120 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



P, 28, at bottom : 



. . . + 7 da fag .... do Mad mar an cetnai. 



P. 30, at foot, in late hand : 



Torralagh 6 Brin sealmor en labor so. 



P. 44, at foot : 



Finit : do seribns sin dom doig 7 inddi sceol so, 7 ni hainfis acht dia necar 

 doniam ind nos. 



Pp. 58 and 66 : scribbles, in a late hand, in English. 



P. 75, at top : 



mallacht dib feiii 



P. 78 at top : 



ataid sluag i briain ac techt cugaind deis durlais do gabail, " Brien's 

 army is coming towards us after taking Thurles." This may refer to the 

 battle of Thurles, a.d. 1174, in which Domnall O'Brien defeated the English ; 

 if so, the note must be copied from an older manuscript. If, on the other 

 hand, it is set down by O'Eiordan himself, this would indicate that he was 

 writing somewhere not very far from Thurles. 



P. 81, at foot : 



Marthin duit a croch . . 



The document with which we are mainly concerned runs from p. 33 to p. 47, 

 and from p. 51 to the end of p. 52. The script differs in certain respects from 

 that employed in the rest of the volume. The chief peculiarities are (1) an 

 unusual form of x),' closely resembling a, with which it may easily be con- 

 fused ; (2) an unusual form of m, used mainly on p. 33, but occurring two or 

 three times in later pages : it resembles a capital H, having the cross-bar 

 depressed in the middle ; (3) a contraction, consisting of a c with a wavy 

 stroke over it, which stands sometimes for tir (ter), sometimes for irt {ert ?) ; 

 (4) the spelling, which is described below. 



For the reasons given above, however, we must assume that our document 

 is written by the same scribe as the rest of the volume. The peculiarities 

 just noted are probably copied by him from the archetype which he had before 

 him. 



Our text is priacipally occupied with the traditions of the Monastery of 

 Tamlachta (now Tallaght, a village situated withru a few miles of Dublin),- 

 and with the teaching and practices of two persons — Maelruain, the founder 

 of the monastery, and his disciple Maeldithruib. There is nothing to show who 

 the writer was ; but he must have been for some time an inmate of the 



' This n is found also in the scrihal note at the foot of p. 23. 



^ As to the fortunes of this foundation, see Handcock'a Mistory of Tallaght, and F. E. Ball's 

 History of County Dublin, Part III. 



