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Cuchcaipe, ocup cpeccoipe, no 



copnaipe : — mio mip. 



Rarhbuiji, ocup oblaipe : — 



TTiiljicain Doib. 



Qipe echca : — niuc-popmuin. 



Canu : — cam-cnaim. 



TDuipiji, ocup clapaij) : — pemuip 



n-iitioa. 



Cooks, and creccoire, or cornaire : — midh mir. 



Rath-builder, and oblaire .-'^ — 



a milgitan for them. 

 Aire echta : — a pig's shoulder. 

 Canu : — a crooked bone. 

 Muirighi, and clasaighi .•" — the fat [part of the] 



shoulder. 



In the internal division to the left. 



Cuiplinnaij : — colpcha ooib, 

 Scolaije : — lepp-cpoichce ooib. 

 Ceapoa: — h-ip-cpoichce ooib. 

 ^obainn : — mael ooib. 

 Uuachair: — nulgicain ooib. 

 Saeip cappac : — miljicain ooib. 

 Cleppainnaij : — colpra muicce doiB. 

 Camce : — pemuip n-imoa ooib. 



Pipers : — a colpiha for them. 



Scolaige: — a les-chroichte for them. 



Artisans:'" — an ir-chroichie for them. 



Smiths : — a mael for them. 



Shield-makers : — a milgitan for them. 



Chariot-makers : — a milgitan for them. 



Jugglers : — a pig's colptha for them. 



Satirists : — the fat [part of the] shoulder for them. 



In the internal division to the riffht. 



piDcheallai j : — colpcha ooib. 

 Deojbaipe : — lep-chpoichci ooib. 

 h-umaiDiD: — h-ip-cpoichci ooib. 

 Oinmice : — h-ip-cpoichci ooib. 

 ieiji, ocup luamaipe: — mael ooib. 

 6uamaipe : — milgicam ooib. 

 Cpeacoipe : — cam-cnamo ooib, no 

 colpcha muiccr. 



Puippeoipe : — colpca mucc ooib. 

 6pai5icoipe : — pemuip n-imoa ooib. 



Chess-players : — a colptha for them. 



Drink-bearers : — a les-chroichti for them. 



Braziers : — an ir-chroichti for them. 



Fools : — an ir-chroichti for them. 



Physicians, and mariners : — a mael for them. 



Mariners : — a milgitain for them. 



Creacoire ; — crooked bones for them, or pig's 



colptha. 

 Buffoons : — a pig's colptha for them. 

 Braigitoire : — the fat [part of the] shoulder for 



them. 



•^ No authority has been found to explain this word. It is written obpaije in the table in the Book of Glendalough, 

 and would appear to be formed from the word obaip, a work, labour, and to signify an artisan, or artisans — 

 perhaps house-builders. 



■' These words in their compound or derivative forms are not found in any dictionaries j but there can be little, if any, 

 doubt that they are formed from mup, a wall, and clap, a trench, and signify wall-builders and trench -makers. The 

 word muirighi, would indeed signify a mariner ; but, as this class ia elsewhere expressed in the table, under the word 

 luamaire, it could not be used in that sense here. 



" In the Leabhar Buidhe Lecain it is stated that the herds worked in gold and silver only. In Ulster and Lower 

 Connaugbt this word is now only applied to a tinker, and it is probable that the modern tinker is, in a modified and 

 debased degree a representative of the ancient herd. 



