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mac pi5 Spuibe 6pom ic ropocrain co pep the king of Sruh Broin, at his going to the^e* of 



Cempach Teamur. 



SI151 Chuulann po puaip Pinjin, mac Sligi Cualann was discovered by Fingin, the 



Gojabail, pia TTlepchuipib Sioi, ac poiom son of Eogabail, before Meschuirib of Sidi, on 



Cempach. going to Teamur. 



SI151 t)ula pop puaip Secna, pepc-oepj, Sligi Data was discovered by Setna Serc-derg, 



mac Oupbatoi, pia n-opaiDib Ipmuman, ac the son of Durbaide, before the Druids of Jr- 



paioiy Clieampach ; no ip t)ala pooepm mwrnAotn, on their way to Teamur ; or it was Dala 



pop aipnechr do. himself that watched for him. 



Sliji mop .1. Gpcip ■Riuoa, ipioe com- Sligi Mor, i. e. Escir Riada, which divides 



pomn na h-6pinii ince, .i. o Qchcliach Ireland equally, i. e. from Athcliath Cualann to 



Cualann co h-QcIicliach meaopaioi, pop Athcliath Meadhraidhe, which was discovered 



puaip Hap, mac Oenjupa Umaill pia lai- by Nar, the son of ^ngus of Umhaill, before the 



chib jaile Ippup t)omnann ac imchopnom warriors of lorrus Domhnann, keeping leadership, 



chopaich coniD lao copich do pipao Cem- that they might be the first who would reach 



paio. Teamur. 



CCmche 5ene Cuinn qio po ppic na On the night of the birth of Conn these roa Is 



poiopea, amail ap beapc CCipni pinjin mac were discovered, as was sung by Airni Fingin, son 



6ucca. of Luchta. 



As the poem which follows in the original merely states the same facts, it is 

 unnecessary to adduce it here. 



Of some of these roads very indistinct traces now remain, but their locali- 

 ties are still remembered by the old inhabitants, though their ancient names, as 

 well as those of other features at Tara, are unfortunately forgotten. And it is 

 consequently impossible to fix with certainty the original names of some of these 

 roads, or to trace their directions, till more distinct evidences are obtained 

 fi'om ancient sources. The roads which have been ascertained with the 

 greatest apparent certainty are those called the Slighe mor, or great road, and 

 the Slighe Cualann, or road to Wicklow, through Dublin, though the junctions 

 of these roads .with Tara are in both instances obliterated, and now only 

 remembered traditionally. The Slighe mor, as marked on the ancient map, 

 struck off from the Fan na g-carbad, or Slope of the Chariots, at the northern 

 head of the Hall, and joined the Escir Riada, or great Connaught road from 

 Dublin via Trim : the Slighe Cualann struck off from the Fan na g-carbad, 

 or, perhaps more correctly, the Slighe Miodhluachra, near the present village, 

 and led to Dublin via Ratoath. The Slighe Miodhluachra, as appears from 

 various notices in ancient documents, was the north-eastern road from Tara, 



