reference to the 'King of Cats' in an old Irish folk-tale: " A man killed a cat, but just before it died the cat told him to say that he had just killed the King of Cats...When the man got home and his own cat heard the news, it leapt up from its fireside resting place and tore him to shreds!
 

 Seanchan the Bard and the King of the Cats

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