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Adam. This poem was written by Laidcenn mac Bareda, 
who was a Druid, and one of the chief poets to Niall of the 
Nine Hostages; and whose house in the east of Bregia was 
subsequently burned, and his son, with all his household, 
killed, by Eochaidh, the son of Enna, which event led to the 
latter being chained to the Hole-stone in Carlow. This is 
the only piece of this celebrated bard’s works which is known 
to exist. 
Then “ The Destruction of Dinn Righ,” a royal mansion 
in Carlow, and the murder of Laeghaire, by his nephew, Lo- 
bhradh Loingseach.* 
Then a curious tract on the murder of the princesses at 
Tara, by Dunlaing, a Leinster prince, in the time of Cormac 
mac Art, in revenge for Cormac having levied on him the 
Boromean tribute. The names of all the princesses and of 
their fathers are given. The court in which the fearful deed 
was committed at Tara was ever since called Claenferta-na- 
ninghean, or the ‘inclined house of the virgins,” because, as 
it is said of the other Claenferta at Tara, the house inclined 
to one side as a perpetual memorial of so atrocious and unjust 
a deed.t No other account is known to exist of the details 
of this murder of the princesses, nor of its cause. 
Then follows the succession of the monarchs of Erinn. 
Then an ancient poem on Tara. 
Then pedigrees of the Heremonians. 
Then pedigrees of the Hebereans. 
Then ancient poems on the kings of Cashel ; on the kings 
of Uisneach, or Meath; on the kings of Dal Araidhe, &c., 
&e., &e. : 
The volume, which is magnificently written, ends with 
folio 87, making 174 pages; and there can be little doubt 
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* See the Tale of Maon, in Reliques of Irish Poetry, by Miss Charlotte 
Brook. 
+ Vide Petrie’s Antiquities of Tara, p. 118, for the ‘* Two Claenferts.” 
