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beautiful poem on the Leinstermen and their progenitors, attributed 

 to the royal bard Find, son of Eoss, King of Leinster, of which there 

 is a copy in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, in the MS. styled Psaltar 

 na Rann. Of this I possess a good copy. Dr. Keating, in his History 

 of Ireland, gives a good account of the adventures and exile of Bdbrad 

 Loingsech. It is also well described by 0' Curry, in his Lectures on 

 the Manuscript Materials of Irish History. 



Lonje-p Focm-o. — " Navigation (or Exile) of Fothad." 

 This tale is not known to me, but it probably refers to Fothad na 

 Canoine, and the exile or temporary banishment to which he subjected 

 himself when he abducted the wife of Oilell, son of Eogan, which 

 forms the subject of another story mentioned in our list, and of which 

 there is an abstract in Lib. T. CD., MS. H. 3, 17. See p. 233. 



Ai'oe'o "oon &rmf o. — " Tragedies (deaths) now 

 here." 



Ai'oe'o Conpi. — " Death of Curoi." 



This is the story of the fate of Curoi Mac Bare, the famous warrior, 

 King of Westmunster, who fell by the hand of the Hltonian champion, 

 Cuchulaind. Keating gives a detailed account of the death of Curoi 

 Mac Bare, and his quarrels with Cuchulaind. The tale is preserved in 

 the Brit. Mus. Lib. in Egerton, MS., 88, and in the Book of Leinster. 

 The Amra Conroi, or " Elegy of Curoi " Mac Bare, hyFercertne the poet, 

 is also preserved in the former, and in Lib. of T.C.D., MS., H. 3. 18. 



Ai'oe'o Concut&in'o. — " Death of Cuculaind." 



This story, which relates the circumstances of the death of Cuchu- 

 laind, by the necromantic arts of the children of Cailitin, in the Bris- 

 leach Mor Maighe Muirthemne, or Great Battle of Brislech in Muir- 

 themne, is preserved in a paper manuscript, No. 1. 1., Lib., B.I. A. 

 The story of the fight of Cuchulaind with the sons of Calatin, and his 

 death from the effects of the envenomed wounds which they inflicted 

 on him in the battle of Brislech in Murthemne, is an episode of the 

 Tain Bo Cuailnge, and is well preserved in the Book of Leinster, and 

 in MS. H. 3. 13., Lib. T.C.D. 



There is a still more detailed account of the adventures and death 

 of Cuchulaind, preserved in the Book of Leinster, commencing, imper- 

 fect, at folios 76. a. a. It consists of three parts, that already men- 

 tioned, and the Siaburcholrad Conculaind, and Nuall Ghuba Ernere, or 

 " Loud wailing of Enter": one setting forth the frenzy and raving 

 repentance of Cuchulaind when about to expire ; the other describing 

 the manner of his death, and how the Biathmacha, Cuchuland's favourite 

 steed, went to forewarn his master's beautiful wife Emer of his death, 

 and the manner in which she received the intelligence of her husband's 

 death, and mourned him. 



Ai'oe'o Fi.<yom.Mn. — " Death of Fiadrnan." 



Ai'oe'o Con&iVL — " Death of Conall." 



This tale, which relates the death of the champion Conall Cearnach, 



