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Heuce no doubt the extent of the tricha cet was variable according to 

 the fertility and population of the district. 



154. The rise of the great septs, about the commencement of the Christian 

 period in Ireland, must have greatly changed the older political subdivision 

 of the country, sometimes dividmg and sometimes combining the more ancient 

 petty states. In some instances the tricha cet appears to have survived as 

 a petty state. In others, it is divided between two distinct political organisa- 

 tions. In others as many as ten tricha cets form the kingdom of a single 

 sept. There may well have been instances in which the early territorial state 

 was split into fragments, though there is a visible tendency down to the 

 seventeenth century, when the baronies of the English regime were marked out, 

 to adhere to remotely ancient territorial delimitations. The following passage 

 (Lecan, 460), describing the territories possessed by Dal Cuinn, is instructive : — 



155. Gland Ghuind andsofo Urind .i. Fir Breg ocics Fir Midi ocios Fir Thulach 

 ociis Corco Boeadch a n-iiu/nais a buil do deoradaib acu. Is iadso iadside A. 

 Luigne ocics Gailemja ocics na Saidnc ocus Hui Aeda Odha ocas na seacht nDcalhna 

 ecus leth-tricha cit Guircne ecus leth-tricha did Teallaig Modaran ocus tricha 

 chet Fear mBilc. Gland Gliidml .i. fichc iaili na Golaman ocus tricha, chid^ 

 Fini Gall ocus Airgi(dM imorvo seacht tricha chet dec indti^ ocus deich tricha 

 Genivdl Fogain ocm deich tricha GcnvxW. Goiuiill ocus leith-tricha Genimi nEnda 

 ocios leith-tricha 6'ewiuil nAengusa ocus leith-tricha Fer Tvlach ocics deich trichaid 

 cet Breifni oeics deich tricha 5ua Maine acht tri tuatha nama A. Sodain ocus 

 Dal nDruithnc ocus J/uin^er Mail Findain. Sil Minreadaig Muilleathain ocus 

 Sil Briain meic Each[ach'\ Aluigmedoin in each du itait ocus in da Gliairpri A. 

 Cairpri Mor Broina Glicth la cloind Fiachrach meic Echaeh Muidmedoin ocus 

 Gairpri Giarda la Firu Midi. Sil Dathi o clad Ghonachla co Godnaich Gloindi 

 Puint. Muinter Murchada coiui coibnesaib ocus Gland Goscraig. Fir Umaill 

 cona ngahlanaib. 



156. Sil Fiachach Sui^g^i meic Feidlimid Bechtmair A. Gorcortri let Goi'cmd i 

 Gondaehtaii) dia mbai Diarmaid Hua. Duibne ocus Hva Ghuind cona fineadaib 

 A. uirrig Gorcwthri cor dichuirsed claiul Taidc meic Gein meic Aililla, Ulaim 

 a Mumin ocus is do Gorcortri Sni Bolailean scus Sui DuindcJiaichig ocus 

 i?ui ^i^ella diet roibi Mac Liag A. infili. Net Deisi imovio do cloiiul Fiachach 

 Sui[g]di A. deich tricha cet intib cona fochenelaib i n-egmais Semaine A. leith- 

 tricha cet ita ar slicht Semuiiu meic Cechaing meic Geltair no Semaine meic 

 Gealtc[h]air meic Uitheochair dia ndeachctid ar ceiul Cealtchctir diaid marbtha 



' Uead ehet. The writing, which had become dim, has been inked in at this place by a later hand. 

 - Here ends a page. The leaves liave been misplaced in binding, and the continuation is found at 

 349 a 1. The particulars of Clann Cliuind in Onom. Gped. are to be amended accordingly. 

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