Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 133 



Cuan O'tochain cecin.it yo pip.* 

 t)o beip maipi do na mnaib 

 Cemaip jan caipi ap cocBail. 

 puaip injen Cuijoech na laim 

 Culmaj buQ liac do locbaio. 

 ©Uom po 5UID ben ^eoe 

 pop a ceili, po cuala, 

 tJinjna oarjlan Dpeim name, 

 6a6 arlam ame im huaja.f 

 Qpup, bao Dun, bao oainjean, 

 hao coDup itiup cen manoup, 

 popp mbiao lecc Cea lap cuineiti, 

 Comao cuilleo ota hallao. 

 ha\ ic 6petnon unrial 

 6en 1 njlemeaoon jeinel, 

 Ruj uoD cec poja pomep, 

 Qd noimeaD cec ni ao bepeo. 

 ftpejacea cpeab cuiUmeach, 

 T?o cluincep uaip ba haipoqieaB, 

 pepc popr F"''' '" Tiop IDepjec** 

 In pom pelccec nap h-aip^eao. 



Injen Poppaino colin aipcc, 

 Cephi polaino luaioeo leipj, 



Cuan O'Lochain composed the following. 

 Gives beauty to the women 

 Temur without weakness after being erected. 

 The daughter of Lughaidh received in her hand 

 A hill-plain, which was sorrowful to a harlot. 

 The portion,'\ which the wife of Gede requested 

 Of her husband, I have heard, 

 [Was] A fair coloured dingna of delightful ascent, 

 Which she was active and skilful in selecting. 

 A habitation, which was a dun and a fastness. 

 Which was the glory of murs without demolition,^ 

 On which was the monument of Tea after her death\ 

 So that it was an addition to her dowry.^ 

 The humble Heremon had 

 A woman in beautiful confinement. 

 Who received from him every thing she wished for. 

 He gave her whatever he promised. 

 Bregatea, [was] a meritorious abode. 

 It is heard that it was once a high abode, 

 [Where lies] The grave under which is the great 



Mergech, 

 The burial place, which was not violated. 

 The daughter of Pharaoh of many champions, 

 Tephi, the most beautiful that traversed the plain, 



• In the copies of the Dinnseanchus, preserved in the Manuscript Library of Trinity College, Dublin, H. 2. 15. p. 

 229, and H. 3. 3, p. 2, this poem is ascribed to St. Cairneach ; and it would appear from the language that it is some 

 centuries older than the time of Cuan O'Lochain, to whom it is ascribed in the Book of Ballymote. 



f In a gloss on this poem, preserved in a MS. in the Library of Trinity College, H. 2. 17, p. 871, this word ellam, 

 which is there written eallaih, is thus explained, eallaih .1. coibci : amail a oeip : 



©allam po jaio ben ^beoe 

 pop a ceile, po cuala, 

 tJingna oacjlan opeimi noaine, 

 5aD arlatii aine im huaja. 

 t The three copies differ in the last word of this line. In the Book of Ballymote, and in the gloss already referred 

 to, it is written lluaxa, as in the text, but in the copy preserved in H. 3. 3, the line runs thus : pa h-aclain aine 

 ro-buDDa, and in the one preserved in the Book of Glendalough, 6a arlam aine im uara. 



§ In the gloss on this poem above referred to, the word manoup which is there written mcnnap, is explained 

 pjQileaD, loosening, demolition. 



II In the same gloss this phrase lap CUinnem is interpreted lOp mbap, after death. 



IT t)ia hallarh .i. Dia coiBci. — Gloss. 



•• Pepc pop puil in mop ITIepsech H. 3. 3. 



