Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 



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lopp na cachaib do bpeach Caoj am do 

 Clinch ilLpeoh a cappcro do muiy 6pe5h o po 

 mebuijh in each co haiohchi. Ipeo om do 

 chimchil Cpicha ceo Cianachca, o 5laip 

 nepa co cnoccaibh TTlaile ooaijh, ic abuino 

 6ipe. 



231. Cach Cpinna Ppejabail, pia Cop- 

 mac Ua Cuino, pop Ulcaib, ubi cecidit 

 Qenjup pino mac pepjupa Duiboecaij, co 

 ri-ap ULao. 



254.1nDapbaUllaD a h-Spino aTTIanaiiiD, 

 la Copmac hua Cumo. Qp oe ba Copmac 

 Ulpaoa Dia po cuip ULcu a pao. 



K. i. 5""i Chellaij mic Copmaic, ocop 

 mapbcroh Secna mic 6lae mic pechcaipe 

 na Cempach. Ocop puiL Copmaic hui 

 ChuinD DO bpipeoh oo aen popjum la 

 h-QenjupmacPiacha Suiji, mic peiolilimio 

 Reachcmaip, unde Qenjup ^^'^uaibceach 

 dictum est. Tio bpip lapom Copmac iiii. 

 cacha pop nat)eipib, conup pai a ITIumain, 

 ocop CO po capuino app a cip. 



Kl. ett. Copmac hua Cumo cec cachaij 

 DO ec a Cleiceach Dia maipc, lap leanmain 

 cnama bpaoain ina bpajaio, no, ap lao na 

 piabpaoa po n-opcaoap, lap na Bpach do 

 rriaelcinn Dpaoi, o nap cpeo Copmac do. 



After the battles Teige obtained as much of 

 the plain of Bregia as he was able to surround 

 with his chariot from the time the [last] battle 

 was gained till night. What he then surrounded 

 was the Tricha ched of Cianachta, [which extends] 

 from Glaisnera to the hilb of Mail Doaith, which 

 are at the river Liifey. 



251. The battle of Crinna Fregahail, by Cor- 

 mac Ua Cuinn, against the Ultonians, in which 

 fell Aengus Finn, the son of Fergus of the Black 

 Teeth, with the slaughter of the Ultonians. 



254. The expulsion of the Ultonians from 

 Ireland to Manann, [the Isle of Man] by Cormac 

 Ua Cuinn. It is thence he was [called] Cormac 

 Ulfada, because he drove the Ultonians afar. 



The wounding of Ceallach, the son of Cormac, . 

 and the killing of Setna, the son of Blae, son of 

 the lawgiver of Temur. And the eye of Cormac 

 Ua Cuinn broken with one blow by Aengus, the 

 son of Fiacha Suighi, the son of Feidhlim Recht- 

 mar, whence he was called Aengus Gabhuaibh- 

 theach, [i. e. Aengus of the Dreadful Spear]. 

 Cormac afterwards gained four battles over the 

 Desii, so that he drove them into Munster, and 

 expelled them from their [original] country. 



Cormac, the grandson of Con of the Hundred 

 Battles, died at Cleiteach, on Tuesday, the bone 

 of a salmon having stuck in his throat ; or, it is 

 the sheevree [genii] that killed him at the insti- 

 gation of Maelcinn, the Druid, as Cormac did not 

 believe in him. 



It is scarcely necessary to observe, that these details have all the marks of 

 authenticity ; nor is it necessary to their credibility to concede to the Irish of 

 those times the use of letters, as oral tradition alone would have been sufficient 

 to preserve such meagre details until the introduction of Roman literature with 

 Christianity into Ireland in less than two centuries afterwards. Whether the 

 Irish had or had not the use of letters anterior to this epoch is, at the same 

 time, a subject open to investigation ; but it would be foreign from the purpose 

 of this memoir to enter upon an inquiry so laborious ; it is sufficient to observe. 



