Mr. Petrie on the History/ and Antiquities of Tara Hill. S7 



Heill ; concro i n-ijail ^recte i n-oijail] in 

 chacha pin nap fcuip Tlluipcheprach ocup 

 Caipppi DO Caijnib cen po bo beo lac. Ctip- 

 mir eolaij ndp chabai^ Cujaio m 6oporaa 

 ace aen echc co heapbaoach. 



Ip a n-aimpip 6u5oach came poopaic 

 I n-Spino; ocup do chuaio co Cempaij co 

 aipm a poibi Cujaio, ocup capjaio do 

 cpuichnechc cen ap, ocup bichlacr oc buaib 

 pe a lino, ocup neiti a pwpcenD a paejail, 

 ocup pon con, ocup eirh, ocup pijna paip ; 

 ocup nip paem tujaio pin, ocup 6 nap aern 

 DO eapcam paopaic he, ocup po eapcain a 

 pijan .1. QilLino mjen Qenjupa, TTlic 

 Naoppaich, pij TTluiiian ; conao o pin mall 

 ica DimbuaiD pijna pop Chempaig ocup cen 

 buaio con op Cempaij pof* ^° puaip 

 CujaiD mac tae^aipi bap i n-achao papcha 

 rpe apcuine in Cailjino .i. papcha cenncioi 

 DO mm pop mapb lap n-Diulcao in Cailgino. 



son of Niall ; and in revenge of this battle Muir- 

 chertach and Cairbri did not desist from [attack- 

 ing] tlie Lagenians, as long as they lived. The 

 learned state that Lughaidh never forced the 

 Boru but once [and that] imperfectly. 



It is in the time of Lughaidh that Patrick 

 came to Ireland ; and he went to Temur, where 

 Lughaidh was, and offered him wheat without 

 tillage, constant milk with kine during his time, 

 and heaven at the end of his life, and success of 

 hounds and horses, and of a queen upon him ; and 

 Lughaidh did not assent to that, and because he 

 did not, Patrick cursed him, and also cursed his 

 queen, i. e. Aillinn, the daughter of Aengus Mac 

 Nadfraich, King of Munster ; so that thence- 

 forward there is an ill luck of queens on Temur, 

 neither has it success of hounds. And Lugh- 

 aidh, the son of Laeghaire, died at Achadh Farcha, 

 in consequence of the curse of the Tailginn [saint], 

 i. e. a flash of lightning struck him dead from 

 heaven for having rejected the Tailginn. 



It may be observed, that the preceding passage, which is quoted from an abstract 

 of the history of Ireland from the time of the preaching of the Gospel, in the reign 

 of Laoghaire, to that of Roderic O' Conor, is obviously taken from the ancient 

 historians of the country, and that, at the period of its composition, whatever 

 inducement might have existed for fabrication to sustain the received history of 

 the Apostle Patrick's life, there could not have been any to controvert it. Indeed, 

 that the compiler of this condensed history clearly understood that the Patrick 

 alluded to in the preceding passage was different from another of the name, who 

 preached the Gospel in the reign of Laoghaire, will appear manifest from 

 the following notice relating to the reign of that monarch, in which the death 

 of a Senex Patricius is recorded : " Oo 50b chpa Laejaipe mac Neill 

 Naoi jmllaij pigi rpicha annis pod adventum Patricii tenuit. Secundinus 

 et senex Patricius in pace dormierunt" i. e, Laoghaire, the son of Niall of the 

 Nine Hostages, held the government thirty years after the arrival of Patrick. 

 Secundinus and old Patrick slept in peace. As the passage last quoted has 

 been extracted by O'Flaherty from the Book of Lecan, it is certain that he was 



