124 Mr. Petrie on the-Histojy and Antiquities o/Tara Hill. 



Cic Cuacan ITIac tDimai, irnc Sapam, Tuatati, son of Dima, son of Saran, son of 



mic Copmaic, mic Gogain, mic NeiU, ocup Cormac, son of Eogan, son of Niall, came and put 



cuipiD mn aipbi n-t)puaD cap a cheann, the Druidical airbhi over his head, and sprang 



ocup linjiD caippi, ocup beanaip imjai oo'n over it, but he was met by a javehn from the other 



leich naill, ocup mapbcap he, ocup ip e aen side and killed ; and he was the only man of 



pep nama painic bap do muincip Coluim Columbkille's people who was killed. Diarmait 



Cilli.' IDaiD pop t)iapniaic lap pin. was routed after that. 



The record of this battle, as given by Tigheamach, is nearly to the same 

 effect, but its text, as printed by Dr. O'Conor, is quite corrupt, and the trans- 

 lation of it totally erroneous ; as for example, the phrase aijibi Ti-t>|iua6, the 

 Druidical airbhi, or charm, is translated " ut expelleret Druidas" though, as 

 the passage above shews, the aipbi was in reality the charm, whatever that may 

 have been, which the Druid of Dermot had placed between the armies. 



It was in the reign of this monarch that the last Feis, or assemblage of the 

 Irish states, was held in Tara, as thus recorded by Tighearnach, at the year 

 560 : — "Cena postrema Uempach la Oiapmaic ITlac Cepbuill." i.e. The last 

 Feis of Temur by Diarmait Mac Cerbuill. 



From the following passage in the Yellow Book of the Mac Firbises, 

 (p. 87 Ij) it would appear that two other meetings were held in the same year, one 

 at Uisneach, in Westmeath, and the other at Tailltean, (Teltown) in East Meath : 



t)o jnicep mopoail Uipnij la tJiapmaic The convention of Uisneach was celebrated 



ocup la pepa ©peno i m-6ellcaine : ap by Diarmait and the men of Ireland in May : for 



poboap lOD qii apo oalaGpeno ipa n-aimpip there were three great assemblies convened in 



1 in .1. X)A Uipnij I m-6ellcame, ocup Ireland at this time, namely, the assembly of 



Oenach Caillcean im Cugnappao, ocup p6ip Uisneach, in May, the fair of Taillteann, in 



Uempach im Samam, ocup cebe no chiceo August, and the Feis of Temur, in November ; 



' This passage is more correctly given in the MS. Annals of Tighearnach thus :^—" ppaocan, ITIac Ceniupam 

 a pe Dopme mo aipbe n-opuuD do Oiapmoio. Cuacan, ITIac Sapain, mic Copmaic, mic Gojom 

 ip e pola in aipbe opuao oap a ceann. ITIajline po cmj raippi qui solus occisus est." And still more 

 distinctly by the Four Masters thus : — " Ppaocban Mlac Cenuppam, Gp e DO pi^ne inD epbe n-opuao DO 

 t)iapmaiD. Cuaran ITIac tDiminain, mic Supam, mic Copmaic, mic Gojain, ap e po la mo 

 epbe Dpuao oap a ceno. Upi mile qia ip e copchaip do mumcip Oiapmaoa. Qoinpep ippeb 

 copcaip Do'n leic naill, — ITIaglam a ainni. Qp ay ^ po chinj cap an eipbe n-Dpuab." 

 i. e. Fraochan, the son of Tenussan, was the person who made the Erbhe Druadh for Diarmait. Tuathan^ son of Dimman, 

 son of Saraft, son of Cormac, son of Eogan, was the person who put the Erbhe Druadh over his head. Three thousand 

 was the number slain of Diarmait's people. One man only was slain on the other side ; Maglam was his name. For 

 it was he that sprang over the Erbhe Druadh. 



