148 Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



" A. D. 1020. Ardmacha combusta tertio Kal. Maii, cum Nosocomiis suis omnibus, non excepta 

 domo Scripturarum sanctarum, et combustae sunt plurimae domus in ternariis regionibus Civitatis, 

 et Cathedralis Ecclesia magna lapidea, et campanile cum suis Campanis, et lapidea Ecclesia Elec- 

 tionum, et Ecclesia lapidea Saballi, (i. e. horrei, sive granarii S. Patricii,) et Cathedra Doctrinalis 

 Pi-ffidicatorum (i. e. suggestum) et copia ingens auri et argenti, et res pretiosae similiter." 



It should be observed, that in the preceding translation, Dr. O'Conor cor- 

 rectly renders the words Oamlmj na Uoja, l>y lapidea Ecclesia Electionum; 

 and yet in his translation, already cited, of the entry in the Annals of Ulster 

 relating to the same churches, at the year 915, he renders the word toe, which 

 is the name of this church, given without the preceding word Damliaj, by 

 stramen: and again in the record of the burning of this same church, now to 

 be cited from the Annals of Ulster, it will appear that he gives a different and 

 equally erroneous translation of the same word, thus : 



" A. D. 1020. Gpomacha uile DO leip DO lopcao, .1. in tDaimliaj TTlop co n-a ruiji DO luaioe, 

 7 in cloiccec co n-a cloccaib, 7 in Saball, 7 in Coai, 7 capbao na n-abbao, 7 in c-pen-cuchaip 

 Ppocmpca, i D-ceipc Kl. luin, 1 6luan pe Cinjceijip." 



This passage, the text of which is here given from the copy in the Library of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, is thus translated by Dr. O'Conor : 



" A. D. 1020. Ardmacha tota penitus combusta, i. e. Ecclesia Saxea magna, cum suo tegmento 

 plumbeo, et Campanili, et Campanis, et Ecclesia Sabhalensis, i. e. Granarii, et Toamensts, i. e. Cimi- 

 tuerii, et Esseda Abbatis, et vetusta Cathedra doctrinalis, tertio Kalendarum Junii, et die Luna; ante 

 Pentecosten." 



Here Dr. O'Conor has added an m to Toa, which is not to be found in the Dub- 

 lin copy nor in any of the other annals, and it is scarcely necessary to remark 

 here that it must be an error of his own in deciphering the MS. With respect 

 to his present conjectural translation of the word, it is worth nothing, as he ren- 

 ders it otherwise elsewhere, and indeed correctly in the Annals of Tighernach ; 

 and it is strange that so laborious a writer did not take the trouble of com- 

 paring the different Annals, before he gave such contradictory translations of 

 the passages recording the same events. This passage is thus correctly trans- 

 lated, but without anglicizing the words Sabhall and Toa, in the old manuscript 

 translation of the Annals of Ulster, preserved in the British Museum, (MS. 

 add. 4795, fol. 47.) 



" A. D. 1020. " All Ardmach burnt wholly, viz. y e Damliag with its howses [housing] or 



