170 Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tar a Hill. 



Cucfao Dal baip poTT '" P'j* 



In cac I n-Qc t)apa odin, 



Ippagbao Coegaipe, TTIac Meill, 



Napao pip na n-oula oe, 



Ijyeo po tnapb Coejaipe. 

 Cuccro Dan copp Coejaipe anep lapcam, 

 ocup po h-aonacc CO n-apm jaipciUD ip in 

 cLuD imeccpac aiprep-Depcepcac pijpaca 

 toejaipe hi Cempaij he, ocup a aijeo po 

 oep pop Caigniu oc cacujuo ppiu, dp po 

 po noma pom na biu do 6aijn)b. 



6a pi Dan Rdic Coegaipe Ueoc TTIidcu- 

 apca m ran pin, ocup ip aipi con aicec pom 

 u uonacul ano. 



Inflicted the doom of death on the king. 

 In the battle of the rapid ford of Dara, 

 Was Loeghaire, son of Niall, taken ; 

 The just vengeance of the sacred elements 

 It was, that killed Loeghaire. 



The body of Loeghaire was afterwards brought 

 from the south, and interred with his arms of va- 

 lour in the south-east of the external rampart of the 

 royal Rath Loeghaire, at Temur, with his face 

 turned southwards upon the Lagenians, [as it 

 were] fighting with them, for he was the enemy of 

 the Lagenians in his lifetime. 



Rath-Loeghaire was the Teach Midhchuarta 

 at that time, and it was therefore he requested that 

 he should be interred therein. 



This passage, which is so valuable for the information which it affords 

 respecting the objects of worship among the pagan Irish, iscorroborated to a con- 

 siderable extent by an authority of still higher antiquity, the annotations on the 

 life of St. Patrick, by Tirechan, in which the following statement appears : 



" Perrexitque ad civitatem Temro, ad Loi- 

 gairium, filium Neill, iterum quia apud ilium 

 foedus pepiglt ut non occideretur in regno 

 illius, sed non potuit credere, dicens : Nam 

 Neel pater meus non sinivit mihi credere, sed 

 ut sepeliar in cacuminibus Temro quasi viris 

 consistentibus in bello : quia utuntur gentiles 

 in sepulcris armati prumptis armis facie ad 

 faciem usque ad diem Erdathe apud Magos, 

 id est judicii diem Domini. Ego filius Neill et 

 filius [filium?] Dunlinge im Maistin in Campo 

 itpAipro duritate odivi, ut est hoc." — Fol. 10, 

 «,2. 



And he [Patrick] repaired again to the city of 

 Temro to Loigairi, the son of Niall, because he 

 had ratified a league with him that he should not 

 be slain in his kingdom ; but he could not believe, 

 saying. For Neel, my father, did not permit me 

 to believe, but that 1 should be interred in the 

 top of Temro, like men standing up in war. For 

 the pagans are accustomed to be buried armed, 

 with their weapons ready face to face, [in which 

 manner they remain] to the day of Erdathe^ 

 among the Magi, i. e. the day of the judgment of 

 the Lord. I the son of Niall, hated the son of 

 Dunhng, in Maistin, in the plain of the Liphi, for 

 his severity, ut est hoc* 



Close to the south-east side of this Rath Laoghaire, the prose description places 

 the Leacht, or monument of Mata Morglonnach, (the great-deeded,) a trea- 

 cherous soldier of Cormac's household. Nothing is told of him but that he 



* Something wrong here in the original MS. 



