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



The treatise then goes on to explain conjecturally the etymological meanings 

 of the word Senchus, and afterwards the technical law terms used in the work. 



A similar account of this work is given in another ancient MS. in the 

 College Library, Class H. 3. 17, formerly the property of the celebrated Duald 

 Mac Firbis ; but in this account the miracles of St. Patrick are omitted, and 

 the place and time of its composition are thus stated with greater distinctness : 



6occ, ocupannpip, ocuf peppa, ocupcuc- 

 uiDpjpiBinninc-penchupa: locc DO,Ceniuipi 

 pampero ocup i pojmup (.i. ap a jlame ocup 

 op a hafbne,) ocup Raic Ig'i'JrapD i njim- 

 pio ocup 1 n-6ppuch. (.i. ip uime po biotp 

 oRair^hucaipoap jaine leo aconnaio ocup 

 a huipci, ocup op a ceapaijechc .i. paic in- 

 aipccha nee inn juc nopo, no ina guc inolij- 

 euc ; no o jorhaib na nape .i. na laoc, no o 

 jochaib na napo .i. na n-uapal.) 



Qp bpu Hira Netnanche (.i. Nich ainm 

 t)o'n abuinn, no lappa nich do pinpic na 

 opume pe parpaic ann ,i. ap in conpliuchc 

 no nirjuin do pmneo ina pappa ann. Ne- 

 jnanche .i. Nemanoach hi lapp in ni pojeb- 

 ouip mill nemajiD inuo, no, nempoinomech 

 hi, lapp inni na pabuijchup pomaine epcc na 

 copoD ince.) 



T?airh 5"^ op" '""^ F'" '" ha^l ica lecc 

 Pacpaic iniu i njlinn na mboDup i bpocup 

 Don Nich Nemanoach, .1. nemano, uajxil .1. 

 baile I noepnpac na huapal-nim. 



Ocup aimpip DO, aimpip taojuipe ITIicc 

 Nell, pi Gpinn ; ocup Ceocoipi pop aipopij 

 »n Domuin in can pm, ocup oeipmbipechc 

 dip : 



paqiaic do baichip co li 

 In aimpip Ceocoipi 

 Ppeccep poipcela cm bpac 

 t)o cuaic molBcac mac TTlilec. 



The place, and time, and author, and cause of 

 writing the Senchus. Its place Temur, during 

 summer and autumn, (i. e. from its cleanness and 

 amenity,) and Rath-Guthaird during the winter 

 and spring. (They remained at Rath- Guthaird, 

 from the convenience of its fire-wood and water, 

 and from its sheltered situation. Rath Guth- 

 aird means Rath of the punishment of a person 

 for his loud voice or for his unlawful voice ; or it 

 may have been named from the voices of the arts 

 i, e. heroes, or from the voices of the ards, i. e. 

 the nobles.) 



On the brink of Nith Nemanach. (i. e. Nith is 

 the name of the river, or it was so called from the 

 nith which the Druids made there with Patrick, 

 i. e. from the conflict or contention made there 

 with him. Nemanche, i. e. Nemandach, or 

 pearly, from the fact that lumps of pearl were 

 found in it, or Nemhshoinnmhech, i. e. unpro- 

 fitable, from the fact that no profit of fish or 

 produce is found in it.) 



Rath-Guthaird is the place where, at this day 

 Lec-Patraic\s situated, in Glinn-na-mhodhur, near 

 the [river] Nith Nemannach. Nemann is noble, 

 i. e. where they made the uasal nim [noble gems]. 

 And its time, the time of Laoghuire, the son 

 of Niall, King of Ireland ; and Theodosius was 

 Emperor of the World at that time, according to 

 this (quotation : 



Patrick baptized with glory 



In the time of Theodosius ; 



He preached the Gospel without falsehood, 



To the worthy people of the sons of Mile. 



