208 Mr. Petrie on the Hist(yry and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 



3. 6pichemain : — ^lon-chpoichci ooib.' Brehons: — a lon-chroichti^ for them. 



4. Sui liqii : — lon-cpoichci- Professor of literature : — a lon-chroichti. 



Canaipe' puao : — ler-cpochair, no ppim Tanist professor : — a les-chrochait, or prim- 

 chpochair. chrochait. 



5. Ollam p\leti : — loapcc do. Ollave-poet :' — a loarcc for him. 

 Qnpuo : — cam-cnaim. ^nrudh:^ — a crooked bone. 



6. 6piu5U,' ocupaipe euipi f — Capacc ooib. Briugu, and aire tuisi: — a laracc for them. 



7. Qujrappaip : — niuc-Fopmuin. Augtarsair : — a pig's shoulder. 

 Q canaipi :— cam-cnaim. His tanist : — a crooked bone. 



8. pairhi, opuioe, ocup comail : — colpcha Augurs, druids, and cojnat7 .• — a co//»<Aa for them. 



DOlb. 



9. Qilrepi, patp, ocup paip-cbupan, House-builder, carpenter, and saer-churan, and 

 ocup parhbuije : — b-ip-cpocci ooib.' rath-builder: — an ir-crochti for them. 



' It is stated in the Leabhar Buidhe, p. 921, — that a Brehon, who knew the three berlas or dialects, i. e. of the 

 fenechas, of poetry, and of the leighenn, or general literature, had the same rank and stipend with the airech tuisi. 



' Con is explained by O'Neachtain, the hip, and lon-laipje, the shin and thigh ; but cpocaic is not ex- 

 plained in any Irish dictionary. It appears, however, from the context of many passages in which the word occurs, 

 that it means a steak. Con-cpocaiC then means the hip steak; lep-cpocalC, the thigh steak; ip.cpocac, 

 the rump steak ; ppirh-cpochair, the prime steak. 



^ Vallancey deciphers sui litri and tanaise suad thus — suilitri and /affian, and translates them "Heralds and Tamans," 

 which latter word he afterwards explains in a note as signifying magicians. But sui litri is used throughout the Irish 

 Annals to signify " a man of letters, a teacher of general literature," and tanaise suad, erroneously read taman by Val- 

 lancey, who obviously mistook can. the contraction for canaipe, for taman, means that person who was intended to 

 succeed the sui litri in his profession. It is stated in the Leabhar Buidhe, that the sui litri, otherwise called fear 

 leighinn, or professor, or, as Colgan translates it, scholasticus, had the same dignity with the chief of a triocha ced or 

 barony. His tanist or intended successor had the same dignity with the airech ard ; the oc-sai, otherwise called 

 forcedlaidh, i. e. teacher, had the same dignity with the airech forgill of the lowest rank, and the staraidh, or historio- 

 grapher, who was the fourth in rank under the sui litri, had the same rank with the airech dessa. 



■* Vallancey explains this professor oiltiefile, but the ollamh-file means the head poet, or chief poet. 



' Vallancey leaves this untranslated and unexplained, but its meaning is put beyond dispute in Cormac's Glossary : 

 " Qnpuc, i. e. mmen secondi grad&s poetarum." 



•" 6piU5U generally written bpujaio, means a public victualler, a farmer. 



' Ctipe or aipec is explained in the Glossaries of Cormac and O'Clery, as a general name for every degree of the 

 nobility in a country : Qinm COlcceno each jpaoa placha I cuaic. — Cor. Gloss. It appears from the Brehon 

 laws that there were seven degrees of airechs in Ireland, and named, 1, airi dessa; 2, airi echtai ; 3, airi ard ; 4, airi 

 tuisi; 5, aire forggaill ; 6, Tanaisi righ ; 7, righ. See H. 3. 18, p. 3. col. I. In the account of these seven degrees, 

 preserved in tlie Book of Ballymote, fol. 182, the next in rank to the king is called ri-ruireach, which was another name 

 for the tanist. 



' In the Leabhar Buidhe Lecain, col. 921, et sequen., a curious classification of these tradesmen is given. The most 

 distinguished of them is called ollamh suadh sairsi, i. e. oUave or head tradesman, who was the builder of the daimliaga 

 and duirtheachs, that is of stone churches and penitentiaries. He is described as equal in dignity with the airech ard. 

 The builder of duirtheachs only is ranked with the airech dessa. The next in point of rank after these are the chariot- 

 makers, the house-builders, the smiths, the engravers, and tuathaits or shield-makers, all of whom are ranked with the 



