134 Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tar a Hill. 



Rocum carpal^, cpooa in cuipo, 



t)ia luip5 por copna if oia oelj,! 



t)o pao ainm Dia cacpaij cairh — 



In ben co naib pacmaip pig — 



ITIup Cephi Fpip roip^e oail, 



Qf r|ia oipjeao cen ngpain cec njnim.J 



Ni cleiri in pun pia paoa, 

 TTIup Dap Ceplii, po cuala, 

 poeyain puno cen oual oijnajg 

 Cumpac moppi^na puama. 

 Poo lerec cije Cephi, 

 ^an rpeici miDic puici, 

 Sepcao cpcnjeo can claice, 

 Con pejpat) pci'O' T opuioi. 

 Qc cuala in 6ppain uiUijH 

 Injin lepcBain, laecbuilli^ 

 Cino 6accip, mac Guippij, 

 t)op puj Cancon caem cuinoij. 

 Cephi a ainm op gac njepao, 

 TTIaipg popp mbepao a mupao ! 

 Sepcao rpaijjeo cen colao, 

 r,eo DO ponaD oia punao. 



Nip CU5 pi5 Speojain cen bpon, 

 Clap bo meabaij la Cancon, 

 Co m-beic a haipec Dia hon, 

 O pi na Tn-6peacan mblao mop. 



[Here] Formed a cahir, strong the circle,* 



Which she described with her wand and bodkin. 



She gave a name to her fair cahir — 



The woman with the prosperous royal smile — 



Mur-Tephi, where the assembly met, 



And where every action was achieved without 



treachery. 

 It is not a mystery to be said, 

 A mur [was raised] over Tephi, I have heard, 

 Strength this without contempt, 

 Which great proud queens have formed. 

 The length, breadth, of the house of Tephi, 

 The learned have measured it without ignorance, 

 Sixty feet without weakness, 

 As prophets and druids have seen. 

 Spain the angular has heard 

 Of the mild, fair, comely daughter 

 Of Cino Bactir, son of Buirrech, 

 Whom Canthon, the beautiful hero, married. 

 Tephi her name, [distinguished] above every 



virgin, 

 Wo to him who had to entomb her ! 

 [A tomb of] sixty feet without addition, 

 By them was made to enshrine her. 

 The King of Braganza without sorrow did not cease, 

 Though it was defeat to Canthon, — 

 Until she should be restored from her sojourn, 

 By the King of the Britons of great fame. 



• CuipD .1. ceipD no obaip no cacip, ut est : Rochum cachpaij cpooain chuipo, oia luipg pop 

 copna, ip Dia D1I5. Ctgup ariiail oroeip buic bpon cepo Cuinn .1. cuipo Cuinn .1. carip cuino. — 

 Gloss. The word cuipo certainly signifies circle, circuit, or ambit. See Ordnance Memoir of the Parish of Temple- 

 more, pp. 212 and 213, where the origin of the word cacaip and its cognates is inquired into. 



f t)ie luipc pop copaino ip Die oelj H. 3. 3. t>ie luipc pup comaip, &c.— H. 2. 15, p. 229. 



% Qp noipcceo jac 5pain jac jniom.— H. 3. 3, and H. 2. 15. 



§ pui pam punna cen oijna.— Lift. Glendalough. Paepin punn cen oual Dinjna — H. 3. 3, and H. 2. 15. 



II The epithet Ulllech, angular, and rpe-uillech, triangular, is applied to Spain in old Irish poems, from which 

 it would appear that the writers of them had a chart of that kingdom. Thus in the Book of Lismore, p. 151 : 

 '.' Cap Domjnap Nepcuin anunn, — 5° cpich Ppepen ic peoum, 

 Ocup mo oepbaiD cap muip, — Seoch in Gppain cpe-uiUij." 



