MacNeili, — Early Irish Population- Groups. 107 



Blai Brugad do Cealtchair tre et na dMn ociis na Deisi Breg cen airem, cmdsin. 

 Fir Bili ocus Fir Asail is do cloind Fiacha[ch] Sm[g]di atat. 



157. Fothwrta docliodur co Laignvu do chloind Echacli Find Fuath nAirt 

 rneic Feidlimid Reclitmah .i. na .uii. Fotharta in each haili itait. 



158. " The following are Conn's race throughout Ireland : Fir Breg and 

 Fir Midi (the men of Brega and Meath), and Fir Thiilaeh and Coi'cu Eoide, 

 apart from what they have of immigrants. The latter are these : Luigni and 

 Galling and the Saithni and Ui Aeda of Odba and the seven Delbnai and the 

 half trieha cet of Cuircne and the half tricha cet of Tellach Modaran and the 

 tricha cet of Fir Bili.' The race of Conn, [to resume] : the twenty townlands 

 (hundreds) of the Colamaiu, and the tricha cet of Fine Gall, and the Airgialla 

 moreover, containing seventeen tricha cetSj and the ten tricha c^ts of Cen^l 

 nEogain, and the ten tricha c^ts of Cenel Oonaill, and the half tricha cet of Cen^l 

 nEndai, and the half tricha cet of Cenel uAengusa, and the half tricha cet 

 of Fir Tulach,^ and the ten tricha cets of Breifne, and the ten tricha cets of 

 Ui Maini, except three tuatha, namely Sogain and Ddl Druithne and Muinter 

 Mail Findtiin. The race of Muiredach Muillethan and the race of Brian son of 

 Eochu Muigmedoin wheresoever they are, and the Cairbres, namely Cairbre 

 Mor of Druim Cliab belonging to the Ui Fiaehrach maic Echach Muigmedoin 

 and Cairbre Ua Ciarda belonging to the Men of Meath. The race of Dathi 

 from Clad Conachla to Codnaeh of Cland Puint. Muinter Murchada with 

 their kinsfolk, and Cland Choscraig. The Men of Umall with their 

 branches. 



159. " The race of Fiachu Suigde son of Feidlimid Eechtmar, namely : Corcu 

 Fir Tri at Corann ia Counacht, of whom was Diarmaid Ua Duibne, and the 

 Ui Chninn with their families, [formerly] petty kings of Corcu Fir Tri until the 

 race of Tadg son of Cian son of Ailill Aulom from Munster dispossessed [them] ; 

 and of Corcu Fir Tri are the Ui Dobailen and Ui Duinnchaichig and Ui Ailella, 

 of whom was Mae Liagthe poet. The Desi, moreover, are of the race of Fiachu 

 Suigde ; they, with their under- septs, contain ten tricha cets, not reckoning 

 the Semaine, i.e., a half tricha cet who are descended from Semuine son of 

 Cechang son of Celtar or from Semame son of Celtehar son of Uithechar' 

 when the consequence of slaying Blai Brugaid through jealousy in his fort 

 went against Celtehar ; and the Desi of Brega are not reckoned therein 



i.e. in the ten tricha cets). Fir Bili and Fir Asail are of the race of Fiachu 

 Suigde. 



1 This tricha cet appears to be the modem barony of Farbill in 'Westmeath (35,447 stntiite ncres). 

 ^ FartuUagh barony in Westmeath contains 37,552 statute acres. 



' A genealogical fiction, since their traditional eponym was Nia Semon, see under inoecu XelJi 

 Semcin. 



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