122 Mr. Peteie on the History and Antiquities of Tara HilL 



t)uma na cloy fo co bjiach. The mound of the bells this for ever ; 



Pooeyca po pwnF'^ each, For the future all shall see it, 



Ceacc in rpenpip TTlic epca. The monument of the hero Mac Erca, 



Nip ba clair a tmceacca. Whose proceedings were not feeble. 



mallacc popp an culaij-pi — A curse [be] upon this hill — 



Pop Cleiciuc c^caib cuana; Upon Cletty of beautiful hillocks ; 



Hap ap maich a ich na a blicc, May not its corn nor its milk be good ; 



^up op Ian o'puarh ip o'anpicc. May it be full of hatred and misery. 



Hap ob aim pij na puipec>i ; May neither king nor chief be in it ; 



Hi D15 neac app co buioech. No one shall depart from it grateful. 



61D cumam lim-pa pem la I shall remember during my day 



Cecc P15 Gpenn 'p'" ouma. The monument of the King of Erin in the mound. 



■Ro epcain Caipnech rpa m ovin ann pin, Cairnech then cursed the Dun, and rang his 



ocup po benn a cblocc ann, ocup cainic app bell in it, and afterwards departed under sorrow 

 >ap fin po bpon ocup fa roippi. and sadness. 



That the preceding verses, though very ancient, as their language shews, 

 are of a later date than the time referred to, can scarcely be doubted ; yet the 

 fact which they record is at least historical, and the form of the malediction is 

 likely to be also true, as it seems certain that in consequence of the saint's curse, 

 the house of Cletty was for ever after deserted by the Irish princes. 



V. Tuathal Maolgarhh, the great grandson of Niall, succeeded, according 

 to Tighearnach, in 534, and, after a reign of eleven years, was killed in 544, in 

 the battle of Greallach Eilte, at the foot of Slieve Gamh, in Leyny, in the 

 County of Sligo. Nothing remarkable is recorded of the reign of this monarch, 

 except that, like his predecessors, he forced the Lagenians, after a successful 

 battle, to pay him the Borumean tribute, which he received without further con- 

 test during the subsequent years of his reign. The annalists do not record the 

 celebration of the Feis- Teamrach either in the reign of this monarch or in that 

 of his predecessor. 



VI. Diarmaid Mac Fergus Ceirhheoil, who was also a great grandson of 

 Niall the Great, succeeded, and, after a reign of twenty-one years, according to 

 Tighearnach and the Annals of Ulster, was killed in 565, at Rathbeg, in Moy- 

 llnny, in the now County of Antrim. His head was buried at Clonmacnoise, 

 and his body at Connor, near where he was killed. 



Though this monarch was, at least nominally, a Christian, yet it is curious 



