220 Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 



na bainqienbraije if in jlaipin, ocup pon 

 baoi peipm ma puioe occa B-paipccpin. 

 Kuccpac coiiTieoaiDe na cluana poppa, 

 ocup Don beapacleo. Do oeachaio Caei- 

 neacli do chumjeo na j-caepacb jup an 

 pij CO f'UJ, cup po acaoin a h-eccurhanj 

 piaba. Qc bepc an pi co po cuicpec ina 

 j-cionaiD. Robaoi Copptnac occ eipcechc 

 ppip in pij alia Trnnj o'uppainn an pij- 

 rije, ocup ac bepc ba gu-bpeac an coic- 

 cepc, Dotj poba lop lompaoh na ccaepach 

 1 lompa na cluana, uaip apair DiblmiB. 

 Oc cuala JTlac Con an m-bpeic occa h-ei- 

 liugao, po oech peacha, conup paca an ma- 

 caojii o'^td riiulchach, ocupacchi popj pij 

 ma chmo, ocup do par aicne gup bo he an 

 mac raippnjeapcach Copbmac baoi ann. 

 Ro lonnaijeao ime, ocup aqiaij la piucao 

 puapnaoac pepje i lenmum an pij-rheic. 

 Impaoi-pioih peime pop a lomjaBail. ^e- 

 bi6 an pij aja rojpaim cooighaip oapoch- 

 cach, jup pop cuip po cpi bi rimclieoll na 

 Cempach 6 ; ocup, 6 na puaip plige cap 

 Dopaip beul na Ceampuc amacb, po Imj 

 cap claoh an muip. \io cpapjuip an mup 

 ocup an pach, alia ciap, uaip ba ip m can pm 

 po baoi mup na Cempacb aja achnuaoujao 

 la TTJac Con. Qchr pula an macaorh uao 

 jan cappachcain, conao aipe pm po h-amm- 

 nijeao Claonao Ceampach pop ITlhac Con ; 

 ocup ap DC Beop ap penapupc la jac ju- 

 bpec conceprup m ©ipmn, co j-claonpao 

 Cearhaip ppia. tujaib cpa 6 do oeacaiD 

 an poep-macoeih uao jan muoujao po lion 

 do Doimenmam, D015 po aicin co D-caipnic 

 a peimeap uap 6pinn, ocuppo accoBaip oul 

 Dia ochapoa Don mhurhain. Conao lapom po 

 h-ionnapbooa Ceampaijla Copbmac cona 

 pochpaicci, CO D-copchaip La opaoio Oililla 

 Oluim m QpD peipcip ip in TTlumain, lap n-u 

 jeojuin DO piacail neirhe an Oililla cecna 



Temur; and he gave warning that there would be 

 no restitution of any animals captured in it. It 

 happened that Cormac allowed the sheep of 

 Caeinech, i. e. of the widow, to go into the little 

 green, and he himself sat to watch them. The care- 

 takers of the green caught them, and took them 

 with them. Caeineach went to King Lughaidh to 

 request him to restore her the sheep, and com- 

 plained to him of her destitution. The king said 

 they were forfeited for their trespass. Cormac 

 was listening to the king outside the door-post of 

 the royal house, and he said that the sentence was a 

 false judgment, for that the fleeces of the sheep 

 were sufficient payment for the fleece of the 

 green, for they both grow. When Mac Con 

 heard the judgment impugned, he looked to one 

 side, and perceived a beautiful, beardless youth, 

 and perceiving a royal eye in his head, he recog- 

 nized in him the prophesied son Cormac. He be- 

 came wroth at the sight, and rushed with rage and 

 impetuosity in pursuit of the royal youth. He fled 

 before him to escape from him. The king proceeds 

 to pursue him with vigour and fury, until he drove 

 him three times around Temur ; and, as he found 

 no passage out at the door-way of Temur, he sprang 

 over the mound of the Mur. He knocked down 

 the Mur and the Rath, on the western side, for at 

 that time Temur was being renewed by Mac Con. 

 However the youth escaped from him withoutbeing 

 caught, so that for that reason Mac Con was called 

 ClaonadhTeamrach (violator oiTetnur) ; and hence 

 also the old saying whenever a false judgment was 

 pronouncedin Ireland, that it violates Temur. When 

 Lughaidh saw that the noble youth escaped from 

 him without being killed he was filled with me- 

 lancholy, for he perceived that his reign over Ire- 

 land was at an end, and he desired to return to 

 his patrimony in Munster. He was afterwards ex- 

 pelled from Temur by Cormac with his hosts, so 

 that he was afterwards slain by the Druid of 

 Oilioll Olum at Ard-Feirchis in Munster, having 



