Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tar a Hill. 173 



A. D. 737. Lex Pairicii tenuit Hibemiam. 



A. D. 782. Scarhach popuf cano Patricii 

 hi CpuaicniB La t)uBDaleichi ocup la Ci- 

 p\\a\T:}Jilium Caiojj. 



A. D. 798. Lex Pairicii pop Conachca 

 la ^opiTisal' ITIac Oinoacaij. 



A. D. 805. Lex Pairicii la hQeo JTIac 

 Neill. 



A. D. 810. Nuaoa Qbao Qipomachae 

 migravit cu Connachra cum lege Patricii, et 

 cum armaria ejus. 



A. D. 822. Lex Patricii pop ITlumain 

 la peiolimche ITlac Cpemcain, ocup la h 

 Qipqiij mac Concobaip, .1. Gppcop CCpoa- 

 macha. 



A. D. 824. Lex Patricii pop ceopa Con- 

 nachcaib la Qipqiij TTlac ConcoBaip, .1. 

 Gppcop Qpoamacha. 



A. D. 835. t)epTnaic do duI co Con- 

 nachra cum lege et vexillis Patricii. 



And thus of the Cain Dairi : 



A. D. 811. Lex t)apn pop Conachru. 

 A. D. 812. Lex Oapii la hu Neill. 



A. D. 825. LexX>a\\^ co Conachca ite- 



rum. 



737. The Law of Patrick prevailed in Ire- 

 land. — Tig. 



782. The promulgation of the Law of Patrick 

 at Croghan by Dubhdalethe and by Tipraite, the 

 son of Tadhg.* — Ann. Ult. 



798. The Law of Patrick in Connaught by 

 Gormgal, the son of Dinnatach. — Ann. Ult. 



805. The Law of Patrick by Aedh, the son 

 of Niall Ann. Ult. 



810. Nuada, abbot of Armagh, went to Con- 

 naught with the Law of Patrick and with his 

 armory. — Ann. Ult. 



822. The Law of Patrick in Munster by 

 Feidhlimidh, the son of Cremthann, and by Airtri, 

 the son of Concobhar, Bishop of Armagh. — Ann. 

 Ult. 



824. The Law of Patrick in the three divi- 

 sions of Connaught by Airtri, son of Concobhar, 

 Bishop of Armagh Ann. Ult. 



835. Dermait went to Connaught with the 

 Law and Vexilla of Patrick. — Ann. Ult. 



811. The Law of Dari in Connaught — Ann. 

 Ult. 



812. The Law of Dari among the Hy-Niall — 

 Ann. Ult. 



825. The Law of Dari [brought] into Con- 

 naught again. — Ann. Ult. 



And again of the Cain Domhnatgh : 



A. D. 884. Qnanloen, an c-ailicip, cop 884. Ananloen, the pilgrim, came to Ireland 



in ©pipcil DO paoao do mm in lepupalem co with the epistle which was given from heaven at 



cam t)oitinai j ajup poipceclaib maice do Jerusalem, with the Sunday Law and with good 



ciachcain an Gpinn. instructions. — Pour Masters. 



Though these four coins, or laws, are stated in the Leabhar Breac to be pre- 

 eminently the four cains of Ireland, yet the establishment of several other cains 



• Dr. O'Connor knew so little of the nature of these cains that he translates this entry in the Annals of Ulster most 

 erroneously, thus : — " Solutio tributi scientiarum S. Patricii, facta in Regia Connacia, dicla Cruachan, a Dubdaletheo, 

 et Tipratio filio Thadei." 



