Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, fyc. 383 



" Cpaij Cuipbi cupcbaio a ainm, 

 Do peip ujoaip pirn apnaiom ; 

 Cuipbi Cpajmap, op cac cpaij, 

 Qraip jpaomap jup 5bam. 



" Q cuaij oo celjao tap pcup, 

 On gilla mepgeach mop oub, 

 O Chulaij in biail m-buioi 

 ppip in m-benann mop cuile. 



" Cian noo cuipeao a cuai j oe, 

 Qn muip ni cuile caipppi; 

 CID Cuipbi reap na ruaich cpen, 

 Ni pep ca cuan a cinel ; 



" TTIinab oo'n c-pil oejoaip oub, 

 CUID a Chempaij la laec Cu j, 

 Ni p e rr a can, ppi oail oe, 

 Pep na cleap o Chpaig Chupbi." 



" Traigh Tuirbi, whence was it named? Not difficult. Tuirbi Traghmar, the father of Goban Saer, 

 was lie who had possession in that land. He was used to throw casts of his hatchet from Tulach in 

 bhiail [i. e. the hill of the hatchet], in the direction of the flood, so that the sea stopped, and did not 

 come beyond it. His exact pedigree is not known, unless he was one of those missing people who 

 went off with the polytechnic Sab, who is in the Diamars [Diamor, in Meath], of Bregia. Unde 

 Traigh Tuirbe dicitur. 



" Traigh Tuirbi, whence the name, 



According to authors I resolve; 



Tuirbi of the strand, [which is] superior to every strand, 



The affectionate keen father of Goban. 

 " His hatchet was used to be cast after ceasing [from work] ; 



By this rusty large black youth, 



From the yellow hill of the hatchet 



Which the mighty flood touches. 



" The distance he used to send his hatchet from him, 

 The sea flowed not over it; 



Though Tuirbi was southwards in his district mighty, 

 It is not known of what stock his race ; 



la 6uj 6aihpaoa, i. e. with Lugh of the Long Hand. He was a Tuatha De Danann monarch, A. M. 

 2764, according to O'Flaherty's chronology ; but the story of his going away from Tarah, with a 

 number of his people, has not yet been discovered. 



