106 Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



" piano qia 7 <3ocaio Golac h-Ua Cepin ip lac po emoitpac po a llebpaib Gocaoa h-Ui 

 Planoacan i n-GpotTlaca, 7 a llebpaib ITIanipcpec, 7 ap na lebpaib rojaioib ap cena, .1. up in 

 ibup 6uoi, cepco ap in Capcap i n-Qpo ITIaca, 7 ap in tibup IJJ'PPi boi im TTIampcep ; 7 ip pioe 

 puc in mac lejino lepp i n-j;aic oap muip, 7 ni ppie piam oilepp. Conio pencap na pelec inpm." 



" The chiefs of Ulster before Conchobhor were buried at Talten, viz. Ollamh Fodhla and seven 

 of his sons, and grandsons, with others of the chiefs of Ulster. The nobles of the Tuatha De Danann 

 (with the exception of seven of them who were interred at Talten) were buried at Brugh, i. e. 

 Lugh, and Oe, son of Ollamh, and Ogma, and Carpre, son of Etan, and Etan [the poetess] herself, 

 and the Dagda and his three sons, (i. e. Aedh, and Oengus, and Cermait,) and a great many others 

 besides of the Tuatha De Dananns, and Firbolgs, and others. The kings of the province of Galian 

 [Leinster] were buried at Oenach Ailbi ; the kings of Munster at Oenach Culi, in Oenach Colman 

 andFeci. TheClann Dedhadh at Temhair Erann. The kings of Connaught at Cruachan ut diximus. 



" There are fifty hills [mounds] at each Oenach of these : fifty hills at Oenach Cruachan, fifty 

 hills at Oenach Talten, and fifty at Oenach in Broga. 



" These were the poets of Connaught, viz. Dorban, and Flaithcius, and Aengus the poet these 

 were of Gno, (in the west of Connaught, i. e. of Delmna Tiri da Locha) ; Torna Eiges, Scanlan Mac 

 Eoghain, the poet, and Daithen, the poet, whom the tree killed ; whence is Bile Dathen in Tir 

 Maine, at this day called Bili Scathen. All these are buried at Oenach na Cruachna ; and there 

 are also buried there the supreme king of the province, i. e. Ailell Mac Mata of Muiresc, and his wife 

 i. e. Medhbh, the daughter of Eochaidh Fedhlech, her body having been removed by her people from 

 Fert Medhbha, for they deemed it more honourable to have her interred at Cruachan. I am not 

 able to enumerate them all. It is here Dathi, monarch of Ireland, was buried, and it is here lie those 

 enumerated by Torna Eiges. Ciarraigi was his reward. 



" It was Flann and Eochaidh Eolach O'Ceirin that collected this account from the books of 

 Eochaidh O'Flannagan at Armagh, and from the Books of the Monastery [Monasterboice], and from 

 other select books, viz. from the Libur Budi, which disappeared from the Carcar at Armagh, and 

 from the Libur Gerr, which was at the Monastery ; and this was the book which the student took 

 with him by stealth across the sea, and was never found since. So far the History of the Cemeteries." 



In accordance with this description we find that the monuments within the 

 cemetery at Kathcroghan, which is of a circular form, measuring one hundred 

 and sixteen paces in diameter, and surrounded with a stone ditch greatly de- 

 faced, the cathair of the poem, are small circular mounds, which when exa- 

 mined are found to cover rude sepulchral chambers formed of stone, without 

 cement of any kind, and containing unburned bones. The monument of Dathi, 

 which is a small circular mound, with a pillar-stone of red sand-stone, is situ- 

 ated outside the enclosure, at a short distance to the east, and may be at once 

 identified from the following notice of it, given by the celebrated antiquary, 

 Duald Mac Firbis, in 1666 : 



