Sir Nechin here : Nechin was the chief smith 

 of Temur. He was the first smith who went into 

 Teach Midchuarta, so that he sunk the spot where 

 a fire should rise, and he made a spit with motion 

 that it might reach the fire, and that it might coil 

 into its durunn another time. 



Mr. Petkie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 213 



Tara in the time of the Tuatha-De-Dananns ; as in the following passage from 

 the Leabhar Buidhe, H. 2. 16, col. 245. 



Inoeoin juachach in Xiapia do jpep in The usual inneoin of the Daghda here. 



fO. 



6ip Nechin in po .1. Neichen ppim-joba 

 na Cempac. Ip e cecna joBa do po chinj 

 hi Cech TTliDchuapca, conio po puipmeao 

 >n aipm ap na poicheo ceinio, co n-oeipjine 

 bip CO U'lD CO moD poicheao ceinio, ocup 

 CO cimpaijeo in a oupunn can aili. 



This spit, as well as one of another description, called Inneoin an Daghdha, 

 or the spit of the Daghdha, is thus noticed in another ancient MS. in the same 

 library, H. 3. 18, p. 433. 



Inoeoin m tDajoa. Noco nuilcmoeD puij- 

 iDci F"Pr') ace po laijeo pe jpipaij ocup 

 po eipjeD pe lapaip ; ocup do biD a leaob 

 ap mum jac pip ap na mapach. 



^oibneno ip e do pinoe in 6ip t)eicen. 

 Dpinoe, mac <Lucaip, ip e do pinoe Inoeoi 

 int)aJDa; ocupipamlaio po bi, ocupmaioe 

 jaca CHID di, ocupcpano a mol,* ocup cpann 

 a poc, ocup lapano a copp; ocupoo baoap do 

 nai poch in a mol, 50 mao luachaioe 05 

 impoD, ocup cpica bip do bio app, ocup 

 qiica Dpol, ocup qiica peppao, ocup com 

 luac pe luap ppocha aj impoo : ocup cpi 

 nai m-bepa, ocup rpi nai cuill, ocup aen 

 bip pe puineo, ocup aen P5iac po cuipeo ap 

 luch hi. 



Inneoin of the Daghdha. There is no fixed 

 situation for it, but it used to lie with the cinders 

 and rise with the fiame ; and its leadhh used to be 

 on the back of each man on the next day. 



It was Goivnenn that made the Bir Deichen. 

 It was Drinne, the son of Luchair, who made the 

 Inneoin of the Daghdha ; and it was thus : a 

 stick at each end of it, and its axle was wood, and 

 its wheel was wood, and its body was iron ; and 

 there were twice nine wheels on its axle, that it 

 might turn the faster, and there were thirty spits 

 out of it, and thirty hooks, and thirty spindles, 

 and it was as rapid as the rapidity of a stream 

 in turning : and thrice nine spits, and thrice nine 

 cavities (or pots,) and one spit for roasting, and 

 one wing used to set it iu motion. 



These cooking instruments, together with a third called Fulacht na Mor- 

 righna, or the spit, or cooker, of the great queen, are also noticed in a fragment 

 of the Brehon Laws in the same MS., and on the same page. 



Ip pi Dpuine Dana olejaip oo'n jobaino 



This is the druine dana which is due to the 



* The word mot is now used in Ireland generally to express the axle or shaft of a mill, and it is used in the same 

 tense in Cormac's Glossary, ' 



