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Ai'bait in .c. righ dibh ocht. mbl. xx. 

 do. SuSonus XXX. b. do. Is ma re ro 

 bhai tiughflilaith Asarnlha .i. Sardana- 

 pallus 7 iladidus. xxx. bl. is wa re rug 

 Sulmiiasar cctbroid .x. treibi. Cardicias 

 .xiii. bl. 7 Deachus .iiii. b. 1. do. Isin- 

 dala bl. xxx. a righe catli Leithend 

 Lacbtmaidhe i nDail Eiada indorchair 

 Starnd mrtc Neimidh re Conaind raac. 

 Faebair i cind .uiii. mbl. iarsin toghail 

 tuir Coxaind 7 dicur cloindi 'Ee'vaiidh a 

 hEr»m .c. bl. 7 xl. do fblaitbius Meadb 

 tarthadar sil 'Sciraidh ceit/wi .c. bl. 7 

 Ixx. ro chaithsead do flaitbius Asardha 

 7 se dec n6 xiii. rigb ar Asardbaibh 7 se 

 rigna na Cicbloisce 7 u. rigb do rigbaibb 

 na Meadb ro chaitheasdair cona sbil in 

 Er/«n isiad sin tra in xxx. 7 na dha .c. 

 ro badar sil JTeimhidh in Er('«n. Deocbus 

 Mero u. bl. no a .iiii. 1. i righi 7 Eiriu 

 fas. Praortes .xx, iiii. blirt^^Jfa Cir atreas 

 uiii ised a re ro bai Nabhgodon im 

 mBhabiloin 7 Astiagbeis uiii. mbl. xx 

 go-ro-n-ait7(rigb Cir mnc Dair mac a 

 ingene fcin. Is na re ro loisc Nabbgodon 

 fa dho \iivusa\em.. Ise sin thra fblaitbius 

 Meadh .xu. b. 7 xxx. d. 7 Eri fas in 

 flilaitbius dar els Meadh ag na Gallag- 

 daibb ro bai 7 ni haiiimhtcar amw/ ard- 

 fblaitbius iiir sen .i. Nabgodon. a xiii. 

 7 a m(?c .i. Ebelimordacb. xuii. mb. 7 a 

 ua Negusar .xl. 7 a iarmua Labasairdecb 

 .ix. missa 7 a indua Ballasdair xuiii. bl. 

 Cuig rigb sin do Gballadagaibb 7 c. bl. 

 7 na .u. bl. deg 7 na ceitAn xx. ro bhadar 

 Meadba i righi 7 Eiri fas 7 na .u. bl. 7 

 in c. ro bbadar na Galladagdba isiad sin 

 na .c. bl. ro bai Eri fas o tbogbail tuir 

 Co?maind co loingis Pear mBholg.' 



Arbaccs, the first king of them, 28 

 years for him. 8osarraus, 30 years for 

 liim. In his time lived the last ruler 

 of the Assyrians, i.e. Sardanapalus. 

 Mamycus, 30 years. In his time Sal- 

 manassar carried ofl the first captivity of 

 the Ten Tribes. C'ardaces, 13 years, 

 and Deioces, 54 years for him. In the 

 32nd year of his reign, the battle of 

 Lethet Lachtmaige in Dal Eiada, in 

 •(vhich Stamn son of Nemedwas slain by 

 Conann (or Conaing) son of Faebar. 

 Eight years later, the destruction of 

 C'onann's tower and the expulsion of 

 Nemed's race from Ireland. 140 years 

 of the empii-e of the Medes, the race of 

 Itemed lasted. 470 years they spent of 

 the Assyrian empire ; and [the time of] 

 sixteen or thirteen kings over the 

 Assyrians, six queens of the Amazons, 

 and five kings of the kings of the 

 Medes, he [Itemed] and his race passed 

 in Ireland. Those are the 230 years 

 that Nemed's race -was in Ireland. 

 Deioces was 55 or 54 years reigning, 

 Ireland being empty ; Phraoiiis 24 years ; 

 Cyaxares 8 — it was [for] his time 

 that Nabuchodonosor was in Babylon ; 

 and Astyages 28 years until his own 

 daughter's son, Cyrus son of Darius, 

 deposed him. It was in his time that 

 !Xabucbodonosor twice burnedJerusaleni. 

 That then is the empire of the Medes, 

 45 (?) years, Ireland being empty. After 

 the Medes, the sovereignty was lield by 

 the Chaldeans, and that is not accounted 

 at all as a supreme empire ; i.e. Nabucho- 

 donosor 13, and his son Evilmerodach 17 

 years, and his grandson Neriglissor 40 

 and bis greatgi'andson Laborosoarchod 

 9 months, and his great-great-grandson 

 Balthassar 18 years. That makes five 



' The numerals in this section must be ^TTongly transcribed in several places. 



