Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tar a Hill. 121 



6iD imoa o hanmanna bup, 

 CuippiD nech pop aineolup. 

 Ni h-mmain in ben, 

 tJianao comainm Sin, 

 TTIo oaij in pij loipcep cen ; 

 1 C15 Cleicich baiopiD pfn. 



Sin said, in telling her names : 

 Ip mipe Uaecan in jen, 

 t)o cap aipech Neill ; 

 Ip ^amaociij mo ainin. 

 In cac aipm ap pen. 

 Opnao, Gapnao, Sin cen oil, 

 5aer, ^'^pb ocup ^emaoaig, 

 Ocpao, lac COD, pao cen 501, 

 Ice tn'anmanna ap aen cai. 



Cennfaela cecinit : 



pillip in pij mac ©pea 

 ILleich hua Heill, 

 Sipic putl pepnu 

 Q muij 6po5aip cpicha Cein. 

 pa pecc pepaip nai caippchiu, 

 Ocup biD cian bup cuiiiain , 

 Do bepc jiallu Ua Neill, 

 Ca jialla mui^i TTluinan. 



Many shall be her names here, 



She will put one astray. 



Not loving the woman 



Whose name is Sin, 



For whose sake fire shall burn the king ; 



In the house of Cletty wine shall drown him. 



I am Taetan, the woman, 



Who shall slay the heir of Niall ; 



Gamadaig is my name. 



In every place and road. 



Osnad, Easnad, Sin, without reproach, 



Gaeth, Garbh, and Gemadaig, 



Ochsad, lachtad, saying without falsehood. 



Are my names in one way. 



The King Mac Erca returns 



To the side of the Hy-Niall, 



They seek the blood of men 



In Magh Brogais, of the country of Cian.* 



Seven times he fought nine battles. 



And long it shall be remembered, 



He obtained the hostages of the Hy-Niall, 



With the hostages of the plain of Munster. 



It should perhaps be added, that, according to the historical tale already 

 noticed, the interference of St. Cairneach with King Muircheartach was insti- 

 gated by his queen, Duaivseach, the daughter of the King of Connaught, whose 

 spiritual adviser he was, and that Cairneach, on coining to the house of the king 

 at Cletty, to remonstrate with him, having been refused admittance, became 

 filled with religious indignation, and, erecting a monument for the monarch, 

 ascended it, declared his reign at an end, and pronounced a curse on the dis- 

 honoured mansion and its locality, in the following words : 



•The meaning of this line appears from the tale already noticed which states that, when StCairneach ratified a league 

 of friendship between the Hy-Niall and Kianachts, he mixed the blood of both tribes in one vessel, and then wrote the 

 conditions on which peace was established between them. " Oo jnicep lapum coDac ann pin ecuppu, OCUp 

 cumaipcio Caipnech a puil in oen leapcap oiblinib ; ocup pcpiBup ariiail do ponpac in cooac 

 ann pin/'—H. 2. 16, p. 316. 



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