MacNeill — Ancient Irish Law: Zazo of Status or Franchise. 311 



85 tomus airchinn 

 cethrib*' forrgib 

 CO n-aurohur flescaioh 

 forcsiu mruigreohta 

 mrogad oocrich 



90 tarsce tigradus 

 smachta iar cintaib 

 c6icthi coir chomatheeli 

 cid ag conranna fri efc 

 cid aiiiimm oeiioircc 



95 conranna fri tret 

 cis tana dichiallatar 

 tonasegar tigrathus 

 cis taurrana foichlide 

 forsna soi fogeltath 

 100 cis formenn eondaircc 

 dosliat di'lsi 

 cis ndithle di threbaib 

 na tuillet dire. 



Measurement of the fore-end 



in ioMX furruchs 



and a stripling's cast. 



Overlooking in farm-law, 



marking of common bounds, 



last responsibility for trespasses, 



fines after offences [husbandmen. 



on the fiftli day in the right of joint 



What calf shares equally with the herd ? 



what overleaping by one pigling 



shares equally with the drove 1 



what drivings are done privily 



for which last responsibility is not sued ? 



what are the deliberate drivings across 



on which cost of grazing does not return ? 



what are the ridings (?) in absence 



that incur expropriation ? 



what are the takings from dwellings 



that do not incur dire ] 



85-87 _ aircinne, cetTirai, flescaith, us. IV 138: Caide a n-airclienn'? Teora forrge ocus 

 aurchor flescaig (sic. leg.). .4.oe. to Fodla Tire, IV 276 yz, there were six forrachs in 

 the "fore-end" (airchenn) of a tir cumaile and twelve forrachs in its length. ^^ I take 

 forcsiu to be like in meaning to aircsiu. Cp. V 464.: Fer tailci a cliethra i n-athbothar a 

 cheli no ar-da-aicci ann (sic. leg.), where, for ar do aice, " who looks on at them (in the 

 act of trespass)," Atkinson has " where there is tillage near." Aicill araicci Temuir, "A. which 

 overlooks T.," is the often mistranslated first line of a poem by Cinaed Ua hArtacain. '"See 

 Heptads, V 136, 137. Tigrathus, tigradus <tig-, tiug-, and ruith, seems to mean the liability which 

 falls on the last person who had charge of animals, etc., which afterwards committed damage or 

 suffered damage. ^^-^- = Smachta . . . coicthi iar fogail, lY S6 z ; smaclu dia coicthe iarfogail, 

 IV 94, 7. ^' = ag conranna cinaid fri hed, IV 108, 13. '* = orcc conranda cindta fri tret, 

 IV 108, 8. ^^foichlichi -us. See IV 156, 17. '"/ofls^'^'^i cost of feeding cattle, etc., in custody. 

 See IV 104 y, etc. """ There is nothing in the Comaithches tract that appears to correspond to 

 the last two questions. At V 486 there is a list of indoor effects that could be taken or used 

 "without suit or payment" (ceii acre cen eraicc, 490, 17). Formenn, nom. pi. of forimm, here 

 perhaps an equivalent of foimmrimm, which means "using" or "working" an animal, boat, 

 etc. — V 474, 8; 476, 7. 'Ecndaircc, adverbially, " in the owner's absence," seems practically 

 equivalent to dichmarc, V 474, = cen athcomarc, " without leave," ib. gloss ; foimrim noe . . . 

 710 leasdair .i. cen athcomarc, V 476, 4. 



[Miadlechta]. 



At IV 344 begins a tract for which the editors have supplied the title 

 " Sequel to Crith Gahlach." It is, however, quite independent of Crith Gablach 

 iu all respects, and its original title was probably Miadlechta {miacl + slechta), 

 found in lines 1 and 7 of the printed text and meaning " classes of dignity." 

 It may be of the eighth century. Instead of the serious technical treatment 

 of Crith Gablach, it uses a rather rhetorical and fanciful style, with numerous 

 quotations from poetry. In its classification of grades it differs from all the 

 other published tracts. 



It deals only with the free grades, omitting the unfree agricultural tenants, 

 fuidir, bothach, and senchlethe, also the slave, 7nvg, and the slave woman, curacd. 



