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ppi cloino Cuachail, ip ppi chenel, 



Ip ppi cmeao, 

 Qipec maipep muip im Gpino, 



Ninopic nuaraic, 

 Co na coipencai Cetiiaip cpiacaic 



Re cloino Cunchail. 



To Tuathal's children, to his race, 



And to his tribe, 

 While the sea exists around Erin, 



Insulated, solitary, 

 That the lordly Temur would not be defended 



Against Tuathal's children. 



But for the other statements no authority older than Keating has been 

 found ; and it will be seen hereafter that no monumental memorial of the era 

 of Tuathal existed at Tara in the time of the poets by whom its ancient remains 

 are described. 



At the year 218, Tigheamach records the commencement of the reign of 

 Cormac Ulfada, the grandson of Con of the Hundred Battles, and commonly called 

 Cormac O'Cuinn and Cormac Mac Art. As the reign of this monarch is the 

 epoch at which most of the monuments remaining at Tara had their origin, and 

 as the circumstances recorded of his life bear, with few exceptions, the stamp of 

 true history, it may be desirable to present to the reader a more ample detail of 

 them than it was deemed necessary to give of those recorded as distinguishing 

 the lives of his predecessors. As a chronicle of these events the Annals of 

 Tigheamach are selected as the most authentic authority. 



A. D. 218. Copmac ULpcroa, hua Cuino, 

 regnat annis xlii. 



222. Kl. Cach Jpcicipo, pia Copmac 

 llua Cuino, pop Ulcaibh. Cach meoha pop 

 Conoachco. Cach Qnaeich, each Cinnooipe, 



218. Cormac Ulfada, the grandson of Con, 

 reigns forty-two years. 



222. The battle of Granard, by Cormac Ua 

 Cuinn, against the Ultonians. The battle of 

 Medha against the Connacians. The battle of 



each Spucha pop ULcuiB. 

 CuaiLjne. 



Cach pLigeoh 



K.iii. CachQcha 6eicheach,cach Racha 

 DUine. 



K. V. Cach Chuile Cochaip po cpi, ocop 

 cpi cachaa ntDuibpio. 



K. i;{. Cach QlLamuijh, ocup vii. cacha 

 Cillme. 



K. vii. Cach nflui je Cache. Coinjeap 

 mop Copmaic TTlic Qipc cap mojh pein ppi 

 pe ceopa mbliaohon. 



Kl. i. Ceichpe cacha pop TTIunihain la 



Anaeith, the battle of Cinndoire, the battle of 

 Sruiha, against the Ultonians. The battle of the 

 pass of Cuailgne. 



The battle of Aih Beitheach, the battle of 

 Rath Duine. 



The battle of Cuil Tochair three times, and 

 three battles in Duihhfidh. 



The battle of AUamuigh and the seven battles 

 of Eillin. 



The battle of Magh-Techt. The large fleet 

 of Cormac Mac Art over the sea for the space of 

 three years. 



Four battles by Cormac against the Momo- 



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