CITY OF LONDONDERRY. 
Gojjan mac Neill co riepc mileao o meio leinim 
Dpeach oa cigeao inoeam eim^ pino pep Peabail. 
lneaccpio insen pij monaig; macaip 605am 
Co nai5 Neupi5 co pun cpein pip co luo leomain 
Cinel 605am uaipli pinoa pine cempa 
lTleoip pa n5abap painne imca ailli mepla. 
Ip iao pluai5 ip uaipli an 6pino Oipecc Oilich 
lp iao ip pepp pa r.iao peoain coip ca 0151b 
Seacc naipopij oe5 oib ap 6pino d aicme 605am 
Do coipenooaip coip a paejail 001b a n-Deopai5. 
Ip ooib 5obcap 5eill cac cipi cap a 061510 
lp 01b aca an ouine o^amo uili ap 6pino 
Cuapao eolac do mmp Da cac pia5ain 
Dmnpeancup O1I15 in uabaip D01I15 oiamaip 
Dappeallup opec Deap5 oeap pe oeabaio opeap na 0151b 
Ip e pa haipopi an Domain 5mm na 5paioib 
Cfn can ppio 05 loe aobal pebail aobap O1I15 
Seachcmo5ao ap pe ceoaib bliaoam blao do cianu 
Re n5ein Cpipc a cachpai5 luoa Dacb5lam oiaoa 
Ceachpacao ap ceo ap CU15 mill op na mu 151b 
Se bliaona piu pann na comaip call lm 0151b 
Cup 5abao 05 mop plua5 monai5 opouan O1I15 
Ipa Cpipo coimpi5 cac calmain ip cac cpecain 
Ri cap la ap noaini po oacaib ailli eacoil. 
Eogan, the son of Niall, with strength of a hero from the size of a child, 
Countenance, in which shone hospitality—fair man of Foyle. 
Ineachtfee, daughter of King Monach, was mother of Eogan— 
He with the valour of royal Neid,* with the resolution of a hero, with the strength of a lion, 
The Kinel-owen, nobles fair, tribe of Temur, 
On whose fingers are rings , beautiful , loose , 
The noblest host in Erin is the meeting of Oileach ; 
They are the best and most honourable at their houses : 
Seventeen monarchs of them [ruled] over Erin, of Eogan’s race,— 
They defended their right against foreigners. 
By them are received the hostages of each country, over which they pass, 
Of them is the man who is the Defender of all Ireland : 
Cuarad, the learned told to each witness 
The Dinnseanchus of Aileach of pride— difficult , obscure. 
Darcylus of the ruddy face, expert in the battle, of strong houses, 
Was monarch of the world, active in his dignities— 
When was found at spacious Lough Foyle, the cause of Aileach, f 
Seventy years on six hundred—a famed remote period— 
Before the birth of Christ in the Jewish city, fair, pious ; 
Forty, one hundred, and five [two?] thousand from the eruptions, 
Six years before the separation of the Comars with the houses, 
Until assumed the great host of Monach, the superiority of Oileach. 
Jesus Christ protect each land and each sea. 
O King of the fair-coloured land of our people, I implore thee. 
It appears from Irish history, that the nine kings mentioned in this poem as having pre¬ 
ceded Owen, who flourished in the 5th century, did not succeed one another, but that several 
intervened between them. Ihe periods at which they flourished are thus set down in 
O’Flaherty’s corrected Irish Chronology :— 
1 . Eochy Ollatiiair, or the Dagda, commenced his reign A. M. 2804, and governed the 
Tuatha de Dananns 80 years, the same number as Aiod, of the tribe of Benjamin, 
governed the Hebrews. 
2 . Eochy Eadgothach. He was the fourth in descent from Looee, the son of Itli. the uncle 
of Milesius : he commenced his reign A. M. 3041, and ruled 4 years. 
* Neid was the Mars of the Pagan Irish, 
f That is :—the stone from which the name was given. 
