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chief stories, that it may be ascertained by a comparison of them 

 with the index of this Catalogue how many of them are still 

 preserved in this library. This list is exceedingly valuable as 

 showing what stories are ancient, and what modern." 



I have transcribed this list, which forms an independent 

 piece in the MS., and here append it with a Translation, adding 

 notes with a view to identify the several tales as far as possible, 

 and to indicate the Manuscripts in which they are to be found. 



[In these notes, the abbreviations "Lib. T. CD.," and "Lib. 

 B. I. A.," refer respectively to the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, 

 and to that of the Royal Irish Academy.] 



X)o nermui 511*0 p ite*o i pceb-Mb ocup £. conjmb nropo pip 

 VMs n-Mpneip "oo pijAib ocup pbMchib .1. tm. b. p^eb .i.u.b. *oo 

 ppnni^ebib ocup *o«-s .b. *oo pop^eb^ib ocup 111 b--Mpniroe^p. n& 

 pop^e^b po <\cc *o^ ceichpib •gp^vo/vib .1. Obb^ni ocup Anpucb 

 ocup Cbi ocup Cmu\ ocup i-p ia.*o po tva. ppnnp^eb^ .1. co^b^ 

 ocup cmi& ocup cocmAjicas c&"bh& ocup u^c<n ocup i-mp'-MffA. 

 ocup oicce ocup pe^p^ ocup popb^p^ ocup e&cbnp&*o^ ocup 

 &iMT> ocup -Mp^ne. 



" Of the qualifications of poets in stories and synchronisms 

 follow here, to be related to kings and chiefs, i. e., seven times 

 fifty stories — namely, five times fifty prime stories, and twice 

 fifty secondary stories ; and these secondary stories are assigned 

 but to two grades only : the Ollamh and Anruth, and Cli and 

 Oano ; and these are the prime stories, i. e., Destructions, and 

 Cattle Spoils, and Courtships, and Battles, and Caves, and Navi- 

 gations, and Tragedies, and Expeditions, and Feasts, and Sieges, 

 and Adventures, and Elopements, and Slaughters." 



1ru\u po r»& U05I&. — ''These are the destructions." 



Upe^cbu-Mp-o riji Lip. — '•' Three Cfreuits of the House of 



Lir." 



I do not know of any copy of the. the tale of the " Three Cnx-uits, 

 or Destruction, of the House of Lir," nor am I aware that the position 

 of the house has been yet identified. I have, however, in my own 

 possession, an ancient tract on the primitive Sid of Erin, and then dis- 

 tribution among the nobles of the Tuatha de Danann, in which it is 

 stated that Sid Fiannachad was assigned to Mr, son oiLugad, a famous 

 personage of that tribe. Sid Fiannachad, subsequently known as the 

 " House of Lir," was situated on the summit of Sliabh Fuait, in the 

 County of Armagh, a short distance from JNewtownlhnavady. 



A passage in the story of the " Late of the Children of Lir " points 

 to this as the place referred to. In this passage it is stated that the 

 children of Lir, having finished then pilgrimage at Irrus Domnan (in 



