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



baill ocup itn piano peblai, mac Scann- 

 lain, comapba parpaic, ocup im fxii peap 

 n-6penn, im Ceanopaelao, mac QiUolla, 

 mic Gojam, mic Neill, ajup im phinn- 

 ran, mac 6ochna, apopeanoip Gpenn ; ocup 

 CO po cpoipc Qmipjeiii cpi laice ocup cpi 

 haiDce pop pinran, i piaonaipi peap n- 

 Gpenn, pceo mac ocup mjein, i Cempaij ; 

 coneicciup oo peancapa p'pci omo n-6penn, 

 pooeij po laD coc oume ocup cac oine oi o 

 aimpip Ceappa mjine 6eaca, ip i ceona po 

 jab Gpe, 50 plair n-tDiapmaoa TTlic Ceap- 

 baiU; CO n-epepc. 



Cemup, om, ol Qmaipgen, mup Uea, in- 

 jmi ^Luigoeach, mic Icha, ota luio co ^eoi 

 n-Olljorach. Ip na plairpen ba bmoioip la 

 cac noume in 6pe jur apaile beoip ceoa 

 mo cpor, ap meo in cpioa ocup na caipoine 

 bae la each oiapaili m Gpinn ; conio aipe 

 finipppuicui \n mup pin jMam jGc mup pobir. 

 Ice cecna paep cuip h-Speno cuip Ceo, 

 mjiniu tuijoech, ppi ^^oe. 



NoCemaip .i.Cephimup .1. TTlup Cephi, 

 injini 6achrip, pi hippainia. Ip 1 bai ic 

 Canchon, mac Caicmeno, pi 6peacan ; cop 

 bo mapb occo hi ; ocup do paoao Gcipun 

 loal no m-6peacan ppi a caipej ca mbao 

 beo no mapb hi. Rujao hi lapum lap na 

 bap CO heappain, co noeapnao mup impi 

 ano .1. Cephi mup. Cfc connaipc Cea om 

 bean Gpemoin innpm .1. mup Cephip; luio 

 pen Don co h Gpinn le a peap, ocupoo bepeao 

 Di each culach cojao in h-Gipinn, conio le 

 laparii con apnecc mup amuil mup Cephip 

 conao inoi po aonacc; wjitfeCemuip dicitur. 

 Cemaip ocup t)puim Cam ocup Ciar opu im 

 ocup Caraip Cpopino'ocup t)puim n-t)ep- 

 cen, CU15 anmanoa Cempach in pm. 



Vel ita, Uemaip. A verbo Graeco Te- 



Diarmaid, the son of Cearbhall, and with 

 Flann Febla, the son of Scannlan, Coarb of 

 Patrick, and with the learned men of Ireland, 

 with Kinfaela, the son of Ailill, the son of Eogan, 

 the son of Niall, and with Fintan, the son of 

 Bochna, chief senior of Ireland ; and Amergin 

 fasted three days and three nights on Fintan, in 

 the presence of the Irish, both sons and daughters, 

 at Temur ; so that he (Fintan) manifested unto him 

 the true histories of the Dinns of Erin, and the 

 proceedings of every person and every tribe of it 

 from the time of Ceasair, the daughter of Bith, 

 who was the first that took Ireland, until the reign 

 of Diarmaid, the son of Cerbhall ; so that he said : 



Teamuir, then, said Amergin, is mur Tea, 

 i. e. the wall of Tea, the daughter of Lughaidh, 

 son of Ith, who went to Geide OUgothach. In his 

 reign, the voice of each other was sweeter to the 

 men of Ireland than the strings of the harp, from 

 the greatness of the peace and friendship that each 

 had for the other in Erin ; so that this mw was 

 more melodious than any mui' in existence. The 

 first royal crime of Ireland was the crime of Tea, 

 the daughter of Lughaidh, with Gede. 



Aliter Teamuir, i. e. Teph-mur, i. e. the wall 

 of Teph, the daughter of Bachtir, king of Spain. 

 She was married to Canthon, the son of Caith- 

 mend, King of Britain, till she died with him ; 

 and Etirun, the Idol of the Britons, had been 

 given as a guarantee for her restoration either 

 dead or alive. After her death she was brought 

 to Spain, and a mur was there erected around 

 her csAeATephimur. Tea, the wife of Heremon, 

 saw this mur ; she afterwards came to Ireland with 

 her husband, and he gave her every hill she chose 

 in Ireland, so that she erected a mur similar to the 

 mur of Tephi, where she herself was afterwards 

 interred ; whence it is called Teamair. Temair and 

 DruirnCain and Liathdruim, and Cathair Cro- 

 finn a.nd Di'uim n-Descen are five names of Temur. 



Or thus, Temair. Authors affirm that the 



