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



Ceamaip cec benn nac bipoa, 

 Qcr mao 6main pop ip^na. 

 5a capja cpiach ocup cop,t 

 Rob aoba mac nich co neim, 

 Ceamaip cen cappi, cen rpaij, 

 Q maipi DO mnaib do Beip.f 



Temur every Ben not pointed,* 

 [Exceeding all] except Emania in distinction. 

 It was the meeting-place of lords and chieftains, 

 It was thehabitationofwarriors of venomous contest, 

 Temur without weakness, without misery, 

 Their beauty to the women gives. 



t)o Dinjnaib na Cempach in po pip. 



Nemnach .1. cippapuil ic on c-pio, 1 n- 

 aipciup cuaipcepc na Cempach. 5^*^'r' °°" 

 ceio a Nemnaij .1. Hic a h-ainm, ip puippi 

 a ra in ceona muileno do ponoo 1 n-Gpe la 

 [rede do] CiapnaiD cumail Copmaic. 



tacpac cije ITlaipipen pil op in cpio ppi 

 Hemnaij a cuaio, ocup ceopa cloca beja 

 [imbe].' Ip athlaiD po puioijeo in ceac pin, 

 tap^ apo ocup cuapao aipipel. ITIaipipeo, 

 Don, bancpebach bae im copae ppi Cop- 



Of the remarkable remains of Temur. 



Neamhnach, a well which is at the Sidh, to 

 the north-east of Temur. From this well flows 

 a stream called Nith, on which is the first mill 

 erected in Ireland by [recte for] Ciarnaid, the 

 Cumhal (bondmaid) of Cormac Mac Art. 



The ruins of the House of Mairiseo lie from 

 the Shee (hill ?) to the north of Neamhnach. 

 There are three small stones around it [or in it]. 

 In its structure, this house had a high middle and 

 low tuarad. Mairiseo was a widow who was co- 



• This line is corruptly given in the Book of Ballymote thus : Cemaip cac benoach bipoa, which would 

 mean " Temur means every pealced and jtointed hill ;" but the true reading given above in the text is found in the 

 Book of Glendalough, which is an older and more correct MS., and in the Gloss on this poem in H. 2. 17. The Book 

 of Glendalough gives another quatrain here between the lines Ctcc mao ©main pop ip5na and 6a capja 

 rpiarh ocupcop ; but it is probably an interpolation, as it is not to be found in any other copy. It repeats the Scotic 

 proverb, Ceriiaip cuachl ocup CIJI, from which Cormac Mac Cullenan inferred that the word might be derived 

 from the Greek. It runs thus : 



" Ceamaip Cuaichi ocup ciji, — Cen luachi, cen laecmipi, 

 TTIacaip anai cec pini, — Conop bpacliaij bear bini." 



f The word cop literally signifies a tower, but it is here, and in many other compositions, used in a figurative sense 

 to mean lord or chief. Uuipi^in, a word formed from it, is also used to signify a pillar or post which supports a 

 house ; and also a king. — See Cormac^s Glossary and the Forus Focal. 



X CI maippi pop mnaiB ni cheil. — Book of Glendalough. 



' In the copy of the Diinnseanchus, preserved in the Library of Trinity College, H. 2. 18, this passage is given as 

 follows : 1 glaipi bee cheic a Cempaij paip, ip puippi a ca in muilleno cecaoepnao do Chiapnaic 

 cumail Chopmaic, a small stream which flows from Temur eastwards j on it is the first mill erected for Ciamat, 

 the bondmaid of Cormac. 



' This word is omitted in the Book of Ballymote. But it is here supplied from the Book of Glendalough. In 

 H. 3. 3, ann, i. e. in it, is here used for imbe, around it. But it is now impossible to decide which is the better 

 reading, as the monmnent is totally destroyed. 



' lap apo in H. 3. 3. 



