Uí
Bairrche (Leinster) – Page 2
Uí Bairrche
– Page 1
Origins and
History
Saints and
Monastic Settlements
Family groups and settlements
Ancient Genealogy of the Úi
Bairrche (taken from Rawlinson B502, Book of
Leinster, Book of Lecan, Book of Ballymote, hagiography and the Annals)
Uí Bairrche – Page 2
EXTRACTS OF
REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Annals
Onomasticon Goedelicum
References to Dáire Barraig, founder
of the Uí Bairrche, and his reign
References to Muiredach
Mo-Snítheach and Móenech, of the Uí Bairrche, and
their line
References to Ailill the Great, of
the Uí Bairrche, and his line
References to Eochu Guinech, King of Uí Bairrche, and
his reign
The Metrical Dindshenchas
(Author: [unknown])
References to Cormac mac Diarmata (†567AD???), King of
Uí Bairrche, and his reign
Reference to Suibne mac Domnaill, King of Uí Bairrche,
and his reign
References to Tressach (†884AD),
King of Uí Bairrche, and his reign
References to Cleircen, King of Uí
Bairrche, and his reign
Leabhar na g-Ceart (Book of Rights)
Topograpghical
Poems of Ireland before the Normans
The
Charter of John, Lord of Ireland, in favour of the Cistercian Abbey of
Baltinglass
Expulsion of the MacGormans
The song
of Dermot and Earl
Crede Mihi no. IV
Bibliography
The Annals cite:
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M3501.1 As í so bliadhain in
ro gabh Ereamhon & Emhear comhflaithius os Erind,
& ro randsatt Ere ar dó etorra. As innte beos
do-ronadh na gniomha-so síos la h-Eireamón & lá h-Emher co
na t-taoisiochaibh. Ráth Beothaigh os Eoir i n-Argatt
Ros, & Ráth Oinn i c-Crích Cualann, la h-Eireamhón,
Tochar Inbhir Móir, i c-crích Ua n-Eneachglas Cualann, lá h-Aimhergin,
cumdach Dúine Náir i Sleibh Modhairn, la Goisten, Dún
Delginnsi i c-crích Cualann la Sedgha, Dun Sobhairce
i Murbholg Dal Riada lá Sobhairce, & Dún Eadair
la Suirghe. La h-Ereamhon co na thaoisiochaibh do-ronadh
innsin. Rath Uamain i Laighnibh la h-Emhear. Rath
Arda Suird la h-Eatan mac n-Uice, Carracc Fethaighe
la h-Un mac n-Uicce, Carracc Blaraighe la Mantan,
Dun Ardinne la Caicher, Rath Rioghbhaird i Muiriscc
la Fulman. La h-Emhir cona thaoisiochaibh innsin. |
M3501.1 This was the year in
which Eremhon and Emher assumed the joint sovereignty of Ireland, and divided
Ireland into two parts between them. It was in it, moreover, that these acts
following were done by Eremhon and Emher, with their chieftains: Rath Beothaigh,
over the Eoir Argat Ros, and Rath Oinn in Crich Cualann, were erected
by Eremhon. The causeway of Inbher mor, in the territory of Ui Eineachglais
Cualann, was made by Amergin. The erection of Dun Nair, in Sliabh
Modhairn, by Gosten; Dun Deilginnsi, in the territory of Cualann, by Sedgha;
Dun Sobhairce, in Murbholg Dal Riada, by Sobhairce; and Dun Edair by Suirghe.
By Eremhon and his chieftains these were erected. Rath Uamhain, in Leinster,
by Emhear; Rath Arda Suird by Etan, son of Uige; Carraig Fethaighe by Un, son
of Uige; Carraig Blaraighe by Mantan; Dun Ardinne by Caicher; Rath Righbaird,
in Muiresg, by Fulman. By Emher and his chieftains these were erected. |
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M3668.1 An ced-bhliadhain
do Sobhairce & do Cermna Fiond, dá mac Ebric,
mic Emhir, mic Ir, mic Mileadh, ós Erinn, &
ro rannsat eatorra í ar dó, Sobairce tuaith i n-Dún Sobhairce,
& Cermna teas i n-Dun Cermna. Dá céd rígh
Ereann do Sliocht Ir iad-sidhe. |
M3668.1 The first year of the
joint reign of Sobhairce and Cearmna Finn, the two sons of Ebric, son of
Emher, son of Ir, son of Milidh, over Ireland; and they divided it between
them into two parts: Sobhairce resided in the north, at Dun Sobhairce;
and Cearmna in the south, at Dun Cearmna. These were the first kings of
Ireland of the race of Ir. |
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M3707.1 Ar m-beith cethrachat
bliadhain do na rioghaibh si a c-comhfhlaithius os Erinn,
do-chear Sobairce la h-Eochaidh Meand d'Fomoiribh, &
do-rochair Cermna la h-Eochaidh b-Faobharglas mac Conmhaoil. |
M3707.1 After these kings
had been forty years in the joint sovereignty of Ireland, Sobhairce was slain
by Eochaidh Meann, of the Fomorians; and Cearmna fell by Eochaidh
Faebharghlas, son of Conmael. |
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M4176.1 Iar m-beth seacht
m-bliadhna h-i righe n-Ereann do Rotheachtaigh, ro loiscc teni
ghealáin é h-i n-Dun Sobhairce. As lasan Rotheachtaigh so
ar-richt carpait ceithre nech ar tús i n-Erinn. |
M4176.1 After Roitheachtaigh
had been seven years in the sovereignty of Ireland, lightning burned him at
Dun Sobhairce Dunseverick. It was by this Roitheachtaigh that chariots
of four horses were first used in Ireland. |
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M267.1 En-bhliadhain d'Eochaidh Gondat h-i righe n-Ereann go t-torchair lá Lughaidh Mend, mac Aongusa, d'Ulltoibh. |
M267.1 Eochaidh Gonnat in
the sovereignty of Ireland, when he fell by Lughaidh Meann, son of Aenghus, one
of the Ulstermen. |
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M465.4
Criomhthann, mac Enda Censelaigh, rí Laighen, do mharbhadh lá mac a inghine
budhéin .i. Eochaidh Guinech do Uibh Bairrche. |
M465.4
Crimhthann, son of Enda Censelach, King of Leinster, was killed by the son of
his own daughter, i.e. Eochaidh Guineach, one of the Ui Bairrche. |
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U483.1
Iugulatio Chraumthain mc. Ennai Ceinnselaig mc. Breasail Belaich mc. Fiacha
Ba Aicceadha mc. Cathair Mhoir regis Lagen. |
U483.1
The slaying of Cremthann son of Anna Cennselach son of Bresal Bélach son of
Fiacha ba Aiccid son of Cathaír Már, king of Laigin. |
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CS484
Guin
Criomtainn meic Enna Cindsealaigh rí Laigen la Eochuidh Guinech d'Ibh
Bairrce & la hAradha Cliach. |
CS484
Criomthann, son of Enna Cennsealach, King of Laighen, mortally wounded by
Eochaidh Guinech of the Ibh Bairrche, and by the men of Aradh Cliach. |
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U485.2
Guin Cremthaind mc. Enna Cheinnselaigh. |
U485.2
The mortal wounding of Cremthann, son of Énna Cennselach. |
I485.2
Guin Crimthain Cennselaig, rig Laigen, quem interficit
Echaid Gluinech.
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I485, The mortal wounding of
Crimthann Ceinnselach, king of Laigin, whom Echaid Glúinech slays. |
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CS487 Cath Ceáll Osnaigh a Muigh Fea ubi cecidit
Aongus mac Nathfraoich rí Muman & uxor eius .i. Eithne Uatach ingen
Criomtainn meic Enna Cindsealaigh. Iollann mac Dunlaing et Oilill a bratair
et Eochaidh Gluinech et Muircertach mac Earca ri Ailigh uictores erant, ut
dicitur: rann Adbath
craob dosbde móir, |
CS487
The battle of Cill Osnaigh in Magh Fea, in which fell Aengus Mac Nathfraeich,
King of Mumhan, and his wife, i.e. Eithne the hateful, daughter of
Criomthann, son of Enna Cennsealach. Iollann, son of Dunlaing, and Oilill,
his brother, and Eochaidh Guinech, and Muircertach Mac Erca, King of Ailech,
were victors, as was said:— A
branch of the great spreading tree died— |
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M489.3
Aongus, mac Nat Fraoich, rí Mumhan, do thuitim h-i c-cath Chell Osnadh la
Muircertach mac Earca, la h-Iollann mac Dunlaing, la h-Ailill, mac
Dunlaing, & la h-Eochaidh n-Guinech dia n-ebradh, At-bath
craobh, dosbhile n-óir, |
M489.3
Aenghus, son of Nadfraech, King of Munster, fell in the battle of Cell
Osnadha fought against him by Muircheartach Mac Earca, by Illann, son
of Dunlaing, by Ailill, son of Dunlaing, and by Eochaidh Guineach, of which
was said: Died
the branch, the spreading tree of gold, |
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T489.2
Cath Cella Asnada i Muig Fhea, ubi ceciditAengus mac Nad Fraich &uxor
eius & Eithni Uathach ingen Cremthainn maic Enna Cendselaig. Illand mac
Dungaili & Ailill a brathair & Eochaid Guinech & Murchertach mac
Erca rig Ailigh uictores erant. Vnde dictum est: Ad-bath
craeb dos-bili moir Illand
ocus Muirchertach, |
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U500.2 Quies Ibuir
episcopi.ix. Kl Maii |
U500.2
Repose of bishop Ibar on the 9th of the Kalends of May. |
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U501.1 Muirchertach uictor
fuit, & mors episcopi Ibar .ix. Kl Maii |
U501.1
Muirchertach was victor; and the death of bishop Ibar on the 9th of the
Kalends of May. |
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W501 LVII.
Annus. Episcopus Ebur [Ywor] pausat in Christo, anno CCCL aetatis suae. |
W501 57 A
year. Bishop Ibur [Ywor] rests in Christ, in the year 350 of his age. [Translated
by Google] |
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U504.3 Uel hic mors episcopi
Ibar |
U504.3 Or
here, the death of bishop Ibar. |
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T544.1 Tigernach mac
Cairpri, sanctus episcopus Cluana Eois, obit. |
T544.1
Tighernach son of Cairpre, holy bishop of Cluain Eois, died. |
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U549.2 Tigernach Cluana
Eois. |
U549.2
Tigernach of Cluain Eóis rested. |
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U550.2 Uel hoc anno quies
Tigernaci. |
U550.2 Or,
in this year the repose of Tigernach. |
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M548.3 S. Tighernach, easpoc
Cluana h-Eoais, do dol d'écc an cethramhadh d'April. |
M548.3 St. Tighearnach,
Bishop of Cluain Eois, died on the 4th of April. |
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M548.4 S. Mac Tail Cille
Cuilinn (.i. Eoghan mac Corcrain) d'écc, an t-aonmhadh lá décc do mí Iún. |
M548.4 St. Mac Tail of Cill
Cuilinn (i.e. Eoghan, son of Corcran), died on the eleventh day of the month
of June. |
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U549.3 Mortalitas magna in
qua isti pausant: Finnio maccu Telduib; Colaim nepos Craumhthainan; Mc. Tail
Cille Cuilind; {folio & column H20ra} Sincheall mc. Cenanndain, abbas
Cille Achaid Drummfoto; & Columbe Inse Celtrae |
U549.3 A great mortality in
which these rested: Finnia moccu Telduib, Colam, descendant of Crimthann, Mac
Táil of Cell Cuilinn, Sinchell son of Cenannán, abbot of Cell Achaid
Druimfhata, and Colum of Inis Celtra. |
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AR11.
...7 Mc Tail Chille Cuilind qui nominateur Eogan m. Corcrai(n) [AU 549, 556,
AI 551, Tig] |
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M576.3 Colman, mac Coirpre, ri Laighen, d'écc acc Sliabh Maircce. |
M576,
Colman, son of Cairbre, King of Leinster, died at Sliabh Mairge. |
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AB590.1
Gurmundus principalis eorundem Norwegianorum archipirata (sic etiam
Caradocus) Affricanus natione, de Norwegianis acquisivit Hiberniam pro parte,
et se regem Hibernie nominandum; edificavit Gormagston, et constituit filium
suum et heredem, nomine Burchardum, aliter Burchardum Gurmondi, ducem
Lagenie, cujus successor communiter vocabatur ab Hibernicis Gormagheyn, dux
montis Onergi, sed ut alii volunt, ducem Lagenie et baronem le Margee. Hic
Gurmundus fuit qui de Norwegianis primo invasit Hiberniam, et viam primo
aperuit hominibus sue patrie in Hibernico Mari; et ulterius, D. Powell et
Lanquet et Gualter Oxonie et Caradocus habent in cronicis, quod iste
Gurmundus in anno 590 existens archipirata, Norwegiorum capitaneus, rex esset
Hibernie, et post conquestum Hibernie accersitus per Saxones contra
Carecticum Britannorum regem, vicit (potius fugavit) Carecticum in bello, et
prosequebatur Britannos ultra rivos de Severne et Dee. |
AB590.1 Gurmundus,
the chief pirate of the same Norwegians (so also Caradochus), an African by
nationality, acquired Ireland from the Norwegians as a part, and named
himself king of Ireland; he built Gormagston, and appointed his son and heir,
named Burchard, otherwise Burchard Gurmondi, duke of Lagenie, whose successor
was commonly called by the Irish Gormagheyn, duke of Mount Onerg, but as
others would have it, duke of Lagenie and baron le Margee. This Gurmundus was
the first of the Norwegians to invade Ireland, and the first to open the way
for the people of his country in the Irish Sea; and further, D. Powell and
Lanquet and Walter of Oxford and Caradocus have in their chronicles, that
this Gurmundus, existing in the year 590 as an arch-pirate, a captain of the
Norwegians, was king of Hibernia, and after the conquest of Hibernia, being pursued
by the Saxons against Carecticus, king of the Britons, he defeated (rather
fled) He was barren in the war, and pursued the Britons beyond the rivers
Severn and Dee. [Translated
by Google] [See also AB1334.2] |
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AB590.2
Et dedit Lloegriam Saxonibus et ibidem edificavit Gurmondcestriam, et postea,
secundum historiam Hibernie, transfretavit in Galliam ad conquerendum et
cetera, ubi moriebatur, sed Hibernici antiquarii negant eum fuisse monarcham
Hibernie, quia non subjugavit preter Lageniam et Midiam quod pro conquestu
non reputarunt. |
AB590.2 And he
gave Lloegria to the Saxons, and there he built Gurmondcestry, and
afterwards, according to the history of Hibernia, he crossed into Gaul to
complain and so forth, where he died, but the Irish antiquaries deny that he
was the monarch of Hibernia, because he did not subjugate beyond Lagenia and
Midia, which they did not regard as a conquest. [Translated
by Google] |
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AB590.3
Burchardus Gurmundi, qui vulgariter nominatur O Gormagheyn, dux (ut
asseritur) Lagenie, edificasse dicitur Gurmundi grangiam, et palatium suum in
Monte Margeo cum aliis memorabilibus pro se et suis, et fundasse matricem seu
prioratum veteris Leighlen, sed potius eam dotavit tempore sancti Eubani Lenie
patroni; sed quidam nomine Lazerianus, episcopus et confessor, pro fundatione
et erectione ecclesie cathedralis ibidem anno domini 651 fuit procurator.
Vide record Leiglen. In eadem ecclesia fertur ille dux esse sepultus ex parte
boreali in muro summo chori juxta stallum thesaurarii ecclesie sub lapide
marmoreo habens ipsius ducis nomen desuper. Wittnesses lyvinge 1589
Karolus Rowac alias Makeyigan clerk, Donagh Mc Gilpatrik, and Gilleranoy
carpenters saw the tumbe with their eyes, and Thady Dowling cancellar:
ecclesie found his epitaph in simple verse as followeth: Hic jacet humatus dux fundator Leniae, id est
Leghleniae. Extant
etiam adhuc alia testimonia circa hanc villam; scilicet nomina quorundam
locorum ut Gormondus Grove et Gormondes Foord et cetera. |
AB590.3 Burchard
of Gurmund, commonly called O Gormagheyn, chief (as it is said) of Lagenie,
is said to have built Gurmund's grange, and his palace on Mount Marge, with
other memorable things for himself and his people, and to have founded the
matric or priory of old Leighlen, but rather endowed it in the time of St.
Euban Gentle patrons; but a certain one named Lazerianus, a bishop and confessor, was
procurator for the foundation and erection of the cathedral church there in
the year of the Lord 651. See Leiglen's record. In the same church it is said that that leader was buried on
the northern side in the upper wall of the choir, near the treasurer's stall
of the church, under a marble stone, having the name of the leader above. Witnesses lyvinge 1589 Karolus Rowac alias Makeyigan clerk,
Donagh Mc Gilpatrik, and Gilleranoy carpenters saw the tomb with their eyes,
and Thady Dowling chancellor: the church found his epitaph in simple verse as
followeth: Here lies the noble leader, the founder of Lenia, that is, of
Leghlenia. But Burchard of Gormond was a man acceptable to the church. There are still other testimonies about this town; namely, the names of certain places, such as Gormond Grove and
Gormond Foord, and so on. [Translated
by Google] |
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U692.2
Conchadh episcopus moritur. |
U692.2
Bishop Conchad dies. |
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M698.2
Aodh ancoire, ó Slebhtiu, d'écc. |
M698.2
Aedh, Anchorite of Sleibhte, died. |
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FA148
700 Kl Quies Aodha, epscop Slebhte. |
FA148
700 Kl The repose of Áed, bishop of Sléibte |
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U700.2
Quies Aedho anchorite o Sleibtiu. |
U700.2
Repose of Aed, an anchorite from Sleibte. |
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T700.2
Quies ancorite Aedha o Sleibtiu. |
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CS700
Quies anchoritae Aedha o Shlebtiu. |
CS700
Repose of Aed, an anchorite from Sléibte. |
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AR158.
Quies anchoritae Eada o Sleibtiu; et eodem ann fames et pestilentua in
Hibernia tribus annis ut homo comederet. [Tig. 700] |
Rest of the anchorite Eada o Sleibtiu; and in the same year there was famine and pestilence in Ireland
for three years, so that man might eat. [Translated
by Google] |
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M724.2
Mac Onchon, sccribhneoir Cille Dara. |
M724.2
Mac Onchon, scribe of Cill Dara Kildare |
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T730.2
Filius Onchon,
scriba Cille Dara, moritur. |
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U730.5
Suibne alias mc. Crunnmail§ nepos Mruichesaich episcopus Airdd
Machae, M. Oncon scriba Chille Daro, In Gall o Lilcach, et filius Con
Cumbu scriba Cluana Moccu Nois, dormierunt. |
U730.5
Suibne alias son of Crunnmael, grandson of Mruichesach, bishop of Ard Macha, Mac
Onchon, scribe of Cell Dara, the Gaul from Lilcach, and the son of Cú Chumba,
scribe of Cluain Moccu Nóis, fell asleep. |
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AR181.
Filius Onc[h]on scriba Cille Dara dormiunt [Tig AU 730] |
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U766.5 Mors Cernaigh m.
Cathail & Cernaigh m. Flainn. |
U766.5 Death of Cernach son of
Cathal, and of Cernach son of Flann.
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M819.4
Orgain Edair la Gallaibh, & broid mhór do mhnáibh do bhreith leo. Orgain Becc-Ereann, &
Dairinsi Caomháin leo doridhisi |
M819.4
The plundering of Edar by the foreigners, who carried off a great prey of
women. The
plundering of Beg Eire and Dairinis Caemhain by them also. |
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AC832.
Fiegann mcTorvie of Louth died in Pilgrimage in Clonvickenois, whose son Owen
mcTorvey remayned in Clonn aforesaid, of whome issued the familye of Conn
mboght & Muintyr Gorman, they are of the O'Kellys of Brey.[Breagha east
Meath] |
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M843.9
& Aodhan Glinne h-Uisean, d'écc. |
M843.9
and Aedhan of Gleann Uisean, died. |
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M853.8
Orgain Locha Cend la Gallaibh iar n-dol fair for lécc oighredh, & torcratar
fiche ar chéd do dhaoinibh leo im Gormán. |
M853.8
The plundering of Loch Cend by the foreigners, after they had entered it on
the ice; and one hundred and twenty persons were slain by them, together with
Gorman. |
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M854.12
Faolchadh, mac Forbhasaigh, tigherna Ua m-Bairrche Maighe d'écc. |
M854.12
Faelchadh, son of Forbhasach, lord of Ui Bairrche Maighe, died. |
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M856.6
Cernach, mac Cionaotha, tigherna Ua m-Bairrche Tíre, d'écc. |
M856.6
Cearnach, son of Cinaeth, lord of Ui Bairrche Tire, died. |
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FA291
858 K. uii. Cearnach mhac Cionaodha, rí Ua m-Bairrche Tíre, .m. |
FA291
858 Cernach son of Cináed, king of Uí Bairrche Tíre, died. |
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FA
281 861 Ár la Cearbhaill mc. Dunlaing for mhuinntir Roduilbh i Slebh Mairge,
& a marbadh uile, acht fioruathad tearna dhíobh i c-cailtibh. Creach
Leithghlinne, & dna a braid ra bhoí aca ar marbadh dreime móir do
muinntir Leithglinne dhóibh. |
FA281
861 A massacre of Rodolb’s followers by Cerball son of Dúnlang [Osraige] at
Sliab Mairge, and they were all killed except for a few of them who escaped
in the woods. They had plundered Lethglenn, and they had its hostages after
killing a great number of the community of Lethglenn. |
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M862.5
& Broccán, mac Comhsuidh, abb Slébhte, d'écc. |
M862.5
and Brocan, son of Comhsudh, Abbot of Slebhte, died. |
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M864.4
Sruthar, & Slébhte, & Achaidh Arglais d'orgain d'Osraighibh. |
M864.4
Sruthar, Slebhte and Achadh Arglais were plundered by the Osraighi. |
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FA345 866 Sruthar, & Slébhte, & Achaidh Arglais
d'argain do gentibh. |
FA345
866 Sruthar, Slebhte and Achadh Arglais were laid waste by the heathans. |
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M866.12
Conn, mac Cionaedha, tighearna Ua m-Bairrchi Tíre, do mharbhadh oc toghail in
dúine forsna Gallaibh. |
M866.12
Conn, son of Cinaedh, lord of Ui Bairrchi Tire, was slain while demolishing
the fortress of the foreigners. |
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M867.15
Cian mac Cummusccaigh, tighearna Ua m-Bairrchi, d'ég. |
M867.15
Cian, son of Cumasgach, lord of Ui Bairrchi Tire, died. |
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FA376
869 K. uii. Cían mc. Cumasgaigh, rí .H. m-Bairrche Tíre, .m. |
FA376
869 Cian son of Cummascach, king of Uí Bairrchi Tíre, died. |
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U871.3 Expugnatio Duin
Sobairce quod antea non perfectum est, Gaill occo la Cenel
n-Eugain. |
U871.3 The storming of Dún
Sobairche, which had never been achieved before: the foreigners were at it
with the Cenél Eógain. |
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M874.4
Diarmait, mac Coirpre, abb Glinne h-Uissen. |
M874.4
Diarrmaid, Abbot of Gleann Uissean; |
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U883.4
Death of
Auisle's son at the hands of Iergne's son and the daughter of Mael Sechnaill. |
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M884.11
Tresach, mac Becáin, flaith Ua m-Bairrche Maighe, do mharbhadh la h-Aodh, mac
Iolghuine. As dó ro ráidh Flann mac Lonáin, 1.
Trom-cheó for chóiceadh m-Bresail, 2.
Scith mo mheanma, muad mo ghnas, |
M884.11
Treasach, son of Becan, chief of Ui Bairche Maighe, was slain by Aedh, son of
Ilguine. Of him Flann, son of Lonan*, said: A
heavy mist upon the province of Breasal, Wearied
my mind, moist my countenance, |
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M885.20
Guin Maoil Chertaigh, mic Fiachrach, tigherna Ua m-Bairche. |
M885.20
The mortal wounding of Maelchertaigh, son of Fiachra, lord of Ui Bairche. |
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M885.21
Guin Tressaigh mic Iolguini. |
M885.21
The mortal wounding of Treasach, son of Ilguini. |
U886.1 Eiremhon m. Aedho, leth-ri Ulath, o Eoloir m. Ergní occissus est.
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U886.1
Éiremón son of
Aed, one of two kings of Ulaid, was killed by Eolóir son of Iergne. |
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M886.11
& Gormacán, mac Flainn, flaith Ua m-Bairrche Tíre, d'ég. |
M886.11
Gormacan, son of Flann, chief of Ui Bairrche Tire, died. |
M891.14 Flann, mac Lonáin, Uirghil Shil Scota primh-fhile Gaoidheal uile, file as deach baí i n-Erinn ina aimsir, do mharbhadh
la macaibh Cuirbhuidhe, do Uibh Fothaith iat-sen, h-i n-duinetaidhe h-ic Loch Dá Caoch i n-Deisibh Mumhán.
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M891.14
Flann, son of Lonan, the Virgil of the race of Scota, chief poet of all the
Gaeidhil, the best poet that was in Ireland in his time, was secretly
murdered by the sons of Corrbuidhe (who were of the Ui Fothaith), at Loch
Dachaech, in Deisi Mumhan. |
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M896.7
Dubh Lachtna, mac Ceirine, tighearna Ua m-Bairrche, d'ég. |
M896.7
Dubhlachtna, son of Ceirine, lord of Ui Bairrche, died. |
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M899.9
Cionaedh, mac Mael Ruanaidh, & Aodh, mac Iolguine, flaith Ua m-Bairrche,
do mharbhadh na n-dís lá Cendubhan, mac Maele Cáin. |
M899.9
Cinaedh, son of Maelruanaidh, and Aedh, son of Ilguine, chief of Ui Bairrche,
were both slain by Ceandubhan, son of Maelecan (Clann Beraich of the
Loíchsi). |
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FA423
908 K. ui. Anni Domini .dcccc. Ra tionaladh mórshlúagh f-fear Mumhan
lasin dís cédna, .i. la Flaithbheartach & la Cormaic, d'iarraidh
bráighid Laighean & Osraighe, & ra bhattar fir Mumhan uile i
n-aon longport….As iad dno ra bhris an cath so, .i. Flann mc. Maoil Seachloinn, rígh
Eireann; & Cearbhall mc. Muireagan, rí Laighean; & Tadhg mc. Faolain,
rí; Úa c-Cionnsiolaig; Teamenán, rí Úa n-Deagha; Ceallach & Lorcan, dá rí
fear na Cinel; Indeirge mc. Duibhghiolla, rí Úa n-Dróna; Follamhan mc.
Oilella, rí Fotharta Fea; Tuathal mc. Ugaire, rí Úa Muireadhaigh; Ugran mc.
Cinnedig, rí Laoighsi; Maol Challann mc. Feargaile, rí na f-Forthuath;
Cleirchen, rí Úa mBairche… Ugran
Mairge mórghlonnach, Cleirchen
ó Inis Failbhe, Follamhan
mac [n-]Ailella, Dub-da-Boirenn a Daimne. |
F423
908 Anno
Domini 900. A great army of the men of Munster was gathered by the same two
men, that is, by Flaithbertach and Cormac, to demand the hostages of the
Laigin and Osraige, and the men of Munster were all in the same camp….These
are the men who won the battle: Flann son of Máel Sechlainn, King of Ireland;
and Cerball son of Muirecán, king of Laigin; and Tadc son of Fáelán, king of
Uí Ceinnselaig; Temenán, king of Uí Dega; Cellach and Lorccán, two kings of
Fir Cualann; Indeirge son of Dub Gilla, king of Uí Dróna; Follaman son of
Ailill, king of Fotharta Fea; Tuathal son of Augaire, king of Uí Muiredaig;
Augrán son of Cennétig, king of Loíches; Máel Calland son of Fergal, king of
the Fortuatha; Cléirchen, king of Uí Bairrchi… …Augrán
of Mairge, great in deeds, (king of Loíches) Cleirchén from Inis Failbe, (king of Uí Bairrchi) Follaman
son of Ailill, (king of Fotharta Fea) Dub
dá Bairenn from Daimne… [Note:
This entry is nine pages long and is also contained in Keatings History of
Ireland] |
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M906.4
Aedh, mac Duibhghiolla, tighearna Ua n-Dróna na t-Trí Maighe, tanaisi Ua
c-Ceinnselaigh, do mharbhadh la h-Uibh Bairrche. As do ro ráidheadh: 1.
A ócca Ailbhi aini, 2.
Fearna Mór milibh dagh-rath, 3.
Ro faith mo dín mo ditiu, |
M906.4
Aedh, son of Dubhghilla, lord of Ui-Drona of the Three Plains, Tanist of
Ui-Ceinnsealaigh, was slain by the Ui-Bairrche. Of him was said: 1] O youths of pleasant Ailbhe, mourn ye the
king of noble Slaine, 2] Slain is the populous Aedh of the
Bearbha, the just king of the land of peaceful Fearna. 3] To great Fearna of the thousand noble
graces there came not, if I remember rightly, 4] A corpse of more illustrious fame, since
the populous Bran Dubh was slain. 5]
My shelter, my protection has departed, may the King of kings make smooth his
way, 6] 'Tis easily known by Aedhan's rath that Aedh is dead, O youths. |
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FA431
?910 Kl. [margin annus .xxxio. regni Flainn] Diarmaid, rí Osraighe, &
Aodh mc. Duibhghiolla, rí Úa nDróna, do mhilleadh desgirt Maighe Raighne,
& millead doib Cill na gCailleach, .i. Sinchi & Rechtín, & muinntir
Aodha do marbadh sagairt an bhaile, & as eadh ón ro dhioghail Día for
Aodh mc. Duibhghiolla sain, úair ro marbhsad araile comhaithigh dOsraighibh é
ag impodh dá thigh. Rí Úa nDróna an tAodh sin, & na tTri Maighe, &
righdhamhna Úa Cinnsilaig. Unde dictur: A
óga Ailbhe áine, caoinidh rig Sláine sáoire; Fearna
Mhór milibh doghrath, nis ráine arm[b]ad cuimhneach, Ro
fháoidh mo dhíon, mo dhítte; Rí na ríogh redhigh róda; |
FA431
?910 Kl. Diarmait, king of Osraige, and Áed son of Dubh Gilla, King of
Uí-Dróna, devastated the south of Mag Raigne [Gowran], and they destroyed Cell
na gCaillech [Church of Nuns] i.e., of Sinche and Rechtín, Áed’s people
killed the priest of the community, and God avenged that on Áed son of Dub
Gilla, for some peasants of Osraige killed him as he was returning home. That
Áed was king of Uí Drona and of the Three Plains and was eligible to be king
of Ui-Ceinnsealaigh. Whence was said: O
youths of pleasant Ailbhe, mourn the king of noble Slaine; carry
Áed of the hosts of Bearba, as far as the sod of level Fearna. Fearna
Mór with thousands of noble graces, there has not reached it, as far is
remembered, A
dead man whose fame was more glorious, since Brandub of the hosts was slain. My
defense, my shelter has gone, may the King of kings make smooth the roads; it
is clear in Ráith Étain [Rathedan tl. in p. Agha] that Áed is dead, o youths. |
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M906.8
Buadach, mac Gusain, tanaisi Ua m-Bairrce Tíre d'eg. |
M906.8
Buadhach, son of Gusan, Tanist of Ui-Bairrche-tire, died. |
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FA440
?912 K. iiii. Buadach mc. Gossain, righdhamhna Úa m-Bairrche, .m. |
FA440
?912 Buadach son of Gossán, eligible to be king of Uí Bairrche, died. |
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M915.6
Slóiccheadh Ua Néill an Deisceirt & an Tuaisceirt la Niall, mac Aodha, rí
Ereann co Fioru Mumhan do choccad fri Gallaibh. Scorais a longport oc Topar
Gletrach i Maigh Femhin an 22 d'August. Do-lótar na Goill isin tír an lá
cédna. Fos-ruabnattar Gaoidhil iad in treas uair ria medhón laoi co
t-torchair míle ar céd fer ettorra, acht as lia do-cher
do Ghallaibh, & ro sraoinedh forra. Do-rochratar h-i f-friothghuin
annsin taoisech Cairrge Brachaidhe, & Maoil Finnén mac Donnagáin
taoiseach Ua c-Cernaigh, & Ferghal, mac Muirigein,
taoiseach Ua c-Cremthainn, & araill cenmothát. Do-lottar cobhraidh as
longport Gall do foirithin a muintire. Im-soiset an Goidhil for c-cula
dochum an dunaidh riasan tóir n-deidenaigh, .i. ria Raghnall rí
Dubhgall co slogh do Ghallaibh uime. Luidh Niall co n-uaithibh ind acchaidh
na n-Gall co ro toirmiscc Dia trid an iomghuin. Anais Niall iarsin fiche
oidche iaramh a n-dunaidh forsna Gallaibh. Ro forcongradh uadh for Laighnibh
airisiom a forbaisi forna Gallaibh co t-tucc Sitriucc ua h-Iomhair co
n-Gallaibh uime cath Cinn Fuait for Laighnibh, du i t-torchrattar sé céd im tighearnadhaibh
Laighen, & imon righ Ugaire, mac Ailella. At iad annso anmanna
druinge dá maithibh. Maol Mordha, mac Muireccáin, tighearna Airthir Life,
Mughron, mac Cinnéittigh, tighearna na t-Tri c-Comann & Laighisi,
Cionaeth mac Tuathail, tighearna Ua Fenechlais, & sochaidhe oile do degh-dhaoinibh
imon aird-easpucc Mael M'Aedhócc, mac Diarmata, do Uibh Conannla do, abb
Glinne h-Uisen, scribhnidh tocchaidhe, ancoire, & saoi isin eccna
Laitiondae, & isin m-bérla Scoitecdha. As do chath Cinn Fuaid ro
ráidhedh indso síos, Turus
Laighen, linibh ócc, Flaithe
Liphe lethan-glonn Mora
airbert im cech reut, |
M915.6
The army of the Ui-Neill of the South and North was led by Niall, son of
Aedh, King of Ireland, to the men of Munster, to wage war with the
foreigners. He pitched his camp at Tobar-Glethrach, in Magh-Feimhin, on the 22nd
of August. The foreigners went into the territory on the same day. The Irish
attacked them the third hour before mid-day, so that one thousand one hundred
men were slain between them; but more of the foreigners fell, and they were
defeated. There fell here in the heat of the conflict the chief of
Carraig-Brachaidhe,and Maelfinnen, son of Donnagan, chief of Ui-Cearnaigh;
Fearghal, son of Muirigen, chief of Ui-Creamhthainn; and others besides them.
Reinforcements set out from the fortress of the foreigners to relieve their
people. The Irish returned back to their camp before the arrival of the last
host, i.e. before the arrival of Raghnall, king of the black foreigners, who
had an army of foreigners with him. Niall set out with a small force against
the foreigners, so that God prevented their slaughter through him. Niall
after this remained twenty nights encamped against the foreigners. He
requested of the Leinstermen to remain in siege against the foreigners. This
they did, and continued the siege until Sitric, the grandson of Imhar, and
the foreigners, gave the battle of Ceannfuait to the Leinstermen, wherein six
hundred were slain about the lords of Leinster, together with the king Ugaire, son
of Ailell. These are the names of some of their chiefs: Maelmordha, son of
Muireagan, lord of Airther-Life; Mughron, son of Cinneidigh, lord of the
three Comainns and of Laighis; Cinaedh, son of Tuathal, lord of
Ui-Feineachlais; and many other chieftains, with the arch-bishop Maelmaedhog,
son of Diarmaid, who was one of the Ui-Conannla, Abbot of Gleann-Uisean, a
distinguished scribe, anchorite, and an adept in the Latin learning and the
Scotic language. It was concerning the battle of Ceann-Fuaid the following
lines were composed: The
expedition of the Leinstermen of many youths, upon a very fine road, royal
the march; |
U917.3 Slogad H. Neill in Deiscirt & In Tuaiscirt la Niall m. n-Aedha rig n-Erenn, co firu Muman do chocud fri gennti. Scorais ala laithiu fichet
mis Augaist oc Topor Glethrach i Maigh Fheimhin. Do-l-lotar in genti
issin tir isind lau chetnai. Fus-ruapartadur in Goidil eter teirth
& medhoin laei & cathaighset co espartain co torchair amail
chet fer eturru, acht is lia do-cher di Ghallaibh. Do-llotar teorcobraid asin longport na n-gennti fri toir a m-muintire.
Imo-rroiset in Goidil for
culu dochum a n-dunaidh
resin toir dedenaigh, .i. re Raghnall, ri Dubghall, co slogh di Gallaib uime. Luidh Niall m. Aedha co n-uatib i n-agaidh na n-genti co tarmasc Dia triit a nn-diguin.
Anais Niall iar
sin fhichet n-aidhce {folio & column H46[bis]vb} a n-dunadh frisna gennti. As-breth uadh fri Laigniu ara n-gabtis cacht di cein
frisin longport.
Roinis cath (Cinn) Fhuait foraib re Sitriuc h-u Imair du i torchradur .u. .c. l^
paulo plus, condid ann do-cer Augaire m. Ailello, ri Laigen, & Mael Mordha m. Muirecain, ri Airthir Liphi, Mael M' Oedhoc m. Diarmata, sui & episcopus Laigen, Augran m. Cennetigh, ri Laichse, & ceteri duces atque nobiles.
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U917.3
Niall son of Aed, king of Ireland, led an army of the southern and northern
Uí Néill to Munster to make war on the heathens. He halted on the 22nd day of
the month of August at Topar Glethrach in Mag Feimin. The heathens had come
into the district on the same day. The Irish attacked them between the hour
of tierce and midday and they fought until eventide, and about a hundred men,
the majority foreigners, fell between them. Reinforcements(?) came from the
camp of the foreigners to aid their fellows. The Irish turned back to their
camp in face of the last reinforcement, i.e. Ragnall, king of the dark
foreigners, accompanied by a large force of foreigners. Niall son of Aed
proceeded with a small number against the heathens, so that God prevented a
great slaughter of the others through him. After that Niall remained
twenty nights encamped against the heathens. He sent word to the Laigin that
they should lay siege to the encampment from a distance. They were routed by
Sitriuc grandson of Ímar in the battle of Cenn Fuait, where five hundred, or
somewhat more, fell. And there fell too Ugaire son of Ailill, king of
Laigin, Mael Mórda son of Muirecán, king of eastern Life, Mael Maedóc son of
Diarmait, a scholar and bishop of Laigin, Ugrán son of Cennéitig, king of
Laíges, and other leaders and nobles. |
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M917.1
Domhnall, mac Diarmada, abb Glinne h-Uissin. |
M917.1
Domhnall, son of Diarmaid, Abbot of Gleann-Uisean, (died) |
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M918.14 Fland, mac Lonain,
Uirghil Sil Scota, file is deach baoi i n-Erinn
ina aimsir, do mharbhadh lá macaibh Cuirrbhuidhe, do Uibh Fothaidh
iaid-sidhe) i n-duine-taídhe occ Loch Dá Chaoch i n-Déisibh Mumhan. |
M918.14
Flann, son of
Lonan, the Virgil of the race of Scota, the best poet that was in Ireland in
his time, was treacherously slain by the sons of Corrbuidhe, who were of the
Ui-Fothaidh, at Loch Dachaech, in Deisi-Mumhan. |
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M924.5 Orgain Dúine
Sobhairce do Ghallaibh Locha Cuan, & ro marbhadh daoine iomdha
leó. A cethair fichet as glé, |
M924.5 Dun-Sobhairce was
plundered by the foreigners, and many persons were slain by them. Twenty-four years exactly, and
nine hundred without curtailment, |
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U926.1 The sacking of Dún
Sobairche by the foreigners of Loch Cuan, in which many men were killed or
captured. |
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M938.3 Duibh Indrecht, mac Ronáin, abb Cluana Dolcáin.
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M938.3 Duibhinnreacht, son of Ronan, Abbot of
Cluain-Dolcain;
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M938.4
Ainbhith, mac Domhnaill, abb Glinne h-Uisen, d'écc. |
M938.4
and Ainbhith, son of Domhnall, Abbot of Gleann-Uisean, died. |
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M943.12
Cuileannán, mac Coibhdhenaigh, tigherna Ua m-Bairche, d'ég. |
M943.12
Cuileannan, son of Coibhdheanach, lord of Ui-Bairche, died. |
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M946.4
Cathasach, mac Domhnaill, abb Glinne h-Uisen, d'ég. |
M946.4
Cathasach, son of Domhnall, Abbot of Gleann-Uisean, died. |
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M951.8
Feidhlimidh, dalta Maol M' Aodhócc, abb Glinne h-Uissen, saoi Laighen. |
M951.8
Feidhlimidh, fosterson of Maelmaedhog, Abbot of Gleann-Uisean, the sage of
Leinster; |
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M977.4
Flantt, mac Mhaol M'Oedhócc, airchindeach Glinne h-Uissen, |
M977.4
Flann, son of Maelmaedhog, airchinneach of Gleann-Uisean; |
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M986.3
& Caencomhrac, mac Ainbhithe, abb Glinne h-Uissen, d'ég. |
M986.3
Caenchomhrac, son of Ainbhithe, Abbot of Gleann-Uisean, died. |
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M1008.7
Gussán, mac uí Treassaich, tigherna Ua m-Bairrche, d'écc. |
M1008.7
Gussan, son of Ua Treassach, lord of Ui-Bairrche, died. |
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M1008.12
Gusán, mac Tresaigh, tighearna Ua m-Bairrche, do é. |
M1008.12
Gusan, son of Treasach, lord of Ui-Bairche, died. |
M1012.17 Laighen & Goill i g-coccadh for Bhrian, & Brian occ imchoimhéd for Mumhain oc Sleibh Maircce, & Laighin do indradh lais co h-Ath Cliath.
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M1012.17 The Leinstermen and
foreigners were at war with Brian; and Brian encamped at Sliabh Mairge, to defend
Munster; and Leinster was plundered by him as far as Ath-cliath. |
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M1014.18
Slóigheadh lá h-Ua Néill .i. lá Flaithbhertach co f-Feraibh
Midhe & Bregh ime i l-Laighnibh, co ro oircc an tír co
Leithghlinn, co t-tucc gabhála & broid co ro marbh tigherna Ua
m-Buidhe & sochaidhe ele. An slúaigheadh-so Fhlaithbhertaigh i leith
an rí Maolechlainn |
M1014.18
An army was led by Ua Neill, i.e. by Flaithbheartach, with the men of Meath
and Breagha about him, into Leinster; and he plundered the country as far as
Leithghlinn, carried off spoils and prisoners, and slew the lord of
Ui-mBuidhe, and many others. |
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M1015.11
Donn Cuan, .i. An Baethan, mac Dunlaing, tigherna Laighen,
& Tadhg ua Riain, tighearna Ua n-Dróna, do mharbhadh lá Donnchadh, mac
Giolla Patraicc, i Leithghlionn iar n-dénamh dóibh cotaigh & comhluighe i
t-tús laoi. Mo Ling ro tairngir innso, Donn
Durgen, |
M1015.11
Donncuan, i.e. the Simpleton, son of Dunlaing, lord of Leinster, and Tadhg Ua
Riain, lord of Ui-Drona, was slain by Donnchadh, son of Gillaphadraig, at
Leithghlinn, after they had made friendship, and taken a mutual oath in the
beginning of the day. Moling delivered this prophecy: Donndurgen,
and
the royal Bard of lances, mutual oaths shall not prevent bloodshed. |
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M1016.3
Caencomhrac ua Buithin, fer leighinn Glinne h-Uissen, d'écc. |
M1016.3
Caenchomhraic Ua Baithin, lector of Gleann-Uisean, died. |
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M1016.5
Oenghus, mac Flainn, airchindeach Lainde Léire, & Diarmaid ua Maol
M'Aodhóg, abb Glinne h-Uissen, d'écc. |
M1016.5
Oenghus, son
of Flann, airchinneach of Lann-Leire; and Diarmaid Ua Maelmaedhog, Abbot of
Gleann-Uisean, died. |
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M1016.6
Condmach, fer leigind & abb Achaidh Urghlais, do mharbhadh la h-Uibh
Bairrche. |
M1016.6
Connmhach, lector and Abbot of Achadh-Urghlais, was slain by the Ui-Bairrche. |
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M1024.14
Ar Fher
Mumhan do chu |
M1024.14
A slaughter was made of the men of Munster by Donnchadh, son of Aedh, in
Gleann-Uisean, through the miracles of God and Comhdan. |
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M1037.1
Flann, príoir Glinne h-Uisean. |
M1037.1
Flann, Prior of Gleann-Uisean; |
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M1041.6
Faelan h-Ua Mórdha, tigherna Laoighisi, do dhalladh lá Murchadh, mac
Dunlaing, iarna thoirbert do Donnchadh, mac Aodha do, uair as é Donnchadh do
ghabh esiomh ar tús contarad do Murchadh, mac Dunlaing. |
M1041.6
Faelan Ua Mordha, lord of Laeighis, was blinded by Murchadh, son of Dunlaing,
after having been delivered to him by Donnchadh, son of Aedh, for it was
Donnchadh that took him first, and then delivered him up to Murchadh, son of
Dunlaing. |
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M1041.12
Creach lá h-Uibh Ceinnselaigh i nh-Uibh Bairrchi, conus-tarraidh Murchadh,
mac Dúnlaing, co ro bhris forra h-i Cill Mo Lappóc, & co f-farccabhsat ár
mór im Domhnall Reamhar, damhna tigherna Ua Cennsealaigh. |
M1041.12
A preying excursion by the Ui-Ceinnsealaigh into Ui-Bairrchi; but Murchadh,
son of Dunlaing, overtook them, and defeated them at Cill-Molappoc
(Kilmolappogue, Lorum, Co. Carlow), where they were greatly slaughtered,
together with Domhnall Reamhar, i.e. the Fat, heir to the lordship of
Ui-Ceinnsealaigh. |
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T1041.3 Creach la h-Uib Cendsilaig a n-Uib Bairrche conus-tarraidh mac Murchadha maic Dunlaing cor' bris forro a Cill Mo Lapóc, co fargabsat ár mór im Domnall Remur rígdamna h-Ua Cennsilaig. |
T1041.3 A foray by the Hui
Cennsilaig into Hui Bairrche; and the son of Murchad, son of Dunlang,
overtook them and routed them at Cell mo Lapoic, so that they left a great
slaughter, including Domnall the Fat, crownprince of the Hui Cennsilaig |
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M1041.14 Ferna Mór
M'Aodhóg do losccadh lá Donnchadh mac Briain. |
M1041.14 Fearna-mor-Maedhog
was burned by Donnchadh, son of Brian. |
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LC1042.1 Ferna Mór Moedh Óg
do loscad la Donnchad |
LC1042.1 Ferna-mór-Maedhóig
was burned by Donnchadh, |
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M1041.15 Glend Uisen
do arccain do mac Mail na m-Bó, & in dertech do bhrisedh, &
céd do dhaoinibh do mharbhadh, & seacht c-cétt do bhreth as a n-díoghail
Ferna Móire do argain do mhac Briain, & do Murchadh mac Dunlaing,
& a n-díoghail a bhrathar Domhnall Reamhar. |
M1041.15 Gleann-Uisean was
plundered by the son of Mael-na-mbo, and the oratory was demolished, and
seven hundred persons were carried off as prisoners from thence, in revenge
of the plundering of Fearna-mor, by the son of Brian, and Murchadh, son of
Dunlaing, and in revenge of his brother, Domhnall Reamhar. |
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T1041.5 Glend Uisin do argain do
mac Mail na m-Bó & an durteach do brisedh & cét do dainib do marbad
and, & secht cét do breth ass .i. a n-dighail Ferna Moire do loscadh do
mac Briain & do Murcadh mac Dunlaing & a n-digail a brathar .i. Domnall
Remar. |
T1041.5 Glenn Uisin was plundered by the son of
Mael na mbo, and the prayer-house was demolished, and a hundred human beings
were killed therein, and seven hundred were carried off in vengeance for the
burning of Ferns by the son of Brian and by Murchad son of Dunlang, and in
vengeance for his brother, even Domnall the Fat |
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CS1041 Glenn Uisnenn
d'argain do mac Maoil na mBó et an duirtech do brisedh & céd do daoinibh
do marbadh ann & secht ced do breith eiste .i. a ndigail Ferna d'argain
do mac Bríain. |
CS1041 Glenn Uisenn was
plundered by the son of Mael na mbó and the oak house was broken down and a
hundred people killed there and seven hundred cows taken from it, that is, in
revenge for Ferna being plundered by the son of Brian. |
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U1042.1 Fearna Mor
M' Oedhoc do loscadh la Donnchad m. m-Briain. Glenn Uissen do loscadh
do m. Mail na m-Bó & in dairrtech do brisiudh & .c. duine do marbad
& .iiii. c. do breith eisti i n-dighail Ferna More. |
U1042.1 Ferna Mór Maedóc
was burned by Donnchad son of Brian. Glenn Uisen was burned by the son of
Mael na mBó and the oratory broken down and a hundred people slain and four
hundred taken out of it in revenge for Ferna Mór. |
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LC1042.2 Glend Uinsinn do
loscad do mac Mail na |
LC1042.2 Glenn-Uissen was
burned by the |
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M1042.9 Murchadh, mac
Dúnlaing, rí Laighen, & Donnchadh, mac Aedha, tigherna Ua m-Bairrche do
thuitim la Giolla Pháttraicc, mac n-Donnchadha, tigherna n-Osraighe, & la
Coin Coigcriche Ua Mórdha, tigherna Laighisi, & la Mac Raith ua Donnchadha, tigherna
Eoghanachta h-i Moigh Muilchiath, i Laighis, & as isin cath-sin Maighi
Mailcet torchair Giolla Emhín Ua h-Anrothain, tighearna Ua Cremhthannáin,
& Eachdonn, mac Dúnlaing, tanaisi Laighen, go sochaidhibh ile. |
M1042.9 Murchadh, son of
Dunlaing, King of Leinster, and Donnchadh, son of Aedh, lord of Ui-Bairrche,
fell by Gillaphadraig, son of Donnchadh, lord of Osraighe, and Cucoigcriche
Ua Mordha, lord of Laeighis, and Macraith Ua Donnchadha, lord of Eoghanacht, at
Magh Muilceth, in Laeighis; and in this battle of Magh-Mailceth was slain
Gilla-Emhin Ua h-Anrothain, lord of Ui-Cremhthannain, and Eachdonn, son of
Dunlaing, Tanist of Leinster, with many others. |
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U1042.4 Murchad m.
Dunlaing, ri Laigen, & Domnall m. Aedha, ri H. m-Bairche, do thuitim la
Gilla Patraicc mc. n-Donnchada, ri Osraighi, & la Mc. Raith m. Donnchada
ri Eoghanachta. |
U1042.4 Murchad son of
Dúlang, king of Laigin, and Domnall son of Aed, king of Uí Bairchi, fell by
Gilla Pátraic son of Donnchad, king of Osraige, and Mac Ráith son of
Donnchad, king of Eóganacht. |
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LC1042.3 Murchad mac
Dúnlaing, rí Laigen, & Domnall |
LC1042.3 Murchadh, son of |
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CS1042 Murchadh mac
Dunluing rí Laigen et Donnchadh mac Aoda rí H. mBairrche do tuitim la Gilla
Patraic mac Donnchadha la righ n-Osraighe & Mac Raith h. Donnchadha rí
Eoganachta ag tabairt crece a lLaignibh. |
CS1042 Murchad son of
Dúnlang, king of Laigen, and Donnchad son of Aed, king of Uí Bairrche, fell
by Gilla Pátraic son of Donnchad, king of Osraige, and Mac Raith ua
Donnchada, king of Eoganacht, when they were taking a prey in Laigin. |
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T1042.3 Murcadh mac Dunlaing,
rí Laigen, & Dondchadh mac Aeda, rí h-Ua m-Bairrche, do thoitim la Gilla
Patraic mac n-Dondcadha, la ríg n-Osraige, & la Mac Craith h-Ua
n-Donnchada la ríg Eoganachta Bert Crechi, a Muigh Muilched a Laighis. |
Murchad, son of Dunlang,
king of Leinster, and Donnchad, son of Aed, king of the Hui Bairrche, fell by
Gilla Patraic, son of Donnchad, king of Ossory, and by Mac Craith Hua
Donnchada, king of the Eoganacht, (nicknamed) Load-of-Plunder , on Mag
Muilchet in Leix |
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T1042.4 Mac Craith mac
Gormain maic Tresaig ri H-ua m-Bairrche & a ben do marbad a
n-Disert Diarmada do Uib Allan. |
Mac-Craith, son of Gorman,
son of Tresach, king of the Hui Bairrche, and his wife, were killed at
Disert Diarmata by the Hui Allain |
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M1042.10 Mac Raith mac
Gormáin, mic Treassaigh, tigherna Ua m-Bairrche, & a bhen do
mharbhadh i n-Disirt Diarmada lá h-Uibh Balláin. |
M1042.10 Macraith, son of
Gorman, son of Treasach, lord of Ui-Bairrche, and his wife, were slain
at Disert-Diarmada, by the Ui-Ballain. |
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M1045.5 Cathusach ua
Corcráin, comharba Glinne h-Uisen. |
M1045.5 Cathasach Ua
Corcrain, comharba of Gleann-Uisean; |
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M1055.4 Maol Bríghde Ua
Maol Ruain, airchinnech Slébhte. M1055.5 Maol Brighde, mac
Baettain, fer leighinn Arda Breacáin. M1055.9 Ua Ruarcain, airchinneach of Airdne-Caemhain M1055.10 & Gorman anmchara, d'ecc. |
M1055.4 Maelbrighde Ua
Maelruain, airchinnech of Slebhte; M1055.5 Maelbrighde, son of
Baedan, lector of Ard-Breacain; M1055.9 Ua Ruarcain,
airchinneach of Airdne-Caemhain; M1055.10 and Gorman Anmchara, died. |
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U1057.7 Muircertach H. Tresaich
ri H. m-Barche mortuus est. |
U1057.7 Muirchertach ua
Tresaigh, king of Uí Bairrche, died. |
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M1076.9 Slóigheadh la cléirchibh Leithe Mogha
im mac Maoil Da Lua go Cluain Dolcáin d'ionnarbadh I Rónáin a Cluain Dolcáin
ar n-gabail abdaine dó dar sárughadh mic Maoil Da Lua. Conadh annsin do-radad
regles cona fherann i c-Cluain Dolcáin do celibh Dé go brath maille re da
fhichit decc bó tugadh i n-eneclann do mac Maoil Da Lua. |
M1076.9 An army was led by
the clergy of Leath-Mhogha, with the son of Maeldalua, to Cluain-Dolcain, to
expel Ua Ronain from Cluain-Dolcain, after he had assumed the abbacy, in
violation of the right of the son of Maeldalua. It was on this occasion that
a church, with its land, at Cluain-Dolcain, was given to Culdees for ever,
together with twelve score cows, which were given as mulct to the son of
Maeldalua. |
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M1077.15 Glenn Uisen gona
iobhraibh do losccadh. |
M1077.15 Gleann-Uisean,
with its yews, was burned. |
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M1082.2 Conchobhar Ua
Uathghaile, fer leighinn Glinne h-Uissen. |
M1082.2 Conchobhar Ua
Uathghaile, lector of Gleann-Uissean; |
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M1085.2 Find, mac Gussáin,
mic Gormáin, epscop Cille Dara, d'ecc i c-Cill Achaidh. |
M1085.2 Finn, son of
Gussan, son of Gorman, Bishop of Cill-dara, died at Cill-achaidh. [Killeigh
Geashill Offaly] |
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M1086.4 Fiachna Ua Ronáin,
airchinneach Cluana Dolcáin, d'ecc. |
M1086.4 Fiachna Ua Ronain, airchinneach
of Cluain-Dolcain, died. |
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U1095.10 Cairpri H.
Ceithernaigh in penitencia .i. uasalespoc H. Cheinnselaigh. |
U1095.10 Cairpri ua
Ceithernaigh, i.e. the noble bishop of Ua Cheinnselaigh, dies in penitence. |
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M1095.3Teidhm anbfoill isin
Eoraip uile h-i c-coitchinne isin m-bliadhain-si, & at-bert aroile co
n-epletar cethroimhe do dhaoinibh Ereann don támh h-i sin. At iad andso drong
dona degh-dhaoinibh eitir ecclais & tuaith at-bailset. Donnghus, epscop
Atha Cliath, h-Ua Mancháin .i. an brethemh, comharba Caoimhghin, Macc Maras
Ua Caomháin, comhorba Oenai, do Dhelbhna Bhicc a chenél, Cairpre .i. an
t-espocc Ua Ceithernaigh, comharba M'Aedhócc, Ua Rinnánaigh, fer léighinn
Leithghlinne, Eochaidh Ua Coisi, secnab Achadh Bó, Scannlán Ua Cnáimhsighe,
anmchara Lis Mhóir, Buadhach Ua Cerruidhir, sacart Cille Dá Lua, Dubhshlatach
Ua Muiredhaigh, Aodh mac Maoil Iosa Uí Brolcháin, áird-fher leighind, &
Augustin Ua Cuinn, áird-breithemh Laighen. |
M1095.3 There was a great
pestilence over all Europe in general in this year, and some say that the
fourth part of the men of Ireland died of the malady. The following were some
of the distinguished persons, ecclesiastical and lay, who died of it:
Donnghus, Bishop of Ath-cliath; Ua Manchain, i.e. the Brehon judge, successor
of Caeimhghin; Mac Maras Ua Caemhain, successor of Oenna, of the tribe of
Dealbhna-Beag; Cairbre, i.e. the Bishop Ua Ceithearnaigh, successor of
Maedhog; Ua Rinnanaigh, lector of Leithghlinn; Eochaidh Ua Coisi, Vice-abbot
of Achadh-bo; Scannlan Ua Cnaimhsighe, anmchara of Lismore; Buadhach Ua
Cearruidhir, priest of Cill-Dalua; Dubhshlatach Ua Muireadhaigh; Aedh, son of
Maelisa Ua Brolchain, a chief lector; and Augustin Ua Cuinn, chief Brehon
judge of Leinster. |
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M1103.10 Coccadh mór etir Cenel
Eoghain & Ulta, co t-táinic Muirchertach Ua Briain co f-Feraibh Mumhan,
co Laighnibh, co n-Osraighibh, co maithibh Connacht, & co f-Feraibh Midhe
immo ríoghaibh co Magh Cobha h-i foirithin Uladh. Do-lotar uile dibhlinibh co
machaire Arda Macha .i. co Cill na c-Cornaire, co m-battar sechtmhain a
b-forbhaisi for Ard Macha. Domhnall, mac mic Lachlainn, co t-Tuaiscert Ereann
frisan ré-sin i n-Uibh Bresail Macha aghaidh i n-aghaidh friu, ar na ro
léigeadh do cheithre choigheadhaibh Ereann foghail no díbherg do dhenamh ní
as uille isin chúigeadh. O robtar toirsigh tra Fir Mumhan do-luidh
Muirchertach go h-Aonach Macha co h-Emhain, & timcheall do Ard Macha co
f-fargoibh ocht n-unga óir fórsan altoir, & ro gheall ocht fichit bó,
& iompais co Magh Cobha dorídhisi, & fágbhais Cúiccedh Laighen, agus
sochaidhe d'Feraibh Mumhan annsin. Do-dheachaidh féin iaramh for creich i
n-Dál Araidhe, & rí Midhe, & rí Connacht, & ro marbhadh Donnchadh
mac Toirrdhealbhaigh Ui Bhriain don turus-sin, & mac Uí Conchobhair
Ciarraighe, & Peta Demhain h-Ua Beoain, & Donn Cuan h-Ua Duibhcind
agus drong mhór oile do shaor-chlandaibh amaille friú. Do-luidh Domhnall Ua
Lochlainn co c-Clandaibh Néill an Tuaisceirt i Maigh Cobha for amus longpuirt
Laighen. Tionóilitt imorro Laighin, & Osraighe, & Fir Mumhan, &
Gaill an líon ro bháttar, & feraitt cath cródha for Maigh Cobha dia
Cédaoin in Nóin Auguist isin ochtmhadh ló iar t-tocht don Mhacha. Ro
meabhaidh tra for Leth Mhodha, & ro ládh a n-ár .i. ar Laighen im
Muirchertach, Mac Giolla Mo Cholmocc, ri Laighean, im dha Ua Lorcáin .i.
Murchadh righ Ua Muiredhaigh cona bhráthair, & im Muirchertach, Mac
Gormáin, co n-druing móir oile cénmothát sidhe. Ar Ua c-Ceinnsealaigh im dhá
mac Maoil Mhórdha, & im Ua Riain, tigherna Ua n-Dróna, & araill eile
bheós. Ar Osraighe im Giolla Pháttraicc Ruadh, tighearna Osraighe, & im
maithibh Osraighe archena. Ar Gall Atha Cliath, im Torstan mac Eric, & im
Pól mac Amaind, & im Beollán Armunn co n-druing dírímhe oile. Ar Fer
Mumhan im dá Ua Bric .i. dá thanaisi na n-Déisi, & im Ua Failbhe .i.
ríogh-dhamhna Corca Duibhne, & eri Laighen, im Ua Muiredhaigh, tigherna
Ciarraighe cona mac, & sochaidhe oile do shaor-chlandaibh ro badh eimhilt
d'áiremh. Do-dheochattar Clanna Néill an Tuaisceirt .i. Cenel Eoghan &
Cenel Conaill, co m-buaidh & cosccar dia n-dúinibh co sédaibh
somhaoinech, & co n-édalaibh iomdhaibh imon pupall ríoghdha, & im
camlinne, & im shédaibh soinemhlaibh archena. |
M1103.10 A great war broke
out between the Cinel-Eoghain and the Ulidians; and Muircheartach Ua Briain,
with the men of Munster, Leinster, and Osraighe, and with the chiefs of
Connaught, and the men of Meath, with their kings, proceeded to Magh-Cobha, to relieve
the Ulidians. Both parties went all into Machaire-Arda-Macha, i.e. to
Cill-na-gCornaire, and were for a week laying siege to, Ard-Macha. Domhnall,
grandson of Lochlainn, with the people of the north of Ireland, was during
this time in Ui-Breasail-Macha, confronting, them face to face, so that he
prevented the people of the four provinces of Ireland from committing
depredation or aggression any further in the province. When the men of
Munster were wearied, Muircheartach proceeded to Aenach-Macha, to Eamhain,
and round to Ard-Macha, and left eight ounces of gold upon the altar, and
promised eight score cows, and returned to Magh-Cobha, and left the people of
the province of Leinster and numbers of the men of Munster there. He himself
afterwards set out on a predatory excursion into Dal-Araidhe, with the King
of Meath and the King of Connaught; and Donnchadh, son of Toirdhealbhach Ua
Briain, was slain on this expedition, as were the son of Ua Conchobhair
Ciarraighe, Peatadeamhain Ua Beoain, Donncuan Ua Duibhcinn, and a great many
others of the nobility along with them. Domhnall Ua Lochlainn, with the
Clanna-Neill of the North, proceeded to Magh-Cobha, to attack the camp of the
Leinstermen; and the Leinstermen, the Osraighi, and the Munstermen, assembled
together all the forces they had, and fought a spirited battle in Magh-Cobha,
on Tuesday, the Nones of August, on the eight day after their coming into
that plain. The people of Leath-Mhogha were, however, defeated, and slaughter
made of them, viz. the slaughter of the Leinstermen, with Muircheartach Mac
Gillamocholmog, King of Leinster, with the two Ua Lorcains, i.e. Murchadh,
King of Ui-Muireadhaigh, and his brother, and with Muircheartach Mac Gormain,
with a great number of others besides them; the slaughter of the
Ui-Ceinnsealaigh, together with the two sons of Maelmordha, and Rian, lord of
Ui-Drona, and many others also; the slaughter of the Osraighi in general,
with Gillaphadraig Ruadh and the chieftains of Osraighe; the slaughter of the
foreigners of Ath-cliath, with Thorstan, son of Eric, with Pol, son of Amann,
and Beollan, son of Armunn, with a countless number of others; the slaughter
of the men of Munster, with the two Ua Brics, i.e. two tanists of the Deisi;
and with Ua Failbhe, Tanist of Corca-Dhuibhne and Erri of Leinster; with Ua
Muireadhaigh, lord of Ciarraighe, with his son, and many others of the nobility,
which it would be tediousto enumerate. The Clanna-Neill of the North, namely,
the Cinel-Eoghain and Cinel-Conaill, returned to their forts victoriously
ancl triumphantly, with valuable jewels and much wealth, together with the
royal tent, the standard, and many other precious jewels. |
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U1103.5 Cocadh mór eter
Cenel n-Eogain & Ulltu co tainig Muircertach H. Briain co feraib Muman
& Laigen & Osraighi & co maithibh Connacht & co feraibh Midhe
ima righaibh co Magh Cobha i foirithin Uladh. Do l-lotur dibhlinaibh co
machaire Aird Macha .i. co Cill na Conraire co m-batar sechtmain a forbhaisi
for Ard Macha; Domnall H. Lochlainn co Tuaiscert Erenn frisin re sin i n-Uib
Bresail Macha aghaid it aghaidh friú. O ro batur toirrsigh imorro fir Muman
do luidh Muircertach co h-Aenach Macha & co h-Emhuin & timceall do
Ard Macha co fargaibh ocht n-unga oir forsin altoir & co ro gheall ocht
.xx. bó & impais i Magh Cobha doriise .i. non impetrator & facbais
coiced Laigen and & sochaidi do feraibh Muman. Atn-aigh fein imorro for
creachadh i n-Dal Araide co farcaibh Donnchadh m Toirrdelbaigh ann & mc
H. Concobuir ri Ciaraidhe & H. Beoain & alii optimi. Do-lluidh
Domnall H. Lochlainn co Tuaiscert Erenn i Magh Cobha for amus Laigen; tecait
imorro Laigin & Osraighi & fir Muman & Gaill amal ro batur ina n-aghaidh & ferait cath
.i. i n-Noin August & i Cetain & i ix.xx. & isin uiii. lo iar
techt do Machai. Maidhis tra for Leth Mogha & later a n-ár edhon ár
Laigen im Muircertach m. Gilla Mo Cholmoc & im da ua Lorcan & im
Muircertach m. m. Gorman & alii; ár H. Ceinnsealaigh im da mc. Mael
Mhordha & im h-U Rian .i. ri H. n-Drona & alii; ár Osraighi im Gilla
Patraic Ruadh .i. ri Osraighi & im rigraidh Osraighi archeana; ár Gall
Atha Cliath im Thórstain mc. Eric & im Pol mc. Ámaind & im Beollan
Armuun & alii; ár fer Muman im da H. Bric .i. da ridomna na n-Desse &
im H. Failbhe .i. ridomna Corco Duibhne & erri Laigen .i. im H.
Muiredaigh ri Ciaraidhe cona mac & alii multi optimi quos causa
breuitatis scribi pretermisimus. Ternatur Cenel n-Eogain co Tuaiscert Erenn
co coscar mór & co setaibh imdhaibh imon pupoll righda & im chamlinne
& im shetaibh imdaibh archena. |
U1103.5 A great war between
the Cenél Eógain and the Ulaid, and Muirchertach ua Briain came with the men
of Mumu and Laigin and Osraige and with the nobles of Connacht and the men of
Mide with their kings to Mag Coba to assist the Ulaid. They all went to the
plain of Ard Macha, i.e. to Cell na Conraire, and were a week beleaguering
Ard Macha; Domnall ua Lochlainn with the north of Ireland was for that time
in Uí Bresail Macha facing them. Since the men of Mumu were weary,
Muirchertach went to Aenach Macha and to Emain and round to Ard Macha, and
left eight ounces of gold on the altar and promised eight score cows, and
returned again to Magh Coba, i.e. not having obtained what he sought, and
left the province of Laigin there and some of the men of Mumu. He himself
went on a raid into Dál Araide, and left there dead Donnchad son of
Tairdelbach and the son of Ua Conchobuir, king of Ciarraige, and ua Beoáin
and other nobles. Domnall ua Lochlainn went with the north of Ireland into
Mag Coba to attack the Laigin; the Laigin, however, and the Osraige and the
men of Mumu and the foreigners met them just as they were, and give battle,
i.e. on Wednesday the Nones 5th of August, the twenty-ninth of the moon, on the day after coming
to Ard Macha. Leth Moga, however, was defeated, and slaughter inflicted on
them: i.e., slaughter on the Laigin, including Muirchertach son of Gilla
Mocholmóc and the two grandsons of Lorcán and Muirchertach grandson of
Gormán, and others; a slaughter of the Uí Cheinnselaigh, including the two
sons of Mael Mórda, and ua Riain, king of Uí Drona, and others; a slaughter
of the Osraige, including Gilla Pátraic Ruad, king of Osraige, and the royal
family of Osraige also; a slaughter of the foreigners of Áth Cliath,
including Torstain son of Eric and Pól son of Amaind and Beollan Armunn and
others; a slaughter of the men of Mumu including the two ua Bric, two heirs
designate of the Déisi; and ua Failbe, heir designate of Corco Duibne, and a
tributary-king of the Laigin, i.e. Ua Muiredaigh; the king of Ciarraige, with
his son; and many others whom for the sake of concision we have passed over.
The Cenél Eógain with the north of Ireland returned home with great slaughter
and many valuables, including the royal tent and a camlinne and many other
valuables. |
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LC1103.3 Cogad mor etir
Cenel nEogain & Ullta, co tánic 1] Máil Mhordha, & im
.H. Riain .i. rí .H. n-Dróna, et |
LC1103.3 4] A great war between the
Cenel-Eoghain and the 1] Maelmordha, and with Ua
Riain, i.e. king of Uí-Drona, |
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T1116.4 Ár muintiri Cille
Dara ó Uib Bairrche. |
A slaughter by the Hui
Bairrche of the monastic community of Kildare |
U1116.5 Maghna pestilentia; famis adhuc ardeti l-Leith Mogha eter Laighnichu & Muimnechu coro fhasaigh cealla & duine & tuatha &
co ro esraigh fo Erinn & dar muir & co ro la ár inna mete machthata.
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U1116.5 There was a great
pestilence; hunger was so widespread in Leth Moga, both among Laigin and
Munstermen, that it emptied churches and forts and states, and spread through
Ireland and over sea, and inflicted destruction of staggering extent. |
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M1124.5 Muiredhach Mac
Gormáin, tigherna Ua m-Bairrche ordan, & aireachas, & primh-athlaoch
Laighen esidhe d' écc. |
M1124.5 Muireadhach Mac
Gormain, lord of Ui-Bairrche, who was the ornament and glory, and the chief
old hero of Leinster, died. |
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T1141.5 Secht fir dég do
rigraidh Laighen do marbadh & do dalladh la Murcadh mac Murchadha, im
Domnall mac Faelain & im Murchertach mac Gilla Mo Colmóc & im Murchad
h-Úa Tuathail & im tri macu Mec Gorman. |
Seventeen men of the
kingfolk of Leinster were killed or blinded by Murchad, son of Murchad,
including Domnall, son of Faelan, and Murchertach, son of Gilla mo-Cholmoic,
and Murchad Hua Tuathail, and three sons of Mac Gormain |
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1141 K. Mathi Lagen do
impod ar Diarmait mac Murcada. Mac meic Fáelan & ua Tuatil & mac meic
Gormain du marbud les-sium & mac Gilli Mocolmoc du dallud fos leis. |
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M1141.4 Diarmaid Mac Murchadha, rí
Laighen, do dhénamh feille for mhaithibh Laighen .i. for
Domhnall tigherna Ua f-Faoláin & ríogh-dhamhna Laighen,
& for Ua t-Tuathail .i. Murchadh & a marbhadh lais diblínibh, &
Muirchertach Mac Giolla Mo Cholmóg, tigherna Fer
g-Cualann do dhalladh lais bheós. Enerte mór i Laighnibh don ghníomh-sin,
uair ro marbhadh & ro dalladh seacht f-fir dhécc do saor-chlandaibh Laighen
co sochaidhibh oile immaille friu an tan-sin. |
M1141.4 Diarmaid Mac
Murchadha, King of Leinster, acted treacherously towards the chieftains of Leinster,
namely, towards Domhnall, lord of Ui-Faelain, and royal heir of Leinster, and
towards Ua Tuathail, i.e. Murchadh, both of whom he killed; and also towards
Muircheartach Mac Gillamocholmog, lord of Feara-Cualann, who was blinded by
him. This deed caused great weakness in Leinster, for seventeen of the
nobility of Leinster, and many others of inferior rank along with them, were
killed or blinded by him at that time. |
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AB1147.1 Cogganus ecclesie de
Killuskin aliter Killeshin in Margge Lagenie patronus floruit hisce diebus,
et ut Nicholaus Magwyre testatur, scripsit gesta Malachie Armachani et
Bernardi Clarevallensis |
AB1147.1 Cogganus, patron
of the church of Killuskin or Killeshin in Margge Lagenie, flourished, and as
Nicholaus Magwyre testifies, he wrote the Acts of Malachy of Armagh and of
Bernard of Clairvaux. |
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M1160.1 Fiond Mac Gormáin,
epscop Cille Dara, & abb manach Iubhair Chind Trachta frí ré, d'ég. |
M1160.1 Finn Mac Gormain,
Bishop of Cill-dara, and who had been abbot of the monks of
Iubhair-Chinn-trachta for a time, died. |
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U1160.4 Finn h-Ua Gorman,
epscop Cille Dara, abb manach Ibhair Cinn Trachta fri ré, ad Christum
migrauit. |
U1160.4 Finn Ua Gormain, bishop of Cell-dara,
abbot of the monks of Ibhar-Cinntrachta for a [long] time, passed to Christ. |
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T1160.9 Mac Gorman, espoc
Cilli Dara quieuit. |
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AC1164.
Dermot mcMurrogh als Keyuanagh was banished from out of the province of
Leinster by king Rory, Tyernan o'Royrck...and badd government hated of the
Leinstermen themselves, and at last being thereunto compelled by necessity
went for England and brought with him from thence Robert king of Stephen's
sonne, called Robert Fitzstephen," twenty knights of Englishmen, and 50
archers of Welshmen, with a great armye, h with them and those that joyned
with him after his landinghere hee preyed and spoyled the territories of
Ossery and gave the inhabitants a great ouerthrow at Sliew Mairge." |
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M1166.14 Losgadh Ferna
la Mac Murchadha, ar omhan Connacht do losgadh a chaisteóil & a thaighi.
Do-luid dna an rí Ruaidhri gusan sochraide cédna lais ar c-cúla h-i
Laighnibh, & ro ghabh a n-gialla, & do-luidh iarsin go ro réidheadh
Fiódh n-Dorcha, & iaromh i n-Uibh Ceinnsealaigh, & ro ghabh braighde
Diarmada Mic Murchadha & Ua Ceinnselaigh archena. |
M1166.14 Fearna was burned
by Mac Murchadha, from fear that the Connaughtmen would burn his castle and
his house. Ruaidhri then proceeded, accompanied by the same forces, back to Leinster,
and took their hostages; and he afterwards advanced to Fidh-dorcha, and
cleared the pass of that wood; and next proceeded into Ui-Ceinnsealaigh, and
took the hostages of Diarmaid Mac Murchadha, and of the Ui-Ceinnsealaigh in
general. |
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T1173.3 Cinaeth Ua Ronan,
espoc Glinni Da Lacha & tuaisceirt Laigen, quieuit. |
T1173.3 Cinaeth Ua Ronan
bishop of Glendalough and the north of Leinster died |
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M1173.4. Cionaedh Ua Ronáin Epscop Glinne Da Locha do
écc. |
M1173.4 Kenny O'Ronan,
Bishop of Glendalough, died. |
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AH1297.2 Item, in Hibernia combusta fuit
Lechilnia, cum aliis villis, per Hibernicos de Slemergi. |
AH1297.2 Also, in Ireland,
Lechilnia was burned, with other towns, by the Irish from Slemergi. [Translated
by Google] |
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AB1334.2 Johannes episcopus
Leighlin cognomine Mulgan primus fundator quatuor capellanorum choralium
ecclesie Cathedralis Sancti Lazeriani Leighlen, sepultus fuit juxta tumbam
ducis Gurmundi, ad stallum thesaurarii ecclesie. |
AB1334.2 Johannes bishop of Leighlin surnamed Mulgan,
the first founder of the four choir chaplains of the church of the Cathedral
of Saint Lazerian in Leighlen, was buried near the tomb of Duke Gurmund, at
the stall of the treasurer of the church. [Translated
by Google] |
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JCAI 1333.5 Item, eodem
anno, die Sabbati in crastino Sancti Remigii episcopi occiditur Galfridus de
la Frene (qui heredem de Obargi, Johannam Purcel duxerat in uxorem), per
O'Morthys de Slemargys. |
JCAI 1333.5 Likewise, in the same year, on Saturday,
the morrow of St. Remigius, bishop, Galfrid de la Frene (who had married
Johanna Purcel, the heir of Obargi), was killed by the O'Morthys of
Slemargys. [Translated
by Google] |
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M1585.8 Foccra Parlimenti do thabhairt d'feraibh Ereann dia fhorcongra for a maithibh a beith i
m-Bealtaine do sonnradh i n-Ath
Cliath uair battar urmhór fear n-Erenn umhal dia b-prionnsa
co t-tangattar uile gnúis do gnuis lasan f-forcongra íshin go h-Ath Cliath... M1585.24 Ní h-áirimhthear
aon do dhol gusan b-parliment-sin
badh ionairmhe do Shliocht Laoíghsigh
Lendmhóir mic Conaill Chernaigh, do Shliocht Rossa Failgigh, mic Cathaoír Mhóir
ó Uíbh Failge, ná bheós do Shíol Daire Bharraigh mic Cathaoír Móir
do Chaomhanchoíbh, Branaigh, Tuathalaigh, Uí Dhuinn,
Uí Dhíomasaigh ar an c-cor
c-cédna Acht cena tainicc gusan b-parliment-sin sinnsear
Ghaibhle Raghnaill Fiachaidh mac Aedha, mic Seain mic
Domhnaill Ghlais ó Ghlionn
Mhaoíl Ughra. |
M1585.8 A
proclamation of Parliament was issued to the men of Ireland, commanding their
chiefs to assemble in Dublin precisely on May-day, for the greater part of
the people of Ireland were at this time obedient to their sovereign; and,
accordingly, they all at that summons did meet in Dublin face to face.... M1585.24
None worthy of note are said to have gone to that Parliament of the race of
Laoighseach Leannmor, son of Conall Cearnach; or of the race of Rossa
Failghe, the son of Cahir More, from Offaly; or of the descendants of Daire
Barach, the son of Cahir More; or of the Kavanaghs, Byrnes, Tooles, O'Dunnes,
or O'Dempsys. To this Parliament, however, went the senior of Gaval-Rannall,
namely, Fiagh, the son of Hugh, son of John, son of Donnell Glas of
Glenmalure. |
* Flann, son of Lonan, the Virgil of the race of
Scota, chief poet of all the Gaeidhil, the best poet that was in Ireland in his
time.
Annals:
AB = Annales Breves
(Author: Thaddeus Dowling)
AC = The Annals of
Clonmacnoise (Author: Denis Murphy)
AH = Annales Hibernie (Author: John
Pembridge)
AR = Annals of Roscrea
(Author: Canice Mooney)
C = Cotton (Author: [unknown])
CS = Chronicon Scotorum (Author: Gearóid Mac Niocaill
and William M. Hennessy)
FA= Fragmentary Annals of Ireland (Author: [unknown])
I = Annals of Inisfallen (Author: unknown)
LC = Annals of Loch Cé A.D.1014-1590 (Author:
[unknown])
M = Annals of the Four Masters (Author:
[unknown])
MCB = Mac Carthaigh’s Book (Author:
[unknown])
T = Annals of Tigernach (Author:
[unknown])
U = The Annals of Ulster (Author:
[unknown])
W = Annales Cambriae (Author: Williams
Onomasticon Goedelicum:
achad aball: al.
Achad Abla; ¶ aball gp., abla gsf. of aball, an apple-tree; ¶ now Aghold, place
and p. in d. Leighlin, b. Shilelagh, c. Wicklow; ¶ written also Aghowle; ¶ 5 or
6 miles south of Cluainmór al. Clonmore. Fiacc 7 Fiachrai Omne .i. cell bec fil
itir Cluain Mór Maedoc ocus Achad n-Aball, F. 156; ¶ Achad Abla, in Leinster,
not far from Ui Barche, Cs. 156; ¶ church in Leinster, Ct. 185 n 37; ¶ St.
Finian's Monastery in Leinster, C. 196, 394; ¶ B. lxi., 121; ¶ Mithigen Ab.
Achaid Aball, Lec. 208, M. ab. Achaid abla, Bb. 78 b; ¶ Fm. ii. 791
"Corppmac Ua Mititteain abb Achaid Abhlae," O'Don. adds,
"anciently called Crosailech, and founded by St. Finnian of Clonard, never
identified before by our modern antiquaries; ¶ " from Achad Abla Finnian
went ad regionem Barche, Cs. 196; ¶ Mithighen of the Hui Cosgraidh of
Benntraighe, Ab. of a. Abhla, Ll. 391; ¶ Ua Céle airchinneach Telcha
Foirtcheirn 7 Achaid Abhall .i. of Tullow and Aghowle (not far from it) in d.
Leighlin, Fm. ii. 857 text and note; ¶ Achadh Abhall (?) Achaul in Ui
Feidhlimthe, c. Carlow, (Tax.) is perhpas Aghowle.
achad arghlais; Fm.
i. 864, in Lagenia, C. 354; ¶ a. Arglais, Cs. 298, 45, Fia. 170; ¶ Agha, in b.
Idrone, c. Carlow, Fia. 170; ¶ v. a. Urghlais; ¶ alias acheth arglais; ¶ from
Inis Eirc in mari Luimneach to Inis Keltra in Stagno Dercderc; ¶ from Inis
Keltra to Civitas Cluana Ethnech; ¶ ó Cluoin Ethnech ad Aiketh Arglas, Cs. 455;
¶ Akechur Arclayss, 298, S. Fintan's place.
achad fiacla Lis. 24
a, a tooth of St. Finnian of Clonard found there; ¶ "collis dentis,"
in Leinster nr. Ui Bairche or rather Mugny (Moon), Cs. 197; ¶ recte campulus
dentis.i. of the tooth of St. Fintan of Cluain Eráird, ibid.
achad urghlais Fm.
ii. 788; ¶ v. A. Arghlais, now Agha, in b. Idrone, c. Carlow; ¶ Akechur
Arclayss of Codex Salmant, p. 298, which seems nr. Cluain Ethnech, is a corrupt
form of the word; ¶ its abbot slain by the Ui Bairche, Fm.
Achadhaibh daired; a
Dún belonging to Cuach, daughter of Coelbadh, in Leinster, Lb. 17; a. dairich,
a Dún in Gobair, Leinster, belonging to Cuach, daughter of Caelbadh mac
Colmain. of Hi Bairrchi Muighi Ailbi in Leinster, Lec. 203; a. dairig, in
Gabuir, Leinster, one of the three Dúns given to Cuach, mother of the 3
Dunlainge, Illaind, Eochaid, and Ailill, Ll. 349; to Cuach, daughter of
Colbaidh, Ll. 316; a dún in Gabair in Leinster, Bb. 77 a; a. dairit, one of the
3 Dúns of Cuach, daughter of Caelbadh, in Gabair, in Hui mBairrche, in Magh
Ailbe, Lec. 106.
airde
caemáin: i
fail Locha Carman, Fg. 114, v. Airdne Coemáin.
airdne
coemáin: Airde Caemáin i
fail Locha Carman, Fg. 114; ¶ Airne Coemáin i n-Uib Cendselaig for brú
Locha Carman, F. 102; ¶ Airdne Coemáin, Mt. 26; ¶ a monastery in
Leinster, C. 584, founded by S. Coemán, ibi.; ¶ it occupies a peninsula
opposite Wexford town. Ua Ruarcáin, airchindech Airdne Coembáin, Fm. ii. 868;
¶ O'Clery's Calendar at 12th June says A.C. is le taobh Locha Garman;
¶ now Ardcavan, a curacy in d. Ferns, in b. Shelmalier, 11/2m. NE. of
Wexford town.
airdne
coluim: Fg. 214; ¶
Ciarán abb Airdne Coluim, Fm. i. 544; ¶ O'D. says now Ardcolum, old
church, in ruins, on N. side of Wexford haven, ibi; ¶ Ardcollum, 5 m.
NNE. of Wexford town.
amhann
sgeithe: r. in p. Lairg, Sutherland, Inv. xx. 110. amhann truim; ¶ the Truim,
a tributary of the Spey, Max. ambarriche; ¶ Rex A., Cs. 410; ¶ leg.
ua mBairche, q.v.
anghailech .i.
inhabitant of Anghaile, dp. hAnghailechaibh, Au. iii. 114. angebthi hui gabla fhini;
¶ in the Dál Chormaic, in Leinster, Ll. 312. The parts of Leinster belonging to
the Clann Cormaic are all Angebte na Gabla Fine, Cuthraighe, Ua Trena, Ui
Cruinn or Ui Cuinn, Ua Gabla Fine and Ua Gabla Roireann. All this comprised the
territory from Cúil Caig, or Cingeadh, to Dubh Atha in Maisdin, from Glais
Crice in Cluanach Cua to Uada at Laighis and to Ath Lethnocht at Slebhte, till
it terminates in the water at Hui Bairrche, in Gebti Ua Trenan, and Ua Chuirc
(v. next word), Fir. 450.
ara cliach Dál
Cairbre Loingsigh bhig, the fourth, or last, of the four principal Leinster
families, and it is to Ara Cliach they belong, Fir. 439; ¶ Dál Cairbre of A. C.
in Leinster, Fir. 445; ¶ ap., Arada Cliach; ¶ guin Ríg Laigen la Eochuidh
Guinech d'Ibh Baircce 7 la hArada Cliach, Fm. ii. 1190, Au. i. 120, Ch. 30
(comparing Cath Cliach in Uib Dróna, Fm. i. 88, and the fact that bb. Idrone
and Sliabh Miarge are continguous, we see that Clíu and Ara Cliach are in
Carlow, in b. of Idrone, and we may presume that O'D. and Hennessy placed them
in Idrone for that reason, though they do not say so; ¶ b. Idrone W. touches Ui
Baircce, and contains Leithglenn; ¶ Clíu was in Idrone W., I think; ¶ from the
four sons of Laidir Ara Araid is called Dal Coirpre of Tir Arad, Bb. 71 a b; ¶
Laigse Lagen and Araid Chliach, Ll. 14; ¶ Orgain na Cliach (Au. i. 44) seems
from context to be this Clíu; ¶ Cath Cliach in Uibh Dróna, Lg. an. 509, Fm. i.
88; ¶ in b. of Idrone, c. Carlow; ¶ v. Clíu.
árd conais: St. Darerc
and her virgins lived there under the care of St. Ibar of Begeri in c. Wexford,
Cs. 169; ¶ in Wexford (?).
aridcrama v.
Aritcrema, B. lvi.; ¶ rect Áird Crema.
arit crema inter Ui
Barrchi in Uib Chensaelich, juxta mare, Cs. 495; ¶ Arid Crama apud nepotes
Barridie juxta mare in dextra (.i. South) part of Laigin, Cs. 400; ¶ monastery
in Ui Ceinnselaig, B. lvi. 336–7.
ath mbuide Bude
son of Bán, from Sliab Cuilen, from him is called Áth mBude, Lec. 70; ¶
in Ulster, at Dún Sobhairce; ¶ so called from Buidhe son of Bán from
Slíabh Culaind killed there by Cuchuloinn, Lb. 30 a; ¶ i cCrích Rois, nr.
Sliabh Cuilinn, Ll. 73; ¶ Hf. 28 b; ¶ on Slighe Midluachra, S. of
Sliabh Cuillind, Lbl. 599.
ath cille corbnatan;
in land of Húi Bairrci, in Leinster, Bb. 74 a; Húi Laigine and the Húi Duib
Chilline at Cíll Auxille own the land fr. Áth Truisten to Áth Cille Corbnadan,
Lec. 198; fr. Áth Fruisden to Ath Cille Chorbnatan in the Hui mBairrche of
Leinster, Fir. 466.
ath daired; a Dún
belonging to Cuach, daughter of Coelbadh, in Leinster, Lb. 17; a. dairich, a
Dún in Gobair, Leinster, belonging to Cuach, daughter of Caelbadh mac Colmain.
of Hi Bairrchi Muighi Ailbi in Leinster, Lec. 203; a. dairig, in Gabuir,
Leinster, one of the three Dúns given to Cuach, mother of the 3 Dunlainge,
Illaind, Eochaid, and Ailill, Ll. 349; to Cuach, daughter of Colbaidh, Ll. 316;
a dún in Gabair in Leinster, Bb. 77 a; a. dairit, one of the 3 Dúns of Cuach,
daughter of Caelbadh, in Gabair, in Hui mBairrche, in Magh Ailbe, Lec. 106.
áth lethnocht: at
Sleibti (Sletty), in Leinst., Ll. 312, 383, Bb. 72 a, Fir. 450, Lec. 193;
¶ Á. Lethnochta, in Leins., Lec. 450.
ath truistean al.
Áth-I, Athy at the Barrow, K. 146 a; ¶ he seems to equate it with Athy; ¶ on r.
Greece nr. Mullaghmast, c. Kild., Fm. ii. 634, Au. i. 458–9; ¶ in Lein., Sa. 18
a 2; ¶ fr. Á. Truisten to the Áth at Cell Corbnatan in Lein. belongs to Hua
mBairrci, Ll. 314, Bb. 74 a, I. 58 a, 1. Fir. 466; ¶ Hi Laigine in Caisi and
the Hi Duibh-Chilline at Cell Auxilli own the district fr. A. Truisten to the Ath
in Cell Corbnadan, Lec, 198; ¶ at A. T. the Munstermen fought their first
battle against Eocho, Fir. 559, Lec. 213, Leg. 211; ¶ Domarbadh Triustiu for a
Ath, Sa 18 a 2.
Baircech; native of
Ui Bairce, Au. ii. 8.
Bairche; as.; ¶ in
Ulaid, Au. ii. 150; ¶ Bairchiu, ds., Au. i. 78, 86, 216, old name of b. Mourne,
c. Down; ¶ Benna Bairche = Mourne Mts., Fm. ii, 1152, Au. i. 78, 216; ¶ Bécc
Bairche, Ll. 330 e; ¶ Tamlachtain Bairci, Mt. 20; ¶ ó Tamhlachta i mBairche, i
mBoirche, Fg. 68, 198; ¶ Bairche, F. 86 (but is this not Sliab Mairgi in
Lein.?); ¶ v. Boirche, Benna Boirche.
Bairche;
in Lein.; sons of Duibtibrad Laigse Raimne, in mBairchiu, Lec. 274; Clann
Flanagáin i mBairrchiu, Lec. 216; Clann Fhlanncaháin i mBairrchiu (Geneal. Laigsi
Rámne, Ll. 318), .i. the land of the Ui Bairche, b. Slievemargy, Queen's c.
Bairenn: g. Báirne; ¶ al. Bairenn
Charman, al. Bairenn Chlíach, the r. Burren, in c. Carl., which is the boundary
betw. bb. Forth and Idrone (i.e. Clíu) for 6 m., Pgi. i. 288; ¶ on its
banks, as I think, was held the famous Aenach Carman; ¶ Cath Bairne nó
Inse Bregainn, in quo ceciderunt Etirscél mac Cellaig Cualann 7 Congal mac
Brain, Faelán victor fuit, Au. i. 180; ¶ i Bairind, Ll. 183 a; ¶ dí
bhuideóicc a bhruach Bairne, Proc. vii. 188; ¶ S. (?) page 346; ¶
Cellach Bairne, chief of Ui Dega, Bran Bairne, Ll. 217, 12; ¶ cath
Bóirne, al. Inse Breogain, eidir Firu Life 7 Firu Cualann, 7 Congal mac Brain,
Fia 54; ¶ the men of Liffey and Cualann were 4 and 6 m. away fr. r.
Burren; ¶ v. Bairenn Charman, Bairenn Chlíach, Bóirenn.
Bairend
badan bel: al. B. barrann bel, at Laighlenn, Fir.
67; ¶ if Laighlenn is a mistake for Leithglenn, this is same as B.
Clíach, as Leithglenn is in Cliu, and badan bel is for Badblua.
Bairenn
charman: in Lein., Lbl.
427; ¶ Bairend Charman in Caillich Charman at Badblauin, al. r. Bairrenn
Cliach at Bearna Cleithi, Lec. 461; ¶ Bairend Cliach at B. Carman, Lbl.
428; ¶ Barend Cerman in Lein.; ¶ Bairend Reatair (with her father
?) at Coilliu Cermain and at Babluan, a r. called Bairend Clíach, at Bearnae na
Cleite, Bb. 195 b; ¶ B. Carman, fodailset iaram cach ina conair, Bersa i
Maigh Bairne araen lia hathair, co Cailliu Carmuin ic Babluan .i. nomen amnis
fris nabar Bairend Cliach ic Bernae na cleithe, I. 150 b, 1; ¶ at r.
Bablua (Dindsenchus Bairne Cenmain, Ll. 194); ¶ Baireand Cearmain, Bersa
in a Maigh 7 Bairend mar aen ria h-athair i Colbu Cearmain 7 ic Bablúan, .i.
ainm aband fris an-abarthar Bairenn Cliath ic Bearnaidh na Cliath, Sa. 20 b 1;
¶ v. Bairenn.
Bairend
chlíach: al. r. Babluain at Bairend Carman or Berna na Cleithi
in Lein., Lbl. 428; ¶ B. Cliac, al. Babluain r. at Bearna Cleithi, Lec.
461, Sa. 20 b 1; ¶ v. Bablua, Bairenn.
Bairrcech; fr.
Bairrce: Tigernach Bairrcech, g. Tigernaigh Bairrcidh (better Bairrcigh), Au.
ii. p. 8, 60.
banba mór;
Robartach, son of Feargus, Princeps Banba Móiri of the Hui mBairrci, descended
from Daire Barrach, I. 57 b 2, Bb. 73 b; ¶ Derc nArggit, mac Bairddine, of.
whom are the Hui Boeth, i. Robartach mac Faelgusa Principis Banba Móre, Ll.
313; ¶ Bannow, c. Wexf. (?).
barba mór;
Robhartach, son of Bairrdene, son of Fergus, Prince of Barba moire, Fir. 463; ¶
v. Banba mór.
belach forcitail; in
dá Ailithir i mBeluch F., I. 110 a 2, Ll. 373, Lb. 23; ¶ nr. r. Bann, prob. at
Bellaghy, Dc. i. xxvi.; ¶ Is la Huibh mBairrchi Laighen ó B.F. co Banda, I. 58
a 1, Ll. 314, Bb. 74 a; ¶ Imleach n-Each, ext. fr. B.F. to the Banna, bestowed
on Comgall Beandchair by Cormac Mac Diarmada, Lec. 198; ¶ Ibar of Imleach, son
of Cormac (of the Hui mBairrche) and Comgall Beannchair; ¶ to these belonged
the country fr. B.F. to Banna, Fir. 462.
belach ngabrain; i
Maistin, Land 610, fo. 122 b; ¶ B. nGabrain i Maistin (around Mullaghmast), Cf.
p. 76; ¶ Cell Mic Cathail i n-Uib Bairrche, .i. i mBelach Gabrain, F. 184; ¶
Indell Craibdech at B. Gabráin, I. 110 b 3, Ll. 354, Lec. 89; ¶ Mell C. of B.
Gabráin, Lec. 89; ¶ Mell Craibthech of B. Gobráin at Daire Melli, Bb. 117 b; ¶
B. Gabhráin, Gowran, in c. Kilk., referred to Lec. 190, Md. 350, Ct. 26, Fia.
188, Ce. 38, 54, Bb. 263 a, Sil., 258 Sas. 7929, Au. iii. 44, Mi., Ci., Con. 45
a; ¶ v. B. Gobráin.
benna bairche; Lh.
100, Ll. 251, Ed. 487; ¶ dp., Bennaib B., Zcp. iv. 44; ¶ Benna Boirche, Lh.
100, q.v.; ¶ Bennyborfy in b. Iveagh, Down, Dc. i. 37; ¶ Beinde Boirchi, gs. in
Ulaid, i Cuiciud Ulad, Ct. 5, Sas. 3204, 7093, Of. 333; ¶ in N. of Ulaid, K.
140 a; ¶ i Bennaib B. in E. of Ulaid, Lis. 237 b; ¶ Mourne Mts. in c. Down,
Ods. 561; ¶ nr. source of r. Bann, Fm. iv. 1204.
Berchi; Abel Berchi,
Fm. i. 418; ¶ leg. Bairche (?).
Boirche; a sub-div.
of Ulaid now b. Mourne, c. Down; ¶ its mountains were called Beanna Boirche
after Boirche, who was shepherd to Ros, K. of Ulaid, in the 3rd cent.; ¶ fr.
the peaks Boirche could see S. to Dún Dealgan and N. to Dún Sobhairce, Lct. 38,
164, Tp.; ¶ Tamhlachta i mB., Fg. 8, 68, Md. 92; ¶ Tamlachtain Bairci, Mt. 20;
¶ cath B. fought by Conall mac Néill Naoighiallaigh, St. B. 595; ¶ the K. of
B.'s tuarastol fr. the K. of Ulaid, Lec. 189 a.
Boirchech; native of
Benna Boirche, Fm. ii. 878, Md. 126. bóird-lios na bóinne; ¶ Kp. 432; ¶ .i.
Brugh na Bóinne.
caillin; in Croe
bancita belonging to Hui Bairrci, in Lein., Bb. 74 a; i.e., Croebancita (i.e.,
an Craobh, or Coill Bainceada), in Hui Bairrche of Lein., Fir. 466.
Carman; there Óenach
Carman was held; ¶ was on site of t. of Wexf. (O'Curry, Mm. ii. 38, O'Don. in
Lct. and Fm., and Hen. Lc. i. 34); ¶ was in S. of c. Kild. (Hen. Au. i. 345); ¶
"was really n the present c. Carlow" (Hen. Au. i. 567); ¶ was in c.
Kild. (Dr. M`Carthy in Index to Annals of Ulster); ¶ Hen., in language too long
to quote, twice expresses his disedification at "such an acute
topographer" as O D.'s equation of Carman with (Loch) Garman, "for
which there is no authority"; ¶ he objects—1, that if Fedlimid, marching
from Cashel to meet the K. in c. Kild., went round by Wexf., he would probably
get very short shrift from the Ui Ceinnselaigh; ¶ 2, that when Mac Gillapátric
inaugurated his succession to the kingship of Ossory by celebrating the Aenach
Carman "he was not likely to go for that purpose to Wexf., where he would
probably get a very warm reception from the Ui Ceinnselaigh"; ¶ in support
of Henn.'s objections I will add two stronger ones: 3, in Fm. ii. an. 1079, it is
said that O Conor Faly's land was plundered by the men of Teffia and Cairbre
(who, however, were defeated), and next O Conor Faly celebrated the Oenach
Carman; ¶ fr. this O'D. infers that O C. Faly claimed the highest authority in
Lein., as that fair was held at Wexf.; ¶ it is incredible that O C. F. made
good his claim to predominance over Lein. by celebrating an Oenach at Wexf.
while the Danes were there in force and the K. of Lein. and of the Foreigners
and of Leth Mogha was still powerful; ¶ his country was 60 m. fr. Wexf., as the
crow flies, and his family had little power in the 11th century, when he held
the Oenach, and are only thus noticed by the Four Masters: the Lord of Ui
Failge killed by his own people in 1051; ¶ the L. of Ui F. blinded by his
brother Conchobur in 1070; ¶ the L. of Ui F. slain in battle by Conchobur O
Conchobuir in 1071; ¶ in 1079 this Conor O C. Failey defeats the men of Cairbre
and Teffia, and afterwards celebrates the Oenach Carman; ¶ in 1089 Donnchad,
Lord of Lein. (or of Ui Ceinnselaigh), was slain by Conor O C. Failghe by an
unfair advantage (the Annals of Ulster and the An. of Loch Cé say "a suis
occisus est"); ¶ in 1094, this Conor, Lord of Ui Failghe, was taken
prisoner by O Brien, K. of Mun., and in 1115 O Brien and the Foreigners of Dub.
defeat the Leinstermen in a battle in which were slain the Lord of Ui
Ceinnselaigh and Conor O C., Lord of Ui Failge, and his sons; ¶ in 1092
Donnchad, son of O C. Faley, was killed by his own brothers; ¶ a man with such
a record as Conor O C. Faley did not obtain supremacy in all Lein. and
celebrate it at Wexf. after a triumphant march of 70 or 80 miles; ¶ and I
conclude that his Oenach Carman was in Ui Failge or nr. it. Though I believe
that the Oenach Carman of Mac Gillapatric and O Conor, of not a metaphorical
expression, was near their borders, where I will identify a Carman, I do not
wish to deprive the Faithche of Wexf., now called the Fáith, or Fair-green, of
the glories of the ancient Oenach Carman fully described in the Books of Lein.
and Ballymote. Yet all the evidence seems to show that Carman was a large plain
on the banks of the Burren and the Barrow, which unite at the town of Carlow; ¶
here the Kings of Lein., whose palace of Dind Ríg was close by, held every
three years an Óinach—that is, a Grand Council, of their Sub-Kings and
Chiefs—an exhibition, a cattle-show, a fair and races; ¶ these Kings and their
civil and military advisers showed great judgment and tact in selecting for the
Óinach a place at the geographical, social, political, and military centre of
Lein., nr. the royal palace, which was the rendezvous of the warriors of Lein.
when about to march against their foes, as we learn fr. Cath Ruis na Ríg, and
nr. or not far fr., the five great tribal divisions of the Province now
represented, respectively, by the dioceses of Ossory, Leighlin, Kildare, Ferns,
Glendaloch (and Dublin); ¶ from this central place also they could quickly send
a "punitive" expedition if Mun. or Meath were mean enough to invade
their borders during the Óinach; ¶ that shows it ought to have been there; ¶
but, then, Irish eccentricity might have held the Oinach Carman at Loch Carman,
at the town of Wexf., where O'Donovan and O'Curry place it; ¶ I answer that
that Carman was nr. the r. Burren in Idrone (Bairenn Cliach), which joins the
Barrow at Carlow; ¶ nr. Idrone (Clíu, gen. Cliach); ¶ nr. Dind Ríg, which is
nr. Burren and Idrone; ¶ nr. Berna Cleighi; ¶ nr. Mag Lifi; ¶ nr. Mag Mesca and
Ui Failge; ¶ in close connections with laces nr. or not far fr. r. Burren; ¶ by
its Óinach, in close and sole connection with clans whose lands meet nr. the
Burren. 1. Carman was nr. r. Burren: -Bairend Charman i Caillich Carman at
Bairend Cliach and at Berna Cleithi, Lec. 461; ¶ Bairend Carmen co Cailliu
Carmuin ic Bairind Cliach ic Bernae na Cleithe, I. 150 b; ¶ Caille Carman at
Bairend Chliach ic Bairind Carman ic Berna na Cleithi, Lbl. 428; ¶ Digais, wife
of Carman, and mother of Bairend fr. whom is named Bend Bairne Carman (Bairne
is gen. of Bairend), Lec. 461; ¶ Bairend Charman at the r. Bablua (Dindsenchus
Bairne Cermain, Ll. 194); ¶ Bablua, q. v., is Bairend; ¶ at Coilliu Cermain and
at Babluan al. Bairend Clíach at Bernae na Cleite, Bb. 195 b; ¶ Bairend
Cearmain .. i Colbu Cearmain 7 ic Babluan al. Bairenn Cliath ic Bearnaidh na
Cliath, Sa. 20 b 1; ¶ 2. Carman was in or nr. Idrone; ¶ see Clíach in No. 1,
the gen. of Clíu in Uib Dróna, A. 18 b, Ll. 23 a, 129 a, Fm. i. 88, Hk. 406,
Ch. 43; ¶ 3. nr. Dind Ríg on the Barrow; ¶ ar bruach Bearbha idir Cheithiorlach
7 Leithghlenn, K. 118 b, betw. Carlow and Lethglenn, Of. 172; ¶ Dind Ríg in Mag
n-Ailbe, Tig. Rawl., B. 502, fo. 1 b; ¶ 4. nr. Berna Cleithe, v. No. 1; ¶ 5.
nr. Mag Lifi: Carman Liphi. Ll. 169 b; ¶ Mag Lifi included Maistiu, or
Mullaghmast (A. 10 a) within 10 m. of Carman, indeed Mullaghmast has been
identified with Carman, as we shall see infra; ¶ 6. nr. Mag Mesca and Ui
Failge: Mag Mesca at Aenach Carman, Lbl. 418; ¶ Aenach Carmuin, al. Aenach
Sengarmain in Mag Measca, Bb. 193 b; ¶ Sencharman in Mag Measca i n-Uib Failge,
I. 149 a 2 (Ui Failge included Mag Fea and Cell Osnadh in c. Carlow, nr. r.
Burren, Bc. 15); ¶ 7. in close connection with places nr. or not far fr. r.
Burren: Rí Railend (5 m. S. of Athy), Rí Carman, Rí Fothart Osnadaigh (b. of
Forth, c. Carlow), the Ui Dróna (b. Idrone, c. Carlow), Ui Bairrchi (b. of
Slieve Margy, in Queen's Co.), Ui Buide (b. of Ballyadams, Queen's Co.), are
grouped together in Lct. 210—214; ¶ Aillend árd Carmon clothach, and Almu (Will
of Cathair Mór), Lct. 202; ¶ liach liomsa Cnoc Almaine 7 Aillenn, liach lom
Carman 7 fér dar a rótta .. all n-árd n-Almaine, flaith nár Náis, Fm. ii. 572;
¶ mór liach Life gan Cerball (K. of Lein.), liach lemsa Cnoc Almaine 7 Allenn,
liach lem Carman, Fia. 220; ¶ Braein Carmain ... ór-al Alman, Fm. ii. 652; ¶
Triacha long do laechraid Liamna .. dligid im na crícha im Charmon tricha
banmog, tricha bó, Lct. 40 (Liamain was in Mag Laigen, al. Mag Lifi, F. 83); ¶
Flann Temra don Tailltenmaig, Cerball don Carmain Cinaig, Fm. 570, Ch. 182
(i.e., as Tailltiu was to Temair so was Carman to Dind Ríg?); ¶ Slogad la
Feidlimid (ríg Caisil) corici Carmain; ¶ slogad la Niall (rí nErenn) ar a chenn
corice Mag n-Ochtair, Au. i. 344, Fm. i. 460; ¶ Cath Maige Ochtair isin tealaig
ós Cluain Conaire a ndes, Fm. i. 212—that is, the K. of Cashel reached S. of
Kild., and marched to Cloncurry, in N. Kild., where he was awaited and defeated
by the K. of Ireland; ¶ 8. Óinach Carman in ancient and in comparatively modern
times was always and only held by kings, sub-kings, and chiefs, whose lands met
nr. the junction of the Burren with the Barrow. This is clear from the
description of it in Ll. and Bb. given in Mc. ii. 40, as well as from the Irish
Annals:—On the right of the K. of Carman, al. K. of the Barrow or Dind Ríg, sat
the K. of Ossory, on his left, the K. of Ui Failgi; ¶ in accordance with the
will of Cathair Mór, the Uí Failgi (al. Síl Rosa Failgi), the Laigsi, the
Fotharta (or Laigsi Fothairt), and the Clann Condla, al. Ossairgi, were the
chief leaders of the celebrations; ¶ the Uí Dróna, in whose land it was,
displayed unbounded "hospitality" (oegidacht hUa nDróna); ¶ and the
K. of the Barrow distributed the prizes, Mc. iii. 526–547; ¶ in historical
times one K. of Ossory and his Ossorians held the Óinach Carman an. 1033, and
one K. of Ui Failgi did the same in 1079, Fm. ii. 826, 914, Au. i. 566, Lc. i.
34; ¶ Carman was one of the 7 chief cemeteries of Erin, at it were many
meeting-mounds, 21 raths, 7 mounds, 7 plains or fields (without a house)
reserved for the Óinach; ¶ it may be said that cúan (harbour), ráth-lind
(bounteous water), and bruachaib (banks), applied to Carman, would not suit the
t. of Carlow; ¶ I think so: the tide goes higher than St. Mullins, and from New
Ross to Athy (10 miles N. of Carlow) the Barrow is navigable by barges; ¶ a
writer in Pgi. ii. 399, i. 316, got very nr. the real Carman; ¶ "the Rath
or moat of Carman or Mullaghmast nr. Ballytore, 6 miles E. of Athy, its site is
a gently sloping hill crowned by an extensive rath, and nr. it are 16 mounds,
on which the elders of the States of S. Lein. sat in council, these mounds are
held in veneration by the peasantry." Gen. Carman (Fm. ii. 1142, i. 48,
Sb. 4 a, Fm. ii. 826, Lct. 14, 210, Lc. i. 34, Mc. iii. 526), and dat. Carmain
(Fm. an. 903 and bis in Mc. iii. 536) point to nom. Carmu or Carma; ¶ but nom.
Carman, Cormon, Cormun (Sas. 1274, Ll. 215 a, 169 b, Lct. 202, Mc. iii. 526,
Pd. viii. 38, Fm. an. 903); ¶ gen. Carmain, Fm. i. 44, Au. i. 566; ¶ Carmuin,
Sr. 64 a bis; ¶ dat. Carmon, Cormun, Ll. 127, 296 b, Bb. 46 b; ¶ Carman, Fm. i.
76, 460, ii. 570, 652.
carn maccu buachalla in Cuib, N. of Dundalk, in Ulst.,
Lbl. 599; ¶ C. mac mBuachalla at Dún Sobairci, Ll. 73; ¶ Doluidh Meadhbh
7 fir Ereann go Dun Sobhairce, leanus Cuchulainn go mor dibh an lá sin 7
marbhus fear Taidhle i Tlaidhle 7 macu Buachaille ó bhfuil Carn mac
mBuachaille, Hf. 28 a.
Carpia; Diomedes
went with 80 ships fr. C. to Troy, Bb. 237 a. carrac; ¶ Carrick, in dry. Ui
Bairche, d. Kild., Tax.
casse; Caisse,
Caise; l. in Mag Life betw. two hillocks (Eiriu 7 Albu); 2. in Uibh Faeláin; 3.
nr. Grellach Dá phil, al. Greomach Dá phil; 4. nr., or at, Cell Auxili; 5.
connected with Áth Truisten and Áth Cille Corbnatan; 6 is or seems a stream:
"for brú Caisi, for taebh Chaisi." I think it is in tl. of Mullacash,
nr. Mullacash House (cf. Kilcash = Cell Caise), and in Mag Lifi, encircled by
the r. Liffey at a distance of fr. 21/2 to 5 m., also in Ui Faeláin, and within
1 m. S. of Cell Auxilli or Killashee, and within 4 miles of the p. of Kill;
this Mullach Caise may be one of the two hillocks; the road fr. Áth Truisten or
Athy to Dub. passes by or through, and nr. it crosses the road which leads
through Naas to Meath; here Eustace of Mullahasse lived in 1598 (my Description
of Ireland, in 1598, p. 47); Lóiguire, son of Niall, K. of Meath and Ireland,
defeated by the Leinstermen, swore never to exact the casttle-tribute, but soon
entered Kild. and lifted cattle all the way fr. Síd Nechtain (the Sweep of
Carbury) to Caise at Mullacash, which was 18 m. SE. of Síd Nechtain, and was
killed there by a flash of lightning (the lightning flash of a scian of one of
the warriors of Naas which was close by?). I give passages that refer to this
hitherto unidentified place: - Ite reanda Ua mBairrche la Laigniu .i. Cluain
Conairi 7 Cell Auxilli; 7 dib in craeban cita-condagab in Chill, 7 itat dib
Fine acon Chill .i. Ui Laigine i Caisi, 7 Ui Duib Chilline, 7 as dib Ui Madaid
la hUu Enechlais Maige, 7 is leo ó Áth Truisten cusin áth i Cill Corbnatan,
Lec. 198; Ranna Hua mBarrchi la Laignib .i. Cluain Conaire 7 Cell Auxaille 7 is
dib in Craeban (.i. in Callin) citta congab in Cill (.i. cos angeib in Chell) 7
atá dib fini oc in Cill .i. Hui Laigeni, Hui Cassi 7 Hui Duibcilleni, et is díb
Hui Mátaid in Huib Enechglais Maige, et is leo ó Áth Trusten cossin Áth in Cill
Corpnatan, Ll. 314; Luid Laegaire slogad már co Laigniu; ó ranic Grellaig
ndaphil for taeb Chassi im-Maig Liphi eter na dá cnoc .i. Eriu 7 Albu a
n-anmand atbath andsin ó gréin 7 ó gaith 7 óna ráthaib archena, Lu. 118 b;
dorochair Laegaire i taeb Chasse, Ll. 24 a; ig Grellaigh Daphil for taeb
Caisse, im Maig Liphe, eter na da chnoc, idón, Eriu ocus Alba a n-anmann, Bb.
48 b, 32 b; at Grellach by the side of Caisi in Mag Lifi, betw. the two hills
Eri and Albu, Lec. 609; for taobh Caise, in Hui Faelain, betw. the two hills
Ere and Alba, Lg. 181; Greallach Daiffill near the Liffey, K. 157 b; oc
Greomaig Daphil, al. Grellaig ghaifil for taeb Chaisse i Maig Lifi etir in dá
chnoc .i. Eiriu 7 Albu, Au. i. 20; ig Greallaig Daiphil for taebh Caisi i Maig
Lífe edir na dá chnoc, Eire 7 Alba, Ch. 26; atbath i ttaobh Caissi edir Erinn 7
Albain .i. dá cnoc iatsidhe filet in Uibh Faoláin, Fm. an. 458; Ac. pp. 71, 80,
has, "Lagery sunk down in the earth betw. 2 hills neere the r. of Liffie
called Ireland and Scotland, but the most part agree that he was stroken dead
at a place called Taw Caissi; Mulmorry O Hargedy rode fr. Clonmacnoise to
Greally da Phill, where K. Tuahall held a meeting of his nobles, and gave the
K. a deadly blow of a spear" (this place is called Grellach Eilte in all
other authorities - E. H.); bebaid Lóigire for brú Caisi, Zcp. iii. 463. Fr.
the above we find that Caisse was a stream in Lein.; in Mag Lifi and nr. the
Liffey; in Ui Faeláin, which included Naas (in the dry. of which are Cell
Uasaille and Mullacash, Tax. p. 246), Lct. 204-5, Gb. 100, 314; at Killossy
"oc in Cill, "nr. which is the p. of Kill; "for brú and for
taeb" point to a r. or rivulet, and if there is such, in Up. or Lr.
Mullacash flowing betw. two hillocks, I would identify that water as Caisse;
Dr. MacCarthy, in Ui., places Grellach dá-phil betw. the hills of Dunmurry and
Allen, but gives no reason for so doing.
cath még
gormain; in Ui Fermaic; ¶ name preserved in Cahermagorman, in tl.
Soheen, p. Dysart O'Dea, b. Inchiquin, Clare, Fm. v. 1592. c. meic maille; ¶ in Lethnocht a Baile of Hi Maille Machaire in
Caoille, Mun.; ¶ Ó Conbhaidh is of this
place, Lis. 182 b; ¶ in b. Fermoy, Cork.
ceis scaibli; Síl Aedha Demuin, son of Cormac, fr. whom are the Hui Maenaigh
Ceissi Scaibli in Hui mBairrci-tiri, Bb. 74 a; the Hui Maenaigh Ceísi Scaibh in
Hui Bairrchi Tiri, I. 58 a 1. céissóic; ar in C., Eg. 88, fo. 2 b; seems in
O'Davoren's place in Burren, c. Clare.
cell;
The Hui Laidhghein at the C. in Hui mBairrche of Lein., Fir. 466.
cella albáin; in
Lein., apud plebem hUa Mudi, Cs. 525; in Wexf., I think, and nr. the Ui Barchi.
cella auxili; A. 19
a, Tl. 242, Mm. 607; Killassy in dry. Naas, Tax.; Killussy, Hdi. 48; Killossy,
Seward’s Topography; now Killashee, a p. 2 m. S. of Naas; in Huibh Bairrche in
Lein., Ll. 314, Bb. 174 a, Fir. 466, I. 58 a 1; in plain of Liffey, C. 659; C.
Ausaille, Fm. i. 443, Au. i. 8, 324, Ll. 309, Fia. 196, Ch. 165, Mi. Cri.; v.
C. Uasaille, C. Usaille and Casse.
cell
beirrche; Hui Shenchain
of C. B. in Crích hUa nEinechlais, Ll. 384, Bb. 72 b; ¶ Hui Seanchain, of
Síl Coirpre, seated at C. B. in Lein., Bb. 72 b; ¶ chief tribes of Síl
Coirbre were Ui Dubháin, Ua Mhionloscan in Crioch na n-Eniochghlais, Ui
Colmain, Ui Forodhráin, Ui Seanchain of C. B., Fir. 456.
cella corpnatan; Hui
Fhínain mic Eochach of C. Chropnatan, in Lein., Ll. 315, Bb. 76 b, Lec. 459, I.
57 a 2; the terr. fr. Ath Truisten to the Ath in Cill Corbnadan belonged to the
Hi Laigine and the Hi Duib Chilline at Cill Auxille in Lein., Lec. 198; Áth
Truisten to the Áth in Cill Corbnatan belongs to the Hui Bairrchi in Lein., I.
58 a 1, Fir. 466, Bb. 74 a.
cell
cuilind; in d. Glendaloch, in Tristledermot dry., Cr. an. 1179, 1192, 1214;
Glendaloch was afterwards joined to Dub.; Mac Tail (of the Hui mBairrche) of C.
C., Fir. 462, 740, Au. 50, Fm. iv. 1138, Md. 167; Mac Tail of C. C. desc. fr.
Dairi Barrach, I. 57 b 1; Mac Táil, i. Eogan, son of Corcran, its patron, Tig.
Rc. 140, Fm. i. 186; Mac Táil ó Ch. Ch., Ll. 308 a, 313, Ir. 57 b 1, Lec. 613,
Fir. 724, 740, Fep., Ct. 152, 257, Lb. 19; plundered by Amhlaoibh, son of
Gothfraidh, who took 1,000 prisoners fr. it, K. 169 b; Maelochtraigh, ab. of C.
C. and C., Manach, d. 784, Au. i. 260; oc Ri Cuind eter Forraig Rath ocus Cill
Culind, Lh. 121; Diarmait mac Ailello princeps Cille Cuilinn; Old Kilcullen, c.
Kild., on r. Liffey, Au. i. 456, Mi., Cri., Mis. i. 220; v. previous word.
cell
fiacach; Fiacra of C. F.
desc. fr. Dairi Barrach, I. 57 b 1, Fir. 724.
cell garisc; 3
Ingena Eoghain mic Conaill in C. Garrcon, al. C. Gairisc in Lein., Ll. 313,
384, Bb. 72 b, Fir. 456; ¶ the Teora ingena of Mic Conaill in C. Gairaisce, Lb.
19, Fir. 727, Lec. 193; ¶ the 3 sons of Conaill of C. Garrisc, Ll. 385; ¶ the 3
sons of Conall mac Airmora in C. Garraisce in Lein., Ll. 351; ¶ the 3 sons of
Conall Iarmordha of "C. Garaisce," Bb. 122 b.
cell glinne uissen:
Hua Uathgail (the poet) of C. Gl. U. in Cuachmagh, Ll. 143.
cell m. cathail; i
n-Uib Bairrche, i. i mBelach Gabran, F. 184; Md. 350, Cbb. c. 3; Kilmacahill
tl. and p., b. Gowran, Kilk.
Cell Maighistrech,
Fir. 724; Cathan, son of Nathi, of the Hui mBarrci, fr. whom is the St. of
"Cluain Rathach," and Maigistir of C. M., Bb. 73 b; St. Eochaidh of
Cluain Rathach, and Maigisdir of C. M., Fir. 463.
Cell Muire: Donn
Macormain .i. Bicaire Cell Muire Udacht
Muirchertaigh mic Mathghamhna in aimsir a Chais co bfiadhnaise dona Sagartaibh,
Ix. 8; ¶ this is Kilmurry Ibrickan p. and vil., c. Clare. (Ix. = I. 6, 13, T.C.D.; O'Curry's copy
of 13 vellum Deeds.)
cell
mo lapóc; in Uib Bairchi; now Kilmolappogue graveyard in tl. of Donore, p.
Lorum, Carl., Fm. ii. 840; C. Molapóg and C. an Chnuic, plundered by A. Mac S.
O’Byrne, Bran. 91 a; Creach la Huibh gCinnsiolach a nIbh Bairrche go
nástarraidh mac Murchadha mac Dunloing gur bris forro a C. Molapóc, Hb. 88,
Tig., Rc. xvii. 380.
cell slébhe; Fiacc
(bp. of Slébte), of C. Slébhe, Fep., Fir. 724, I. 106 b, col. 7; ¶ this must be
Slatey at Carl.; ¶ v. Sléipte. c. shléibe; ¶ the Gaill moved N. to Snám Aignech
and ruined Landleri and C. Shléibi, Ll. 309; ¶ baile ag Sliabh Cuilenn i
n-Ulltoibh, Md. 186; ¶ Moninne, patroness, Md. 186; ¶ al. C. Sléibhe Cuilinn
now Killeevy, b. Upper Orior, c. Arm., Au. i. 38, 560, 444; ¶ C. S. Cuilinn,
Ct. 564, Mi., Ch. 39, C. 337, B. lvi. 332; ¶ Ussher's Primordia, 735; ¶ Cainge
of C. S. died an. 658, Hb. 66; ¶ C. Sléibe Cuilinn, Au. i. 444.
cell
uasaille; Fep., Ll. 308 a, Lis. 5 b; Killossy nr Naas, c. Kild.; C. Usaili, in
the plain of the Liffey (c. Kild.), in which St. Patrick left Auxilius, Tl.
183; in d. Glendal., Cr. 1179; il Laighnibh, Md. 228; in Magliffe, St.
Auxilius, bp., Ct. 154, 474, Cg. 6; C. Uasaille 7 Claonad, Fm. ii. 830; in Uib
Bairrche, Ll. 314, Bb. 174 a, I. 58 a 1, Fir. 466; called Killassy in Nass
dry., Tax. p. 246.; v. C. Ausailli.
cenél croichni; in
Huib Bairrchi, I. 57 b 2, Fir. 462; v. Ui Bairchi.
cenél nochra; in Hi
Bairrchi thíri, Lec. 197.
cenél ucha; Clann
Manchine, betw. C. Ucha and Liphe, Ll. 316, Lec. 204; Síol Cairbre, betw. C.
n-Ucha and the Liffey, Fir. 476; la Huibh Bairrchi thiri foghnam thaighi Hua
mBriuin sin dareisi, I. 57 b 2, Bb. 73 b; comprised the Hui Fithcellaigh, Hui
Maili Derir, Hui Bóetain, Hui Broscai and Hui Folaing, X. 72, Fir. 434; Ros Mic
Erc in Cruain (al. Cruachan), C. Ucha, I. 108 b 2, Bb. 123 a; in Lein; race of
Aucha, son of Augen Urgnaid, Ll. 311 b, Lec. 189, Fir. 434; Cath Rige in 776,
in which the Leinstermen were defeated by the Brega, and the Lein. lord of C.
Uchae was slain, Fm. i. 382.
cenn bairche;
Breccán of, Ll. 366, Bb. 124 a, Lec. 115, Ai. 150 a. c. belachoir; Pc. 8; in
the region of the Scots of Alba.
cerc boirche;
Bairche mac Aedha ón abar Cerc Boirche, Ha. 845. cerda; ¶ Ui Dimai le C. at
Findglaisi (Forsloindti Hua Failgi), Lec. 201; ¶ in Ofaley (?).
ces
scaible; Hui Maonaigh Cesi S. in Hui Bairrche tíre, in Lein., Fir. 466.
clann conaill; Oa
Gormáin of that stock, connected with Kells, Bk. 6 b; ¶ perh. fr. Baile ui
Gormáin, now Gormanstown.
Clann fhlannacháin;
in Bairrchiu (the Genealogy of the Laigsi Rámne), Ll. 318, Lec. 216; in Ui
Bairchi.
clann gormáin; the
Mac Gormans; ¶ branch of Sliocht Cathaoir Moir, St. B. 620, 621.
cloc-tech cille dara;
ro sen Brigit in caille ic Ros na Ferta i Cill Dara fri Cloc-tech a-tuaith Lh.
121; ¶ round tower of Kild. clodach; ¶ in dry. of Ui Bairche, d. Kild., Tax.; ¶
Clodach, a ch. of St. Brigit in d. Lechlin, Cr. circ. 1180.
cluain conaire;
there are three C. Conairi—viz., in Uib Faeláin, in Uib Failge, in Uib
Bairrchi.
cluain conaire;
Cloncurry, 41/4 m. NW. of Kilcock on N. border of c. Kild., Pgi. i. 430, Fm.
iii. 137; ¶ i tuaiscert Ua Faoláin, Md. 248; ¶ Monenn of, i ttuiscert Úa
fFáelain; ¶ Monenn of C. C. Tomain hi Tuaisciurt hÚa Fóeláin, Fg. 178, F. 146,
Ll. 362, Mt. 34, Fep.; ¶ Clonconnyre, Irish Pat. Rolls i., p. 4; ¶ d. of
Clonard ext. fr. Clochán W. to the Shannon, and fr. Urchuilte to C. C., K. 174
a.
cluain conaire;
Maeldub of, Fg. 240, Md., Dec. 18; ¶ Cloncurry p. 3 m. NE. of Rathangan in b.
of E. Offaly, c. Kild., Pgi. i. 431; ¶ al. C. C. Maelduib, q.v.
cluain conaire; in
Huib Bairrchi in Lein., Ll. 314, I. 58 a 1, Bb. 74 a, Lec. 198, Fir. 466.
cluain dolcáin; Clondalkin,
5 m. W. of Dublin; ¶ C. Dolcáin 20 times, C. Dolcan 8 times and C.
Dolchan in Bb. 122 a and Lec. 109; ¶ MoChua of C. Dolcan, F. 122, Fg.
150, Mt. 31, F. 130, Md. 212, Ll. 305 b, 308 b, Bb. 122 a, Lec. 109, Fm. ii.
606; ¶ Cronán, al. MoChua of C. D., Ll. 351, Fir. 727; ¶ the
Antiphonary of C. Dolcan is preserved in T.C.D.; ¶ its round tower stands
5 m. W. of Dub. city; ¶ Ailbran Ua Lugadon was its abbot, Au. i. 252;
¶ so were Fer-fugill, C. 577, and Fedlimid hUa Lugadon, Au. i. 282;
¶ Dún Aomhlaoibh, fortress of Amhlaoibh, K. of the Danes at C., c. Dub.,
K. 166 b, Lbl. 939; ¶ the 12th and early 13th century form of C. Dolcan
found in Cr. and Hmd. favours C. Dolcan, of Au., which generally preserves the
best spelling of place-names.
cluain fiacra; St.
Fiachra (belonging to the Hui Bairrche) of, Fir. 462; ¶ C. Fiachra do loscadh,
Fm. ii. 1076; ¶ O'D. says "there is C. F. in p. Dysart, c. Clare."
cluain ui ghormáin;
Clonegorman, d. Meath, Sp. 1606, p. 57.
cluain oss;
Tighearnach of; of the Hui Bairrci, Bb. 73 a, Fir. 462; Tighernach of C. Ois,
desc. fr. Dairi Barrach, I. 57 b 1; there is a Cloonish harbour in Joyce's
country, c. Galw.
cluain rathach;
Cathan mac Nathi mic Eachach a quo Naemh Cluana Rathach 7 Magistir Cilli
Magistreach, I. 57 b 2, Bb. 73 b, 122 b, Fir. 463, 727, Lb. 20; ¶ Eochaidh of,
and Maigister Cilli Maignend, Lec. 109; ¶ Eochaidh of Cluain Ratha, Lb. 20,
Fir. 727; ¶ v. C. Rétach.
cluain rétach; Eocho
of Cluain Rétach and Magister of Celli-Magistreach, sons of Cathan, Lein. sts.,
Ll. 351, 313; ¶ v. C. Rathach.
cluain uinnsenn;
Nannid of, Fg. 108, Md. 142; ¶ Nainnid of C. Usend, Mt. 26; ¶
Maeltuile of, abb Lugmaid, Fm. i. 516, C. 736; ¶ Clooninshin in Meelick
p., c. Mayo (?); ¶ Lugmad points to Louth; ¶ or may be same as
Glenn Uissen, now Killeshin, and Killushin, both in d. Leighlin, or Clunussi,
ch. of St. Comgan, in d. Lechlin (of Cr. circa 1180); ¶ or an alias for
Disert Maeltuile, Dysart in Westm.
Coine; 7 Eps. of
Coine, Ll. 374; ¶ 7 sts. of Coine, Lb. 24; ¶ v. Coíne.
Coíne; Ui Critain of
Coíne, Ui Emine of Coíne in Lein., Ui Thaidg of Tael Coíne, Lec. 197; ¶ Ui
Drescain of iCoiniu indlegi di Dál Missin Corb in Lein., Ll. 314; ¶ Ui Drescain
i Coiniu in Lege in Lein., Lec. 197; ¶ in Ley, al. Lea p. and tl. in Queen's c.
choineand; ¶ Ciarraigi Choineand, descendants of Ciar mac Feargusa, Lec. 253.
Conmaicne rein; al. C. Maige Réin in S. Leit.;
¶ the Shannon flows betw. it and Hui Briuin of Rosc., Ar. 80; ¶ C.
R. in Breifne, Bb. 92 a, X. 153, Lec. 37, Fir. 537, Fen. 382; ¶ contained
Annaly in Longf. and Muinter Eolais in c. Leit., Wc. 94.
cosse scaible; Coss
S. (?); ¶ Ui Moenaig Cosse Scaible in Huib Bairrchi tiri in Lein., Ll. 314,
Lec. 197.
Craeban; at Cell
Auxilli (?); ¶ belonging to Hi Bairrchi in Lein., Lec. 198.
cros gormáin;
Crosgorman, in dry. Arklow, d. Dub., Tax.
crích barche; in
Lein., Cs. 196; ¶ v. Ui Bairche.
crích
ómortha in bhrógha; do Síl Daire Bharaigh O Gormain do ghlac an Fonn, Bran. 152
a. Lebar Branach, H. 1, 14, T.C.D.
crích
ua mbairce; betw. King's c. and c. Kild.; MacGorman's l., Obr.; C. Hui
mBairrche Tire; l. of Hui Seanan and Hui Diomatain in Lein., Fir. 464; the Hui
Dimatai of C. hUi mBairrcitiri, Bb. 73 b; Hui Treasaigh in C. hui mB.
T., MacFirbis'
Book of Genealogies 462.
crích ua ngabla;
cath Inde Moire in it, Fm. i. 160, Au. i. 32; ¶ in S. Kild.; ¶ ext. fr. Áth
Cuilchinge to Dubáth nr Mullaghmast, fr. Ath glas Crichi at Cluanies to Uada in
Leix, and fr. the ford of Ath leathnacht to Glenn Uissen in Ui Bairche, Lec.
fo. 93—109; ¶ v. Druim Gabla.
Cruachan chenéil
ucha; Rus mac Ceitt in C. C. U., I. 108 b; ¶ Findchu of Ros Mic Eircc in C. C.
Aucha, Lb. 21, Fir. 751; ¶ v. Cruain C. U. c. cloenta; ¶ as; ¶ Ll. 316 b
(battle of), Ll. 299 b, Z. 468, col. 1, Lbl. 783, Ca. 373, Bb. 138 b; ¶
Crúachán Claenta, Fia. 38; ¶ the round hill of Clane; ¶ the Leinstermen are
never defeated if they hold their council (of war) there, and thence proceed to
battle, Rc. xxiv. 50; ¶ the round hill is there still, the beautiful Moat of
Clane 5 m. NE. of Allen in c. Kild., Lec. 205, 602, Hc. 2, 587 a; ¶ betw. it
and Almu was Dinn Canainn, now Duncannon (fairy mound), Fia. 38; ¶ the
Leinstermen marched to C. C. and then to Dind Canand, where they fought the
battle of Alma with Feargal mac Maeluin, Lbl. 939; ¶ C. C. nr Dind Canann, Fer.
129.
Cuachmag; Hua
Uathgail, port of Uissenglind in C., Ll. 143; ¶ v. Glenn Uissen.
cull maige; A. 18 b
a, 19 a, Tl. p. 190, Ct. 153; ¶ W. of r. Barrow; ¶ where S. Fiacc fd. ch. of
Slebte (Sleatygraigue) nr Carl.
cúmhdach dhúine
sobhairce in
Murbhulg Dáilriada, Fir. 99.
Cumhscraidh
auxili; A. 19 a, Tl. 242, Mm. 607; Killassy in dry. Naas, Tax.; Killussy, Hdi.
48; Killossy, Seward’s Topography; now Killashee, a p. 2 m. S. of Naas; in
Huibh Bairrche in Lein., Ll. 314, Bb. 174 a, Fir. 466, I. 58 a 1; in plain of
Liffey, C. 659; C. Ausaille, Fm. i. 443, Au. i. 8, 324, Ll. 309, Fia. 196, Ch.
165, Mi. Cri.; v. C. Uasaille, C. Usaille and Casse.
Daire an crosain: 120 bó ag Donn Macormáin ar na tabhairt do
Muircheartach Mac Mathghamhna a ngeall ar leathceathramhain D. an C., Ix. 9.
(Ix. = I. 6, 13, T.C.D.; O'Curry's copy of 13 vellum Deeds.)
Dál
cormaic; Of. 293; a Lein. clan, Bb. 71 a; Hite Dál Cormaic le Laignibh
angeibhthe. Ui Gabhla fine uile 7 Cutraighi, Hui Tréna, Hui Cuirn, Hui Librein,
Hui Lomthuile, Hui Oichtrich, Hui Cuirc, is do Dál Cormaic uile na ceinoil sin.
Hui Gabla 7 Hui Gabla Roirenn .i. ó Chúil Caing co Dub-Ath a Maistin 7 ó Glais
Criche i Cluanuigh Cua fri Laighis co hAth Lethnacht ig Sleibtib go téit go
hUsin fri hUib Bairrche, Ll. 383; D. Chormaic la Laignib, al. Hui Chormaic;
i.e., Angebthi Hui Gabla fini uile, 7 Cuthraige, 7 Hui Gabla Roirend, these
ext. fr. Culching co Dubatha, and fr. Glais Chriche in Cluanaib Cuada fri
Laigis adiu, to Ath Lethnocht ic Sleibti, co teit in uissin, fri Uib Bairrchi a
tuaid; 7 Angebthi Hui Trena 7 Hui Chuirc is la Cormac sin uile, Ll. 312.
dardlus;
Hui Maelain ondardlus, Genelach of Ua mBairrci, Bb. 73 b; leg. ond Ardlus,
Arless, t. and p. in b. Slievemargy.
dergraith;
the Hui Critain of Hui mBairrci in Magh-in-Dergraith, Bb. 73 b; Hui Amsain and
Hui Criodain in Hui mBairrche, maig indeargraith in Lein., Fir. 464.
Disert diarmuta;
Tig. Rc. xvii. 379, Bb. 94 b, Fir. 509; ¶ Tristledermot, al. Castledermot, c.
Kild., Fia. 184, 204, Fm. iv. 784, D. Diarmatta, Fm. ii. 834, Ui., Mi., Ci.,
Cri., K. 167 b, Cgg. 16; ¶ il Laighnibh, Md. 174, Ct. 633, Mt. 27, Fg. 120; ¶ i
n-Uib Muiredaig, F. 106, Fep.; ¶ in Lein., given by Bran Dubh to Diarmuid mac
Aeda Róin, Lbl. 944; ¶ Desertum Dermitii, .i. Tristildermot, Gr. 82.
druim coblai; Tl.
242, B. lii. 102; ¶ St. Fiacc often went
to it fr. Sléibte; ¶ v. D. Gabla.
druim conchinn; hi
Maircc, Tl. p. 194; ¶ Patrick passed this going fr. Ossory to Mun., "atá
ann Disert Patraic"; ¶ perh. the name is preserved in Desart Cottage, in
c. Kilk., b. Shilelogher, 3 or 4 ms. fr. border of Mun.; ¶ Ct. 153 places it in
Mun.
druim gabla; v. D.
Coblai; ¶ Fiach of Slébte at D. G., of the Ui Bairci, Bb. 73 a, Fep., Fir. 724,
Ll. 313; ¶ Fiach Slébe, i.e., Droma Gablai, Lb. 20; ¶ Cnoc D. G. in it, A. 19
a; ¶ v. Crích Ua nGabla.
dún the 3 Dúine of Erin are D. Sobhairce,
D. Cearmna and Cathair Conraí, Bb. 42 a.
dún cermna al. D.
Patraic, at foot of the Old Head of Kinsale, N. 262, Fia 21, 218; ¶
O'Brien's Dict., Mi., Cri., Kp. 436, Ch. 154; ¶ D. Cermna, Au. i. 368;
¶ D. C., Fm. i. 44, 490; ¶ fort of Cearmna, joint monarch of
Ireland with his brother Sobhairce; ¶ on the Old Head of Kinsale; ¶
D. Cermnai, ó D. C. co hArainn n-airthir, Au. i. 368, D. C., Fir. 436, Lec.
454, Cor. Gloss. s.v. Gaire; ¶ al. D. mhic Pádruig, in Crioch-Chuirsioch,
K. 121 a, 131 b, Of. 205, Ll. 17; ¶ in Mun., Ai. 88 b, Lg. 88, bat. of,
Lec. 63, Oig. xxxviii.; ¶ Eurna of D. C., which was built by Cachir, son
of Edersgeoil, Fir. 381.
dún sobairche Dunseverick
in Dál Riatai, Lu. 70, Hk. 332, Ll. 19 b, 127 b, Os. v. 276, Mi., Ui., Lct. 23,
Cf. p. 28; ¶ i mMurbulg Dalriata, Lg. 77, Fir. 99, Ll. 15, Of. 205, Lec.
572, Lct. 22, Sb. 2 b; ¶ D. Sobairge, Rr. 4, Tl. liv., Fia. 66, 194, Rc.
xiii. 373; ¶ D. Sobhairce, K. 131 b, 121 a, Lb. 30 a, Mi.; ¶ per
Búas fluium foramen pertulit et in D. Sebuirgi sedit super petram quae Petra
Patricii usque nunc; ¶ et ordinavit ibi Olcanum sanctum episcopum, A. 13
a; ¶ Patrick blessed D. Sobargi, and Patrick's Well (Tipra) is there, Tl.
162; ¶ the Cloch and Tipra Pátricc may help to solve a doubt suggested
infra; ¶ Dunseverick is a tl. and electoral division in b. Cary, Antr.,
nr Ballycastle, O'D.; ¶ Fm. i. 26 says the Dún was 3 m. E. of the Giants'
Causeway; ¶ if so, Murlough Bay, Fairhead, is not Murbholg of Dal Riada;
¶ but at Murlough Bay there is a projecting rock, with some coastguard
buildings on it, which was, perh., the D. S. here mentioned; ¶ perh.
"Dun Sumary in Tuaiscert" or N. Antr. of Gn. an. 1259 is for D.
Sobhairge.
duma
ngobla;
fri Sleibte aniar-thuaith, Lh. 96, Fir. 692, Tph. ii. 308; ¶ Sléibte is 11/4 m.
NW. of Carlow t.; ¶ D. Gaula, a ch. in Lein., Ct. 4.
Faebran; abb
Faoibhrain; ¶ Foyran p., b. Fore, Westm., Mi.; ¶ v. Foibren.
Ferann deisceartach:
in Lein.; ¶ prob. b. Bargy, Wexf., Tp.
Fearann na cenél :
Fernegenal, Regan's Poem; ¶ in b. Shelmlaier round Artramont, separated fr.
Wexf. t. by the Slaney, Tp., Gb. 120; ¶ Cellach and Lorcan da righ F. na C.; ¶
Eochaidh, Erc and Trien, 3 sons of Enna Cinnselach; ¶ fr. them are the 3 Cinéla
and Ferann na Cinél, Lh. 389; ¶ Ciarmac rí Fer na Cenél, Ll. 46.
fearann ui cormaic;
in Lein., is all included Ui Gabla Fhine, Cuthraidi, Ui Gabla Roirend, fr. Áth
Cliath to Cuillind and to Glaisi Crichi in Cluanaibh Cuada, fri Laigniu adiu co
h th Lethnochta at Slébtib to Ui Bairrchi, and also the l. of Ui Thréna and Ui
Cuirc, Lec. 450.
fertae fer feac: al.
F. F. Feicc, ad Ferti Virorum, F. na Inber Colpdi in Bregaib, perrexit de
Temoria ad levam (northwards) ad Ferti V. F., A. 3 b, 4 a, 10 a; ¶ F. F. Féic hi taeb Sídai Truimm aniar, Lb.
99, F. 167; ¶ fr. F. F. F. to Tara, Tl.
46; ¶ i Maig Breg, Lis. 4 a; ¶ F. F. Feige for bru Boinde, Ls. iii. 28;
¶ Erc Sláne epscop. Lilcaigh 7 ó F. F.
F. i taobh Sídhe Truim aniar, Fm. i. 166, Fg. 210; ¶ co foetar aidchi Fertai for Boind, i., coro
fesetar for F. Feig for bru Boinne; ¶
al. Craeb Patraic, Ls. i. 64, 66; ¶
so in Bregia, on the Boyne, N. of Tara on W. side of Síd Truimm, i.e.,
Slane or nr it; ¶ nr Slane in Meath,
Ct., Mi.; ¶ Fep. connects it with Bp.
Erc of Slane; ¶ Síd Truimm was at Slane.
fine oc in cill; Ui
Laighnein, Ui Caisi 7 Ui Duibhcillín in Ui Bairrchi in Lein., I. 58 a 1.
fir na trí maige;
the Hui Eallaigh of Cenél nUca of Hui BairrcheThíre-Fognamhthaidhe, Fir. 463; ¶
in Ossory, Mi.
Fobrene; St. Aed F.,
Bb. 124 a, Ai. 150 a; ¶ Eochaidh ab Fobren, Hb. 79; ¶ v. Foibrén.
Foibrén; Aed
Foibreni, Tg. 208, Ll. 366, Lec. 115; ¶ g. Foibrein i crích Graicraige, Ui.,
Mi.,; ¶ al. g. Foibrain, abb F., Au. i. 222; ¶ in b. Coolavin, Sli., or nr it,
in c. Rosc., or Foyran tl. and p. in Westm.
formael a hill on the l. given by K. of Lein.
to Dubthach maccu Lugir, Ll. 45 b, where the boundaries and features are
described; ¶ al. Formaoil na bFian, in Hui Chionnsiolaigh, where
Luimnioch Laighion now is, K. 147 b 1; ¶ .i. Limenagh, otherwise
Limericke, Mm. 490; ¶ now Limerick or Little Limerick, opposite Sir. T.
Esmonde's hall-door; ¶ Fermoyle and Cooletegart formed one tl. of 310
Irish acres of the Manor of Esmonde, Esmonde MSS.; ¶ Cooltegart is well
known still.
gabar laigen; Achad
Dairid in it, Bb. 77 a, Lec. 106, 203, Ll. 349; ¶ seems nr Mag Ailbe and Ui
Bairrche.
glais inasc or G. in Ascail; ¶ fr. G. to Mag
Serge given by Crimthand Mac Ennae to Dubthach Maccu Lugir, Ll. 45 b; ¶ a
boundary of Dubhthach's l., Mm. 489; ¶ the Owengorman r., Mm. 490;
¶ al. Glas Gorman r. which flows by Kilgorman, b. Gorey, a bit NE. of
AskeHill (Asc or Ascail), (Esmonde MSS. and Map).
glais maigi; Hui
Madaidh in Hui Eneach Glais Maigi of Hui Bairrche of Line., Fir. 466.
Glasloch; al.
Castle-Lesley (in c. Cav.?), Almanach of 1685. glasmag na rón; ¶ E. of Beand
Bairchi; ¶ Bb. 225 a, I. 165 a. glasraige; ¶ in Luigni, Meath, Bb. 88 a, Ha.
866, K. 139 b, Hk. 394.
glenn uissen; A. 19
a; ¶ i n-Uibh Bairche, Md., Fg., C. 417, Fir. 727, Ll. 312; ¶ in it is
Killeshin, tl. and p. in b. Slievemargy, Queen's c., Fep., Ui., Ci., Mi., Cri.,
Cg.; ¶ W. of Carlow t.; ¶ v. Tig. Rc. xvii. 380, F., Fg., Mt. 13, Lec. 90, 102,
Ll. 143, 365, 356, 352, 351, Lb. 19, Bb. 72a, 118 b, 102 b, 122 a, Fir. 724,
462, 451.
imblech ech; in Ui
Bairrchi, in Lein.; ¶ Cormac rodibhir I. n-Each do Comhgall Beandchair, I. 58 a
1; ¶ Cormac bestowed I. E. on Comgall Bendchobair, Ll. 314, Lec. 198.
inis Barri: in Lein.,
Cs.; ¶ seems in Wexf.; ¶ I. Bairri; ¶ Inis Tobairri on L.
Edidach in Fotharta, Cs.; ¶ seems in c. Wexf.; ¶ in regione
Fothartorum in Ui Ceinnselaig, Cs.
inis liacc; Fintan of,
Ll. 366, Ai. 150, Bb. 125 a, Lec. 116, Fg., C., B. lix.; ¶ I. Liac hAin
in Lein., Cs.; ¶ nr or in the sea in c. Wexf.(?).
iuchan from Ath
Lethnochta at Slebtib, co teit ann iuchan in Uib Bairrchi (lands of the Ui
Cormaic in Lein.), Lec. 450.
laigin; gp. Laigen,
Lagen, dp. Laignib, ap. Laigniu, A., Lu. 118 b; voc. pl. Laigniu! Ll. 297 a;
the people of Lein., Lein. It ext. fr. the strand of Inber Colpa (at Drogheda)
to Cumar na dtrí n-uisge (i.e., the confluence of the r. Suir with the Barrow
and Nore at Cheekpoint, 6 m. E. of Waterf. City), K. 121 a b, Of. 172, Md.
xxxiv.; e contra, the Liffey divides Meath fr. Lein., Of. 165; it divides Ui
Néill fr. Laigin, K. 168, Lg. 15; before the “Orgain Dindrig” it ext. fr. r.
Boyne to Síth Fer Feimin (nr Clonmel), Ll. 377; ext. fr. r. Boyne to Buaidnech,
Ca. 374; at one time ext. to r. Boyne, Ll. 300 a; for centuries Laigin, Cúiced
Lagen, Crích Lagen, Crích Laigen is co-extensive with the Ecclesiastical
Province of Dublin, which comprises the dd. Dublin, Glendaloch, Kildare,
Leighlin, Ferns, and Ossory (though Ossory seems sometimes distinct fr. Lein.,
Mac Gilla Pátraic árdrí Laigen 7 Osraigi, Au. i. 574, Lc. i. 40); however, the
name Laigin belongs to Clann Chonnlae (the ancestor of the Osairge) as well as
to Clann Lugdach (ancestor of the Laigin), Ll. 339 a; in 1110 the Sees of Lein.
were Cell Chaindigh, Leithglenn, Cell Dara, Glenn dá Locha, and Ferna nó Loch
Garman, and d. of Glendaloch ext. to Greenoge 5 m. N. of Swords, K. 173 b, Cam.
ii. 784; in Lein. are:-Inbir, Deae, Áth Fadat, Ard mBrestíne, Mag Fea, Áth
Adhat, Cell Abbáin, Dal Mescorb, Doel, Inber Daoile, Cluain Mór Maedoicc, Fir
Cualann, Laigis, Lethglenn, Sléibte, Tulach Fortcheirn, Sliab Maircce, Almu,
Tech Tacra, Ui Bairchi, Ui Dróna, Ui Enechglais, al. Ui Fenechlais, Ui Mudi, Ui
Garchon, Ui Faeláin, Ui Muiredaig, Ui Felmeda, Ui Dunchada, Ui Ercain,
Fotharta, Nás, Rath Naoi in Uib Garchon, Belach Conglais, Cuilend, Duib
Cuilinn, Ath Clíath, Árd Ladrann, Cell Usaille, Cell Chuillind, Cell Céli
Crist, Cell Ard, Cell Luaithreann, Cell Gormáin, Cell Finnmaige, Coill Airnd,
Findabair (Fennor), Cenn Fuat, Belach Mugna; on border of Lein. and Meath was
Dún Cuair nr Enfield, F. i., Ci.; L. adjoined Mag Breg, Lis. 5 a; Doire Mór on
border of L. and Mun., Md. 134; Sliab Mairge, Glenn Da Locha, Cell Maignenn,
Sciach Nechtin Selga, and Moin in it; after defeat of Lein. in 507 fr. Cluain
an Dibair to Uisnech ceased to belong to Lein., Fm i. 166; for more on Lein.
see Lct., Ai. 150 b, I. 173 b, Lis. 241 a, Ar. 14, Sr. 64 a, Mr. 22, Bd. 5,
Mi., Ci., Ui., Chi., Fg., Md., F., Cg., Ct., Ad., Tp., Lct., Ll. 96, 115 a, Ae.
15.
leiti; St. Fiacra
Goll i Leiti, descended fr. Dairi Barrach, I. 57 b 1; St. Emine of the Ui
mBairrche in Leithe, Bb. 73 a, Fir. 462; Cuan Abb Leithi, Hb. 78.
loch mbairchi; in
Sliab Echtga, Ll. 170, 199, Lbl. 916.
mag ailbe; Ll. 200
a; Belach Mugna and Áth Dara in it, Ll. 478, 299 b; on the Barrow, Ll. 299 b,
Rc. xiii. 52; Dind Ríg in it, and it is S. of Moone, c. Kild., Rc. xvi. 378; in
Hui Dróna, Bb. 128 a, Lec. 123; in b. Kilkea and Moone, Lh. 199 b, 61; K. Cormac
mac Cuilionnain killed there, K. 167 b, Fir. 104, 434, Lec. 585, St. B. 401; in
S. of c. Kild., Ac. 42; M. A. ext. fr. r. Barrow and Sl. Mairge to the Wickl.
mts., comprised the N. of b. Idrone, Carl. and bb. Kilkea and Moone, c. Kild.,
Lct.; in tl. Ballyknockan, Cg. 106; in Uib Dróna, Lec. 123; ext. E. fr.
Slewmargy, Queen’s Co., and comprised parts of c. Carl. and c. Kild.; Bealach
Mughna, Ballaghmoone, SW. of Castledermot, was in it, K. 168, Ml. 96, Lec. 123,
Fy. 19, K. 167 b, St. B. 401, who say Cormac mac Cuillionáin was killed there;
ergo nr Belach Mughna; M. n-Albi nr Sliab Mairge, Cf., Ck. fo. 129 a; Bruden
Tuama Tenbath hi Dindrígh Maige Ailbe, Tig. Rc. xvi. 378, Tig., Rawl., B. 502
fo. 1 b, Fir. 224; battle of, Ui., Ll. 47 b; Sleibti in it, Ware’s Script. 3;
Carn Cind on r. Berba in M. A., Lec. 603, F. 182, Hk. 348, Of. 261; np. Maige
Ailbi nr Lethglenn and Sliab Marce, Cs.; dp. issimmaigib Ailbe, It. i. 106; the
place is called Campus Albus, Cs. 501, and is foolishly rendered Whitefield;
Mag Ailbe extends fr. Slewmargy in Queen’s Co., comprises parts of b. Idrone,
Carl., and of Kilkee and Moone in Kild.; Belach Mugna now Ballaghmoone in N.
Carl. is in it, Fy. 18; a famous council held here by Lasserian epscop
Lethglinne, Cs. 409; Ailbe, son of Ugaine Mór, settled there, Lec. 585, Of.
261; others derive the name fr. Ailbe, Mac-Dátho’s hound; in Campis Ailbe “Si
diceres ut Mons Marce pro campis Ailbe, et Campi Ailbe in locum Montis Marce
Commotarentur, fieret;” “si diceres Monti Marge se transferre in Campum Album,
mox fieret,” Cs. 409, 411, 502; this shows where the Synod of Mag Ailbe was
held.
mag an dergraith; in
Ui Bairrchi, I. 57 b.
Mag dá chon; M. dá
chonn; Ui Fethcain (Fethain) of M. da chonn, I. 58 a 1, Lec. 197; in Lein., Ll.
314, Fir. 465; Ui Cnuigh in M. d. Chonn, geneal. of kings of Ui mBairrche, Fir.
462; Ua Néill Maige dá con, Moyacomb p., Fearann Ui Néill in the b. Shilelagh,
Wickl., and partly in b. Ravilly, Carl., Fm. ii. 930, Ods. 674; Moyacomb p.
contains parts of cc. Carl., Wexf., and Wickl.; O Nualláin, airdri Fotharta, O
Néill a Muigh dá chonn, Bran. 153a.
magen garbain; in Ui
Bairche, in Mag Ailbe; a Dún given to Cuach, dau. of Coelbad mac Colum mac
Blaith of the Huib Cellaigh Ua mhBairrche in Magh Ailbe, Ll. 316; in Gabuir, Lein.
Ll. 349, I. 108 b.
maircc lagen; Sa. 87
a; ¶ d. Mairg L., Ll. 286, Tl. 194; ¶ g. ríga Marggae, Cod. Paul.; ¶ Margae,
Mairge, Mairce, F²., Ll. 101, Fia.; ¶ Marce, Marge, Cs., B. lvi.; ¶ Scothine
mind Margae .i. Sc. of Tech Scothine in Sliab Mairge, F².; ¶ Scuithin Sleibe
Maircce, Fg.; ¶ Disert Patraic and Druim Conchind Ui Maircc, Tl. 194; ¶ so in
it were Slievemargey b., and also Tech Scothine (Tiscoffin p.) and Dysart, both
in b. Gowran, c. Kilk.; ¶ v. Bairche.
ocha; cath Ocha
"in regione Mediae," where Crimthann slew Ailill Molt, Codex Kilken.,
in C. p. 460; Iolland mac Dunluing slew Oilill Molt juxta Temoriam (vita 4ta S.
Brigitae, Ct., p. 551), but I think that an Ocha battle was fought in Lein.; in
Ll. 300 a (S. Gad. 408) "Ailill Molt, son of Dathi, swayed Ireland, and
lifts the Boramha (the Boromhan tribute on Leinster), and Leinster (in
preventing his cattle-driving and lifting) won the battles of Luachair in
Bregia, of Duma Aichir (in Leinster), of Ocha, in which also fell Crimthann
(King of Leinster); against another Northern King they won a second battle, ala
chath, of Ocha;" besides the battle of Ocha, in which Lein. slew Ailill in
482, there was the battle of Oc(h)ae in 766, in which the men of S. Breg
defeated the Leinstermen, Mi.; in Au. i. 250 we find "The flight of Ruadri
fr. Óchtar Ochae with the two tribes of the Leinstermen (of N. and S.
Leinster), and Donnchad (King of Ireland) pursued them, and wasted their lands
and churches, an. 779;" this may be inside the Lein. or the Meath border;
at Ocha in Lein. Tuathal slew Eochaid Ancheann mac Branduib of Lein., Of. 302;
Oilill Molt in Ochano praelio occubuit, Of. 428; in Lein., Bb. 48 b, K. 158 a,
Fir. 298, Lg. 181, Lec. 272; there was Uchae, al. Ochen in Ui Bairchi, i.e., in
Ui Cendselaig, Ll. 313; at cath Ocha Ailill Molt was slain by Crimthan, K. of
Lein., Ll. 25, Mm. 484; al. Oche, Ll. 45 b, 182, Ui., Mm. 488; the Ocha in
which Ailill Molt was slain is named in Ll. 24 a, 300 a, Bb. 37 a, 37 b, Ui.,
Mi., Chri., Fy 310, Ac.
ochen; al. Uchae, in
Ui Bairchi (i.e., in Ui Cendselaig), Ll. 313.
óinach colmáin; al.
Ó. n-Ailbi; ¶ burial place of Lein. princes, Lbl. 911; ¶ il-Lifiu,
al. Circus Colmáin, Ll. 331, Bb. 177; ¶ i Mag Life, Lec. 415, Lebor
Muimhnech cited in Fm. vi. 2434; ¶ i Laignib Desgabair, Au. i. 324, Mi.;
¶ coscradh Oenaigh C. la Muiredach for Laigniu Desgabair, Au. i. 324;
¶ Faelan, mac Brian fell fr. his horse there and died, Bb. 36 a, Fm. ii.
644; ¶ al. Ó Lifi, Fm. ii. 672.
ráith
canannáin; in Ui Bairrche, Fir. 434.
ráith caoin; in Ui
Bairrche, Fir. 434.
ráith ronáin; Ronan of in Ui Cellaig Cualand, Ll.
351, Lec. 109, Lb. 20, Fir. 724, Fep.; ¶ Ui Cellaig Cualann is betw.
Tallaght and Britas in the Dublin hills; ¶ Henessy puts it in Wickl., but
Mills in Journal of R. I. A. of 1894, p. 160, shows O'Kelly where I put it.
rann sobairce fr. r. Bóinn to Dún Sobairce in the N.
extremity of Irel., Lg. 88, K. 131 b.
rann sobairce is
cearmna ancient division
of Erin, N. and S. half, Lec. 36.
rann ua mbairrchi;
I. 58 a; v. Ui Bairchi.
sathmon; cath B. in
Ui Bairrche against Coiged Gailian, Lec. 590. saxa; ns. or np., England, Bco. 4
a; dp. Saxaib, ii. 632, Fm. v. 1270, N. civ.
Scothba; Ui Chanain
and Ui Beccáin of S. di Dál Messin Corb in Lein., Ll. 314, Lec. 197, which has
Scothbae; ¶ cath Scothbadh fought against Scaile by Tuathal Techtmar, Lec. 39,
Lg. 143. scotraige; ¶ tribe of Aithechaigh, Bb. 140.
Senchell: Senkyl in
dry. Obargy, d. Kild., Tax.
Síd
buirrche; in Lein., Lis. 170 b; in Slievemargy (?).
Sil daire
bharraigh; the Mac
Gormans or O Gormans of Ibrickan, c. Clare, Fm. v. 1838.
Slechtmag; v. Ráith
Mothaig and Ráith Buirg in it, Fm. i. 36; ¶ in p. of Ryemoghy, c. Don., O'D.; ¶
v. Slecta; ¶ but cf. Mag Slecht. sléibte; ¶ Sléibte, ns. Fia. 170; ¶ dsf.
Slebti, Sleipti, A. 4 b, 15 b, 18 b, Ll. 363, Tl. 52, 192, 194; ¶ al. Slébti,
Tl. 242; ¶ gf. Sléibte, Lh. 96, Fep., Fia. 98, F., Fg., Md., Mi.; ¶ but gn.
Slebti, F., Fg.; ¶ dm. Sléiptiu, Au. i. 148; ¶ dp. Slebtib, Lis. 5 b; ¶ Aed and
Fiacc of Slébte in A., Md., &c.; ¶ v. Ui., Mi., Cri.; ¶ i Laignibh, Fg.,
C.; ¶ i n-Uib Bairche, F.; ¶ Sleaty p. on E. margin of b. Slievemargy, 11/4 m.
NW. of t. of Carlow; ¶ ancient tumulus is there, and a graveyard round the
ruined church, aet. 78; ¶ some of my ancestors are buried there.
Sliab bairche; Ll.
297 a b, Lec. 599; S. mBairche; v. Mairge; seems nr Ros mBrocc.
Sliab cairpri; Lec. 452, Fen.; ¶ hilly region
of N. Longf., wedged in betw. cc. Cav. and Leit.; ¶ it is the N. end of
c. Longf., Ar., Mi.; ¶ nr c. Cav., Md.; ¶ nr b. Tullyhunco, c.
Cav., Ui.; ¶ nr c. Leit.; ¶ "he sent tropps to S. C. against
Muinter Eólais," Mi.; ¶ ext. into Leit.; ¶ v. S. Corrain;
¶ in it or on its highest hill, 686 ft. high, are Carnn Furbuide and
Carnn Maine, Lec. 231; ¶ al. S. Guairi, Lis. 239 b; ¶ al. S.
Uillind, Ar.
Sliab droma gabla;
Fiacc of, of Ui Bairrci, I. 57 b, Bb. 73 a, Fir. 462; v. Crích Ua nGabla.
sliab maircce;
il-Laignib, Fg., F.; ¶ S. Mairci, Ui.;
¶ S. Mairge, Md., Fia., K. 167 b, F.,
Fg., Ll. 350, Fir. 731, Mi., Ci.; ¶ S. Mairgge,
Ll. 286 a; ¶ S. Mairgi, Mi.; ¶ S. Mairrge, Bd. 36; ¶ S. Mairg, Lbl. 436, Ci.; ¶ S. Marce, S. Marge, Cs., Ck. 129 a; ¶ S. Margai, Lb. 18; ¶ S. Marga, Pd. 50; ¶ in it are Cell Gabra (Kilgorey), Ll. 371, F.;
¶ Tech Scuithin (Tascoffin), Md., Ll.
350, Bb. 121 b, Lb. 18, fir. 731; ¶ it
is nr Mag n-Ailbe and Lethglenn, Cs.; ¶
Sleymarge in Leix (Kild. Rental); ¶
O Mori, Lord of, Mi.; ¶ S. M. was
a boundary of d. Ossory, K. 174 a; ¶ now
b. Slievemargie, Queen's Co.; ¶ but of
old it included Tiscoffin, in c. Kilk., 3 m. NW. of Gowran, and even the
Castle-Comer Hills, called Slieve Margie till quite recently, Pgi. s. mairge
mic edlecon; ¶ in Mun., betw. Síd Raigne
and Suide mic morna, Lis. 196 b.
sruth guairi; Ll.
305 a, 353; ¶ Mochelloc Sruthra Guairi, Bb. 125 b, Lec. 118, 616, Fia.; ¶ old
name of r. which waters the KilMichaelogue al. Gorey p., and gave its name to
Gorey, there are 3 Shrule tls. in its vicinity; ¶ Mochellóg Srutha Guaire, Ai.
151; ¶ v. Srub.
suidhe mbuachall;
Benn Bairchi was the Suidhi mBuachall Bhairchi Boaire Rosa Mic Righbuide, I.
165 a; ¶ S. Buachalla, Sa. 64 b.
tamlacht i mboirche;
Md., Fg.; T. i mBairche, Fg.; T. Bairchi, Ll. 358, Mt.
tech mosocrai; Ui
Ronáin of; ¶ in Lein., Lec. 196; ¶ Ui Rónáin of T. Motacrai of the Hui
Bairrchi, Bb. 73 b, I. 57 b; ¶ Fir. 463 has T. Mothagrai.
tech scoithín; C.;
¶ T. Scothíne in Sliab Mairge, F.;
¶ v. T. Scuithin. t. scríne adamnáin;
¶ ch. of Skreen, b. Tireragh, Sli., Fm.
ii. 820, Hb. 86.
tech scuithin ; Fg.,
Mt.; ¶ in Sliab Mairge, Md., C.; ¶
Tiscoffin p. in b. Gowran, c. Kilk.
telach ua mblait;
al. Tulach Ua mBaith; ¶ a Dún given by Cuach, dau. of Caelbad, in Gobair, in
Lein., to her brother, Caemán Airdne, Bb. 77 a, 121 a, Lec. 203, Lb. 17, which
has T. Ua mBloit; ¶ in Ui Bairche Maige h-Ailbe, Lec. 106.
temair mairci; Cond
told Muirni to go to Fiacail mac Conchind to Temraig Mairci, Lu. 42; ¶ T. Margi, Pd. 18; ¶ T. Mairge, Lbl. 878; ¶ al. Druim Conchind, now Clogh Greenan Hill
over Sleaty, Loc. Pat. 270, 197. t. na h-árda; ¶ Ll. 267; ¶
in the Ards of Ulst.; ¶ Tara
earthen fort in S. of the Ards peninsula, E. of Strangford L.; ¶ Tara Hill in tl. Tara; ¶ Cuan Temrach, Tara Bay in c. Down; ¶ the Tara rivulet in c. Louth falls into the
r. Dundalk.
tír fognamhthaidhe;
Cinel nUca in Hui Bairrche-thíre Fognamhthaidhe in Lein., Fir. 463.
traig in chairn al. T. na Tréinfhear, betw. Dún Sobairce and the sea,
in Ulst., Lis. 224 b.
úi allain; Rc. xvii.
381; slew the K. of Hui Bairrche at Disert Diarmuda; cf. Ui Aillen.
ui bairchi; Ui
Bairrchi, F., Tor. 317, Ct., K. 168, Ar. 65 a; b. Slievemarague, Queen's Co.,
plus parts of c. Carl, Fir. 461, Fia., Tp., Mi., Ui., Cri., Ci., B. lvi., lix.;
Kilmolapogue in p. Lorum, Carl., in it; v. I. 58 a, Lec. 198, Fir. 466; in it
are Cell mac Cathail, Md., Fg.; Glenn Uissen, Fg., Md., and Sléibte, Lh. 96.
ui bairchi; in Ui
Ceinnselaich, nr the sea; Árd Crema in it, Cs., fir. 45 a; the b. Bargy in S.
Wexf. is nr the sea, Rc. xvii. 380. ui bairchi; of Mag Argetrois, Lec. 118; for
extent of Ui B. of Lein. territory v. I. 58 a, Lec. 198.
ui bairrce maige
hailbe; Bb. 76, Lec. 106.
ui bairrche maige
indergraith; Ui Chritain of; in Lein., Ll. 313; Ui B. M. in Draigraith, Lec.
197.
ui bairrche tíre; Ui
Dimmatain of, in Lein., Ll. 313; Ui Maenaigh Caisi Scailbhi of Ui B. Tíre, Lec.
197, Ll. 313, Fm. ii. 576, Fia. 150.
ui balláin; nr or in
Ui Bairrche, Mi.
ui barrtha; in
Lein., in Slewmargy, Queen's Co., Tp.; v. Ui Bairchi in Ui Ceinnselaich, supra.
ui braccáin; Cenel
Croicni of the Ui mBairrci dwelt in Ui B., Bb. 73 b.
ui caisse; at the
Cill in Lein., of Ui Bairrchi, Fir. 216, Bb. 74; ¶ v. Caise; ¶ ? nr Kill, Naas.
ui cellaig; in Ui
Bairrche, in Mag Ailbe, in Lein., Ll. 316, Lec. 203.
ui cormaicc; in
Lein. (in Ui Bairchi or Glenn Uissen ?), Ll. 312, F.; v. Dál Cormaic; I cannot
identify Ui Cormaic of Ui.
ui cuaich; al. Úi
Cuaigh; of Ui Bairrche Muige Ailbe, Lec. 106, Bb. 121.
ui dimatai; of Ui
Bairchi Tíre, Bb. 73.
ui duib chilline; in
Ui Bairrchi at Cell Auxilli in Lein., Lec. 198, Bb. 74, Fir. 216.
ui ellaig; of Ui
Bairrche Maige Ailbe, Ll. 349, 313, Lb. 17, Fir. 750; al Fir na Trí Maige, Fir.
463.
ui gabla; over
Dublin, past Drummainech (Drimnagh) over Ui G. past Oughterard, Ll. 116 b; ¶ Ui
G., Ui Dunchada and Fine Gall are raided, Z. 374; ¶ Mac Gilla-Mocholmoc, K. of
S. Dublin, obtained fr. Dermot Mac Murchada (K. of the Foreigners and of Lein.)
an exemption fr. tributes till then claimed fr. Fir Cualann, Ui Dunchada and Ui
Gabla, Ll. fo. 245; ¶ these texts show Ui G. in present b. of N. Salt, c.
Kild., on W. border of S. Dublin, within Mac Gilla M.'s "sphere of
influence; ¶ " but there were Ui G. in other parts of Kild. —viz., Ui
G. Fine, Ui G. Rairend and the Cuthraigi, whose boundaries are given in Lec. 95
a, 193, and v. Inde Mór; ¶ they were not far fr. Mullaghmast, Uada in Leix and
Glenn Uissen in Ui Bairche, cf. Fm. i. 160; ¶ al. Ui Gobla, Mi.
úi laidgein; at Cill
(Auxilli?) belonging to the Hui mBairrci of Lein., Bb. 74a; at Kill, nr Naas;
v. Ui Laigine.
úi maenaigh; Úi M. Choisi
Scailbi in Ui Bairrchi thiri, Lein., Lec. 197, Fia. 184.
ui maic ceallaigh;
at Cenél nOchra in Ui Bairrchi Thíri, in Lein., Lec. 197.
úi mátaid; in
Enechglais Maige, in Lein., Ll. 314; ¶ Ui Madaid in Enechlais Maighi, at Cell
Auxilli in Ui Bairrchi, Bb. 74 a, Lec. 198, Fir. 216, 466, B. lix.
úi michain; of Crich
Ua m-Bairrche Tíre, Ll. 314.
ui taidg; nr Crích
ua m-Bairrche Tíre, Ll. 314; of Taelcoine in Lein., Lec. 197.
úi tresaigh; in Ui Bairrche
Tíre, MacFirbis' Book of Genealogies 462.
uissen; as. Ussin,
N. of Úi Bairchi, Ll. 312, 383; v. Glenn Uisen.
Uissen; as. Uissin,
r. in Mag Uatha, Au. i. 598.
Uissenglind; Ll.
143; ¶ d. Usenglind, Zcp. iii. 20; ¶ Glenn Uisen(?).
Lebor gabála
Érenn : The book of the taking of Ireland – Section IX The Roll of the Kings
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593 b. Gonad iad sin na catha ro bris Túathal for Ultaib. Ateat andso
na catha ך na congala do bris Tathal ar chóiced nGailian, .i, Catli Cluana hlráird, dú n-ar thoit C'airpri mac Tréna, (diadá Drochad
Cairbri i Comar hUa Faelán) la Tuathal; ך is annsin do thoit Dairbri dia dia [sic] Druim nAirbreach. ך cath [Oca], androchair Eochaid Anchenn mac Brannuib Brie, ríg Laigen. ך cath Edair, androchair Eachraid Gailleasrach do Domuannohaib. ך cath Cruachain, androchair Conall mac Uigi meic Eoigin. ך cath Innber Bréna, androchair Uga mac Eogain. ך cath Belaich Oirtbe, ar thoit Findchad Ulach do Gailianchaib. ך cath Resad ar thoit Fithir mac Doid .i. bráthair Sen do macaib Magach .i.
d'Ailill 1 do Cheat i d'Anluan i do Gailianchaib dóib. ך cath Luagad, ar thoid [sic] Lugaid Láimderg do Gailianchaib. ך cath Lifi, androchair Labraid Lámfoda, mac Oirbsen, meic Aithemain,
meic Echach Imfota, meic Cairbri Nia Fer, meic Rosa Ruaid. ך catli Earcba, androchair Maine Móir-eachtach i Ailill, dá mac Indaid,
meic Ogamain, meic Uigi, meic Eogain Eargnaig, meic Setna Sithbaic. ך cath Cuilleann, androchair Condla mac Indait, .i. combráthair-sen
d'Oilill ך do Maine. ך cath Gabra Lifi, androchair Breasal Breogamain do Gailianchaib; ך is ésin fer is aille do bai na aimsir. ך cath nÉremon, .i. cath Droma Almaine, androchair Oilill, mac Cicail,
meic Uigni, meic Scail Bailb, meic Gain, meic Fiachach do Gailianchaib. ך cath Fea, androchair Crimthann Coscrach, mac Eirgi, meic Eogain. ך cath Satmon an lb Bairrche, androchair Scáile mac Eogain. ך cath Rois Lair i Fothartaib, androchair Laine, Mac Eachach, meic
Aengusa, meic Eirgi, meic Eogain. ך cath Morba an lb Cennselaich, androchair Meada, mac Aengusa Urleathain
do Feraib Bolg. ך cath Bri Molt, androchair Rere mac Broin meic Cicail. ך cath Maigi hEni an Aib Máil, androchair Cucorb cona bráithrib. .i.
Cnú, ך Corba, Breasal, Brían, Innait, Eochaid, Fergus, Dáiri. Ro bris scacht catha for eloind Trcganiain nreic Thrcga; tri meic
Tregamain, .i. Trusc ך Lig ך Lugaid, .i. tri bráithri do Morann mac Cairbri Chind cliaid [sic] iad;
Tregamain, mac Trega, meic Cairbri Cind Caid. 593 c. Corob sé catha fichit ro bris for Laignib amail adubramair. |
593 b. So that those are the battles which Túathal broke against the
Ulaid. Here are the battles and the fights which Tuathal broke in the
Province of the Gailoin— Cluain Iraird, the place where Cairpre s. Tren fell (the eponymus of
Droichit Cairpre in Comar of Ua Faeláin) at the hands of Túathal; Dairbre,
eponymus of Druimm Dairbrech, also fell there. [Clonard area – Meath/north
west Kildare] Oca, where Eochu Anchenn s. Bran-Dub Brecc, king of Laigin, fell.
[Meath/north west Kildare?] Etar, where Echraid Gailleasrach of the Domnann fell. [Howth – east
Dublin] Cruachu, where Conall s. Uga s. Eogan fell. [Croghan - north Offaly] Inber Bréna, where Uga s. Eogan fell. [Bray? – east Wicklow] Belach Oirtbe, where Finnchad Ulach of the Gaileoin fell. [?] Resad, where Fithir s. Dot, brother of Sen of the sons of Maga, fell;
that is, of Ailill, Get, and Annluan. They were of the Gailioin. [?] Luagad, where Lugaid Laimderg of the Gailioin fell. [?] Life, where Labraid Lamfhota s. Oirbsen s. Aitheman s. Eochu Imfhota
s. Cairpre Nia Fer s. Eos Ruad fell. [Liffey – east Kildare?] Ercba, where Maine Móir-echtach and Ailill fell ; the two sons of
Inda, s. Ogaman, s. Uga, s. Eogan Ergnach, s. Sétna Sithbac. [?] Cuilleann, where Connla s. Inda fell. He was a common brother to
Ailill and to Maine. [north Wicklow] Gabar Life, where Bresal Breogaman of the Gailioin fell, the most
comely man of his time. [east Kildare] Érimon, that is, the battle of Druimm Almaine, where Ailill, s. Cical,
s. Uigne, s. Seal Balb, s. Gam, s. Fiachu of the Gailioin fell. [north
Kildare?] Fea, where Crimthann Coscrach, s. Erge, s. Eogan, fell. [Mag Fea - barony of Forth,
Carlow] Satmon in Ui Bairrche, where Scaile s. Eogan fell. [Saxon? -
Carlow/Wexford?] Ros Lair in Fotharta, where Laine, s. Eochu, s. Óengus, s. Erge, s.
Eogan, fell. [Rosslare – south Wexford] Morba in Ui Cennselaig, where Meada, s. Óengus Urleathan, of the Fir
Bolg, fell. Bri Molt, where Rere, s. Bron, s, Cical fell. [Primult/Ballyburly – east Offaly] Mag nEni in Ui Máil, where Cú Corb fell, with his brethren Cnú, Corba,
Bresal, Brian, Innait, Eocliu, Fergus, Dáire. [west Wicklow?] Túathal broke seven battles against the progeny of Tregaman s. Treg;
the three sons of Tregaman were Trusc, Lig, and Lugaid, who were three
brethren to Morann s. Cairpre Cinn-chait. Tregaman was s. Treg s. Cairpre
Cinn-chait. 593 c. So that there were twenty-six battles which he broke against
the men of Laigin as we have said. |
References to Dáire Barraig, founder
of the Uí Bairrche, and his reign:
According
to this Middle Irish poem in the Book of Leinster, Rus Failge, Dáire Barrach
and Enechglas were triplets born to Catháir by the goddess Medb.
CLanna Falge Ruis
in ríg
CLanna Falge Ruis in ríg. Medb ingen Bresail bulid I n-oenfecht batar ina
broinn. Lám chlé Ruis Falge cen
feill. Ros Falge finnat na fir Lam dess Ruis Falge uile Dáre Barrach co ngnuis glain
Guth na rigna ra n-athair Comardai do mac a
Medb Do meic a Medb co
mbaide Cip é brisses báig na fer Ór derg tuarastul in trír a [marg. Sup.] Indé ro marbad Domnall mac Congalaig hui Chonchobuir Fhalge [ ] bail (stained) |
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Mogh Nuadat, cidh día tá? Ni ansa. Daire Barrach mac Catháir Mháir is é ros-ail Mogh Nuadat .i. Eogan mac Mogha Nét. Dorighnedh cumdach Dúin Aillinne fecht ann la Dáire m-Barrach mac Cathair. Robhói tra ráthmhoghaidh amra a n-Érinn intan sin .i. Núadha Sálfada mac Aengusa mic Fir Da Crích a crich Cuailgne, nert céit ann, sáith cóicait nomheleth. Tucad co Dáire m-Barrach in mogh sin do chumdach Dhuine Aillinne. INtan badar isin cluidh iga thochailt dorala íarsin cloch mhór dóibh isin cluidh & forfeimidh in mogh a tógbáil. Dobhadar maccraidh in dunaidh & Eogan etarru ar in claidhe na rátha ig fechain in mogaidh ag locad in fedhma. Do íarr in mogh for in maccraidh in chloch do chur assin chlaidh. Rus-eitigh in maccraidh inní sin acht Eogan a aenur. Dochuaidh tra Éogan isin cluidh & do íadh a dhí laimh iman cloich, & rus-tógaibh 'na aenur in chloch, & do chuir ar uillinn deiscertaigh in dúini. Conus fil ann o sin a leth. IS ann asbert in drái frissin mogh: ‘Is saér do mogh aníu, a Núadha!’ or in drai. Conid dé sin rolil Mog Nuadhat de, & is úaidh rohainmnighedh iarsan slicht sin. Cóir Anmann |
Book of Leacan, fol. 167 Eoghan
Mor went after that to assume the kingship of Mumhain [Munster] accompanied
by his foster-father, that is, Daire Barrach, son of Cathaeir Mór. There were
three kings over Mumhain at that time, namely, Lughaidh Allathach and Daire
Dornn-mhor [of the great fists], grandfather of Lughaidh Allathach, and
Aengus. These were of the race of Conaire, the son of Meshuachalla. They gave
Eoghan three battles, namely, the battle of Samair, in which Lughaidh
Allathach was killed ; and the battle of Samhain, in which Daire Dornnmhor
fell ; for it was Eoghan gained those battles all. Class. H. 3. 18. ;
page 567; Library of Trinity College, Dublin. 40. Mog Nuadat, whence is it? Easy to say. Dáire Barrach son of Catháir Mor, 'tis he that reared Mog Nuadat, that is, Eogan son of Mog Néit. Once upon a time the fortification of Dún Aillinne was undertaken by Dáire Barrach. Now there was then in Erin a famous rath-builder, Nuada Long-heel, son of Oengus, son of Fer dá chrích in the district of Cualnge. In him was the strength of a hundred, and he would eat the fill of fifty. This slave was brought to Dáire to fortify Dún Aillinn. When they were in the trench, a-digging it, they came upon a huge stone in the trench, and the slave was unable to raise it. The youths of the fortress, and among them Eogan, were on the dyke of the earthwork, watching the slave flinching from the effort. The slave asked the youths to put the stone out of the trench. This the youths, save only Eogan, refused. Then Eogan entered the trench, and clasped his two arms round the stone, and he alone lifted it up, and hurled it into the southern angle of the fort And there it remains thenceforward. Then said the druid to the slave: "Noble is thy slave today, O Nuada!" quoth the druid. Wherefore Mog Nuadat, 'Nuada's Slave', clave to Eogan, and from Nuada he was named, according to this version (of the story). (Curry:
The Rattle Of Magh Leana) & |
Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (Book I-II)
Do ghabh Cathaoir Mór mac Feidhlimidh Fíorúrghlais mic
Cormaic Gealta Gaoth mic Nia Corb mic Con Corb mic Mogha Corb mic Conchubhair Abhradhruadh mic
Finn Fhileadh mic Rossa Ruaidh mic Fearghusa Fairrge mic Nuadhat Neacht mic
Séadna Síothbhaic mic Luighdheach Loithfhinn mic Breasail Bhric mic Fiachach
Foibhric mic Oiliolla Ghlais mic Fearadhaigh Foghlais mic Nuadhat Fullóin mic
Eallóit mic Airt mic Mogha Airt mic Criomhthainn Choscraigh mic Feidhlimidh
Foirthriuin mic Fearghusa Fortamhail mic Breasail Breodhamhain mic Aonghusa
Ollamhan mic Oiliolla Bhrácáin mic Labhradha Loingsigh do shíol Éireamhóin
ríoghacht Éireann trí bliadhna. Do bhádar iomorro tríochad mac ag Cathaoir,
amhail adeir an file san rann-so:
Gidheadh
do chuadar fiche don chloinn sin gan tsliocht, agus táinig sliocht ar an
deichneabhar oile dhíobh. Ag so anmanna na mac ar a dtáinig sliocht: Rossa
Fáilgheach sinnsear na cloinne ar a dtáinig sliocht, Dáire Barrach,
Breasal Einiochghlas, Fearghus, Oilill, Criomhthann,
Deargmhosach, Eochaidh Teimhin, Aonghus is Fiachaidh
Aiceadha sóisear na cloinne tar ceann gurab ag a shliocht fá gnáthaighe
ríoghacht Laighean. Ar sliocht Fiachach Aiceadha mic Cathaoir Mhóir
atá Ó Broin is Ó Tuathail. Ar sliocht Breasail Bhéalaigh mic
Fiachach Aiceadha atá Mac Murchadha. Ar sliocht Rossa Fáilghigh
mic Cathaoir Mhóir atá Ó Conchubhair Fáilghe agus Ó Díomasaigh
agus O Duinn agus clann Cholgan amhail adéaram da éis-so ag
craobhscaoileadh mac Míleadh; agus is lé Conn Céadchathach do
thuit an Cathaoir Mór-so i g-Cath Maighe hAgha. Do ghabh Conn
Céadchathach mac Feidhlimidh Reachtmhair mic Tuathail Teachtmhair do
shíol Éireamhóin ríoghacht Éireann fiche bliadhan gur thuit le Tiobraide
Tíreach mac Máil mic Rochruidhe i bhfeall i dtuaith Theamhrach
agus é uaigneach ann. Caogad iomorro laoch do chuir Tiobraide i
reachtaibh ban da mharbhadh agus is a h-Eamhain do thrialladar do
dhéanamh na feille sin. Úna, inghean ríogh Lochlann, fá máthair don Chonn-so.
Is don Chonn-so do bhean Mogh Nuadhat leath Éireann iar
mbriseadh deich gcath ar Chonn dó. Síoda inghean Fhloinn mic
Fiachach do Éarnaibh máthair Mhogha Nuadhat. Is amlaidh
iomorro tarla iomrasan idir Mhogh Nuadhat agus Chonn mar tharla
d'Éarnaibh do shliocht Fiachach Fir Mara do shíol Éireamhóin
treise do ghabháil san Mhumhain ar shíol Éibhir, ionnus go
rabhadar triúr díobh i n-aoinfheacht i gceannas na Mumhan uile mar atá
Lughaidh Eallaightheach Dáire, Dornmhar agus Aonghus.
Agus mar do chonnairc Mogh Nuadhat síol Éireamhóin i gceannas Mumhan
triallais go Laighnibh mar ar hoileadh é ag Dáire Barrach mic
Cathaoir Mhóir go dtug sluagh líonmhar leis do chongnamh ó Dháire
ré flaitheas Mumhan do ghabháil amhail fá dual dó; agus tug ucht ar
dtús ar deisceart Mumhan i n-Uíbh Liatháin mar ar ghabh an t-Aongus
thuas treise, agus brisis Mogh Nuadhat de agus ionnarbais as an dtír
é, go ndeachaidh as sin d'iarraidh conganta ar Chonn agus tug Conn
cúig catha dhó .i. cúig míle deag fear infeadma. Triallais leis an sluagh
soin go crích Liathain mar a dtug Mogh Nuadhat Cath Arda
Neimhidh dhó mar ar bhris de agus mar a dtug ár a mhuinntire. Da éis sin do thathfainn Mogh
Nuadhat Éarna as Mumhan, an méid nach raibhe umhal dó féin
díobh gur fhás dá bhítin cogadh mór idir Mhogh Nuadhat agus Chonn
gur bhris Mogh Nuadhat deich gcatha ar Chonn mar atá Cath Brosnaighe
agus Cath Samhpaite Cath Sléibhe Musaigh Cath Gabhrain
Cath Suama agus Cath Gréine agus Cath Átha Luain agus
Cath Maighe Cróich mar ar thuit Fiachaidh Rioghfhada mac
Feidhlimidh Reachtmhair; Cath Asail agus Cath Uisnigh. Agus
do bhí an t-iomreasan-so eatorra gur bhean Mogh Nuadhat leath Éireann
do Chonn mar atá a bhfuil ón Ghaillimh agus ó Áth Cliath
budh dheas d'Éirinn agus Eiscir Riada 'n-a teorainn eatorra;
agus is é ainm ghairmthear don leath soin Leath Mogha ó Eoghan
da ngairthí Mogh Nuadhat. Agus Leath Cuinn gairthear don leith
budh thuaidh ó Chonn Chéadchathach; gonadh ag faisnéis na ronna-so do
rinne file éigin an rann-so:
Fáth oile fár bhean Mogh
Nuadhat leath Éireann do Chonn mar tharla gorta mhór seacht
mbliadhna i n-Éirinn lé n-a linn; agus sul táinig aimsear na gorta
soin ann do thairrngir draoi Eoghain cian ré an ngorta do theacht go
dtiocfadh sí ar Éirinn uile agus is eadh do rinne Eoghan air
sin i n-oirchill na gorta caitheamh ar fheolmhach agus ar iascach agus
an t-arbhar do choigill; agus fós gach cíos agus gach cáin da roicheadh dhó
is ar arbhar do-bheireadh é, gur líonadh a iothlanna leis, agus mar rug an
aimsear ghann air tángadar as gach leith mórán d'fhearaibh Éireann
'n-a dháil agus do ghabhadar cíos agus cáin orra féin d'Eoghan tré n-a
mbeathughadh feadh na haimsire cruaidhe sin, amhail léaghthar san duain darab
tosach, Eoghan Mór fá mór a rath: 1.
Do dhearscnuigh Eoghan tar Conn, 2.
Doirtis orra an ghorta ghann— 3.
Ód chualaidh cách — cian ro char — Do bhádar iomorro cheithre
hanmanna ar Mhogh Nuadhat, mar atá Eoghan Fidhfheacach, Eoghan
Mór, Eoghan Taoidhleach agus Mogh Nuadhat amhail adeir an
file san rann-so: 1.
Cheithre hanmanna gan bhrón Ma's maith leat iomorro fios
fátha gach foranma da luaidhtear san rann-so d' fhagháil léigh an Chóir
Anmann agus do-ghéabhair innte iad. Is í fá bainchéile d'Eoghan Mhór
.i. Beara inghean Éibhir Mhóir mic Modhna rí na Castile agus rug sí
mac agus dias inghean dó. Oilill Ólom an mac agus Scoithniamh
agus Coinneal anmanna an dá inghean. Ag so deismireacht an tseanchaidh
ar an ní-se: 1.
Beara inghean Éibhir uill, Is lé Conn Céadchathach
fós do marbhadh Mogh Nuadhat 'n-a leabaidh tré fheall (do réir
dhruinge ré seanchus), ar dtabhairt ionnsuighthe maidne air, agus iad ré
hucht catha do thabhairt da chéile ar Maigh Léana. Is uime ghairthear Conn
Céadchathach ar an rígh-se ar a bhfuilmíd ag tráchtadh ó na céadaibh cath
do chuir ar chúigeadhaibh Éireann amhail nochtas an rann-so: 1.
Céad cath ar an Mumhain mhóir, Is lé Tiobraide Tíreach do marbhadh Conn i bhfeill i d-Teamhraigh. |
The History of Ireland (BOOK I-II) Author: Geoffrey
Keating Cathaoir Mor son of Feidhlimidh Fiorurghlas, son of
Cormac Gealta Gaoth, son of Nia Corb, son of Cu Corb, son of Mogh Corb, son
of Conchubhar Abhradhruadh,
son of Fionn File, son of Rossa Ruadh, son of Fearghus Fairrge, son of Nuadha
Neacht, son of Seadna Siothbhac,son of Lughaidh Loithfhionn, son of Breasal
Breac, son of Fiachaidh Foibhric, son of Oilill Glas, son of Fearadhach
Foghlas, son of Nuadha Fullon, son of Ealloit, son of Art, son of Mogh Airt,
son of Criomhthann Coscrach,son of Feidhlimidh Foirthriun, son of Fearghus
Fortamhail, son of Breasal Breodhamhan, son of Aonghus Ollamh, son of Oilill
Bracain, son of Labhraidh Loingseach of the race of Eireamhon, held the
sovereignty of Ireland three years. Now Cathaoir had thirty sons, as the poet
says in this stanza:
But twenty of these children went without issue, and the other ten had issue. Here are the names of the sons who had issue:—Rossa Failgheach senior of the sons who had issue, Daire Barrach, Breasal Einiochghlas, Fearghus, Oilill, Criomhthann, Deargmhosach, Eochaidh Teimhin, Aonghus, and Fiachaidh Aiceadha, the youngest of the children, although it was his descendants who mostly held the sovereignty of Leinster. From Fiachaidh Aiceadha son of Cathaoir Mor sprang O Broin and O Tuathail; from Breasal Bealach son of Fiachaidh Aiceadha sprang Mac Murchadha; from Rossa Failgheach son of Cathaoir Mor sprang O Conchubhair Failghe and O Diomasaigh and O Duinn and clan Colgan, as we shall afterwards state when we are giving the genealogy of the sons of Milidh. And this Cathaoir Mor fell by Conn Ceadchathach in the Battle of Magh hAgha. Conn
Ceadchathach son of Feidhlimidh Reachtmhar, son of Tuathal Teachtmhar of the
race of Eireamhon, held the sovereignty of Ireland twenty years, and was
treacherously slain in the district of Tara, being found alone there by
Tiobraide Tireach son of Mal, son of Rochruidhe, king of Ulster. Indeed,
Tiobraide sent fifty warriors disguised as women to slay him; and it was from
Eamhain they set out to do that treacherous deed. Una daughter of the king of
Lochloinn was the mother of this Conn. Mogh Nuadhat wrested half of Ireland
from this Conn, having defeated him in ten battles. Sioda daughter of Flann
son of Fiachaidh, one of the Earna, was the mother of Mogh Nuadhat. The contest
between Mogh Nuadhat and Conn arose in this way: The Earna of the race of
Fiachaidh Fear Mara of the race of Eireamhon had gained supremacy in Munster
over the race of Eibhear, so that three of them held conjointly the
sovereignty of all Munster, namely, Lughaidh Eallaightheach, Daire Dornmhar,
and Aonghus. And when Mogh Nuadhat saw the race of Eireamhon holding the
sovereignty of Munster, he proceeded to Leinster, where he had been brought
up by Daire Barrach son of Cathoir
Mor, and brought thence a numerous host from Daire to assist him in
recovering the kingdom of Munster, which was his birthright. He first turned
to Ui Liathain in the south of Munster, where the above-mentioned Aonghus had
established his sway, and Mogh Nuadhat defeated him, and drove him from the
territory, so that he went to seek the aid of Conn, who gave him five
battallions, that is fifteen thousand fighting men. With this host he
proceeded to the territory of Ui Liathain, where Mogh Nuadhat fought against
him the Battle of Ard Neimhidh, in which he defeated him with great slaughter
of his followers. After
this Mogh Nuadhat expelled the Earna from Munster, as many of them as would
not submit to him, whence arose a great war between Mogh Nuadhat and Conn,
and Mogh Nuadhat defeated him in ten battles: namely, the Battle of Brosnach
and the Battle of Samhpait; the Battle of Sliabh Musach; the Battle of
Gabhran; the Battle of Suama and the Battle of Grian and the Battle of Ath
Luain; and the Battle of Magh Croich, wherein fell Fiachaidh Rioghfhada son
of Feidhlimidh Reachtmhar; the Battle of Asal and the Battle of Uisneach; and
this conflict lasted till Mogh Nuadhat wrested half of Ireland from Conn,
that is, the part of Ireland to the south of Gaillimh and Ath Cliath, Eiscir
Riada being the boundary between them; and that half is called Leath Mogha,
from Eoghan who was called Mogh Nuadhat; and the northern half is called
Leath Cuinn, from Conn Ceadchathach. In declaration of this division some
poet composed this stanza:
Another reason, also, why
Mogh Nuadhat wrested half of Ireland from Conn is that there was a great
famine in Ireland for seven years in his time; and, before the time of this
famine came, Eoghan's druid foretold, long before the coming of the famine,
that it would come upon all Ireland; and Eoghan, to make provision for the
famine, used venison and fish for food, and stored the corn, and, moreover,
he spent on corn all the rents and tributes he received, so that he filled
his granaries; and, when the time of scarcity arrived, many of the men of
Ireland came to him from all sides, and laid themselves under rent and
tribute to Eoghan for his supporting them during that time of distress, as we
read in the poem which begins, Eoghan Mor, great was his success: 1.
Eoghan transcended Conn, 2.
Lean famine rained on them— 3.
When men heard—far it spread— Mogh Nuadhat had four
names, namely, Eoghan Fidhfheacach, Eoghan Mor, Eoghan Taoidhleach, and Mogh
Nuadhat, as the poet says in this stanza: 1.
Four names without grief Now, if thou desirest, to
learn the reason of each of these names mentioned in this stanza, read the
Coir Anmann and thou wilt find it there. Eoghan Mor's wife was Beara daughter
of Eibhear Mor son of Modhna, king of Castile, and she bore him a son and two
daughters; the son's name was Oilill Olom, and the two daughters' names
Scoithniamh and Coinneal. Here is the seancha's proof of this: 1.
Beara daughter of great Eibhear Moreover,
Conn Ceadchathach slew Mogh Nuadhat in his bed, having treacherously,
according to some seanchas, attacked him at early morning, as they were on the
point of engaging in battle against each other on Magh Leana. This king of
whom we are treating was called Conn Ceadchathach, from the hundreds of
battles he fought against the provincial kings of Ireland, as this stanza
sets forth:
Conn was treacherously slain by Tiobraide Tireach at Tara. |
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Foras
Feasa ar Éirinn L55 Is
i bhflaitheas an rígh-se fuair Tighearnach easpog Chluana Eoais, do shliocht
Dáire Bharraigh mic Cathaoir Mhóir, bás, agus Oilill mac Muireadhaigh do bhí
'n-a rígh Laighean naoi mbliadhna. |
The History of Ireland - Geoffrey Keating Section 6 VI.Page 55It
was in the reign of this king [Diarmaid, son of Fearghus Ceirrbheoil] that
Tighearnach, bishop of Cluain Eoais, of the race of Daire Barrach, son of
Cathaoir Mor, and Oilill, son of Muireadhach, who was nine years king of
Leinster, died. |
References
to Muiredach Mo-Snítheach and Móenech, of the Uí Bairrche,
and their line:
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Rawl. B.502 (O’Brien) De Regibus Lagenorum et de ordinibus eorum
nunc incipit ... Aittreib Cathaír
cóecait mhbliadnae buanfhlaith Aiccid Fiacha
fírmaith flaith fecair fuamdaith. For-bris Bresal
Bélach bethir bord buaidgnaid Brúis srábu Síl
Cuind cernach caur cruaidgnaid. Con-saíd in rí
ruadfoirb ar-dingg doibsius Ro-bí macco
Lifechair Liphi i lluinhg loigsius. Lonhgais
maro Muiredach Mo-Snítheach sóerchlann sochla sain
comarddae comarbba cóemchlann Con-gab múru
mórmaige macrí Móenech márgein, Mac Cáirthinn in
cathchobair nathchobair nárgein. Gnío níthach
Nad-Buidb bar hEirc Buadaig buaidrí, Búirid muad
mathchorach cathchorach cruaidrí. Curaid crodeirg
cathbuadaig críchi sluag sárneirt, Slán mos-teilctis
di tháeb Temra níthaib nárneicht. Nidu., Book of Leinster (O’Sullivan) Is é inso sís anmand na ríg-sin ro gabsat hÉrinn: ...Cathair
Mār, Fiachu
Baccid, Bresal
Bēlach, Muridach
Snīthi, Nad-Buid. |
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Rawl.
B.502 (O’Brien) Robo rí hÉrend Muiredach Sníthi cut Laidcenn dixit: Longais mauru Murithach ut suprac c-c om BB. ut Laidcend dixit isin fursundud mār, Lec. .i. ro sní rígi hÉrend dó féin, ut Ladcend dixit: Longais mauru Murithach moarddae Sníthe sáerchland sochla sám comarbbae (.i. ro bátar longse móra aice nó ro chuirestar sochaide for longais) LL Book of Leinster (O’Sullivan) Robo rí hÉrenn dā in Muridach Sníthi .i. ro sní rígi hÉrenn dó féin. ut Ladcend dixit: Longais mauru Murithacha mo arddae Sníthe sáerchland sochla saín comarbbae a .i. robatar longse móra aice ɬ ro
chuirestar sochaide for longais (Hemprich) Robo rí hÉrend dano in Muridach Sníthi .i. ro .sní rígi hÉrend dó féin. Ut Ladcend dixit: Longais mauru Murithach / mo arddae Sníthe sáer-chland / sochla sain comarbae // (.i. ro .bátar longse móra aice nó ro.chuirestar sochaide for longais) |
›Außerdem war er König von Irland, dieser Muiredach Sníthe. [Sníthe] bedeutet: Er hatte Irlands Oberherrschaft an sich gebunden (ro.sní). Wie Ladcenn sagte: „Muirethach, der stolze Mo Sníthe von edlem Stamm, schlug (?) Erhabene, ein ehrbarer, einzigartiger Nachfolger.“ (das bedeutet: Er hatte große Flotten, oder er hatte Truppen für eine Invasionen zur See gemustert.)‹ [He was also King of Ireland, this Muiredach Sníthe. [Sníthe] means: He had Ireland's sovereignty bound (ro.sní). As Ladcenn said: “Muirethach, the proud Mo Sníthe of noble tribe, struck (?) Sublime honorable, unique successor.” (That means: he had large fleets or he had troops for invasions See patterned.)] |
References to Ailill the Great, of
the Uí Bairrche, and his line:
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Félire Óengusso Céli Dé Eithne ingen Díma mic Nóe mic Echach mic Coirpri filed mic Ailella Mair mic Breccain mic Feic mic Dairi Barraig mic Caithar Moir, a mathair Coluim cille. Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (Book I-II)
Is dearbh fós
gurab Éireannach Colum Cille do leith a mháthar, do réir sheanschusa na hAmhra
mar a n-abair gurab í Eithne inghean Díoma mic Naoi do shliocht Chairbre Nia
Fear rí Laighean a mháthair. Ag so mar adeir an Amhra: 1. Eithne aircachta nodbí, |
Aillill the Great was king of
Ireland according to the tract on the mothers of saints attributed to Oengus the Culdee in the Book of Lecain
(O’Hanlon) The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee Eithne, daughter of Dimma mac Noe, son of Eocaid, son of Cairbre the poet, son of Ailill the great, son of Breccán, son of Fiacc, son of Dáire Barrach, son of Catháir the Great, was Colum cille’s mother. The History of Ireland (BOOK I-II) Author: Geoffrey
Keating This is the genealogy of St. Collum Cill…that he was likewise of Irish extraction by the family of his mother, appears from the testimony of the treatise before mentioned, called the Vision of Collum Cill, which records that Eithne, the daughter of Dioma, son of Naoi, who came from the posterity of Cairbre Niafer, king of Leinster, was the mother of this saint. The following verses are translated from the same writer: Eithne, a noble and virtuous princess, Sprung from the illustrious line of Cairbre, Was daughter of Dioma, son of Naoi, And mother to St. Collum Cill |
References to Eochu Guinech, King of
Uí Bairrche, and his reign:
LL39b5
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Rig
Lagen... Crimthand
mac Ennae Eocho Guinech rí Hua
mhBarrchi mac a ingini féin ros marb. |
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The Expulsion of the Dessi. Rawlinson B502 version
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6. Tecmall ri Temrach firu Herenn forthu 7 ni damair cert catha doib, co tarlaicset a thir do. Dolotar iarum co Laigniu co Fiachaig m-Baicceda mac Catháir, co rochart side hú Bairrche remib asa tir 7 fothaigtir na Deisse ann co haimsir Crimthaind maic Ennae Ceinselaig maic Labrada maic Bresail Belaig maic Fiachach Baicceda. 7. Dorala laech amra la hu Bairrchi .i. Eochu Guinech mac Oengusa, co rosglan side dia thir. Berthitius Crimthand mac Ennae i n-Aird Ladrann fodes immirge na n-Deisse, conid de ata Tir na Himmergi 7 Aes na Him- mergi o shein ille. 8....Bae Bri mac Bairceda in
drui isin dun in n-aidchi... 15. Isind aimsir sin ba
marb ben Oengusa maic Nadfraich rig Caisil, et dothaet nech uad do thochmarc
na hingine cucco, ar robse Eithne moalle friusom thiar. Atrogell Oengus a tri
rinnroisc di. Batar se a tri rindroisc . i . faithchi Chaissil o Luaisc co
Caissel do thabairt di 7 a maithriu do airisem ann. Et in cenel nothogfaitis
do aurglanad rempu 7 a dilsi doib in tiri sin. Et comsaire doib frisna teora
Heoganachta Muman .i. E [0] gonacht Raithlind 7 Eoganacht Locha Lein 7
Eoganacht Hua Fidgeinti co n-Huib Liathain. |
6. The King of Tara [Cormac †253AD] gathered the men of Ireland against them, and did not grant them fair fight, so that they left his land to him. Then they went into Leinster to Fiachu Bacceda, son of Cathair, who drove the Hui Bairrche for them out of their land; and there the Dessi were settled until the time of Crimthann, son of Enna Censelach, son of Labraid, son of Bressal Belach, son of Fiachu Bacceda. 7. There chanced to be a famous warrior with the Hui Bairrchi, to wit, Eochu Guinech, son of Oengus, and he it was who drove them out of their land. Then Crimthann, son of Enna, sent the wandering host of the Dessi to Ard Ladrann [Ardamine below Courtown] southward, whence the Land of the Wandering Host and the Folk of the Wandering Host have been so called ever since. 8...Bri, the druid, son of Bairchid," was in the
stronghold [Crimthand’s]... 9. Now, it was that druid's grandfather, who had sung their wanderings to them as they went from the north to the battle of Truistiu. 'Tis then he said: &c. “Not from Tara”
.... 13.
Thereupon Crimthann sent them into Ard Ladrann. And after the death of
Crimthann, his sons made war upon the Dessi; and one of them, Eochu, took the
oak with its roots to them. And in a rout they drove them out into the land
of Ossory. 15. At
that time the wife of Oengus son of Nadfraich, King of Cashel, died, and a
messenger was sent by him to the Dessi to woo the maiden Ethne, for she had
been with them in the west. Oengus promised her three wishes. These were her
three wishes, to wit, that the meadow land of Cashel from Luasc to Cashel be
given to her, for her mother’s kindred to dwell there, that the tribe which
they would choose should clear the land before them, which should then belong
to them; and that they should be as free as the three Eoganacht of Munster,
to wit, the Eoganacht of Raithlenn, the Eoganacht of Loch Lein and the
Eoganacht of the Hui Fidgenti together with the Hui Liathain. Of the
septs of the Dessi 23] Nine
men of Nindfer, son of Bairche, from whom are the Nindrige. |
Meyer, Kuno.
"The Expulsion of the Deissi." Y Cymmrodor. v. XIV. 1901.
http://research.ucc.ie/celt/document/T302005
The Expulsion of the Dessi. Laud 610 version
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Doratsat na Déise
iarsin secht catha do Chormac. Ba tresiu fortarlin fer nHeirenn fadeoid la
Cormac. Ba maith cid a cenel-som.i. na nDéise, cland Fiachach Soguitte maic
Feidlimthe Rectoda maic Tuathail Techtmair. Oc Dumu Der immurgu, is and
celebrait mna na nDéra .i. déra fola rotheilcset ic scarad fria tir 7 fria
talmuin co bráth. Im-Maig Inair is and doratsat in cath deidenach. 'Is
ininair [sic] in comrac indossa,' ar Cormac. 'Bid ed a hainm co bráth Mag
Innair.' Rodlomtha trá co mbatar occ hArd na nDéise hi crich Laigen for Mag
Liffe. Fiacho Baicceda immurgu mac Cathair Moir is hé ba rígh in inbaid sin
hilLaignib. Cart side au Barrche rempu assa tír 7 suidigestar na Déise and.
Rothrebsat and co haimsir Crimthain mic Censelaig mic Enda Labrada mic
Bresail Belaig mic Fiachach Bacceda. Is na haimsir side tollotar na Deisse
for longais... Robbi óclách
amrae d'Uib Barrche. Glansuidhe dia tír. Berthus Crimthan mac Censelaich
issind aird fodeissin. Bert Meld ingen Ernbuirnd maccu do-side. O rodamuir
side, dobreth Annu ingen Er[n]bruind. Dobert side óeningin do .i. Ethne a
hainm. Bai Brl faith mac Bairchetia isin din ind adaich sin... ...Búi Brí faith mic
Bairchetia isin dún ind adaich sin... IS hi aimser ba
marb ben Oengusa maic Nadfraich hi Caisiul. Ardrig Caisil 7 Muman heside.
Tochomaire a ndalta doib-som Ethne hUathaig ar suide doib-seom thiar.
Dobertatar, a tri rindroisc di tar a héise. 'Is mo inrasc-sa ém,' ol sí 'faithchi Chaisil .i. o Lueisc co Caissel 7
cenel dongoetais na Déise do glanad remib 7 a dilsi doib iarum in tire sein 7
comsoere doib fri rig teora nEoganachta Muman .i. rí Raithlind 7 rí Lochrae 7
ri Hua Fidgenti co nHuib Liathan.' |
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Meyer, Kuno. "The Expulsion of the Deissi."
Ériu, Vol. 3 (1907), pp. 135-142
The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown] )Volume 3
poem 29
Sliab Mairge I
poem 30
Sliab Mairge II
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poem 32
Loch Garman
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poem 56Sliab n-Echtga II
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Rennes Dindshenchas
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38. SLIAB MAIRGE. Sliab Mairgi, comas roainmniged? Ni ansa. Marg mac Giusoigh meic Lodoin Leith Luachra, rechtaire ríg Fomoire .i. Cendtarcluais a ainm .i. cétcluasta. Eocha dano Muinisti for cóicid Gailian ann. Targlamsat Laigin a cís rechtaidhe do co Belach Nemed. Rainic dano a bíad & ni comarnaic a deogh níadh. Rongab deine im tomoilt in tirmcarna co ndecmaic tart bráighit do, co tathaim de & a cenn fri cenn in tsleib. [Unde] Sliab Mairge. 39. ARD LEMNACHTA. Ard Lemnachta, canas roainmniged? Ni ansa. Cath tuc Crimthann Sciathbel ri Laigen do Tuathaib Fidhgha & Fochmaind. Nert cét cach fir dib. Atbailedh [intí] fora ndergdáis, & ni gabdais renda no fæbra friu. Tuc dano Crimthann clainn Cruithnig do cobraidh cucu, & doruaichill foirb Fer Fidh[gh]a doib dia mbidis coscraigh. As ann isbert Trostan drai Cruithnech: ‘Tomlactaiter .lll. lulgach n-ænndatha i n-æn clasaig, & nan-gonfat Fidhghaide fothraicther sin lemnacht sin, & atré slan o neimib a n-arm. Ana slaidfider dibseom immorro dichnetar uile.’ Fognid samlaid & ba coscrach Crimthann & torcradar Tuatha Fidhga. Unde Ard Lemnachta. 40. LOCH GARMAN. 1. Loch Garman, cid diata? 2. Ni ansa. Garman Glas mac Degann rohadnacht ann, & intan foclas a fert is ann romebaid in loch fo tír. Unde Loch Garman et cuius erat frater Dea mac Degann, a quo Inber nDeda i Crich Cualann et reliqua. 3. Aliter Loch Garmon .i. Garmun Garb mac Boma leice robáided and la Catháir Mór hi tipraid Puirt Cælranna, ar ba hé a cétainm, & is and mebaid in loch tunc. Feis Temra fognit[h]e la Catháir ar samoin, tri laithi riam & tri iarum, cen gait is gan guin, gan aidbriud, gan athgabáil, gan eccraiti, gan aithed, conid ann dofall Garmun minn óir mna Catháir iar mbeith don tslog ar mesce. Musluid Garmon le mind óir na rigna & muinter Cathair freis co ruccad fair ic tiprait Cælcenda. conid aca bá[d]ad romebaid in loch. Unde Loch Garmon. 4. O Slainge mac Dela, o ríg Fer mbolg ainmnigther in aband .i. Slaine & Inber Slaine. I n-aimsir Catháir immorro ainmniugud an locha amail asbert hi fís Catháir. 5. Fecht i tosach a bethad do Catháir ina codlad co facca ingin in briugad [cétaig] co ndeilb cáin & cach dath ina timtaig & si torrach. Dccc. bliadan di samlaid co ro tæ gein mac & ba treseam olda a máthair in laithe rofuccad. Cuirit glíaid, & ni fuair a máthair inad dia imgabail acht techt tre medón in ma[i]c. Cnocc oeibind osa cind dib línaib, airde cach tulaig co slogaib and. Bile etrocht amail ór isin cnuc, cosnied co niula ara airde. Cach ceol ina duillib. Brechtais a torrthea in talam [intan] nom-benad gæth. Rogha toraid do cach oen. 6. Mos-duisci la sodoin conagart a dúai .i. Brii mac Bairceda, inadochum & atfet scela do. ‘Eirnifetsa insin,’ ar Bríí. ‘Is í in ingen .i. in abann diana[d] comainm Slaine. IS íat (f. 101d) na datha ina hétgud, óes cacha dana cen inandus fodla no aiste. IS é in briuga [cétach] ba hathair di .i. talum triasa ta cét cach genemain. IS é in mac bói ’na broind .dccc. bliadan, loch geinfes a sruthar na Slaine & id lind-siu musluidfe. Treisi in mac olda a máthair, in lá genfes in loch baidfidh in aband uile. Sloigh imda, cach ’ga hol-si & ’ga ol-som. IS é in cnoc mor osa cind, do nert-sa os cach. IS é in bile co ndath óir cona tort[h]aib, tusa os Banba ina flaithius. IS é ceol bói hi mbarraib in bile, h’urlabra hi coma & ic coicert breath nGæidel. IS é gæth no trascrad in toradh, h’inech-sa fri fodail sét & moine; & rotoimli’, ar Brii, ‘breith na fisi-se’, & rl. |
38.
SLIAB MAIRGE. Marg son of Giusach son of Lodan the Grey of Luachair was the steward of the Fomorians’ king whose name was “Century-ear”, that is, having a hundred ears. Now Eocho Muniste was then over the province of the Gailians (Leinster). The Leinstermen brought together the lawful tribute to him to Belach Nemed (on Sliab Mairge). Now his food arrived, but his champion’s drink did not meet him. Eagerness as to eating the dry flesh seized him, and drouth attacked his throat, so that he died thereof with his head against the head of the mountain. Whence Sliab Mairge, “Marg’s Mountain”. 39. ARD LEMNACHTA. Crimthann Shieldmouth delivered battle to the Tribes of Fidga and Fochmann, of whom each man had the strength of a hundred. He whom they wounded would perish, and neither points nor edges used to hurt them. Now Crimthann brought the clan of Cruithnech (the ancestor of the Picts) to help his men, and promised them, if they were victorious, the heritage of the Men of Fidga. Then said Trostan a Pictish Druid: ‘Let thrice fifty milch-kine be milked into one trench, and let him whom the Men of Fidga shall slay be bathed in that milk, and from the poisons of their weapons he shall arise healed. But let those of them that shall be slain lose their heads.’ Thus was it done, and Crimthann was victor, and the Tribes of Fidga fell. Whence Ard Lemnachta “the Height of the New-milk.” 40. LOCH GARMAN. 1. Loch Garman, whence is it? 2. Easy to say. Garman Glas son of Dega was buried there, and when his grave was dug then the lake burst throughout the land. Whence Loch Garman. His brother was Dea son of Dega, from whom (is called) Inber Dea in Crích Cualann, etc. 3. Otherwise: Loch Garman. Garman the Rough, son of Boimm Lecc, was drowned there by Catháir the Great in the well of Port Coelrenna “the Harbour of Narrow-point”, for that was its first name, and ’tis there then that the lake burst forth. The Feast of Tara was held by Catháir at samuin (Nov. 1), three days before and three after, without theft and without slaying, without reproof, or reprisal, or enmity or elopement. But there German stole the golden diadem of Catháir’s wife, the assembly being then intoxicated. Off went Garman with the queen’s golden diadem, (and) with Catháir’s household at his heels, till he was overtaken at the well of Coelrind, and when they were drowning him the lake burst forth. Whence Loch Garman. 4. From Slainge son of Dela, from the king of the Fir Bolg, the river Slaney is named, and also Inver Slaney. In Catháir’s time was the naming of the lake, as he said in Catháir’s Vision. 5. Once in the early part of Catháir’s life, as he was asleep, he saw a hundreded hospitaller’s daughter with a beautiful form, and every colour in her raiment, and she was pregnant. Eight hundred years she was thus, until she brought forth a manchild, and on the day he was born he was stronger than his mother. They begin to fight, and his mother found no place to avoid him save by going through the midst of the son. A lovely hill was over the heads of them both: higher than every hill, with hosts thereon. A shining tree like gold stood on the hill: because of its height it would reach to the clouds. In its leaves was every melody; and its fruits, when the wind touched it, specked the ground. The choicest of fruit was each of them. 6. Thereat Catháir awakes and summoned his wizard, Brí son of Baircid, and tells him his tales. ‘I will rede that’, says Brí, [‘if I have a guerdon therefor’. ‘Thou shalt have’, says the king, ‘every thing that thou mayest demand’]. ‘This’, [says the wizard,] ‘is the damsel, the river which hath the name of Slaney. These are the of distinction or peculiarity. This is the hundreded hospitaller who was her father, the Earth through the which come a hundred of every kind. This is the son who was in her womb for eight hundred years, the lake which will be born of the stream of the Slaney, and in thy time it will come forth. Stronger the son than his mother, the day that the lake will be born it will drown the whole river. Many hosts there, every one a-drinking from the river and the lake. This is the great hill above their heads, thy power over all. This is the tree with the colour of gold and with its fruits, thou over Banba (Ireland) in its sovranty. This is the music that was in the tops of the tree, thy eloquence in guarding and correcting the judgements of the Gaels. This is the wind that would tumble the fruit, thy liberality in dispensing jewels and treasures. And now,’ says Brí, ‘thou hast partaken of the rede of this vision’.
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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown]) Volume 4
poem/story 31
BEND BOIRCHE I
1. Victorious
Boirche, the man of might, son of Ross Ruad, well-attended king, the staunch
loud-voiced herdsman, used to call the horned kine.
2. From harsh Inber
Colptha to Dun Sobairche north-eastward they came at his call, seeking him from
every quarter.
3. In the spot where
he met his dappled kine, for fear of wolf-packs and worryings, their master and
great guardian would sleep with them nightly.
poem/story 32
BEND BOIRCHE II
1. Know ye the
ancient story of the sea that goodly Boirche confronts? eastward lies the
seals' green plain, one of the Three great Moans of Mac Lir.
2. Spotted Bennán, not
mild of mood, wrought a wanton's deeds: a buck was he to gore the son of Mac
Lir, the wise white maiden's paramour.
3. Therefore, in
anguish of heart, did Manannán let loose—it was a wanton crime—Loch Ruide, Loch
Cuan of the curraghs, and the third rapid water, Loch Da Chaech.
4. Ibel, that loved
music, died above the teeming sea, of the wound he took in the combat: at the
Leap that the great plain felt, the noble maiden has her home.
The Edinburgh Dinnshenchas
Author: Whitley Stokes
[69.
BENN BAIRCHI.] — Benn Bairchi, whence is it?
Not hard (to say). Bairche, Ross Ruddy-yellow’s cowherd,
this was his herdsman’s seat, the Benn, and (there) equally would
he herd every cow from Dunseverick to the Boyne: and no (one)
beast of them would graze a bit in excess of another. So thence
is Benn Bairchi, ‘Bairche’s Peak,’ as said (the poet):
Bairche, the famous cowherd,
Who belonged to very mighty Ross the Red:
The peak was the soft seat of the herdsman,
Who was not weak against sadness.
Book of Armagh [link]
Book of Armagh, fo. 18b2, 19a1
., Fiac, Oingus, Ailil Mor, Conall,
Etarscel macc Ercae . pater eorum . , Echuid Guinech macc Oingoss*
Crimthann macc Censelich . . , vii. MuChonoc
ocus mu Chatocc
Erdit. Inse Fáil, Agustín Inseo
Bicce, Tecán, Diarmit, Naindid, Pol, Fedilmid, Domnach Féic .lx. Cúlmaige .,
currus. Cnoc Drommo Gablae
., Bríg filia Fergni maicc Cobthig
d.uib Erchon . . Bile macc Cruaigh.
Soergus . Dimmóc Glinne hUissen ocus
Brandub. Fintan Clono Eidnich . . Aed. Maedoc .i. Clono Móir Maedóic Fintán
iTigh Airthiur. Bríg Lasar Duilenn .iii.
Cell Auxili . . macc Táil. Cumbir
.g.t. Patricc
d.s. fri .n.an . d. Domnach Mór
Maige Luadat . Erc .
Siluister. Domnach Imblecho muLommae
est exorcista Domnach Mór Criathar . Féicc
* In the margin opposite this line
is written oi baiȓ, which stands perhaps, for hói Bairche.
Ancien Fonds No. 8175 Bibliothèque Nationale Paris (The Tripartite Life of Patrick)
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Forfothaig
tra cella ocus congbala imdai il-Laignib, ocus forfác bennacht foraib ocus
for Uibh Ceindselaig inshainsr[i]ud, ocus forfacib Húsaille i Cill Húsaille
ocus Mac Tail hi Cuilind, ocus ro oirdnestar Fiacc Find i Sleibtib ind
escobaide in cóicid. |
[The
journey into Mag Liphi...] So he
[Patrick] founded abundant churches and monasteries in Leinster, and left a
blessing on Húi Cennselaig especially, and he left Auxilius in Cell Ausailli and
Mac Táil in Cuilenn, and ordained Fiacc the Fair in Sleibti as the bishop of
the province. |
Rawlinson B512 & Egerton 93 (The Tripartite Life of Patrick)
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...O thanic, tra, Pátraic óRoim, ised doroacht có Inber Deae I Laignib. Tanic, immorro, Nathi mac Garrchon anaaigid seom. Romallach Pátraic. Sinell, immorro, mac Findchada isé toisech rocreit Deo in hÉirinn tria praicept Patraic. Isaire sin dorat Pátraic bennachtain fair ocus forashil… …Oc tascnam doPatraic hierich Laigen óDomnach Tortan, fíu aidchi ic Druim Urchailli. Luid Patraic iarsuidiu doNáss. Atá lathrach apupaill isindfhaigthi indúne frisligid anair, ocus ata atipra fridun antuaith, dú robaithis damacc Dunlangi Ailill ocus Illand, ocus dú robaithes dí ingin Ailella Mogain ocus Fedelm; ocus rosnedhbair anathair doDía ocus doPatraic oógi cosecartha. Ocus rosen cailli foracenn. Docuas óPatraíc doghairm rechtairi dune Nais .i. Faillen. Roimgaib Patraic ocus rodolb cotlud dodenam. Ticht cu Patraic do erchoitmed fris, ocus atrubrad bái inrechtairi innacotlud. “Modebrod,” olPatraic, “ní hingnad lem cid tiugcotlud.” Docuatar amuinter dia dúscud cofrith marbh hé arin anumaloit dorigni doPatraic; conid dihin isáruse laGaidelu, ‘cotlud Faillen andun Náiss.’ Drieriu isé bárí Ua nGairchon arcind Patraic intansin, ocus ingen Loeguiri maicc Nell leis domnai, corodiultai friPatraic immafleith icRaith Inbir arLaeguiri. Dorat immorro Cilline failti dó, ocus romarb a aenboin dó, ocus dorat doPatraic innairmid mini tuc dia fulang atoig indrig. Isandsin roraidi Patraic frisin mnai fune ocus sí oc tergorad amaic: Aben, talaig domaccan Dotáit torc mór dioran: Diaibill tic breo: Bid beo, bid slán domaccan. Inarbar Isdech dolosaib talman IsMarcan macc Cilline, Bas dech doUibh Garrcon. [2l a. 2.] Luid iar sin iMagh Liphi. Rofothaig cella ocus congbala hisidiu, ocus forácaib Úsaili icill Úsaili ocus Iserninum ocus Mac Tail hiCella Culind, et ali[i] sancti. Ocdul doPatrraic indíarthar Lifi, doronsat maicc Láigsi cuithecha forsind sét forachind ocus brathlang tairsiu. “ArDia,” olinmaicc becca, “tochomluid far nechu.” “Comluid dano,” olPatraic, arDia fornechu;” acht niderna olc doib. Ocus dobert mallachtain forLaigis .i. forLáigis meic Find dú itá Moin Coluimb indium. Ocus asbert Patraic nabiath rí na epscop úadib ocus isflaith ectrand bias forru cubráth Úuid immorro Brig ingen Fergnai maicc Cobthaig de Lib Eircan conéicid doPatraic indancride bái arachinn. Dobert Patraic bennachtain fuirri ocus foraathair ocus forabraithriu ocus for[U]u Ercán huili, ocus asbert Patraic nat beitis [cen] oirdnide laech ocus clérech dííb cobrath. Isand tarblaing Patraic isindtailig diambu ainm intansin Bili macc Crúaich: indiu immorro is Forrach Patraic ainmnigther. Ocus asbert dano Patraic nadmbíad rí narechtairi echtrund forru cubráth. Ag fudáilfidi la ríg Laigen inarígthoig indala loracc donríg, alaili do ríg Óa nErcán. Airmed Patraic leo. Forrach Patraic leo. Ordan loech ocus clérech leu. Ane ocus suthaine dóib. Ocht flaithi leo coflaith Conchobair maicc Donnehada hiTemraigh. O aimsir Patraic ambrethemnas leo in[n]acrich. Láichess immorro, cenel inna mace dorigensat anole. Niconbía rí na epscop huadaib cubráth: flaith echtrann nudusfoihiaibed: noconainfe ingreimm ocus acre dííbh cubráth. Doluid Patraic oTemraig corancatar ocus Dubthach macc úu Lugair oc Domnach Mor Maigi Criathar la Úu Ceinselaig, qui credidit Patricio. Áiliss Patraic fair ócláig nálaind bed soescuir, “toisclim fer óensetche, denarucha acht oenmacc.” “Ni segtha damsa em,” olDubthach, “Fiac macc Erce, ishé lim fer inna innisin sin, docóid huaimsi hi tírib Connacht combairdni donaib rígaibh” His uerbis aduenit ille. Trécheil Dubthaig arbertar aberrad dochlérchiucht. “Cid airmmbertar lib,” olFíac. “Dubthach dobachaill,” olseat “Bith ainim ón ém do sochaidi,” olFiac: “ba a brain nachamgaibthersea taracenn” “Nutgebthar em,” ol Patraic. Berrthir, baitsithir, seribthir abgitir dó. Légaid asalmu anóenlo, ut mihi traditum est. Ordinatur gradu episcopali, ocus doberar epscopoti. Laigen dó oPatraic, ocus oirddnidir dano aoen-mace Fiachri.
IShe iarum Fiac epscop citaraoirdned laLaigniu. Dobert dano Patraic cumdach doFhiac .i. clocc, meinistir, bachall, pólairi, ocus facaib morfeiser diamúntir leis .i. Moch atóc insi [Fáil], Augustin insi Bice, Tecán ocus Diarmait ocus Naindid ocus Pol ocus Fedelmid. Congab iarsuidiu inDomnach Fheic, ocus bái and contorcratar tri fichit fer leiss diamuintir. Annsin dolluid intangel cuice et dixit fris: “Is friabainn aníar ata du esergi hiCuil Maigi. Airm hifuirsitis intore arm[b]ad ann foruimsitis apraintech: port hifuirsitis inelit armbed and dano foruimtis indeclais. Dixit Fiac frisindangel nádregad cotisad Patraic do-thorainn aluic leiss ocus diacoisecrad, ocus combed uad nogabad alocc. Doluid dano Patraic coFiacc ocus dororainn aloc leis, ocus forraim aforrich; ocus adopart Cremthan inportsin doPatraic, arbaPatraic nodbaithis, ocus hiSléibti [atá]. Isann airsin oirdd- nidi Fíacc. Batar intansin foingreim lárig Laigen Cremthan macc Censelaig, collotar forlongais. Isdííb inManaig laÚu Cremthain ocus inManaig laUltu ocus Cenel ndEndai 1aMumain. Isdííb inFiace reimerbartamrnar. Quinque fratres: Fiacc, Oengus, Ailill Mar, Conall, Etarscela. Pater eornm mace Ercae. Tre imthuus Patraic rongab inríí forferand, cóiced imbaire aathar. Isfair conacab Sleibti. INTOengus hisin roort inrig iartain Cremtan macc Censelaig dodigail aloingsi. Hishitrichtaib ocus cethrachtaib ataat innacella dorat doPatraic inairther. Laigen ocus laÚu Censelaig imDomnach Mór Maigi Criathair ocus im Insi Fáil hita Mochonoc ocus Mochátoc. Erdit ocus Agustin hisindinsi aslaigiu, ocus iarnagabail dogentib hiSlebtiu ascrína atáat. Domnach Mór Maigi Réta, bái Patraic and fo domnach. Both oc claidi Ratha Baccain isindomnach sin, rígdún innatuathe. Dochúas oPatraic díaergaire. Nocha derand ní airi. Roráidi Patriac bid terbrutech acumtach mani oifrider and cechlai. Roraide Patraic nataiitrebtha indún cotísad ingaeth aichgaeth Ifirn. Isé Gaithini son macc Cinaeda; iseiside roadcumtaich indún hiflaith. Feidilmid ocus Conchubair hiTemraig. Iarsindi tra forothaiggestar Patraic cella ocus congbala ilLaigniu. Forácaib bennachtain la Óuib Censelaig ocus la Laigniu huli. Ocus íarsandí roorddnestar Fiacc Finn hiSlebti, indepscopóti inchoicid. Luid iarsuidiu forBelach Gabran hitír nOsraigi, ocus forothaig cella ocus congbala and, ocus atrubairt nobeitís orddnidiu laech ocus clériuch dííb; ocus ni bíad furail nách coicid forru céin nobeitis doreir Patraic. Ceilebrais Patraic dóib iarsuidiu, ocus forácaib martrai sruithi occu ocus foirenn dia munntir dú hitá Martar¬tech indíu imMaig Roigne. Druimm Conchind hiMaircc, memaid domuin carpait Patraic ocdul cumMumain. Dogníth do fiuth in¬dromma. Memaid focetóir. Dogníth dano dorithisi Memaid dano. Roráidi Patraic nat mbiad aicdi do¬gnethi di fiuth nacaillisin cobráth. Quod impletur. Cid delcc ni derntar de. Ataa ann Disert Patraic, ocht isfás… … Luid Patraic iar suidiu icrich Ua Falgi; ocUs ro¬máidi Foilgi Berraidi nomairbfed Patraic, dú icom¬raicfed fris, indígail [ind idail] Cinn Chruaig, ol iseiside robu día do Fhoilgi. Doceltatar, tra, amuinter ar Pa¬traic, aní romáidi Foilgi. Láa ann asbert aara (.i. Odran) friPatrccic, " 01 atúsa ciana icc araidecht duitsiu, abobba Patraic, nomléiccsi isinprímsuidiu indíu. Batucsu bus ara." Dorilgni Patraic. Iarsin dochoid Foilgi cotarat fúasma triaOdrán hi richt Patraic. "Mo-mallacht,-" olPatraic -" forbile Bri-dam," olOdrán. "Bííd dano samlaid," ol Patraic. Atbath Foilgi státim ocus dochoid inIfern. Foilgi Ros immaorro, issi acland fil isintír indíu. Ocus rombennach Patrctic ocus ishuad flaithius intíri cubráth. |
[Patrick in Leinster] …Now when Patrick came from Rome he went to Inver Dea [Arlow or Wicklow] in Leinster. Howbeit, Nathi, son of Garrhu [Uí Garrchon] came against him. Patrick cursed him. Sinell, however, son of Finchad, [Uí Garrchon] is the first who believed in God in Ireland through Patrick’s preaching. Wherefore Patrick bestowed a blessing upon him and upon his offspring… …When Patrick was journeying into the territory of Leinster from Domnach Tortain, he slept a night in Druim Urchailli. [Dunmurraghill, Donadea, north east Kildare] Thereafter Patrick went to Naas. The site of his tent is in the green of the fort, to the east of the road, and to the north of the fort is his well wherein he baptized Dunling’s two sons (namely) Ailill and Illann, and wherein he baptized Ailill’s two daughters, Mogain and Fedelm; and their father offered to God and to Patrick their consecrated virginity. And Patrick blessed the veil on their heads. Patrick sent to summon the reeve of the fort of Naas, to wit, Faillén. He shunned Patrick, and feigned to be sleeping. They went to Patrick to make excuse to him, and they said that the reeve was asleep. “My God’s doom!” saith Patrick, “it is not strange to me if this be (his) last sleep.” Then his people went to wake him, and he was found dead, because of the disrespect which he showed to Patrick. Wherefore the Irish have a proverb, Faillén’s sleep in the Fort of Naas. Dricriu, he was king of Húi Garrchon when Patrick arrived at that time; and a daughter of Loeguire’s son of Níall he had to wife, and for Loeguire’s sake he refused to invite Patrick to his feast at Rath Inbir. [Bray, Wicklow or Arklow] Howbeit Cillíne gave him a welcome and killed his one cow for him, and gave Patrick the measure of a meal which he had brought for his support out of the house of the king. Then said Patrick to the cooking woman, while she was warming her (and Cillíne’s) son: O Woman, cherish thy little son! A great boar comes from a pigling: From a spark comes a flame: Thy child will be quick, will be sound. The corn Is best of earth’s plants, It is Marcán son of Cillíne Who is best of Garrchu’s descendants. Thereafter he went into Mag Liphi; [Liffey plain] he founded churches and cloisters therein, and he left Auxilius in Cell Usaili and Iserninus and MaccTail in Cella Culind, and other saints. As Patrick was going into western Liphe the boys of Láiges made on the way befor him pits of water with a gin over them. “For God’s sake,” say the little boys, “drive on your horses.” “Drive on then, your horses” says Patrick [to his charioteer] “for God’s sake.” But he did no evil to them. And he inflicted a curse upon Láiges, namely on Láiges of the son of Finn, in the place in which Moin Coluimb (‘Columb’s bog’) [Moone, South Kildare] is today. And Patrick said that of them there would neither be king nor bishop, and it is a foreign prince that will he over them forever. Howbeit, Brig, daughter of Fergna son of Cobthach, of the Húi Ercáin [NOTE: OF THE FOTHAIRT], had gone and declared Patrick the wrong that was intended fur him. Patrick bestowed a blessing upon her and upon her father and her brothers and upon all the Húi Ercáin. And Patrick said that they would never lack distingnished Iaymen and clerics. Then Patrick alighted on the hill which was then named Bile Macc Crúaich ('the tree of Cruach's Sons'): today, however, it is called Forrach Pátraic ('Patrick's meeting-place.') [Narraghmore, South Kildare] And Patrick then said that over them there never would be a king or a foreign reeve. Should a cow be divided by the king of Leinster in his palace, one of the two forks goes to the king, the other to the king; of Húi Ercáin. Patrick's meeting-place they have; Patrick’s measure they have; dignity of laymen and clerics they have; wealth and lastingness are unto them. Eight princes they had till the reign of Conchohar son of Donchad in Tara. Láiges, however, was the tribe of the boys who did the evils. Of them there will never be king or bishop: a foreign prince should rule them: persecution and complaint shall never cease from them. Patrick went from Tara, and he and Dubthach MaccuLugair met at Domnach Mór Maige Criathar in Húi Ceinselaich [Donaghmor, North Wexford?]. Dubthach believed in Patrick. Patrick asked him for a comely youth who should be well-born “I desire a man with one wife, unto whom hath been born only one child.” “Verily,” saith Dubthach, “this is not fortunate for me. Fiacc son of Erc, I think, is a man of' that description; [but] he is gone from me into the lands of the Connaught-men with bardism for the kings.” At these words Fiacc arrived. Through Dubthach's cleverness it is proposed to tonsure him for the clerical order. “What is proposed by you?” saith Fiacc. “To make a bishop of Dubthach,” say they. “Verily this will be a blemish to the commonwealth,” saith Fiacc: “it is a grief that I am not taken in his place.” “Truly than wilt be taken," saith Patrick. He is tonsured; he is baptized; an alphabet is written for him. He reads his psalms in one day, as hath been handed down to me. He is ordained in the episcopal rank, and the bishopric of Leinster is given to him by Patrick; and moreover his only son Fiachrae is ordained. So Patrick gives a case to Fíacc [containing] to wit, a bell, a credence-table, a crozier, [and] tablets; and he left seven of his household with him, to wit, My-Catóc of Inis Fáil, Augustín of Inis-becc, Tecán, and Diarrnait and Naindid and Paul and Fedelmid. He set up after this at Domnach Féicc (‘Fíacc’s Church’) and he dwelt there till threescore men of his community had fallen beside him. Then came the angel to him and said to him “To the west of the river (Barrow) in Cúil-maige is thy resurrection.” The place in which they should find the boar, it should be there that they should set the refectory. The place in which they should find the doe, that it should be there that they should set the church. Fíacc said to the angel that he would not go till Patrick should come to mark out his stead with him and to consecrate it, and that it should be from him that he (Fiacc) should receive his stead. So Patrick went to Fíacc and marked out his stead with him, and fixed his meeting place; and Cremthann offered that spot to Patrick, for it was Patrick that had baptized him, and in Slebte he is [buried]. It is there that Fíace was afterwards ordained. They (the Húi Ercáin) [NOTE: THIS IS AN ERROR BY STOKES] were at that time suffering persecution from the king of Leinster, Cremthann son of Censelach, wherefore they went into exile. Of them are the Manachs (‘monks’) in Húi Cremthainn and the Manachs in Ulster, and the Cenél Endai in Munster. Of them is the Fíacc whom we have before mentioned. Fíacc, Oengus, Ailill the Great, Conall and Eterscela were five brothers. Their father was MaccErcae. Through Patrick's intervention, the king received him (Fíacc) on land, his father's fifth ridge. Thereon he built Sleibte. That Oengus afterwards slew the king Cremthann son of Censelach, to avenge his exile. In thirties and forties are the churches which he (Cremthann) gave to Patrick in the east of Leinster and in Húi-Censelaig, including Domnach Mór Maige Criathair and including lnis Fail wherein are My-Conóc and My-Catóc. Erdit and Agustín are in the lesser island, and since it was taken by the pagans their shrines are in Sleibte. Domnach Mór Maige Reta (‘the great church of Mag Réta’), [Morett, North Laois] Patrick abode there throughout a Sunday. And on that Sunday they were digging [the foundataion of] Rath Baccain, [i Mag Réta] the royal stronghold of the district [OF THE LOÍCHSI]. Patrick sent to forbid this. Nothing was done for him. Patrick said: “The building will be unstable, unless offering is made there every day.” Patrick declared that the stronghold would not be inhabited until the wind (gáeth) should have come out of the lower part of Hell. This was Gáethíne (‘little wind’) son of Cinaed [OF THE LOÍCHSI]. He it is that rebuilt the stronghold in the reign of Fedilmed (†847AD) and of Concobar in Tara. After this, then, Patrick founded churches and Cloisters in Leinster. He left a blessing with Húi-Censelaig and with all Leinster, and after this he ordained Fíacc the Fair in Slebte, into the bishopric of the province. He then went by Belach-Gabrain into the land of the Osraige and founded churches and cloisters there. And he said that of them there would be most distinguished laymen and clerics, and that no province should prevail over them so long as they should be obedient to Patrick. After this Patrick bade them farewell, and he left with them relics of ancient men, and a, party of his household in the place where Martarthech (‘relic house’) stands to-day in Mag-Raigne. At Druimm Conchinn in Mairg the domuin of Patrick's chariot broke as he was going to Munster. [Another] was made of the wood of the ridge. This broke at once. Again, [one] was made. It, too, broke. ¬Patrick declared that never would any building be made of the wood of that grove. Which thing is fulfilled. Even a skewer is not made of it. Patrick’s hermitage ¬stands there; but it is waste… … After this Patrick went into the province of Húi Falgi; and Foilge Berraide boasted that he would kill Patrick wherever he should meet with him, in vengeance for the idol Cenn-cruaich, for he was a god of Foilge's. Now, his household concealed from Patrick what Foilge had boasted. One day his charioteer Odrán said to Patrick: "Since I am now a long time charioteering for thee, O Master Patrick, let me to-day sit in the chief seat and do thou be charioteer." Patrick did so. Thereafter Foilge went and gave a spearthrust through Odrán in the shape of Patrick. " My curse-" saith Patrick, -"on the tree of Brí-dam," saith Odrán. " Be it so then," saith Patrick. Foilge died at once and went into hell. As to Foilge Ross, however, it is his children who are in the land to-day. And Patrick blessed him, and from him is the sovranty of the land for ever. |
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Fecht nali luid Sechnall do Ardmachae, ocus ni raibi Patmic hifoss. Conaccai da ech carpal larnuntir Pairaic forachiund forscur, ocus roráidi Sechnall : " Bacoru indeich ucut dobreith donescop" .i. do [28 a. 1] Fiacc. Uáir doruacht Patraic atcúas dó nnisin. Roinled acarpatt forsna euchu, ocus nosfáidi Patraic cen duni léu coféotar inadísiurt la Mochtae. Lotar dcsill arabarach coDomnach Sechnaill. Lotar iarnamarach doChill Auxili. Lotar iarsuidiu doChill Monach. Lotar iarum coFiacc coSlébti. Issi tucait incharpait dobreith coFiacc arnoteiged diasathairnd initi combith oc Cnoc Dromma Coblai. Uaim dó ann .u. bairgin leis, ut fama est. Día sathairn cáse dathaiged docum Sleibti, ocus dothuarthed boimm leis de quinque panibus. Issi tucait incharpait dobreith doFiacc. Rocnai dáil achoiss com bo chomfocreaib bás dau. |
[Patrick’s chariot] At another time Sechnall went to Armagh, and Patrick was not (then) residing (there). Sechnall saw in front of him, with Patrick s household, two chariot-horses un yoked. And Sechnall said, "It were better to bring yon horses to the bishop," that is, to Fiacc. When Patrick arrived, that was told unto him. The chariot was yoked to the horses, and Patrick sent them without any human being with them till they rested with Mochtae in his hermitage. On the morrow they went righthand-wise to Domnach Sechnaill ('Sechnall's church'). On the day after they went to Cell Auxili. After this they went to Cell Manach. Then they went to Fiacc, to Sleibte. This is the cause of giving the chariot to Fiacc, because he used to go on Shrove-Saturday till he was at the hill of Druim Coblai. He had a cave there, and five cakes he had, as the tradition is. On Easter Saturday he used to go (back) to Sleibte and there [always] remained with him a bit of the five cakes. This is the cause of giving the chariot to Fiacc ; because a beetle had gnawed his leg, so that death was nigh unto him. |
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Dulluid Patrice oThemuir hicrich Laigen, conráncatar ocus Dubthach maccu-Lugir uccDomnuch Már Críathar la Auu Censelich. Áliss Patrice Dubthach imdamnae .n.epscuip diadosciplib diLaignib, idón, fer soér socheniúil, cenon, cenainim, nadip rubccc, nadip romar bed asommae, " toisclimm fer oínsétche, dunarructhse act oentuistiu." Frisgart Dubthach : " Nifetorea dimmuintir act Fíacc Find diLaignib duchooid huaimso hitíre Connacht." Amal immindráitset conacatar Fíacc Find cuccu. Asbert Dubthach friPatricc : " tair dumberradsa air fumrése infer dummimdidnaad duaberrad tannuchenn, air ismár agoire." Isdisin, dino, turraith Fiacc Find Dubthach, octts berrsi Patrice ocus baitzisi. Dubbert grád .n.epscoip foir, conide epscop insin citaruoirtned laLaigniu. Ocus dubbert Patrice cumtach duFíacc, idon, clocc ocus menstir ocus bachall ocus poolire. Ocus fácab morfeser lais diamuintir .i. Mu-Chatocc Inso Fail, Augustín Inseo Bicae, Tecán, Diarmuit, Naindid, Pool, Fedelmid. Congab iarsuidiu inDomnuch Feicc, ocus bái and contorchartar trifichit fer diamuintir lais and. [18 b. 1] Disin dulluid intaingel cuci ocus asbert fris: " is friabinn aníar atá tesérge hiCúil Maige ; airm ifuirsitis intorcc arimbad and fumiimtis apraintech, port hifuirsitis innelit arimbad and furruimtis aneclis." Asbert Fiacc frisinaingel nandrigad contísed Patricc dothoorund aluic lais ocus diachoisecrad, ocus combed húad nuggabad alocc. Dulluid iarsuidiu Patricc cu- Fíacc ocus durind alocc les ocus cutsecar ocus forruim aforrig .n.and. Ocus adopart Cimthann inportsin du Patricc, ar ba Patric dubert baithis duChrimthunn, ocus iSlebti adranact Crimthann. Luid Sechnall iartain duchuúrsagad Pátricc imcharpat boie lais. Disin dufoid Pátricc incarpat cuScclmall cenarith .n.and act aingil dutfidedar. Foidsi Sechnall óruan .iii. aithgi lais cuManchán, ocus anis .iii. aithgi lasuide. Foitsiside cuFiacc. Dlomis Fiacc doib iarsin. Ité imuielotar immuaneclis futhrí, conepert intaingel : " Is duitsiu tucad óPátricc ó rufitir dulobri." Epscop Aed bói iSléibti. Luid duArdd Machaa. Birt cdoct cuScgéne duArdd Macliac. Dubbert Segene oithcrroch aidacht duÁid, octts adopart Áed aidacht ocus aidenél ocus a eclis duPátricc cubbráth. Fáccab Áed aidacht la Conchad. Luid Conchad duArt Machae Contubart Fland Feblre acheill dóo, ocus gabsi cadessin abbaith. |
[Additions To Tíreuhán's Collections. ] Patrick went from Tara into the province of Leinster, and he and Dubthach maccu-Lugair met at Domnach Mór Criathar in Húi-Cennselich. Patrick besought Dubthach for the material of a bishop, from his disciples from Leinster, to wit, a man free, of good lineage, with- out defect, without blemish, whose wealth is not over- little (and) is not overgreat. “ I wish a man of one wife, unto whom hath been borne only one child.” Dubthach answered : “Of my household I know not [such a man] save Fiacc the Fair of Leinster, who hath gone from me into the lands of Connaught.” As they were thinking of him they saw Fiacc the Fair [coming] to them. Said Dubthach to Patrick, “ Come to tonsure me, for the man will succour me to my consolation by his being tonsured in my behalf, for great is his dutifulness.” Thereafter, then, Fiacc the Fair succoured Dubthach, and Patrick tonsured him and baptized him. He conferred a bishop’s grade upon him, so that he (Fiacc) was the bishop who was first consecrated in Leinster. And Patrick gave a case to Fiacc, to wit, a bell and a credence-table and a crozier and a writing-tablet. And he left with him seven of his household, namely, My-Catócc of Inis Fáil, Augustin of Inis Bece, Tecán, Diarmait, Paul, Fedelmid. After this he (Fiacc) set up in Domnach Féicc [Ferta Fir Féicc?] and abode there till three score of his community fell there with him. Thereafter the angel went to him and said to him . “ It is to the west of a river in Cúil Maige that thy resurrection is (to be) ; the place in which they shall find the boar, let it be there that they shall put their refectory ; the spot in which they shall find the doe, let it be there that they put their church.” Fiacc said to the angel that he would not go till Patrick should have come to mark out his place with him and to consecrate it, and that he would receive his place from him (Patrick). After this Patrick went to Fíacc, and marked out his place with him, and consecrated it, and put his meeting-house there. And Crimthann offered that place to Patrick, for it was Patrick who had administered baptism to Crimthann ; and in Slebte Crimthann was buried. Sechnall. went afterwards to reproach Patrick concerning the chariot which he had. Then Patrick sent the chariot to Sechnall without a charioteer therein save an angel who guided it. When it had remained three days with Sechnall he sent it to Manchán, and with him it remained three nights. He sent it on to Fiacc. Fiacc made refusal to them afterwards. It is they that went round their church thrice, so that the angel said (to Fiacc) : “ To thee it hath been given by Patrick, since he knew of thy infirmity.” Bishop Aed was in Slebte. He went to Armagh. He brought a bequest to Segéne of Armagh. Segéne gave another bequest to Aed, and Aed offered (that) bequest and his kin and his church to Patrick for ever. Aed left a bequest with Conchad. Conchad went to Armagh, and Fland Feblae gave his church to him, and he took himself as abbot. |
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The Lives
of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales, Cornwall and Irish Saints S.
Feock, Bishop, Confessor The Cornish Feock is Fiacc, Bishop of Sletty,
disciple of S. Patrick. His veneration extends to Brittany. It is certainly a
remarkable instance of the intercommunication that existed between Ireland,
Britain, and Armorica, that we find the same saint at home in all three. The authorities for the Life of Fiacc are,
in the first place, the various Lives of S. Patrick, as given by Colgan, in
his Trias Thaumaturga. There is no independent Life of the saint; but there
is one in Albert le Grand, from the Legendarium of S. Matthew in Leon, and
from a MS. history of Brittany. The notices that we have concerning the
saint in the Irish records relate only to his acts in Ireland, because
nothing was known of his life out of his native isle; and the Breton life we
have deals with his acts in Armorica, and passes over his acts in Ireland, or
treats them in the vaguest manner, making, however, a gross blunder that
shall be noticed in the sequel. Fiacc is introduced to our notice for the
first time when S. Patrick, accompanied by pious clerics, appeared at the
convention of Tara, in 455. Precisely the same story is told of him then, as
of Ere. Ere had stood up on the previous day, when Patrick had been summoned
before Laoghaire at Slane. So, on this occasion, when Patrick appeared before
the king and the great assembly at Tara, he was received by all seated, with
the exception of Dubhtach, the king's chief poet, and Fiacc, his nephew, then
a lad of eighteen. Fiacc was the son of Dubhtach's sister. His
father MacDaire had been expelled from his patrimony in what is now Queen's
County by Crimthan king of the Hy Cinnselach. In exile he had become a
widower, and had married a sister of Dubhtach the poet. All the Hy Bairrche, the family to which
Fiacc belonged, were now living dispersed, nursing their resentment and
looking for a chance of revenge and of recovery of their land between the
Nore and the Barrow. A few years after the incident at Tara,
Fiacc was baptised by S. Patrick himself, during his missionary visitation of
Leinster. Crimthan, the king of the Hy Cinnselach,
who occupied Wexford, and had annexed the Hy Biarrche territory, had opposed
the progress of the gospel, and had expelled from his territories such as
professed Christianity. Patrick succeeded in softening the old man and
inducing him to be baptised. This accelerated the conversion of his
tribesmen, and necessitated the establishment among them of a native
priesthood. With this view the apostle consulted
Dubhtach, with whom he was on the most friendly terms, as to what was to be
done, and whom he was to send to organize the Church among the Hy Cinnselach
and in the old Hy Bairrche territory. "The man I require as
bishop," said Patrick, "must be a free man, of good family, without
blemish, not given to fawning, learned, hospitable, the husband of one wife,
and the father of a single child." The object of the last consideration
was that the new bishop should not be cumbered with family cares. Dubhtach recommended his nephew, Fiacc the
Fair. "But how persuade him to take on him the burden of the
office?" asked Patrick. "He is now approaching," said
Dubhtach. "Take a pair of shears and pretend to be shaving my head, and
see what follows." Patrick did as desired. Fiacc ran up and asked
breathlessly what Patrick was about. "I want a bishop for the Hy
Cinnselach," replied the apostle. "My uncle is too important a man to be
spared for that," said Fiacc, “take me rather than him," and so it
was that Fiacc was consecrated bishop. Then Patrick furnished him with a
bell, a reliquary, a pastoral staff, and a book satchel; and appointed seven
of his clerics to attend him. S. Patrick's conduct in this transaction was
one of those happy strokes of genius and tactful arrangement which conduced
so largely to his success in Ireland. Crimthan, as already stated, had driven the
Hy Bairrche out of their land, although MacDaire was his own son-in-law. By
the daughter of Crimthan MacDaire had four sons, all of whom were eating out
their hearts with rage in banishment. By his second wife MacDaire had an only
son, Fiacc. The apostle now proposed to Crimthan to
surrender one-fifth of the Hy Bairrche patrimony to Fiacc, that is to say,
Fiacc's legitimate share of his father's property, and to accept him as
spiritual head of the mission in that part of Leinster. To this, probably
after some demur, Crimthan acceded. He moreover gave to Patrick some thirty
or forty sites for churches in the Hy Cinnselach district, so that at once
the Church started well endowed throughout the whole district from the Nore
to the sea. By this happy arrangement, some of the wrong done to the Hy
Bairrche was redressed, and Fiacc started work among his own people. The first thing he did was to form a
nucleus whence he could work. This he placed at Domnach Fiacc, now Moryacomb,
on the borders of Carlow, between Clonmore and Aghold. It is clear that he
felt little confidence in Crimthan, so he made his headquarters at some
little distance from him. From this establishment he worked the district with
the men given him by Patrick; but he did more, he made of this establishment
a training school for missionary priests whom he could send as required, to
fill the churches among the Hy Cinnselach and the Hy Bairrche, as the gospel
made way. During Lent he was wont to retire unattended
to a cave on the north-east side of the doon of Clopook, where the rock rises
abruptly a hundred and fifty feet from the plain. It lies directly north-west
of Sletty, from which it is distant about seven miles. Here he not only spent his time in prayer
and meditation, but in jotting down memorials of S. Patrick. A hymn on the
Life of S. Patrick is attributed to him, but he was not the author; it was a
composition of Aedh, the anchorite, of Sletty, who died in 600. From Domnach Fiacc he moved to Sletty, near
Carlow, for what reason we do not know, and made that his principal
establishment. He had some able and experienced men with him, men who made
their mark in the Church. One was Ninnidh or Ninnio, who has been identified
with Mancen or Maucan. In Tirechan's Collections towards the Life of S.
Patrick, he is called Manchan. Possibly at the wish, or by the advice of the
apostle, this man crossed over to St. David's Head, in Wales, and there
established the great nursery of saints, Ty Gwyn. The district ruled by
Crimthan was too unsettled, and the prospects of disturbance too threatening
for Fiacc and Patrick not to desire to have the missionary school removed
from Leinster. Another who was with Fiacc was Paul, who succeeded Ninnidh as
head of Ty Gwyn, the Paulinus whose inscribed monument is preserved at Dolau
Cothi. Other helpers were men of experience, but
who have left less mark. Cattoc or Cattan, Patrick's priest; Augustine, who
had come to Ireland with Palladius, and who, on the failure of that mission,
had accompanied his patron to North Britain. After the death of Palladius,
Augustine offered his services to Patrick, who placed him with Fiacc. Others of less note were Tagan or Tecce, an
Ossory man; Diarmid, a kinsman of Fiacc, and Fedlemid. Fiacc had been baptised in or about 460,
but Ussher puts it many years earlier, and was consecrated very shortly after
and sent on his mission to Leinster. In 465 a revolution occurred. The
half-brother of Fiacc, called Oengus, succeeded in enlisting allies and in
stirring up the clansmen between the Nore and the Barrow. A battle was fought
and Oengus killed his grandfather, Crimthan, with his own hand. He then
recovered his patrimony. Whether his brothers were restored is not known. But
the Hy Cinnselach were not disposed to bear their defeat, and retaliated, so
that for some years the whole of Leinster was in commotion. In 480 Finnchad, king of the Hy Cinnselach,
was killed by Cairbre, son of Niall, in a battle at Graine, north of Kildare,
in which the Leinster men were fighting among themselves. In 489 a desperate
conflict took place at Kelliston in Carlow, in which Fiacc's half-brother
Oengus was engaged. In 492 Cairbre was again fighting the men of Leinster.
The latter were again defeated in 497 or 500. The condition of the south-east was so
disturbed, the country so incessantly ravaged, that Fiacc must have despaired
of effecting much that the times were quieter. This was about the period of
the migration to Penwith, and although the Irish writers tell us nothing
about it, we may conjecture that it was during these commotions that Fiacc
went to Cornwall, there to work, and there, maybe, to gather missionaries to
assist him, when peace was restored. But he went further, he visited
Armorica. The Breton legendary Life of S. Fiacc is late and mixed with fable.
It makes him an archbishop of Armagh, who, unable to bear the burden of his
office, and the manners of an intractable people, left Ireland, and crossed
to Armorica, floating over on a rock that detached itself and served as a
ship. He stepped ashore at Pen March; whereupon the rock turned about and
swam back to Ireland. A portion, however, of his stone boat is preserved at
Treguenec, about four miles from Pen March, and it has in it a hollow in
which it is supposed that the head of the saint rested. Pilgrims visit the
chapel and place their heads in this depression to be cured of fever, and
carry off water in which a relic of the saint has been steeped. Albert Le Grand supposes that S. Nonna, an
Irish bishop to whom the Church of Pen March is dedicated, is the same as S.
Vougai, or Veoc, but gives no reason for this identification. Where the saint
founded a church was at Lanveock, in the same peninsula. How long he remained
there is not known. Thence he went north to Lesneven, and branching away to
the east became the founder of a religious house at S. Vougai. A
tenth-century missal preserved there long had the credit of having belonged
to the saint, and to be invested with miraculous powers. The origin of the story of his having been
elected Archbishop of Armagh is this. He is spoken of in the Lives of S.
Patrick as having been the chief bishop in Leinster, and nominated archbishop
over all Ireland. But, as Dr. Todd has shown, this is due to a misrendering
of the original Irish, which merely stated that he was exalted to be a chief
in esteem over all other saints in Ireland. In the tenth-century Litany of S. Vougai he
is invoked as S. Bechue. The name in Brittany is Vio, Vougai, Veho
and Vec'ho. Beside the churches already mentioned of which he is patron, he
is also one of those of Priziac, canton of Faouet, in Morbihan, where he is
called S. Beho. At 'the beginning of the seventeenth century the clergy of
Priziac wanted to change the dedication of the church to S. Avitus, but met
with such opposition from the parishioners that they were obliged to give up
the project. These foundations in Brittany, like that in Cornwall, point to
his having devoted a portion of his missionary life to the establishment of
centres of religion elsewhere beside Ireland. S. Feock in Cornwall belongs to
the little Irish cluster, to which S. Kea and Peran-ar-Worthal belong; and
they are at no great distance from the cluster at Lizard, where among others
was his fellow-worker and friend in Ireland, S. Mancen or Maucan, also called
Ninnio, and it is more probable that the S. Nonna of Pen March is this
Ninnio, who may have come to Armorica with S. Fiacc, than that it should be
another name of Fiacc himself. To return to his labours in Ireland. He
suffered at one time from an abscess in his leg (laboravit fistula in coxa),
which made it difficult for him to walk. S. Patrick hearing of this sent him
a chariot and horses to alleviate his sufferings; but this excited jealousy
in Secundinus, his comrade. Whereupon Patrick told the latter to keep the
chariot for himself, and Secundinus did actually retain it for three days,
and was then heartily ashamed of himself, and sent it to Fiacc. Nothing is
recorded of the death of Fiacc in Ireland, but late authorities assume that
he was buried in Sletty; so that it is quite conceivable he may have retired
in favour of his son Fiacra, and gone to Cornwall and have finished his days
in Brittany. In the Irish Calendars his feast is on October 12; and his death
may be put at any time between 510 and 520. Under the name of Vouk or Vogoue he has a
church and well in S. Vogou's townland, Wexford, and his feast is there
observed on January 20. S. Feock's feast in Cornwall is on the
nearest Thursday to February 2, before or after. In Brittany he is commemorated on June 15.
In Cornwall not only is S. Feock dedicated to him, but there is also a
Saviock in S. Kea's parish, where it adjoins S. Feock. (See also S.Veep.)
Sheviock very probably was also dedicated to this saint, though now under the
invocation of SS. Peter and Paul. In the Exeter episcopal registers the
parish church of S. Feock appears as Ecclesia St. Feocae, Bronescombe, 1264,
1267; but as St. Fyoci in that of Brantynghara, 1372, and Stafford, 1398. At Priziac is an early Christian lech,
about 9 ft. high, and having the form of a truncated cone, with a hole at the
top for the reception of a cross. This is called by the people "le canon
de Saint Beho," and there they pretend that he came over from Ireland
floating upon it as a log. Probably in art he should be represented,
either with a harp, as he had been trained to be a bard by his uncle, before
his ordination; or else with a chariot and horses at his side. |
Francisan Liber Hymnorum p.36-8
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Fíacc Sleipte dorónai inmoladsa doPhatraic. InFíacsin, dano,
mac eside mac Ercha mic Bregain
mic Dare Barraig, otát Oe-Barche,
mic Cathair Mo[i]r. Dalta dano
inFiacsin doDúbthach mac hui Lugair, ardfile hErend heside. INamsir
Lóegaire mic Neill ocus Patraic doronad. Ocus isé
inDubthachsin atraracht riaPatraic iTemraig
iarnárad doLoegaire na roeirged nech remi isintich. Ocus ba cars do Phatraic he osein immach, ocus robatsed som oPhatraic
iarsin. Luid dano Patraic
fecht co tech inDubthaigsin
iLaignib. Ferais iarum Dubthach
failte moir friPatraic. Atbert Patraic
friDubthach: "Cuinnig
damsa," olse, "fer graid sochenelach
sobéssach, oen[ś]étche ocus oenmac ocai tantum." "Ced
aracuinchisiu sein?" olDubthach ".i. fer in chrothasin?" ol-Patraic:
"diadul fogradaib." "Fiac sin," olDubthach, "ocus
dochoidside forcuairt iConnactaib." INtan, tra, batar forsnabriathrasa, isand tanic Fiac ocus achuairt leis. "Atá
sund," olDubthach, "inti roimradsem:" “Ciabeith,"
olPatraic, "besniba hail do quod digimus?" "Dentar trial
mober[r]thasa," olDubthach. "conaccadar Fiac." Otchonnair[c],
tra, Fiac sin roiarfaig: "ced trialtar?" olse. "Dubthach
dobachaill," arseat. "Esbach sin," arse, "arnifil inhErind
filid alethet." "Notgebtha darahesi," olPatraic. "Islugu moesbaidse ahErind," olFiac, "quam Dubtha[ch]." Tall, tra, Patraic aulchai doFiac
tunc. Ocus
tanic rath mór fair iarsein. Ocus [rolég] innord neclastacda uile
inoenaidche vel .xu. diebus ut alii ferunt. Ocus
cotartad grad nepscuip fair, ocus conidhe as ardepscop Lagen ośein ille ocus achomarba diaheis. Loc dno (sic) Duma Gobla friSleipte aniarthuaid.
Tempus vero Lugdach mic Lóegaire, arishe barí hErend tunc. Causa vero armolad Patraic.
Ocus is iarna ec doronad, ut ferunt quidam auctores. 1. Génair
Patraic inNemthur, issed adfét hiscelaib, maccan
semblíadan dé[a]c intan dobreth foderaib. 2. Succat aainm hitubrad, cid aathair
bafisse, mac
Calpuirnd maic Otidi, hoa deochain Odissi. 3. Bai
seblíadna hifognam, maisse dóine nistomled. batar ile Kothraige cetharthrebe diafhognad. 4. Asbert
Uictor frigniad Milcon tessed fortonna: forruib
achoiss forsindleic, maraid diaaes, nibronna. 5. Dofhaid
tarElpa huile, De mair, ba amra retha l 6. IN
insib Mara Torrian áinis, indib adrimi: legais canóin
laGerman, ised
adfiadat
lini. 7. Dochum
nErend dodfetis ainhgil De hifithiai: menic
itchíthe ifisib dosnicfed arithisi. 8. Ropochobair
dondErind tichtu Patraic forochlad. roclos cian
son anhgarma maccraidi caille Fochlad, 9. Gadatar
cotissed innóeb aranimthised lethu, aratintarad
ochloen tuatha hErend dobethu. 10. Tuatha
hErend tairchaintais dosnicfed sithlaith nua, meraid
coti aniartaige, bidfás tír Temrach túa. 11. A
druid arLoégaire tichtu Phatraic nicheiltis: rofírad
ind[fh]aitsine innaflatha asbeirtis. 12. Baleir
Patraic combebai, basab innarba clóeni, ised túargaib a[fh]eua súas de
sechtreba dóeni, 13. Ymmuin
ocus abcolips, natricoicait noscanad, pridchad,
batsed, arniged, demolad Dé nianad, 14. Nicongebed
uacht síne dofess aidche illinnib: fornim
consena aríge, pridchaiss fried indinnib 15. HiSlán
tuaith Benna Bairche, nisgebed tart nalia, canaid cet salm
cechnaidche, doríg aingel fognia, 16. Foid
forleic luim iarum ocus cuilche
flinch imme, bacorthe
a[fh]rithadart, niléic achorp itimme. 17. Pridchad
soscéla dochách, dogníth mór ferta ilethu: íccaid luscu
latruscu, mairb dosfuisced dobethu. 18. Patraic pridehais doScottaib, rochés mor seth illethu 19. Meicc
Emir, meicc Erimon, lotar huile lacísel, fosrolaic
intarmchossal isinmórchuthe nísel. 20. Condatánic
intapstal, dofaith gith gaethe déne, pridchaiss
trífichte bliadan croich Crist dothuathaib
Féne. 21. Fortuáith
hErend bai temel, tuatha adortais side, níchraitset
infírdeact innatrinote fíre. 22. INArd
Macha fil rígi, iscian doréract Emain, iscell mór
Dún Lethglaisse, nímdil ciddithrub Temair. 23. Patraic diambói illobra adcobra dul
doMache: dolluid
ainhgel arachend, forset immedon lathe. 24. Dofaith
fadess coUictor, babe aridralastar, lassais
inmuine irnbai, asintein adgalastar. 25. Asbert:
"ordan doMache, doCrist atlaigthe buide, dochum nime
mosraga, roratha duit doguide. 26. "Ymmon
doroega itbiu, bidlurech diten dochfách: immut
illathiu mesa regait fir hErend dobrath." 27. Anaiss
Tassach diaaes intan dobert commain dó, asbert
moanicfed Patraic, briathar Tassaig nirbugó. 28. Samaiges
crích friaidchi arnacatea 1és oca: cocend bliadne
bai soilse, bahe sithlaithe fota. 29. INcath
fecta imBethrón frituaith Canfin lamacc Nún, assuith
ingrían friGabón, issed adfét littri dúin. 30. Húair
assuith lahIessu ingrían fribás innaclóen, ciasuthrebrech
bahuisse aoillse frihetsect nanóeb. 31.
Clérch hErend dollotar dairi Patraic
ascechshét, son
incétuil fosrolaic contuil cách úadib forset. 32. Anim
Patraic friachorp isiaraaethaib roacarad, anhgeil Dé
icétaidche aridfetis cenanad. 33. INtan
conhualai Patraic adella inPatraic naile, ismalle
connucaibset dochum nIsu meicc Maire. 34: Patraic
cenairde nuabair, bamór domaith roménair. bith
inhgellius maicc Maire, basen gaire inhgénair. Genair. |
Fíacc’s Hymn Fíacc of Sletty made this eulogy
for Patrick. That Fíacc, then, was son of
Erc, son of Bregan, son of Dare Barraig
(from whom are the Hui Barrche), son of Cathair Mór. A pupil, then, was that Fíacc of Dubthach
maccuLugair : chief poet of
Ireland was he. In the time of Loegaire, son of Niall and of Patrick, was it
made. And it is that Dubthach who rose up before Patrick in Tara, after Loegaire had said that no one should
rise up before him in the house.
And he was a friend of Patrick's
thenceforward, and he was baptized by Patrick afterwards. Now Patrick once went to that Dubthach's house in
Leinster. Then Dubthach made great welcome to
Patrick. Patrick said to Dubthach:
"Seek for me," saith he, "a man of rank, of good family, moral, having only
one wife and one child." "Why seekest thou that?"
saith Dubthach, "namely,
a man of that kind?" Saith Patrick, "For him to enter
orders." "Fíacc is that,"
saith Dubthach, "and he has gone on a circuit in Connaught." Now when they were thus talking
then came Fíacc and his circle with
him. "Here," saith Dubthach, "stands he of whom we were
thinking." "How will it
be," saith Patrick, "if what we have been saying is not pleasing to
him?" "Proceed to tonsure me," saith Dubthach, " so that Fíacc may
see." So when Fíacc saw that he asked: "What is being proceeded with?" saith he. " To
tonsure Dubthach," say they. "That is idle," saith he,
"for there is not in Ireland a poet
his equal." " Thou wouldst be taken in his stead," saith Patrick. "The loss of me," saith Fíacc, "is less to Ireland than
Dubthach:” So Patrick shore his beard from Fíacc then. And great
grace came on him thereafter. And he read all the ecclesiastical ordo in one night, or fifteen days, as others declare. And a
bishop's rank was conferred on him, and it
is he that is chief bishop of Leinster
thenceforward and his successors after
him. The Place, moreover, was Duma Gobla, to the northwest of Sletty. But the Time (was that of) Lugaid son of Loegaire, for it is he
that was king of Ireland then. The Cause
was for praising Patrick. And after
his death it was made, as certain
authors declare. 1. Patrick was born in Nemthor, this hath been declared in
stories: A boy of sixteen years when he was brought
(hither) in tears. 2. Sucat (was) his name that was first given; as to his
father, he was, (it is) to be known, Son of Calpurn, son of Potitus, grandson of Deacon
Odisse. 3. He abode six years in bondage : men's food he consumed it not. Many were they whom Cothraige of-four-households
served. 4. Said Victor to Miliuc's bondsman that he should go
over the waves : He set his foot upon the flagstone; its trace
remains: it wears not away. 5. He went over all Albion: great God, it was a marvel of a
course! Till he left himself with Germanus in the south,
in the southern part of Letha. 6. In the isles of the Tyrrhene sea he fasted ; therein he
ponders: He read the canon with Germanus : this is what
books declare. 7. Unto Ireland God's angels were bringing him in (his) orbit: Often was it seen in visions that he would come
again to it. 8. A help to Ireland was Patrick's coming which was heeded (?): Afar was heard the sound of the cry of the
children of Fochlad's wood. 9. They prayed that the saint would come, that he would walk with
them. That he would convert Ireland's tribes from evil
to Life. 10. Ireland's tribes were prophesying that a new long reign would
come to them, That it would remain till the Day of Doom, that
silent Tara's land would be waste. 11. His wizards concealed not from Loegaire Patrick's coming : The prophecy of the reign whereof they spake was
verified. 12. Pious was Patrick till he died ; he was a strong expeller of
evil. It is this that upraised his goodness up beyond
men's tribes. 13. Hymns and apocalypse, the three fifties he used to
sing them. He preached, baptized, prayed, from God's praise
he rested not. 14. The weather's cold kept him not from staying at night in
riverpools: That he might win his kingdom in heaven, he
preached by day on hilltops. 15. In (the fountain) Slán, in the region of Benna Boirche, which
neither drought nor flood affected, He sang a hundred psalms every night, to the
angels' King he was a servant. 16. He slept on a bare flagstone then, with a wet mantle round him, A pillar-stone was his bolster : he left not his
body in warmth. 17. He preached the Gospel to every one: he wrought great miracles
far and wide. He healed the halt with the lepers; the dead he
raised them to life. 18. Patrick preached to the Scots; he suffered much labour far and
wide That around him they might come to judgment, every
one whom he brought to life. 19. Sons of Eber, sons of Erem, all went with the Devil; The transgression cast them down into the great
low pit: 20. Till the apostle came to them : he went the way of a rushing
wind: He preached for three score years Christ's cross
to the tribes of the Féni. 21. On Ireland's folk lay darkness: the tribes worshipped elves: They believed not the true godhead of the true
Trinity. 22. In Armagh there is the kingdom: it long ago deserted Emain ; A great church is Dún Leth-glasse: that Tara is a
waste is not pleasant to me. 23. When Patrick was in sickness he desired to go to Armagh. An angel went to meet him on the road in the
middle of the day. 24. He fared southward to Victor: he it was that set him in motion: The brake wherein he (Victor) was flamed; out of
the fire he called: 25. He said: "Primacy to Armagh: unto Christ offer thanks: To heaven thou wilt soon come: thy prayers have
been granted to thee. 26. The hymn thou hast chosen in thy lifetime will be a corselet of
protection to every one. Around thee on Doomsday Ireland's men will come
for judgment." 27. Tassach remained after him, when he had given the communion to
him. He said that Patrick would soon g: Tassach's word
was not false. 28. He (Patrick) put an end to night, for light was not consumed with
him : To a year's end bided radiance, this was a long
continuous day. 29. At the battle fought on Beth-horon against Canaan's folk by Nun's
son, The sun rested at Gibeon, this is what histories
tell us. 30. Since the sun rested with Joshua at the death of the wicked, Though it be thrice as strong, meet is radiance at
the decease of the saints. 31. Ireland's clerics went by every road to wake Patrick; The sound of the chanting cast them down so that
each of them slept on the way. 32. Patrick's soul from his body, it is after pains it was separated
: God's angels on the first night were playing to it
without resting. 33. When Patrick went he visited the other Patrick: Together they ascended to Jesus, Mary's Son. 34. Patrick without a sign of vainglory, it was much of good that he
thought. He was in the service of Mary's Son,-that was the
pious duty in which he was born. |
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15. Bairche boare Rossa Rigbude rig Ulad, isuad anmnigter
naBenna, quia ibi habitabat frequenter cum pecoribus suis. |
Notes on Fiacc's Hymn 15. Bairche the cowherd of Ross Yellow-wrist, king of Ulster(1), from him the peaks are named, because he oftern used to dwell there with his herds. (1) He succeeded to the throne, according to Tigernach, A.D. 248. |
NOTE: Line 15 contains a reference
to the Benna Bairche or Boirche (Mourne Mountains), see Metrical Dindshenchas above., Some historians believe are named after Bécc
Bairrche who died in 718AD. Other referces in the poem to the primacy of Armagh
indicate that it was written or modified at a later date and perhaps by Bishop Aed
of Sleibhte.
Ref:
Stokes, Whitley
(1887) The Tripartite Life of Patrick: with other documents relating to that
saint. MSO, London.
St.
Fiecc's Poem on the Life of St. Patrick. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record. March
1868.
The
Hymn of St. Fíacc in praise of St. Palrick in Todd, J.H. (1855) Leabhar Imuinn.
The Book of Hymns of the Ancient Church of Ireland. Dublin.
Bollandist,
Cornelius Byeus, the learned compiler of the Life of St. Fiacc, at the 12th of
October'. Acta sanctorum, October tom VI.
Before 530AD
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Vita Santi Endei (Plummer 1910) xi. Post hec uerba,
percepta sancti uiri benedictione, properauit uirgo cum | suis iter suum,
sicut prius, super pallium in mari peragere ; et sic cum angelico
mi[ni]sterio ad Hiberniam insulam meruerunt peruenire. Virgo igitur
beatissima, aduertens diuinum adesse sibi subsidium, a Deo optinuit, ut cum
eisdem spiritibus angelicis anima sua ad celum ascenderet, ac laureolam
integritatis virginalis ibi optineret. Quod et factum est. Puelle igitur non
mediocriter de morte eius desolate, cum eius sancto corpore in pallio suo,
sicut prius, transuecte, prospero nauigio applicuerunt 'in Hiberniam', vbi
duo populi, silicet Lagnensium et Midensium erant in unum congregati.
Videntes igitur hii populi insolitum miraculum, silicet ut pallio super mare
extenso, tanquam tutissima naui, tot homines ueherentur, in sedicionem uersi,
quisque populorum ius sibi in corpore uirginis uendicabat. Set diuina pietas
seuiciam eorum sedauit in hunc modum. Visum enim eis erat quoddam uechiculum
bobus binis impositum in quo ponebatur sancte uirginis corpus. Set tunc res
[mira] ac nimis stupenda accidit. Nam populo Lagnensium uidebatur, quod boues
cum sancto corpore eos antecedeba[n]t usque ad cellam, Barrig nomine; et quod ibi sanctum pignus sepilierunt, in
campo qui in Hibernico Mag Liphi dicitur. Set Midenses in veritate sacrum
corpus secum deferentes, uiderunt boues ante se precedentes cum tribus
prefatis puellis, et sic usque 'ad' monasterium quod Cella Ayne uocatur in
uulgari peruenerunt. Hoc enim monasterium ipse Endeus quondam neophitus, (id
est in fide nouus) pro hac sorore sua incepit edificare. Ibi quoque boues
post tanti itineris fatigacionem vrinam suam de terra iterum hauserunt ; et
ideo locus ille in Hibernico [Cell Aine] nominatur. Ibi etiam duo postea
fontes aquarum uiuentium de terra eruperunt. In illo quoque monasterio corpus
sancte uirginis est traditum sepulture, exspectans resurrectionem filiorum ac
filiarum Dei I in uitam eternam. Post anni uero spacium, sicut promiserat
sanctus Endeus, a suo monasterio, silicet Latio nomine, cum centum
quinquaginta monachis ad Hiberniam prospero nauigio peruenit. Applicuit
quoque in Midensium oris in portu qui Colptha dicitur. Ibi quoque sanctus
Patricius, ut fertur, ante eum applicuisse dicitur. Perueniens igitur sanctus
Endeus ad terram, ibi ex utraque parte fluminis quod Boann nominatur, multas
ecclesias fundauit. Note:
Barrig cella in Magh Liffi, Enda §11
(Colgan a. L. Says that in his day it was called Baile Barrigh, and was on
the banks of the Liffey in the County and diocese of Kildare). |
xi.
After these words, perceiving the blessing of the holy man, the young man
hastened to complete his journey with his men, as before, on the mantle in
the sea; and thus they deserved to reach the island of Ireland with the
angelic ministry. Therefore, the most blessed virgin, realizing that divine
support was present to her, desired from God that her soul might ascend to
heaven with the same angelic spirits, and that she might there obtain the
laurel of virginal integrity. And that was done. The girl, then, was not
moderately desolate at his death, and with his holy body in her mantle, as
before, disguised, they set out with a successful voyage to Ireland, where
two peoples, like the Lagnians and the Medes, were gathered together in one.
When these people therefore saw an unusual miracle, a flint like a cloak
spread out over the sea, as if the safety of a ship, so many people were
killed, they fell into sedition, each of the peoples asserting their right in
the body of the virgin. The divine mercy restrained their suicide in this
way. For there appeared to them a kind of small basket placed on two oxen, in
which the body of the holy virgin was placed. Then a [wonderful] and
exceedingly wonderful thing happened. For it was seen by the people of Lagna
that the bull with the holy body preceded them as far as the cell, named Barrig; and that there they
buried the holy pledge, in the field which in Irish is called Mag Liphi.
But the Midians, carrying the sacred body with them in truth, saw the oxen
going before them with the three aforesaid maidens, and so they reached the
monastery which is popularly called Cella Ayne. For Endeus himself, once a
neophyte (that is, a novice in the faith), began to build this monastery for
his sister. There, too, the oxen, after the weariness of so long a journey,
drew their sward from the ground again; and therefore that place is called in
Irish [Cell Aine]. There also afterwards two fountains of living waters burst
forth from the earth. In that monastery too the body of the holy virgin was
handed over for burial, awaiting the resurrection of the sons and daughters
of God to eternal life. After the space of a year, as St. Endeus had
promised, from his monastery, a flint called Latium, he arrived with a hundred
and fifty monks in a successful voyage to Ireland. He also applied to the
mouth of the Medes in the port called Colptha. Saint Patrick is also said to
have applied there before him. St. Endeus, therefore, arriving at the land,
there on both sides of the river which is called Boann, founded many
churches. [Translated
by Google] |
References to Cormac mac Diarmata
(†567AD???), King of Uí Bairrche, and his reign:
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Vita Santi Abbani
Abbatis de Mag Arnaide (Plummer
1910) xxvii. Post hec santus
Abbanus cum suis discipulis fines Laginensium intrauit, et venit in plebem
Hua Marchi; et ipsa plebs honorifice recepit cum, et ualde
gauisa est in aduentu eius. Et vir sanctus benedixit eam diligenter, et multis diuersis languoribus
ibi sanatis, et miraculis perfectis, inde recessit in plebem Hua Midhi. Ibique magnum monasteriurn
construxit, et propter honorem eius in eodem loco ciuitas edifficata est; et monasterium et
ciuitas vno nomine scotice
vocantur, id est Ceall Abbain, quod interpretatur latine cella Abbani. xxxiii. Quodam tempore
Cormacus filius Diarmoda, rex Hua Cennselach, Camross, cellam sancti Abbani,
predauit, volens familiam eius de ea expellere, et villam ipsam in sua
potestate habere. Satellites uero eius predantes villam, ipse stetit in
platea. Duo siquidem satellites de sancti cuuula magnum vas lactis optimi et
quatti tulerunt, et posuerunt vectem per ansas eius, et inter se ad plateam
portauerunt. Set cum voluissent illud deponere, nullo modo potuerunt, quia
vectis [v]olis eorum adhesit, et cum rex et alii omnes hoc vidissent,
timuerunt valde, putantes sibi omnibus malum contingere, quia noucrunt se
sancto Dei iniuriam fecisse. Et inito consilio, rex et omnes duces et
principes nuncios miserunt ad sanctum Abbanum, ut veniret ad eos. Sanctus
aute vir ex suasione fratrum cum multis perrexit ad regem. Tunc rex
inclinauit se ante sanctum, et rogauit eum cum omnibus, ut solueret miscros a
ligno, quad cuti eorum pro sua culpa adhesit; et promiserunt se facturos quodcunque
sanctus postea vellet. Videns ipse quod corda eorum compuncta essent,,
signauit lignum, et iussit portantes illud deponere; et statim ad uerbum eius
solutum est uectis cute eorum, et onus depossuerunt. Tunc rex, et omnes qui
ibi erant, videntes tale miraculum, ct volentes satis placere sancto seniori,
non solum suam cellam, set totum opidum sibi et Deo vnanimiter obtulerunt.
Illud enim opidum scothice Find Mhagh vocatur, quod dicitur latine lucidus
campus. Et santus senior videns eos deuotissimos esse Deo, ipsam gente et
semem eius in eternum, et regem, et omnes reges futuros de semine eius,
preter dissipatores ecclesie Dei, dillgenter benedixit. Et rex and populus,
accepta licentia et benedictione a santo Dei, et accipientes eum petonum
suum, cum gaudio reuersi sunt ab eo. |
Life of Saint
Abbán of Adamstown
xxvii After this, the holy Abbanus with his disciples
entered the borders of the Laginians, and came to the people of Hua Marchi;
and the people themselves received him with honor, and were greatly rejoiced
at his coming. And the holy man blessed her diligently, and with many
different ailments healed there, and miracles completed, thence retired to
the people of Hua Midhi. There he built a great monastery, and for his honor
a city was built in the same place; and the monastery and the city are called
by one Scottish name, that is, Ceall Abbain, which is interpreted in Latin as
Abban's cell. xxxiii At one time Cormachus, son of Diarmoda, king of Hua Cennselach, Camross, plundered the cell of St. Abban, wishing to expel his family from it, and to have the town itself in his power. While his satellites were raiding the town, he himself stood in the street. Two of the attendants took a large vessel of the best and finest milk from the holy vessel, and placed a bar by its handles, and carried it between them to the street. But when they wanted to put it down, they could not in any way, because it clung to their will, and when the king and all the others saw this, they were very afraid, thinking that evil would befall them all, because they knew that they had wronged the saint of God. And having entered into the plan, the king and all the leaders and princes sent messengers to Saint Abbanus to come to them. A holy man went with many people to the king at the persuasion of his brothers. Then the king prostrated himself before the saint, and besought him with all to loosen the mixture from the wood, which had stuck to their skin for his own fault; and they promised that they would do whatever the saint wanted afterwards. Seeing himself that their hearts were contrite, he signed the wood, and commanded the bearers to lay it down; and at once at his word they were loosed by their skins, and they took possession of the burden. Then the king, and all who were there, seeing such a miracle, and wishing to please the holy elder, freely offered not only their cell, but the whole town to themselves and to God. For that town is called in Scotch Find Mhagh, which is called the bright field in Latin. And the holy elder, seeing that they were most devoted to God, blessed the nation itself and its seed for eternity, and the king and all future kings of his seed, beyond the destroyers of the church of God. And the king and the people, having received leave and blessing from the holy God, and accepting him as their petition, returned from him with joy. [Translated by Google] |
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Betha Abáin annso sis (Plummer 1922) xvi. (31) Luidh Corbmac mac Diarmata, rí Ua cCeinnsealaigh do denamh creichi for Cam Ross .i. reicles Abbáin. Teid cuid dia shluagh hi ccuili Abáin, ך dobherad an miach tomhais bai ann forsan faithche, ך ní ro fhedsat a chur dibh, óir do lensat a lámha dhe. Gabhus omhan an ri cona slogh. Cuirit fiss for Abán, ך guidhit fairtrocaire do denamh forra on airc ina rabhatar. Cuiris Abán cros dia láimh uasaibh, go ro sccar an miach fríu, ך doradadh an ferann a ttimcheall an bhaile do Aban ; ך luidh Abbán for cula go mbennachtain na crichi lais. |
Life of Abban (Plummer 1922) xvi. (31) Cormac son of
Diarmait, king of Uí Cennselaigh came to ravage Camross, a monastery of
Abban's. Some of his host went into Abban's kitchen, and carried out on to
the green a bushel measure which was there, but they could not set it down, for
their hands clave to it. The king and his host were frightened, and sent for
Abban, and begged him to show mercy to them in the strait in which they were.
Abban made the sign of the cross with his hand over them, and the bushel fell
from them; and the land round about the place was given to Abban, and Abban
returned with the benediction of the country. |
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Vita Santi Ciannici
abbatis de Achad Bó (Plummer
1910) xxxiv. Cum autem sanctus Cainnicus in australes partes Lag[i]nie, id est Hua Cennselaich, venisset, vbi erat curia magna apud regem Cormacum (filium Dyarmici), quidam puer paruulus ductus est ad mortem crudelem, id est gall-cherd. Videns hoc sanctus Cainnicus esse horribile opus, postulauit a rege puerum liberari; set non impetrauit. Tune sanctus rogauit Deum, et ipse exaudiuit eum. Nam proiecto puero super hastas stantes sursum positas, nee potuerunt iugulare uel lacerare eum. Hic est Dolue Lachdere, quem rex Cormacus sancto Cainnico obtulit, cuius ciuitas dicitur Ceall Dolue. |
Life of Saint Cainnech
of Aghaboe On another day, when St.
Cainnech, in the land of the South Leinstermen, came to a great assembly of
the people around the king, Cormac mac Diarmait, a little boy was led forth
by the people to a cruel and very pitiable death, the gialcherd. Seeing this
horrible deed, Cainnnech besouth the king for the boy’s liberty, but was
refused. He prayed to God, and the prayer was heard. For the boy was thrown
on the spears placed pointing upwards, but the spears could not kill nor harm
him, - except that his eyes were always crossed as a result of looking on
this horrible punishment. He is Dolue Lebdeic. The king gave him to Cainnech;
afterwards he was an illustrious man, whose monastry is called Kell Tolue
[Killaloe, Clare?]. Kenney (1929) |
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Vita Santi Comgalli
abbatis de Bennchor (Plummer
1910) xlii. Cormacus, fillius
Diarmoda, rex Laginensium, de gente Cennselach ortus, obtulit se cum tribus
castellis in regione Laginensium possitis, Ceatharlach super ripam fluminis
Berba positum, et Foibran, et Ard Crema Deo et sanctoi Comgallo. Venitque ad
prouinchiam Ultorum et factus est apud Sanctum Comgallum in monasterio suo
Beannchor monachus. Postea inimicus antiquus in corde eius magnum tedium erga
patriam et filios, cognatos, et caros immisit. Tunc ille cum ingenti
anxietate mentis ad sanctum patrem Comgallum uenit, et confessus est ei se
non posse sustinere ibi, nisi patriam vissitaret suam, ct videret. Sanctus
iam Comgallus, sciens quia non poterat eum retinere, dimisit eum et quosdam
fratres secum. Et cepto itenere, statim super eum, orante pro eo sancto
abbate suo, sopor a Deo missus irruit in colle imminenti assilo Beannchor, et
dormiuit ibi a prima hora diei usque ad nonam; taleque sompnium vidit. Vidit
enim se fines Laginensium ambulasse, et ciuitates pulcras et castella
lustrari, et campos floridos et amena prata circuisse, et electos currus, et
regnum seem tenuisse, et duces et optimates, et prepositos, et reliqua regni
sui insignia circa se sedisse. Et cum de hiis omnibus esset saciatus, in
magno tedio expergefactus est hora nona. Et odiuit omnia que uiderat, Dei
auxilio et suam uoluntatem implens, reuersus est ad sanctum suum abbatem
Comgallum, narrauitque ei hec omnia. Mansitque ibi deinde in vita religiossa
usque ad obitum suum. |
Life
of Saint Comgall of Bangor
xlii.
Cormac, son of Diarmata, king of Leinster, from the country of Cennselach,
offered himself to God and saint Comgall with a third of the castles he held
in Leinster, Carlow located on the banks of the river Barrow, and Foibran,
and Ard Crema. Coming to the province of Ulster, he worked as a monk under
Saint Comgall in the monastry of Bangor. Afterwards he suffered from
temptations suggested by the devil and felt concerned about the welfare of
his children, relations, patrimonial possessions and country. In great
agitation of mind, the prince had an interview with St Comgall, and declared,
that he could not remain at Bangor, without visiting his native country.
Finding he could not be restrained from this desire, Comgall sent him on his
way with some brethren, as companions, At their departure, the abbot offered
up his prayers. Cormac felt oppressed with sleep, on a high hill, where the
Asylum of Bangor was established, and slept there from the first to the ninth
hour of the day. He dreamt that he had been walking round the borders of
Leinster visiting his beautiful cities and fortresses, and that he had
traversed the flowering plains and lovely meadows; he dreamt of his kingdom
and of his fine war-chariots and he saw himself surrounded by his war-lords,
princes and magnates, and with the symbols of his royal power. When satisfied
with this vision, he awoke. Through the grace of God, he felt a tedium and
dislike, for all that he had seen in his dream. He then returned to the
Abbott Comgall, with a relation of what he had imagined, and he remained
under religious rule to the very day of his death. Rough
translation from O’Hanlon, John Canon (1923) Lives of the Irish Saints. Vol V
p.176 |
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Acta Sancti Finniani de
Cluain Araird (Acta Sanctorum
Hiberniae) 13.2 liber.* IGITUR Finnianus, optimus
sanctorum secundi ordinis abbas, volens
multiplicare cultum Dei altissimi, plures monachos in prefato loco,
qui Achad Abla dicitur, relinquens, ad
regionem Barche perrexit, volens enim
ibi ecclesiam Deo suo edificare. Venerunt
ad eum duo reguli qui in terra illa
habitabant, scilicet Cormacus et Crimtannus, qui erant duo filii Dermici
regis. Iste Crimtannus primus in
regno erat, cui invidebat || Cormacus,
sicut ex sequentibus probatur. Nam
cum fundaret Finnianus ecclesiam in terra Barcheorum, volens Cormacus, propter invidiam quam habebat ad fratrem suum rimtannum, ut sanctus Finnianus ei malediceret, suggerebat fratri suo Crimtanno ut sanctum de terra sua expelleret. Cum vero
Crimtannus consilio fratris consensum
preberet, ut scilicet sanctum virum
de finibus suis eiceret, venit ad
ecclesiam ubi sanctus Finnianus
scripturam sacram legebat, et ait
sancto: Egredere de terra ista, quia hic non habitabis. Et respondens homo Dei alt: Non egrediar, nisi per manum
trahar. Crimtannus autem, quia filius mortis erat, tenuit manum ejus. Et dixit homo Dei ad eum ut antecederet se. Quod cum fecisset, confractus est pes ejus ad lapidem.
Et alt Finnianus: Regnum
tuum sic deficiet et confringetur. * hac indication scripta
est in margine, sed prima manu |
Saint
Finnian of Clonard
13.2 book. * IGITUR Finnianus, the best of the holy
abbots of the second order, wanting to multiply the worship of God the Most
High, leaving several monks in the aforesaid place, which is called Achad
Abla, went to the region of Barche, for he wanted to build a church there for
his God. There came to him two kings who dwelt in that country, namely,
Cormacus and Crimtannus, who were the two sons of King Dermicus. This
Crimtannus was the first in the kingdom, whom he envied Cormacus, as is
proved from what follows. For when Finnianus had founded a church in the land
of the Barchei, Cormacus, wishing, on account of the envy he had of his
brother Rimtannus, to curse Saint Finnianus, suggested to his brother
Crimtannus that he expel the saint from his land. But when Crimtannus had
given consent to his brother's counsel, that is to say, to expel the holy man
from his borders, he came to the church where Saint Finanus was reading the
sacred scriptures, and said to the saint: Get out of that land, for you shall
not dwell here. And the man of God answered: I will not go out unless I pull
him by the hand. Crimtannus au-tem, because he was the son of death, held his
hand. And the man of God said to him to go before him. When he had done this,
his foot was broken against the stone. And alt Finnianus: Your kingdom will
thus fail and be broken. * this indication is written in the margin, but in the
first hand [Translated by Google] |
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AA. SS., p. 394 (col. b). XIII. Igitur Finnianus optimus sanctorum secundi
Ordinis17 Abbas volens multiplicare cultum Dei altissimi, plures monachos
in praefato loco, qui18 Achadh-abhla dicitur, relinquens, ad
regionem Barche perrexit. Volens enim ibi Ecclesiam Deo suo aedificare,
venerunt ad eum duo reguli, qui in terra ilia habitabant, scilicet Cormacus
& Crimthannus qui19 erant duo filii Dermitii regis. Iste
Crimthannus primus in regno erat cui invidebat Cormacus sicut ex sequentibus
probatur. Nam cum fundaret Finnianus Ecclesiam in terra Barcheorum, volens
Cormacus propter invidiam, quam habebat ad fratrem suum Crimthannum, ut S.
Finnianus ei malediceret, suggerebat fratri suo Crimthanno, ut sanc tum de
terra sua expelleret. Cum vero Crimthannus consilio fratris consensum
praeberet, ut scilicet virum sanctum de finibus suis ejiceret; venit ad
Ecclesiam ubi, S. Finnianus scripturam sacram legebat; et ait sancto;
Egredere de terra ista, quia hie non habitabis. Et respondent homo Dei, ait;
non egrediar nisi per manum trahar. Chrimthannus autem, quia filius mortis
erat, tenuit manum ejus. Et dixit homo Dei ad eum, nt antecederet se. Quod
cum fecisset, confractus est pes ejus ad lapidem. Et ait Einnianus; Regnum
tuum sic deficiet, et confringetur. 17. Nota, p. 398, col. b.
17. Igitur Finnianus, optimus sanctorum secundi ordinis, etc. c. 13. Detribus
ordinibus seu classibus Sanctorum qui successive norue runt in Hibernia,
eorumque discriminibus, vide in vita alia hujus sancti viri, quam da bimusad
12. Dec, et Usseruumde Primord. Eccl. Britt., p. 913, 914, 915, apud quern
nomina Sanctorum secundi ordinis expri muntur sic, Duo Finniani, duo Brendani,
larlaithe, Iuama, Comgallus, Coemgenus, Cieranus, Columba, Cannechus,
Eoganius, Maclaiscreus, . . . . et alii multi. Vide Usserum ibidem fuse de
his disserentem. 18. Plures Monachos in
prsefato loco qui Achadh-abhla dicitur relinquens, ad re gionem Bairrche
perrexit c. 13. Monas terium de Achadh-abhla est in regione Hy Kenselaigh, et
ante dicebatur Cro-saileach, in eoque ipse Sanctus dicitur mansisse annis
sedecim, ut in Hibernico habetur. Hy-Bairrche etiam est regio Lagenise, quae
in Hibernico alio nomine Crich-dunluing vocatur, et in ea extruxit Ecclesiam,
de Mugna, quae in Hibernico Mugna-Helchain appellatur, locum donante Carbreo
Rege Lageniae. 19. Cormacus et
Crimthanus, qui erant duo filii Dermitii Regis etc. c. 13. Videtur hie fuisse
Dermitius filius Cerbhalli, Rex Hiberniae, qui floruit circa hoc tempus, et
occisus est anno 558 juxta catalogum Begum Hiberniae, Quat. Magistr. in Annalibus. |
XIII
Therefore Finnianus, the best of the saints of the second order, (17) the abbot,
wishing to multiply the worship of the most high God, left several monks in
the aforesaid place, which is called (18) Achadh-abhla, and went to the
region of Barche. For wanting to build there a church for his God, two kings
who lived in that land came to him, namely, Cormacus and Crimthannus, who
were the two sons of King Dermitius. This Crimthannus was the first in the
kingdom whom Cormacus envied, as is proved from what follows. For when
Finnianus founded the Church in the land of the Barcheos, Cormacus, because
of the envy he had for his brother Crimthannus, was willing to curse St.
Finnianus to him, and suggested to his brother Crimthannus that he should
expel the saint from his land. But when Crimthannus consented to his
brother's advice, that is to say, to expel the holy man from his borders; he
came to the church where St. Finnianus was reading the sacred scripture; and
he said to the saint; Get out of that land, because you will not live here.
And the man of God answered, he said; I will not go out unless I pull him by
the hand. But Chrimthannus, because he was the son of death, held his hand.
And the man of God said unto him, Let him not go before himself. When he had
done this, his foot was broken against a stone. And Ainnianus said; Thus your
kingdom will fail and be broken. 17.
Note, p. 398, col. b. 17. Therefore Finnianus, the best of the saints of the
second order, etc. c. 13. With the three orders or classes of Saints who
successively ruled in Ireland, and their crises, see other things in the life
of this holy man, which we shall give until the 12th of Dec., and Usserumde
Primord. Eccl. Brit., p. 913, 914, 915, at which the names of the Saints of
the second order are expressed as follows: Two Finnians, two Brendans,
Larlaithe, Juama, Comgallus, Coemgenus, Cieranus, Columba, Cannechus,
Eoganius, Maclaiscreus, . . . . and many others. See Usserus in the same
place discussing these things. 18.
Leaving several monks in a sacred place called Achadh-abhla, he went to the
region of Bairrche c. 13. The Monas terium of Achadh-abhla is in the region
of Hy Kenselaigh, and formerly it was called Cro-saileach, and in it the
Saint himself is said to have remained for sixteen years, as we have in
Irish. Hy-Bairrche is also a region of Lagenis, which in Irish is called by
another name Crich-dunluing, and in it he built the Church of Mugna, which in
Irish is called Mugna-Helchain, giving the place to Carbreus King of Lagenia.
19.
Cormacus and Crimthanus, who were the two sons of King Dermitius, etc. c. 13.
It seems that Dermitius son of Cerbhallus, King of Ireland, was here, who
flourished about this time, and was killed in the year 558 according to the
catalog of the Begum of Ireland, Quat. Teacher in the Annals. [Translated by Google] |
James Graves.
The Damhliag of Achadhabhall. The Journal of the Royal Historical and
Archaeological Association of Ireland, FourthSeries, Vol. 6, No. 54 (Apr.,
1883), pp. 72-85
|
Vita Sancti Fintani
abbatis de Cluain Ednech (Plummer
1910) xvii.
Rex aquilona Laginensium, Colum filius Cormaci, habebat in
vinculis Cormacum filium Diarmoda regis Hua Kennselach, id est
australium Laginensium, uolens eum occidere, quem apprehendit in insidiis. Hoc audiens uir sanctus Fyntanus, assumpsit
duodecim discipulos 'secum', uolens liberare
illum iuuenem; et perrexit ad predictum
regem tunc habitantem in illo opido in planicie Laginensium possito,
nomine Rath Mhór, quod latine
dicitur atrium magnum. Et ille rex
crudelis erat. Audiens ipse sanctum
Fyntanum ad se venientem, iussit
militibus suis bene custodire captum, et castrum diligenter contra virum Dei firmari. Sanctus
autem veniens illuc, diuina potestas omnes ianuas ei apperuit. Et
perueniens ad domum in qua erat iuuenis
cathenatus in vinculis, similiter aperta est et ianua illius. Et cum vidisset vir Dei iuuenem in vinculis, omnia vincula illius fracta in terram ceciderunt.
Vires autem hostiariorum et militum
euanuerunt visu viri sancti. Tunc
milites nimio terrore perterriti,
festinantes ad regem tunc dormientem perrexerunt, et nunciauerunt ei hec omnia. Rex autem tremore
repletus, dixit eis: 'Nescio ego
ipse quid faciam, quia cor meum intra me tremuit.' Cui dixerunt amici sui: 'Domine, iste sanctus
terribilis est, et in iracundia
ad te uenit, quia diligit quem tenes; et propccr cum multa prodigia
Deus facit. Omnia ergo quecunquc
dixcrit tibi, fac; ne te et nos ira Dei consnmat.' Tune rex ad sanctum
Fintanum currens, prostrauit se ad
pedes cius, dicens: `Nos te decet, sancte, honorare; quia Deus te magnificat. Dimitto 'tibi' ergo
virurn quem petis, et omnes vinctos
quos habeo cum eo.' Et benedicens
uir sanctus regem, gratulabatur Deo,
et, solutis vinctis, duxit secum iuuenem quern solutum petebat; et
egressus est de castello. Et occurrit ei in uia multitudo militum, inter quos erat filius Belial de genere regali, qui uolebat Cormacum, quem absoluit sanctus,
occidere; set commites sui vix
prohibuerunt eum. Cui sanctus Fyntanus ait: ‘Fili diaboli, cito occideris;
et uir iste, quem cupis occidere, longo
viuct tempore in regno, et in bonis actibus vitam consum[m]abit.' Quod ita
factum est. Nam ille infelix ante
finem mensis occisus est. Cormacus autem
filius Diarmoda multo tempore vixit in regno Laginensium, et in senectute, spreto regno, apud sanctum
Comgallum abbatem, in provinchia
Ultorum, in monasterio de Beannchor monachus factus, suam sanctam vitam finiuit. |
Life of Saint
Fintan abbot of Clonenagh
xvii The king of the northern Laginians, Colum the son of
Cormac, had in chains Cormac the son of Diarmoda, king of Hua Kennselach,
that is, of the southern Laginians, desiring to kill him, whom he caught in
ambush. Hearing this, the holy man Fyntanus took twelve disciples with him,
wanting to deliver that young man; and he went to the aforesaid king, who was
then living in that town in the plain of the Laginians, called Rath Mhór,
which in Latin is called the great court. And that king was cruel. Hearing
Saint Fyntan himself coming to him, he ordered his soldiers to guard the
prisoner well, and to fortify the castle carefully against the man of God.
And when the saint came thither, the divine power opened all the doors to
him. And when he arrived at the house in which the young man was chained in
chains, the door was likewise opened. And when the man of God saw the young
man in chains, all his chains were broken and fell to the ground. But the
strength of the hostages and the soldiers vanished at the sight of the holy
man. Then the soldiers, terrified with great terror, hastened to the king who
was then asleep, and told him all these things. And the king, filled with
trembling, said to them: 'I myself do not know what to do, because my heart
trembles within me.' His friends said to him: 'Lord, this saint is terrible,
and he comes to you in anger, because he loves whom you hold; and God works
many wonders. All things, then, whatever he tells you, do; lest the wrath of
God consume you and us.' Then the king, running to Saint Fintanus, prostrated
himself at the feet of the cius, saying: ``It is fitting for us, saint, to
honor you; because God magnifies you. I release to you, therefore, the man
whom you ask, and all the bonds I have with him.' And blessing the holy man
the king, he congratulated God, and, having loosed his bonds, he took with
him a young man, whom he sought to loose; and he went out of the castle. And
he was met on the way by a multitude of soldiers, among whom was the son of
Belial, of the royal family, who wanted to kill Cormachus, whom the saint acquitted;
his own commissions hardly hindered him. To whom Saint Fyntanus said: 'Son of
the devil, you will soon be killed; and this man, whom you wish to kill, will
live a long time in the kingdom, and will spend his life in good deeds.' That
is how it happened. For that unfortunate man was killed before the end of the
month. Cormacus, the son of Diarmoda, lived for a long time in the kingdom of
the Laginians, and in his old age, at the end of his holy life, at the abbot
of St. Comgallus, in the province of Ultor, in the monastery of Beannchor, he
ended his holy life. [Translated by Google] |
References to Gormondus circa 400 and 586
AD
Carew Manuscripts
...Gormondus builded Gormond-Chester [Godmanchester Huntingdonshire Cambridgeshire] in England.
I find in another book that a King of Ireland burne[d] England from the West sea to the East sea, one Gormondus, in the King Caretheus's time, about A.D. 400. John Stowe's book, f. 55.
...Fabian reciteth in the fifth part of his book, folio 104, that a King of Ireland called Gormondus came into Britain, now called England, in the year of our Lord 586, where as he did great acts both there and in France, that no man was of power there to withstand his force. He was both politic, stalworth, that no man [was] his compeer in all Europa, being a prince. I find there also that no king nor prince in those days there was anointed.
...Kyng [Henry] of England have to Irland of Gormon...
Sir James Ware and Edmund Spenser
CAP. XV. The most noble events in Ireland, betweene the time of Saint Patricke, and the conquest under Henry the 2.
IN the yeare of Christ 586. the people of Norway were Lordes and victours of the Ilandes in the West Ocean called Orchades, and great scowrers of the seas: A nation desperate in attempting the conquest of other Realmes: as being sure to finde warmer dwelling any where, then at their owne home. These fel∣lowes lighted into Ireland by this meanes,*Careticus King of Brittaine (odious to his subjects) fell with them at civill warre. Ioyfull was the newes hereof to the Saxons, who then in the six severall kingdomes, possessed the Iland sundry wayes, so they laide together their force, & associated to them Gurmondus, a Rover out of Norway, who having a navy still in a readinesse, and an army thereafter furnished, holpe the Saxons, to hunt the Brittaines into the marches of Wales, builded the towne of Gormond-chester, and then having hol∣pen the Saxons, made a voyage into Ireland where he sped but meanely, and therefore the Irish account not this for any of their conquests, as some of their antiquities have informed me. The same Gurmondus finding hard successe, did but build a few slight castles and trenches in the frontiers, and then lea∣ving the land, got him home into France, where he was fi∣nally slaine, him our Chonicles name King of Ireland. But the Irish affirme that before Turgesius no Easterlings obtai∣ned a Kingdome.* Here Cambrensis to salve the contradiction, thinketh Gurmundus to have conquered the land by Turgesi∣us his Deputy, sent thither at his provision, which answere breedeth a contrariety more incurable, for himself numbreth betweene Laigirius King of Ireland, in an. 430. and •edlemi∣dius whom Turgesius vanquished, Monarches 33. and yeares 400. so that Turgesius lived in an. 830. and could not possibly deale with Gurmondus, who joyned with the Saxons against Careticu in Anno 586. This knot might be untwyned with more facility. Gurmondus made much of that little he caught, and wrote himselfe King, which Title our Histories doe al∣low him, because he opened a gappe, enjoyed it for a while, and brake a way for his Countreymen. Turgesius brought this attempt to perfection, and in these respects each of them may be called first King and Conqueror.
Thomas Heywood
What was ment by the German worm and the Seawoolfe.
Isimbardus Isimbardus the Nephew to Lewis the French King.
By the German Worme, and the Sea Wolfe, waited on by woods, brought from Africa, through Saint Georges Chanell, which shall support him, our Prophet would have us to know that the Saxons are comprehended; in the Worme and in the Wolfe, Gormondus King of Africa, who in the time of this Caretius, came with a mighty Navy upon the British Seas, first with three hundred and sixty thousand souldiers, who first invaded Ireland, and made great spoyle of the Country, and from thence hee was invited by the Saxons, to assist them against the British Nation, to which hee assenting, invaded the Kingdome with fire and sword, committing many direptions, and outrages, chasing the King from place to place, and from Citie to Citie, till hee was in the end forced to flie into Wales, where they shut him up: and by this means the German Worme, by the means of this Sea-wolfe had the upper hand of the Red Dragon: whilst these things were thus in agitation, there came to this great Generall of the Africans, from the transmarine parts of Gallia, one Nephew to Lewis the French King, who complained unto him that his Uncle, against all Iustice, kept his right from him, imploring his aid for the recovery therof, promising him great rewards: in pledge whereof, like a wretched Apostata, hee renounced his Faith and Christianitie: of which proffer Gormundus accepted, and made his speedy Expedition for France.
A just reward of [...]postasie.
The failing of Religion made good in Gormundus and the Saxons.
But the Miscreant Isimbardus failed of his purpose, and was justly punisht by the hand of God for his Apostasie: for at their landing in the Port of Saint Waleric, a young Gentleman called Hugo, sonne to Robert Earle of the Mount, having received an affront from this Isimbard, challenged him to a single Duell, who entertaining the Challenge, was by the foresaid King left dead in the field, and the French setting upon the Hoast of the Pagans, gave them a great discomfiture, in so much that of all that infinite number, scarce any were left to beare the tydings of their disaster into their Country, but either perisht by the sword, or were drowned in the Ocean: in which time saith the prophet, Religion shall faile, which hapned when this Gormundus with the Saxons rioted and made havock in this Island, suppressing Religious Houses, and ruinating Churches, so that scarce a Christian Native, durst shew his head, but he was subject to persecution and torture.
Aleksandr Koptev
...The western stories had a predecessor in an Old French chanson de geste, named ‘Gormond et Isembard’, which Ferdinand Lot and Joseph Bédier dated the second half of the eleventh or first half of the twelfth century, to about 1088 or even 1068.(131) The poem tells the story of a young French lord Isembard, who is cruelly persecuted at the court of his uncle, King Louis. Isembard goes into exile in England, joins the Saracen king Gormond renouncing Christianity and incites his new friend to attack France, to destroy Isembart’s own lands and the surrounding countryside, and to burn down the Abbey of Saint-Riquier. The poem appears to have some foundation in an invasion of Norsemen who burned the Abbey of Saint-Riquier in February 881 and were defeated by Louis III six months later at Saucourt-en-Vimeu. Before that, while in England in 879, the friends took part in the attack on Cirencester by the Danish king of East Anglia, Guthrum; the city was captured with the help of incendiary sparrows. The king Gutrum (Godrum or Gorm) was obviously the prototype of the legendary ‘Saracen’ Gormond (Lat. Gormondus)...
(131) See Ferdinand Lot, ‘Gormond et Isembard, recherches sur les fondements historiques de cette épopée’, Romania 27 (1898), 1–54; Joseph Bédier, Les légendes épiques: recherches sur la formation des
chansons de geste, 4, 2nd ed., Honore Champion: Paris 1913, 21–91. Also cf. Stender-Petersen 1934, 132–139.
Reference to Suibne mac Domnaill, King of Uí Bairrche, and
his reign:
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Vita Sancti Munnu sibe
Fintani abbatis de Tech Munnu (Plummer
1910) xiv. Post hec exiit
sanctus Munnu secundum vaticinium Columbe in regionem Hua
Cennselaich, et mansit in loco qui dicitur Ayrd Cremha, inter
nepotes Barraidh*; ille locus iuxta mare est; ibi erat cella, in qua erant
monachi sancti Comgalli; et alumpnus eius; nomine Aedh Gobbain, magister
illius loci erat. Ipse sanctum Munna ad se pie uocauit, et commendauit sibi
locum suum, exiens ipse in peregrinacionem. In illo autem loco duodecim annis
sanctus Munna fuit; et dedit illi Deus copiosum fructum maris et terre,
qualis nec antea nee postea in illo loco crat. * Barridie; Barrchi xv. Quodam quoquc die venit
Guairc filius Eogani querens regnum Cennselach, et deuastauit plebem nepotum
Barraidh, et peccura et armenta secum abstulit. Tunc mulieres et paruuli
plebis venerunt ad sanctum Munnu, et fleverunt coram eo. Videns: vir Deo
miseriam eorum, dixit monachis suis: ‘Ite, salutate tyrannum Guaire; et
rogate cum ex me ut in nomine Domini dimittat mihi predam istorurn pauperum.
Et si preces vestras audierit, dicite illi quod rex erit usque ad senectutem,
et semper non iugulabitur; et genus eius regnum Cennselach usquc ad finem
seculi tenebit. Set tamen scio, quod ipsc duras non audiet vos, et nichil
vobis reddet; et superbe ante vos tondetur. Et dicetis ei: "Si non
dimiseris nobis pro Dei hunore que rapuisti, iterum non tonderis;
set, priusquam crescat barba tua, iugulaberis, et capud tuum
decollabitur."’ Exierunt ergo illi, et fecerunt sicut precepit eis
sanctus senior. Ille siquidem eos et sua verba despexit, et in quinto die,
sicut prophetauit beatus Munnu, ille tyrannus occisus est ab inimicis suis et
decollatus. xvi. Post ergo obitum sancti
Comgall quidam fratres de monachis eius venerunt, volentes expellere sanctum
Munnu de loco suo. Quibus sanctus ait : 'Hoc faciam, si uenerit beatus Aedh,
qui mihi hunc locum commendauit ante duodecim annos.' Illi dixerunt: 'Vade,
et quere eum.' Tunc vir Dei cum quinque monachis surrexit, et profectus est
foras. Cumque processissent pauhsper, occurrit eis Aedh, a peregrinacione
veniens post duodecim annos. Osculantes et salutantes se invicem, simul
reuersi sunt in cellam suam. Tunc vir Dei ait illis. 'Ego hinc ibo; set post
meum recessum locus vester decrescet, et nec parrochiam habebit, et mare non
dabit ei fructum suum.' xxii, [Post hec ipse dux]
postulauit aliquod munusculum a sancto [Munnu. Deditque ei] vir sanctus
tunicam suam, qua fuit ipse indu[tus una noc]te ; et ait duci : ' Hanc
tunicam diligenter ] custodi ; quia ueniet dies quando necessaria tibi erit,
et de magno periculo liberabit te.' Postea Ceallacus " filius ipsius
ducis effectus est laicus ; et ipse iugulauit Aedh Slane, filium CrimmailP
regis Cennselach et Laginensium. Crimmall siquidem, as[s]umpto maximo
exercitu, conclusit predictum ducem cum suo filio et militibus in insula Barri
in stagno Eachtach '". Sed dux ille super equum suum ex insula euasit,
habens tunicam sancti Munnu circa se ; et sic exiuit per exercitum, et nemo
vidit illum, quia gratia Dei abscondit eum per tunicam viri Dei. Vastatis
autem militibus eius, octaginta de optimatibus suis " alligati sunt ; et
filius eius Ceallacus ", sicut vir Dei predixit, interemptus est ; et
duo ex iUis cotidie occidebantur. Et
persequens ipse dux exercitum regis, ipse captus est. Tunc sanctus
Munnu ait fratribus suis : ' Oportet nos ire ad regem, quia tenetur apud eum
in vinculis dux qui obtulit nobis hunc locum ; et rex vult eum occidere
cras.' As[s]umptisque duodecim monachis. vir Dei venit ad castra regis. Hoc
audiens rex, dixit militibus suis : ' Ducite oc[c]ulte ducem extra castra, et
cito occidite eum, antequam ueniat ad nos Munna.' Deinde peruenit uir sanctus
ad regem ; et ait ei : * Dimitte nobis ducem, quia amicus noster est.' Rex
dixit ei : ' Interfectus est ipse.' Vir Dei inquit : ' Hoc fieri non potest,
quia non occidetur in eternum.' Viri silicet illi qui missi fuerant occidere
eum, non poterant manus suas eleuare ; nec gladii neque haste poterant
'" lacerare eum. Hoc audiens rex, donauit illum cum omnibus suis sancto
Munna. Et fecit vir Dei pacem inter eos ; et benedicens, reuersus est ad suum
locum. Note: Bara T. Echdach T ; conclusit Fothartu in Inso
Bairri for Loch Edidach S'. om. M. 12
in insula Tobairri S' add. xxiii. Quidam miles, nomine
Mael Morche, erat cum Cellaco filio predicti ducis occidens Aedh Slane, flium
regis Crimthaind. Ipse apprehensus est a rege, et decreuit rex eum occidi ;
et ille amicus sancti Munnu erat. Tunc erat rex in insula Liachani Vir Dei
dixit fratribus : ' Exite, ut amicum nostrum liberetis in periculo possitum.'
Exeuntes quinque monachi, steterunt in portu insule. Hoc sciens rex, dixit
militibus : ' Ducite virum vinctum in naui, et occidite eum super aquas ante
monachos.' Cumque paulisper recessissent, nauis stetit in vno loco, et nec
potuit huc uel illuc moueri ; et manus mihtum circa arma sua siccauerunt ;
sicque per dimidium diei steterunt. Tunc rex, uocatis monachis, penitentiam
egit, et dimisit eis illum militem incolumem. Note: Aedh Odo Slane/Sclane
m. Crimmal/Crimthaind/Crimail... insula Liachani/Liacani/Liac hAln xxvi.
Quodam tempore erat magnum consilium populorum Hibernie in campo Albo, inter
quos erat contencio circa ordinem pasche. Lasreanus enim abbas monasterii
Leighlinne, `cui' suberant mille quingenti monachi, nouum ordinem defendebat,
qui nuper de Roma venit; alii vero veterem defendebant. Sanctus autem Munna
ad hoc consilium statim non peruenit, et omnes expectabant eum; ipse iam
veterem defendebat ordinem. Tune Svibne filius Donalldi dux regionis Hua
m-[B]archi*, dixit: ‘Ouare tam longo tempore illum expectatis leprosum’? Cui
abbas Lasreanus ait: `O dux, ne dicas tale verbum de sancto Munnu; quia,
quamuis absens corpore est, spiritu tamen presens. Et certe quod tu dicis
hic, vbi ipse est iam audit; et vindicabit in te Deus iniuriam famuli sui.'
Illo iam die ante vesperam sanctus Munnu venit ad consilium, et conucnerunt
sancti in obuiam eius. Cumque sanctus Lasreanus et sanctus Munnu
salutas[s]ent se invicem, affuit etiam predictus dux Svibhne" postulans
benedictionem a sancto Munnu. Cui vir Dei ait : 'Cur postulas benedictionem
ab homine leproso? Verc tibi dico, quia quando de me male loqu[u]tus es,
Christus in dextra Patris sui erubuit; iam verum Christi membrum sum, et ipse
capud meum est; et quicquid nocet membro, inde dolet capud. Ideo antequam
mensis iste compleatur, occident te consanguinei tui, et decollabunt te; et
caput tuum proiicietur in flumen Berbha, et ultra non apparebit. Et sic
completum est. Nam in ipso mense filius fratris sui iuxta riuulum Blathac
occidit illum; et capud eius proiectum est in flumine Berbha iuxta vaticinium
viri Dei. * Hua Mairche; Hua Marge;
Hu Wargi; Ambarrche xxvii.
Postea sanctus Munna Lasreano abbati coram omnibus populis dixit : 'Nunc
tempus est, ut hoc consilium finiatur, vt vnusquisque ad locum suum redeat
".' Contendentes de ordine pasche, dixit sanctus Munnu: 'Breuiter
disputemus ; set in nomine Domini agamus iudicium'. Tres opciones dantur
tibi, Lasreane ; id est, duo libri in ignem mittentur, liber veteris ordinis
et noui, ut videamus, quis eorum de igne liberabitur ; vel duo monachi, vnus
meus, alter tuus, in vnam domum recludantur ; et domus comburatur, et
videbimus, quis ex eis euadat intactus igne. Aut eamus ad sepulcrum mortui
iusti monachi, et resuscitemus eum, et indicet nobis, quo ordine debemus hoc
anno pascha celebrare.' Cui sanctus Lasreanus ait : ' Non ibimus ad ^
iudicium tuum ; quoniam scimus, quod pre magnitudine laboris tui et
sanctitatis, si diceres ut mons Marge commutaretur in locum campi Albe, et
campus Albus" in locum montis Mairge, hoc propter te Deus statim
faceret.' Erant enim illi tunc in campo Albe, cui imminet mons Marge. Postea
consentientes populi cum sanctis, ad sua reuersi sunt. |
The Life of St Munnu,
otherwise Fintan, abbot of Taghmon. §14. Afterwards St Munnu in
accordance with the prophecy of St Columba, departed to the country of Uí
Cheinnselaig and dwelt in a place which is called Ard Chrema among the
descendants of Barradh: that place was alongside the sea. There was a chapel
in which were monks of St Comgall; and St Comgall's pupil, Aedh Gobbain, was
master of that settlement. He respectfully called St Munnu to him and handed
over his position to him, he himself going on a peregrinatio. St Munnu was
twelve years in that place. And God gave to him the fruits of the sea and of
the soil in abundance, such as was never in that place either before or
since. §15. And one day there came
Guaire Mac Eoghain [founder of Síl Máeluidir?] seeking the kingship of
Cheinnselaigh, and he plundered the people of the Ui Bairrche and drove off
their flocks and herds. Then the women and children of the people came to St
Munnu and wept before him. And the man of God, seeing their misery, said to
his monks: ‘Go, salute prince Guaire: and ask him from me, in the name of God
to give back the loot belonging to these poor people. And if he listens to
your prayers, tell him that he shall be king until old age, and shall never
get his throat cut; and his descendants shall hold the throne of Ui
Cheinnselaig till the end of time. But still, I know he is a hard man and
will not listen to you and will give you back neither; and he will insolently
be shaved in front of you. And you shall tell him: "If you do not, for
the honour of God, deliver to us what you have plundered, you will never be
shaved again; but before your beard grows, you shall be murdered and your
head shall be struck off."’ They therefore went out and did as their
holy superior directed. Guaire indeed scorned them and their words; and on
the fifth day, as holy Munnu predicted, the tyrant was slain by his enemies
and beheaded. §16. After the death of St
Comgall [d. circa 600], a certain brother of his community came, wishing to
expel St Munnu from his position. The saint told them: ‘I will do this if
blessed Aodh comes, who entrusted this position to me twelve years ago.’ They
said ‘Go and look for him.’ Then the man of God with five monks arose and
went away. And when they travelled a short while, they meet Aodh coming back
from his travels after twelve years. And kissing and greeting each other,
they returned again to the chapel. Then the man of God said to them: ‘I will
go from here; but after my departure, your place shall go down, and shall
have no area of ecclesiastical authority; and the sea will not yield its
fruits.’ §22. After this the chief
[Dimma Mac Aodh of the Fotharta who had a fortress near Achadh
Liathdrum/Taghmon] himself requested some little gift from St Munnu, and the
saint gave him his tunic which he himself had worn for one night, and he told
the chief: ‘Mind this tunic carefully, for the day will come when it will be
essential for you, and it will rescue you from great peril.’ Later on
Ceallach, the chief’s son, became a layman and it was he who murdered Aed
Sláne, the son of Criomthan, king of Ui Cheinnselaig and Leinster. Criomthan
indeed raised a great army and beset the aforesaid chief with his son and his
soldiers on the island of Barri (Bannow) in Lough Eachtach. But the chief
escaped from the island on his horse, having St Munnu’s tunic around him. And
so he came out through the army and nobody saw him, because the grace of God
(operating) through the tunic of the man of God, concealed him. But his army
was destroyed and eighty of his nobles were made prisoner. And his son
Ceallach, as the man of God had predicted, was slain; and two of them (the
captives) were put to death every day. And the chief himself was made
prisoner while pursuing the king’s army. The St Munnu said to his brethren:
‘We ought to go to the king, because the chief who donated this ground to us
is held in bondage by him; and the king intends to put him to death
tomorrow.’ And taking twelve monks with him, the man of God came to the
king’s camp. The king, learning of this, said to his soldiers: ‘Take the
chief secretly outside the camp and slay him quickly before Munnu comes to
us.’ Then the saint arrived before the king, and said to him: ‘Deliver unto
us the chief, because he is our friend.’ The king told them: ‘He has been
slain.’ The man of God said: ‘That is impossible because he will never be
slain.’ Indeed, those men who have been sent to kill him were unable to lift
their hands, and their swords and spears were unable to wound him. And the
king, hearing this, presented himself with all his (followers) to St Munnu.
And the man of God made peace between them, and blessing (them) he returned
to his own place. §23. A certain soldier,
Maolmurrogh by name, was with Ceallach the son of the aforementioned chief
when slaying Aedh Sláne, the son of King Criomthan. He wax caught by the
king, and the king determined to put him to death; and he was a friend of St
Munnu. The king at the time was on the island of Liachan [grey rushes?]. The
man of God said to his brethren: ‘Go forth to free our friend who is put in
danger’. Five monks, going out, came to a halt in the harbour of the island.
The king, knowing this, said to his soldiers: ‘Bring the man bound on a ship
and slay him on the waters in front of the monks.’ When they had moved off
some distance, the ship stopped in one place, and could not be moved this way
or that. And the hands of the soldiers dried up around their weapons; and so
they stayed for half the day. Then the king, calling the monks, did penance
and released unto them the soldier unharmed. §26. At one time there was
a great convention of the peoples of Ireland in the plain of Ailbe in which
there was great contention over the ordering of Easter. For Laserian, abbot
of the monastery of Leighlin, under whom there were one thousand and five
hundred monks, defended the new order, which had recently come from Rome; but
the others were defending the old order. But St Munnu did not arrive
immediately at the council, and they were all waiting for him; he was already
defending the old order. Then Sweeny Mac Donald [or O'Donnell], chief of the
country of Hy mBarchi [or Ui Bairrche, etc.] said: `Why are you waiting so
long for that leper?' The abbot Laserian said to him: `O chief, don't use
such a word of holy Munnu; for although he is absent in the flesh, he is
nevertheless present in spirit. And certainly what you are saying here,
wherever he is, he is hearing and God will avenge on you this insult to his
servant. Now on that day before evening St Munnu came to the meeting, and the
saints came together to meet him. When St Laserian and St Munnu had greeted
each other, the aforesaid chief Sweeny presented himself, asking a blessing
from St Munnu. The man of God said to him: `Why do you ask a blessing from a
leprous fellow? Truly I say to you that when you spoke ill of me, Christ, on
the right hand of his Father, blushed. Now I am a true member of Christ, and
He is my head; and whatever hurts the member, by it the head is pained. And
so before this month is over, your own kin shall slay you and cut off your
head and your head shall be thrown into the river Barrow and never be seen
again.' And so it was fulfilled. For that very month his brother's son killed
him near the Blathach stream, and his head was thrown into the river Barrow
in accordance with the prophecy of the man of God. §27.
After that St Munnu, in the presence of
all the peoples, said to Abbot Laserian: ‘It is now time this council was
ended that each one may go back to his own place. And as they were disputing
about the ordering of Easter, St Munnu said: ‘Let us cut short the wrangling
and in the name of God let us make a decision.’ Three options are offered to
you, Laserian: one is that the two books, the book of the old order and that
of the new, be put into the fire so that we may see which of them is saved
from the fire. Or that two monks, one mine and one yours, be shut up in the
same house and the house burnt down; and we shall see which of them comes out
unscathed by the fire. Or let us go to the grave of a just monk who is dead
and revive him that he may show us by what order we should celebrate Easter
this year.’ St Laserian said to him: ‘We are not going by your judgment,
because we know that on account of the greatness of your work and sancity, if
you were to say that the Margy Mountain should be changed into the plain of
Ailbe, and that the plain of Ailbe to the place of Slieve Margy, God would
immediately do it for your sake. For they were at the time in the plain of
Ailbe over which rises Slieve Margy. After that the peoples agreeing with the
saints, went back to their own places. Translation: Hunt J
(1970) The Life of St Munnu, otherwise Fintan, abbot of Taghmon. |
|
Buile Suibne Rofhágbhus
Oilill gan chenn agus
robudh lánmhaith learn, torchradar
learn imalle cuig mic
righ Muige Mairge.' |
Headless
I left Oilill, and right
glad was I thereat; by me
also there fell five sons
of the king of Magh Mairge.' |
St. Mochua of
Timahoe (†654AD)
|
Vita sancti Mochua abbatis de Tech
Mochua (Plummer 1910) ii. Inter eiusdem uiri sancti
insignia miracula hoc, quod sequitur, celebriter commemorat[ur]. Quidam
namque clericus nobihs et sapiens, nomine Colman Ela, cum quadam die cellam
suam apud Glenn Ussen circuiret, tunc de statu suo et corporis pulcritudine,
et de scientie sue profunditate spiritu superbie inflatus, mundana de se
sapiebat. Postquain autem sederat in cubili suo sic elatus, omnem suam
scientiam, ac si nihil penitus ante sciuisset, obliuioni tradidit.
Stupefactus igitur super hoc, et non modicum admirans, nocte sequenti
ieiunauit, Deum suppliciter exorans ut a se spiritum ignorantie dignaretur
tollere, et pristinam scientiam restituere. Cui angelus in sompnis apparens,
ait : ' Colmane, cur ieiunas ? quid petis ut tibi det Deus ? ' Respondit
Colmanus : ' Peto ut mihi scientia, quam ante habui, a Deo restituatur.' Et
ait angelus : ' Id quod quaeris,' inquit, ' habebis.' Zt Colmanus : 'Cui,'
inquit, ' commisit Deus mei curam ? ' Et angelus : ‘ Vade,' inquit, ' ad
sanctum Mochua, qui te de animi tui superbia
et ignorantia liberabit.' |
ii.
Among the notable miracles of the same holy man, the following is famously
mentioned. For a certain noble and wise clergyman, named Colman Ela, when one
day he was going round his cell at Glenn Ussen, was puffed up with pride in
his state and the beauty of his body, and the depth of his knowledge, and
thought of himself worldly. And when he had sat up in his bed thus exalted,
he consigned all his knowledge to oblivion, as if he had known nothing at all
before. Stunned therefore at this, and not a little astonished, he fasted the
following night, imploring God to deign to remove from him the spirit of
ignorance, and to restore him to his former knowledge. An angel appeared to
him in a dream and said: 'Colman, why are you fasting? what are you asking
God to give you? Colmanus answered: 'I ask that the knowledge which I had
before be restored to me by God.' And the angel said: 'That which you seek,'
he said, 'you shall have.' Zt Colmanus: 'To whom,' he said, 'has God
entrusted my care? And the angel: 'Go,' he said, 'to Saint Mochua, who will
free you from the pride and ignorance of your soul.' [Translated by Google] |
King Aldfred’s Poem (circa 685 AD)
|
Selected
verses:
Hardiman,
James (1831) Irish Minstrelsy, vol. II. p. 372 |
I found
in the territory of Boyle* *****
(MS. effaced.) Brehons,
Erenachs, (8) palaces, Good
military weapons, active horsemen. I found
in the fair-surfaced Leinster, From
Dublin (9) to Slewmargy, (10) Long
living men, health, prosperity, Bravery,
hardihood, and traffic. (11) I found
from Ara to Gle, In the
rich country of Ossory, Sweet
fruit, strict jurisdiction, Men of
truth, chess-playing. I found
in the great fortress (12) of Meath Valour,
hospitality, and truth, Bravery,
purity, and mirth- The
protection of all Ireland. Notes: 9
Ath-cliath, which Adamnan calls Vadum-cliad, is the ancient name of Dublin;
it signifies, "the Ford of Hurdles." The book of Dinnseanchus or
History of the ancient fortresses of Ireland, is the only Record that gives a
satisfactory account of the origin of this name. 10 Sliabh
Mairge, a mountain in the Queen's Co, near the river Barrow. It derives its
name from Hy-Mairge, at, Hy m-Bairrche, the name of an ancient Sept that
inhabited the barony of Slewmargy, in the Queen's County. 11
Cennaidhect, in the original. Tacitus says that the harbours of Ireland were
better known to merchants and traders than those of Britain. 12 Port
in the original signifies a fortified Residence, a Castle. Keating in the
reign of Roderick O'Conor gives a full explanation of this word, I mean the
original not the translation-for the English Edition in many passages is more
a version of Geoffry ofMonmouth than of Geoffry Keating. J
O’D [O’Donovan, John] (1832) King Aldfred’s Poem in The Dublin penny journal,
Volume 1, Issue 1 * Críche
Bulbach a cois Berbha = Kilberry, Co. Kildare |
References to Tressach (†884AD),
King of Uí Bairrche, and his reign:
The Quarrel about
the Loaf (Book of Leinster 46 a 35)
|
In gilla A Bairgen ataí i nhgábud. nunchun fhaigbe
th’imshnádud. nit ain rí Lagen de raga
i ndegaid da shéitche. In challech Rat ain Muricana
molbthach rat ain Cerballb
is Chobthachc rat ain Lorcan luades gail. rat ain Domnalld
mac Murchaid In gilla Nit ain Fíngine
na Ailillf. ך Tadc Rathlind
robind. nit ain Domnallg
a Dún Láir nit ain Subneh
mac Colmáin In challech Rat ain Mael Kailnei
na cath. rat ain Oengusj
na n-ardrath. rat ain eca Ugránk
ard rot ain Tressach
ך Tadc. In gilla Nochonot ain Donchad mac
Rind. na Chellachán áith imgrind. nit ain Conall na Cath. na Chatharnachl
na Chobthachm. In challech Rot aincfe Lorcánn
Liamna. ך Tadc│a táeb
Iarbao. rat ain Ciarmacp
Slane seinhg ך Cellachq
mac Cerbaill. a rí Hua Muridaig [South Kildare] b rí Lagen [King of Leinster AD 885 to 909, at Naas
Kildare] c rí Fothart Nais a quo Ruba Cobtaig nominator [Naas
Kildare] d rí Hua nGabla [Kildare] e rí Muman [king of Munster AD 896 to 901 at Cashel
Tipperary, died 902] f rí Hua Conaill Gabra [East Limerick] g ri descirt Herend [South Ireland] h rí Ciarraige [West Limerick] i rí na Fortuath [Wicklow] j rí Hua Falge [Offaly] k rí Laigsi [Laois] l rí Hua Tassaig [of Húi Liatháin, East Cork] m rí Hua mhBadamna [of Corco Loigde, West Cork] n rí mac Fergusa a Fothartaib [of Húa Máil, Liffey
and Dublin] o .i. idem ך Corba i nHuib Dúnchada [Barrow?
And Dublin] p rí Fer na Cenél [Slaney Wexford] q rí Ossairge [king of Ossary/Kilkenny AD 900 to 908] In gilla Nit berat Lagin loga ó Thairdelbach Bórama; nochot gebat a gloe gáid. Nít berat leo a himmarbaig In challech Ailill Mór mac Dunlaing
duind. ro bis .uii. catha Leth
Cuind; ro biss .uii. catha aile for Munain na rigraide. Grend Muman o Charn co Cliu immot breith assa Leith
adíu. grend Connacht a hEctge
úair grend fer nhHerend ra
hoenuair. Da clóra rí Liamna lán. firfaidir in t-immorrán. betís colla de can chend dambad e Brandub borbthend. Mo chobais do Ríg nime d’oenmac Maire ingine; ni chula ríg bad fherr
cruth I rismad fherr airfitiud. Ni chula ríg bud fherr
ciall na Brandub na mborbgíall; na bad fherr do chur
chatha. ná do thairnium anflatha. Is ris atrubairt in rí. Máel Dúin ba fáth co fí; teiged rí Lagen dar muir. I tabard giall co Temraig. In cend assa ‘trubairt sein Mael Duin ba fath co neim is
é Brandub ro ben de dia
mairt ar Maig Almaine Ro
marb Ailill Connacht crúaid issin leirg ri Temraig
atúaid; ro marb Dondchad mac Neill
glain issin chétain ós
Charmanmaig. Sluaig Muman is mór in dál táetsat tresin n-immarrám; Mumnig & na Lagnig Comraicfit im oenbargin. A. Midig, Connachtaig ar cind. & Ultaig na n-ardmind; slóig Muman cusna habnib condricfat im óenbargin. A. Fir Herend o thuind co
tuind. Ní himmarbáig im morruill; Nocho
berat o Lagnib. Diambtis budig
d’oenbairgin. A. Gilla rí Muman &
callech do Lagnib dorinhgni in n-immarbaigseo ac Liss na Calligi i cind Maige
Dala. Uair i mbiataigecht ro baisi and sin do ríg Lagen .i. do Cherball mac
Muricain. Co tanic gilla rig Muman ar búannacht da tigsi. arna chur do ríg
Muman d’fhiss a ceta. ar bá bágach andiúit in challech. Is and ro buí funi na
n-aireman ar cind in gillai i tig na calligi. Tucad in chétbargen ro fuined
deside i fiadnaisi in gillai co nduaid. Uair ni fitir in challech nach do
fhoigdi chena tanic in gilla. Ro bas im ac funi bairgene aile dona airemnaib.
Conid and atbert in gilla. A ben ar se déna in mhbarginsin ní as ferr andás
doringnis in mhbargin a chianaib. Cia dethitiu i failisiu don bargin út ar in
challech. Uair ni th’arisiu téit ria. Téit im ar in gilla. Uair m’airigid in
bargen a chianaib & mo rímchuit in bargen út. Uair is for búannacht
dodechadus ó rig Muman. Is ón omm ar in chaillech. ro gab a commairgi fort in
bairgenso. Uair atási for commairge ríg Lagen. Conid and atbert in gilla.
A bairgen ataí &c. Ra chomraicset Lagin & fir Munan immesin. Coro
curit tri catha eturru., |
The gillie Loaf, you are in danger, You will not get
protection, The king of Leinster will
not save you, You will follow your
fellow. The old woman Glorious Morgan will save
you, Cerball and Cobthach will
save you Lorcan fights in motion
will save you, Domnall son of Murchaid
will save you The gillie Fingin will not save you,
nor Ailill. Nor Tadc of sweet Rathlinn. Domnall of Dún Láir will
not save you Subne son of Colman will
not save you The old woman Maolcailne of the battles
will save you Oengus of the high fort
will save you Noble Ugran will save you Tressach and Tadc will also save you* The
gillie Donchad
son of Rind will not save you Nor
the most pleasant Cellachan Conall
of the Battles will not save you Nor
Catharnach nor Cobthach The
old woman Lorcan
of Liamna will save you And
Tadc from beside Iarb Ciarmac
of slender Slane will save you And
Cellach son of Cerbaill The
gillie Fiery
Leinstermen will not take you from
Tairdelbach Tribute They
will not take you by perilous fight They
will not take you with them from contention The
old woman Ailill
Mór son of Dunlaing Dun won
seven battles over Conn’s Half won
seven other battles Over
Munster of the kings The
challenge of Munster from Carnsore to Cliu about
carrying you away the
challenge of Connaught from cold Slieve Aughty the
challenge of the men of Ireland at the same time If
the perfect king of Liamain should hear The
battle will be fought There
would be headless bodies If
it were fierce strong Brandubh My
confession to the King of Heaven To
the only son of the virgin Mary I
have not heard of a king in better shape Or
who liked music better I
have not heard of a king of better understanding than
Brandubh of the proud hostages nor
better to wage battle nor
for the surpression of tyranny. It
is to him spoke the king, Maolduin
with venomous cause Let
the king of Leinster go over the sea, or
let him bring hostages to Tara The
head that said that Maolduin
with venomous cause it
was Brandubh that cut it off, on
Tuesday on the plain of Allen. He
slew brave Ailill of Connaught, In
the plain north of Tara; He
slew Donchadh son of pure Niall, On
Wednesday above the plain of Carmem. The
hosts of Munster, great in deed, will
fall by the contest. Munstermen
and Leinstermen Will
encounter each other over one loaf. Meathmen,
Connaughtmen in front And
Ulstermen of the high diadems, The
hosts of Munster to the rivers Will
encounter each other over one loaf. The
men of Ireland from sea to sea, Without
contention and great pride Will
not take from Leinster If
they are thankful for one loaf. A. A gillie (servant) of the
king of Munster and an old woman of Leinster had this dispute at her home at
the bottom of Magh Dala. She was the hospitaller to the king of Leinster i.e.
Cearball son of Murican. A gillie of the king of Munster was billeted in her
house. The king of Munster to ascertain her permission. For the old woman was
contentious and stubborn. There was baking for the ploughmen, when the gillie
arrived in the woman’s house. The first loaf that was baked was given to the
gillie, he ate it, and the old woman did not know that the gillie was not
simply begging when he came. Another loaf, however, was being baked for the
ploughmen. And then the gillie said, woman, he said, make this loaf better
than the last loaf you made. Why do trouble yourself about that loaf, said
the old women, it is no businees of yours. It is then, said the gillie, for
that loaf just now was my first snack, and that loaf is my main portion, for
I have come by the King of Munster to be billeted. O indeed, said the old
woman, this loaf is protected from you, it is under the protection of the
King of Leinster. ‘Twas then the gillie said,
O loaf you are in danger &c. On that account the Leinstermen and the men
of Munster meet together, and three battles were fought between them. * In the following poem
from the Book of Leinster, Tressach is identified as Tressach mac
Beccain rí hua mhBarchi. Tadc maybe Tadc son of Fáelán, king of Uí
Ceinnselaig |
Book of Leinster 47 a 42
|
Dallán mac Móre: Cerball Currig cáemLife ... M’aes cumtha cumnigim. caemFhlanda Usnig aird. Cú Chinadb mac Fergusa. Cellachc Mór o Mairg Ingend Fhlaind ros láncharus co nhglaccaib lánglana fosgniat. a da grúad co nhglanshoilsi co ndath losa líac. Bran degrí hua nhDúnchada dergnáma slúaig Gall; Ailill Mór hua Muridaig. Tressache Berba barr. Itge Patraic primapstail dom shnádud for nem; mo memma ba minascaid is co Christ foscer. C. a mac Mael Sechnaill (Clann Colmain???) b rí Fothart c mac Cerbaill rí Ossairge d Gormlaith e mac Beccain rí hua mhBarchi. |
Champions Cellach Mór from Mairge The daughter of Flann whom I loved completely, with pure, clean hands which serve her, her two bright cheeks the colour of foxglove* Bran joint king of Uí Dúnchada ??? army of the Forgeiners; Ailill Mór of the Uí Muirdaig Tressach over the Barrow |
* (the name Gormlaith is added in the margin) Máire Ní Mhaonaigh. Tales of Three Gormlaiths in
Medieval Irish Literature. Ériu, Vol. 52 (2002), pp. 1-24
Laud 615 SS 114-115 Zeitschrift für celtische
Philologie (ZCP) 8 p.197 l.5
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Cechaing Thondaig Tresaigh Maghain Mongaigh Rónaigh, Rolaind Bedhaigh Bruichrich Barrind6 Fáilidh
mBrónuigh Note 6 L. Barrfhind |
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In tiur8 mo laim
do gach crécht For brú tuinde toirbe barc In fuiceb oc maro múir Slight mo dá glún isin
trácht? 8) Fressach torgib droing L. Tresach turme glonn B. |
|
111. 1 Tromm ceō for cōiced mBressail ōtbath leō Liphi lessaig, tromma
esnada Assail do brōn
tesbada Tressaig. 2 Scīth mo menma, mūad mo gnās, ō luid Tressach i tiugbās, osnad
Ōenaig Liphi lāin Laigen
co muir macc Becāin. FM 884:
tromcheo - o atbath - i liphi - tromm - lluidh - lifi - 1aighin. 1 Schwer lastet der Nebel über Bressals Provinz hin, seit der Löwe des vestereichen Life gestorben
ist; schwer ertönen die Klagelieder Assals aus Kummer über den Verlust Tressachs. 2 Matt
ist mein Sinn, verstört mein Anblick, seit Tressach in den Tod ging;
bis an das Meer von
Leinster dringt das Seufzen des menchen Reichen Ōenach Lifi um den
Sohn Becāns. Aus
einem Gedicht von Flann mac Lonāin auf den 887 in der Schlacht
gefallenen Hāuptling der Ui Bairrche
Maige, Tressach mac Becāin. S. Zur kelt. Workkunde § 230 – Zu liug-bās vgl. Mani toirsed
tonn tiugbāis Rl 502, 84 b 41; deoch tiugbāis SR 6725; LL 284 a 44. Meyer, Kuno (1919) Bruchstücke der Älteren Lyrik Irlands. Erster Teil.
Verlag der Akademie der Wissensschaftern, Berlin. |
(O’Donovans translation) A heavy mist upon the province of Breasal, since
they slew at the fortaliced Liphe, Wearied my mind, moist my countenance, since
Treasach lies in death. (rough translation) 1. Heavy burden on the fog Bressals province, since the
lion |
References to Cleircen, King of Uí
Bairrche, and his reign.
Cath Bealaigh
Mughna Tighearna 905
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Battle of Bealach Mughna 905 AD |
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I bhfíorthosach iomorro an
chatha-so do marbhadh Ceallach mac Cearbhaill rí Osruighe is a mhac. Is mór
do chléircibh maithe is do ríoghaibh, do thaoiseachaibh is do laochraidh, do
marbhadh san chath-so. Do marbhadh ann Foghartach mac Suibhne rí Ciarraidhe,
is Oilill mac Eoghain, duine uasal óg eagnuidhe, is Colmán abb Cinn Eitigh
ardollamh breitheamhnais Éireann, is sochuidhe mhór mar aon riú. Ag so na
huaisle do thuit ann .i. Cormac rí na n-Déise, Dubhagán rí bh-Fear
Maighe; Ceannfaolaidh rí Ua gConaill; Conn a h-Adhar, Ainéislis d'Uíbh
Toirrdhealbhaigh, Eidhion rí Eidhne do bhí ar ionnarbadh san Mhumhain;
Maolmuaidh, Madagán, Dubh dhá Bhuireann, Conall, Fearadhach, Aodh rí Ua
Liatháin, is Domhnall rí Dúin Cearmna. Is iad trá do bhris an cath-so ar Mhuimhneachaibh
.i. Flann mac Maoilsheachlainn, rí Éireann, is Cearbhall mac Muireigéin, rí
Laighean, is Tadhg mac Faoláin, rí Ua gCinnsealaigh, is Teimheanain rí
Ua nDeaghadh, Ceallach is Lorcán dá rígh na g-Cineál agus
Innéirghe mac Duibhghiolla rí Ó nDróna; Follamhain mac Oiliolla rí
Fothorta Feadha; Tuathal mac Ughaire rí Ua Muireadhaigh; Odhran mac
Cinnéididh rí Laoighse; Maolcallann mac Fearghaile rí na bh-Forthuath;
is Cleircén rí Ua mBairrche. |
Now in the very beginning
of this battle Ceallach, son of Cearbhall, king of Osruighe, and his son were
slain. Many were the good clerics, the kings, the chiefs and the warriors
that were slain in this battle. There were slain there Foghartach son of
Suibhne, king of Ciarraidhe, and Oilill son of Eoghan, a young prudent noble,
and Colman, abbot of Ceann Eiteach, chief judicial ollamh of Ireland, and a
large crowd with them. The following are the nobles who fell there, namely,
Cormac, king of the Deise, Dubhgan, king of Fear Maighe, Ceannfaolaidh, king
of Ui Conaill, Conn of Adhar, Aineislis of Ui Toirrdhealbhaigh, Eidhion king
of Eidhne, who had been banished to Munster, Maolmuaidh, Madagan, Dubh dha
Bhuireann, Conall, Fearadhach, Aodh king of Ui Liathain, and Domhnall king of
Dun Cearmna. And those who won the victory over the Munstermen are Flann, son
of Maoilseachlainn, king of Ireland, and Cearbhall, son of Muireigen, king of
Leinster, and Tadhg, son of Faolan, king of Ui Cinnselaigh, and Teimheanain,
king of Ui Deaghaidh, Ceallach and Lorcan two kings of the Cineals, and
Inneirghe, son of Duibhghiolla, king of Ui Drona, Follamhain son of Oilill,
king of Fothorta Feadha, Tuathal son of Ughaire, king of Ui Muireadhaigh,
Odhran son of Cinneide, king of Laoighis, Maolcallann son of Fearghal, king
of the Forthuath, and Cleircen, king of Ui Bairrche. |
Foras
Feasa ar Éirinn (Book I-II) (Author:
Geoffrey Keating)
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The History of Ireland (BOOK I-II) Author: Geoffrey Keating |
References to Donnchadh mac
Aodha (†1042AD),
King of Uí Bairrche, and his reign.
Wirtshausreime
from B. IV 2 (R. I. A.)
Trîar ôcclâch do muintir Óedho meic Domnaill 'na tig ôigedh rocansat na runna sa. |
Three young men of Áedh mac Domnaill's household recited these quatrains. |
Mac rîgh Hûa mBairrche dixit:A fir, nâ mannoir an cêsdona crannoibh forsmbae hi sáscia dobéro an mbrén anûasnî raga 'nar mbêl co ar mbás. |
The son of the King of Ui Bairrche said: O man, do not use the suffering,From the trees in which it is imprisoned;The foulness which drops from aboveWill not pass our mouth onto death. |
Mac rîgh Hûa Drôna dixit:Teccait âigid, fâcboit ail,saigit go glain nGâidil ngilnocha chumai câch is cáchdia ferta-sa an fâth, a fir. |
The son of the King of Ui Drona said:They come for honour, they leave disgracedThey seek the purity of the bright Gaels,They do not join person to personIf you supplied (?) the reason, o man. |
Mac rîgh Hûa Fot[h]art dixit:Êirni dar cêill ertha tuir,tabair a rêir, a láich lir,adledh do lâmh tech na mucnî da râd dún rut, a fhir. |
The son of the King of Ui Fotharta said:Pay, contrary to wisdom, an unreasonable demand of a multitude,Give its tribute, o warrior of a host,The consequence of your act, the house of pigs,Does not merit being called a fort by you, o man. |
Rough translation courtesy of OLD-IRISH-L
Archives
Meyer, Kuno (1918), Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften, Zeitschrift für
celtische Philologie (ZCP) XII, 290-297, 358-397
Cathréim
Cellacháin Caisil
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Section 95. Tancatar rompa iarsin gu cenn oirrtherach mhuighi na h-Almhaine Ocus mar do bhadar annsin co bh-facadar na .V. catha coraighthi ar lar an muighi fo glere sciath & lann & luirech fo ghlere shleagh & chotun & cathbarr Ocus as e do bhi annsin. Murchad mac Finn ri Laigen & a tri derbraithre .i. Donnchad & Find & Aedh & Conghal mac Laigsigh ri Laidhisi Laigen Ocus Donnchad mac Aedha ri Fotharta Laigen Ocus Muirchertach mac Tuathail ri O Mail Ocus Concubar mac Donnchada ri O bh-Failghe Ocus Bran Bherba mac Amhalghaidh ri O m-Buide & O Mairgi. |
They proceeded forward to the
eastern point of the plain of Almhuin. And as they were there, they saw five
battalions drawn up in the middle of the plain with choice shields, and
swords, and coats of mail, and with shining spears, and targets, and helmets.
And he who was there was Murchadh, son of Finn, king of Leinster. and his
three brothers, Donnchadh, Finn, and Aedh, and Conghal, son of Laigsech, king
of Leix of Leinster, and Donnchadh, son of Aedh, king of Fotharta of
Leinster, and Muirchertach, son of Tuathal, king of Ui Mail, and Conchubar,
son of Donnchad, king of Ui Failghe, and Bran Berba, son of Amalghadh, king
of Omagh and of Ui Mairgi. |
Leabhar na g-Ceart (Book of Rights)
Extract from the restrictions and
prerogatives of the kings of Eire:
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…Ol
fru coindlibh ciarrtha caidh a
n-[D]ind-Righ [os Bearba] do’n righ ro ghnaith …Loscadh
Laighin tuathgabar; …imtheacht
maighi – maith in modh, Ailbe
re sluagh leathodhar; …dal
choicrichais im Gabruain; |
The
prerogatives of the king of Laighlin (Leinster) …To
drink by [the light of] fair wax candles At
Din Riogh [over the Bearba (Barrow)] is very customary to the king The
prerogatives of the king of Mumha (Munster)… …The
burning of Northern Laighen; …To
cross the plain, in goodly mode, Of
Ailbhe (Maighe Ailbe), with a light-grey host; …To hold a border meeting at Gabhran (Gowran, North
Kilkenny) |
Extract from the Leabhar na g-Ceart:
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Ocht
n-eich d[U]ibh Bairrchi ar a m-beodhacht, Ba
beag d’fhin a [n]-eangnamha, Ocht
(g)-cuirn, ocht mná, níros mughaigh, Is
ocht moghaidh mean, mara. Do
sheanchas Airgiall andso Dligid
rí Fer Manach mór Cúic
bruit co corrtharaib d’ór Cóic
scéith, cóic claidmi catha, Cóic
longa, cóic lúirecha. Biata
ocus císa tuath nUlad and so Trí
chaeca mart óna Monchaib, Nírbo
mall, Trí
chaeca caemthorc co corrthair Nocho
cham. |
Eight steeds to the Ui Bairrche for their vigor, ‘Twas but small for a man of his (their chieftain’s)
prowess, Eight drinking-horns, eight women, not slaves, And eight bondmen, brave [and] large. The tradition of the Airgilla Entitled is the great king of the Feara Managh To five cloaks with golden borders, Five shields, five swords of battle, Five ships, five coats of mail. The great king of Fir Manach is entitled to five
cloaks with gold fringe, five shields, five fighting ships, and five coats of
mail. (Dillon) The refections and rents of the tribes of the Ulaid Thrice fifty beeves from the Mancha, Not slow is [the payment] Thrice fify fair cloaks with borders Not crooked A hundre and fifty beeves from the Monaig – let it
not be slow – a hundred and fifty boars with straight…(Dillon) |
Extract of the testament of Cathaeir
Mór to his children…
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Ar sin as beart fri Dáire Barrach: "Mo ghaisgeadh mo ghéar-luindi do-m'D(h)áire burb beódha-sa rob mac ochta aireachta neimnech niamdhatha cach mac buan do-d'bhroind fhine; a D(h)airi, co n-dándus suigh ain inach Tuath Laighean; cráidhpea crícha Deas Gabhair; ná gabh seodu i-d't' ingheanaibh dia (bh)-faesad; do shean athair Cathair, ceand in chóicidg-sea, do béndhuid a bheandachtain co madh nia co robharthain ós Gailianchaibh glas...Mo ghaisgeadh Acus ad beart dó la sodhain ocht mogaidh acus ocht mná acus ocht n-eich acus ocht (g)-cuirn. |
Then he said to Daire Barrach: “MY VALOR, my martial impetuosity To my fierce, vigorous Daire; The darling of the assembly Shall every steadfast son of the tribes of thy loins be; O Daire, with boldness Sit on the frontier of Tuath Laighean (north Leinster); Thou shall harass the lands of Deas Ghabhair (south Leinster); Receive not price for thy protection; Thy daughters shall be blessed with fruitfulness If they wed; thy old father Cathaeir, the head of the province, Gives thee his benediction That thou shouldst be a powerful champion Over the green Gailians (Leinstermen)….MY VALOR” And he gave him, thereupon, eight bondmen and eight women and eight steeds and eight drinking horns. O’Flaherty says, ubi supra, that before king “Cathir” fell in the battle of “Talten”, that he ordered his son Rus Failge" to give legacies to the resdt of his sons and to the other nobles of Leinster and that he presented “to Daire Barry one hundred round spears, with silver blades, fifty shields in cases of gold and silver richly carved, fifty swords of a peculiar workmanship, five rings of gold ten times melted, one hundred and fifty cloaks variegated with Babylonian art, and seven military standards”. SOURCE: O'Donovan John (1847) Leabhar Na G-Ceart, or The Book of Rights. Celtic Society, Dublin. |
Ocus atbert fri Dáire mBarrach mac Cathair 'Mo ghaisged
go ngérloinne don Dáire borb beódha-sa dom mac neimnech niamdhatha dom gart ernaidh erclothach scál fri scálaibh sgélmhaine sgál sgolaidhe sgiathchorach suidh erenach Tuath-Laigen cráidhfidh crícha Tes-Ghabair ná geibh
seóta it chomairce buaid mbrethi dot inghenraid dia fesadh a senaithri engfaidh
do choin croíbhderga tes um Gabran nguinechdhai echra1 árdchenn aighidhfid i nAilbi uair fhorlethain Cathaír cenn in chóigidh-si duit dobeir a bennachtain a Dáire óig ilchrothaig gurbat
fial fri filedhaibh tú mac Eithne airegdha gurbat nia co nert-chosgur os Gailianuib mo ghas.' mo
gasge. Et dobert ocht modlaigh ocht mná ocht n-eich cuirn do Dáire Bharrach. Ar sin asbert fri Dáire mBarrach: Rob mac ochta aireachta Cach mac buan dod broindfine, a Dáire co ndánadus ך adbeart dó la sodain ocht mogaid ך
ocht mná ך ocht n-eich ך
ocht cuirn. |
I. And he said to Dáire Barrach son of Cathair: II. Then he said to Dáire Barrach May each long-lived son of thy issue Be the beloved of the assembly, Thou valiant Dáire! And he gave him then eight slaves, eight women, eight horses and eight horns. * i.e. thy troops will ravage the borders of Munster. [Gowran Co. Kilkenny] ** A plain in Kildare where Cathair Már and his line was buried SOURCE:
Dillon, Myles ed. and trans. (1962) Lebor na Cert: The Book of Rights.
Irish Texts Society, Dublin. |
The March Roll of the Men of Leinster - Old Irish, early tenth century.
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5. Mad hiat Connachta dosfera, ni dlegat a ndola i mbiu, Læches, Commaind, Failgi, Bairchi, at he regdai a n-airbri friu. |
5. If it be the men of Connaught that assail them, they must not be suffered to depart alive, Leix, Comainn, Offaly, Bairche, ’tis they that shall go in their bands against them. |
Kuno Meyer, Ériu 6, 1912, p. 121-4.
Synod of Raith Breasail: Boundaries of the Dioceses of Ireland [A.D.
1110 or 1118]
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Fairche Chiale Cainnigh ó
Shliabh Bladhma go Míleadhach 7 ó
Ghréin Airbh go Sliabh Mairge. Fairche Leithghlinne ó
Shliabh Bladhma go Sliabh Uidhe Laighean 7 ó Sliabh
Mairge go Bealach Carcrach 7 ó
Bhealach Mughna go Teach Moling go na Thearmann. Fairche Chille Dara ó Ros
Fionnghlaise go Nás Laighean 7 ó Nás
go Cumar Chluana hIoraird 7 go Sléibhthibh Ghlinne dá loch. Fairche Ghlinne dá Loch ó Ghrianóig
go Beigéirinn 7 ó Nás
go Reachainn. Fairche Fhearna nó Locha Garman ó
Bheigéirinn go Mileabhach don Leith thian don Bhearba 7 ó
Shliabh úidhe Laighean ba dheas go fairrge. Ref: MacErlean,
John (1914) Synod of Raith Breasail:
Boundaries of the Dioceses of Ireland [A.D. 1110 or 1118]. Archivium
Hibernicum, Vol. 3 (1914), pp. 1-33 |
In Leinster Diocese of Kilkenny From Slieve Bloom to ‘junction of the Suir, Nore, and Barrow’ &
Greane Hill near Urlingford to Slievemargy. Diocese of Leighlin From
Slieve Bloom to Mount Leinster & Slievemargy to ‘between Ballitore and Old Kilcullen’ &
Ballaghmoon to St. Mullin’s to lower St. Mullin’s. Diocese of Kildare From
Rosenallis to Naas &
from Naas to Clonard to Wicklow Mountains. Diocese of Glendalough from
Greenoge to Begerin Island &
from Naas to Lambay Island. Diocese of Fearns or Loch Garman
(Wexford) From
Begerin Island to ‘junction of the Suir, Nore, and Barrow’ &
from Mount Leinster south to the sea. |
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The Charter of John, Lord of Ireland,
in favour of the Cistercian Abbey of Baltinglass. Issued at Lismore, Co. Waterford
1185AD Public Record Office,
London, C.66/189 Patent Roll II Edward III, Part I, m.25. |
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…In confine Ua Barche (Barthe) et a grellig y Melmugin usque Dun Medon. Concedo eciam eis et confirmo terram de Cartuamain cum pertinentiis et finibus suis, scilicet, a campo qui dictur Accadarith usque ad amnem Borin apud Belach ele et inde per longum et latum ipsius amnis Borin usque Sudi Gillami, Inde vero adhuc per longum ipsius amnis usque Molen (Moley) Godwin, Inde vero usque convallem que dictur Fantirrai, per connvallem vero ipsam usque Kelmagistrath et sic iuxta Kel magistrath usque Accadarith iterum. … |
Dun Medon = Dumetham Cartuamain = Chapelstown (Uí Bairrche grant) Agaddarith = Achad dairig in Ballykernan (Dún given to Cúach daughter of Cóelbad of Uí Bairrche) Borin = river Burren [divides barony of Carlow in two] Molen Godwin = Saxon – Godwin’s mill Kelmaigistrech = Killamaster, Killerrig civil parish. Uí Bairrche St. Magistir Accadarith [=Agaddarith] Nicholls |
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Giraldus Cambrenis. The Topography of
Ireland. Chapter XXXII: Of the rats which were
expelled by St. Yvorus. [Ibar] There is in the province of Leinster a district
called Fernigenan (Ferns) [Ferns is an error in interpretation], which is
only separated from Wexford by the river Slaney. From this district the
larger species of mice, commonly called rats, were so entirely expelled by
the curse of St. Yvorus, the bishop, whose books they had probably gnawed,
that none were afterwards bred there, or could exist if they were introduced. |
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The song of Dermot and the Earl (Richard Fitzgilbert) By an Irish Norman-French poet 1200-1225 AD |
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461] A la banne ariuerent 3070] Sur la mer donat
Obarthi 3072] Li quens Ricard le
vaillant 3080] Si en Fernegenal mist
sun plein 3100] Johan de Clahaule la
marchausie 3208] E le cunte out ja
conquise 3213] Omorthe e Odymesi, |
At Bannow they landed He gave Uí Bairrche on the
sea to Hervey de Mont Maurice
(ie South Wexford) The valiant earl Richard, to Maurice de Prendergast, had already given Ferengal,
and in his council
confirmed it before the renowned earl had landed in Ireland: Ten fiefs he gave him on
this condition For the service of ten
knights In Ferengal he dwelt
altogether So that Maurice hads him
for next neighbour I know not how but Robert
Fitz Godibert Held it afterwards, you
must know. To John de Clahull the
marshalship Of Leinster, the rich, With all the land, know in
sooth Between Oboy and Leighlin;
(ie Slievemargy) And the Earl had already
conquered his enemies of Leinster for he had with him
Murtough and next Donnel Kavanagh Mac Donnchadh and Mac Dalwy O’Moore and O’Dempsey O’Duvegan the hoary old man Likewise O’Brien of the
Duffry Gilmoholmock and
MacKelan And O’Lorcan of Uí Bairrche
(ie Fothairt in Chairn & South Wexford) |
Crede Mihi no. IV
John de Clahull’s
lands also appear from a charter by which John Cumin, Archbishop of Dublin, ad petitionem
Johannis de Clahalla, domini fundi, during a vacancy of the see of Leighlin,
instituted Thurstin, a cleric, to the moiety of the churches of Sancti Congani
de Clunussi (St. Comgan of Glen Uissen or Killeshin), Sancti Patricii de Slefta
(Sletty), Sancti Congalli de Catherloc (Carlow), Sancte Brigide de Clodahc
(Cloydagh, a parish of Idrone West) and Sancti Ganulni de Clonena (Cloneen?).
This deed must be dated before the consecration of Herlewin, Bishop of Leighlin
c. 1201.
Orpen, Goddard Henry. (1911) Ireland under the Normans. Clarendon Press,
Oxford.Vol I, p.385
Topograpghical
Poems of Ireland before the Normans (Carney 1943)
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Seaán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (†1372AD) Mac Gormán go lonn a-lle ar fonn mblodhbhán Ó mBairrche Appendix A: …et Mac Gormáin tighearna Ua mBairche. … |
John O’Donovan translation and notes Mac Gormain with wealth hither On the fair-surfaced land of Ui Bairche Ui-Bairche. - This tribe, giving name to the territory in which they were seated, derived their name from Daire Barrach, second son of Cathaoir Mor, king of Leinster and monarch of Ireland in the second century. They were seated between the Ui-Drona and the Ui-Muireadhaigh, and possessed the whole of the present barony of Slievemargy, and some of the adjoining districts of the county of Carlow. The Mac Gormans were driven from this territory after the English invasion, and their chief settled in the barony of Ibrickan, in the west of Thomond, in the present county of Clare. The chief of Ui-Bracain of satin cloaks, Chieftain of heavy hosting, O'Maolcorcra of fast fame, Of the margin of the two inbhers. Ui-Bracain, now the barony of Ibrickan, in the west of the county of Clare. After the expulsion of the Mac Gormans from Leinster (see note on Ui-Bairrche, supra), shortly after the English Invasion, they were settled in this territory by O'Brien. O'Maolcorcra. - This name is now unknown in the barony of Ibrickan. This family would appear to have sunk into insignificance when the Mac Gormans were planted in their territory by O'Brien. The two Invers, i.e., Liscanor Bay and Dunbeg Bay, at the extremities of the territory of Ibrickan. |
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Giolla-na-Naomh Ó Huidhrín (†1420AD) Críoch Ó mBairrche an bhrogha gloin do shíol Dáire bhinn Bharraigh; Mac Gormáin do ghlac na fuinn, ba prap I ccomhdháil comhluinn. Triall tar Bearbha an bhuird ealaigh ón tir iothmhair úirmhealaigh, ó Dhionn Ríogh go Maisdin mhir do dhíol mh’aistir ó a n-uaislibh. |
The territory of the Ui Barrtha of the fine glebe, Of the race of the melodious Daire Barrach; O’Gormain received the lands, Rapid was he in the battle meeting.
Pass across the Bearbha of the cattle borders, From the land of corn and rich honey, From Dinnrigh to Maistin the strong, My journey is paid for by their nobility.
Ui-Barrtha, i.e.decendants of Daire
Barrach, second son of Cathaoir, King of Leinster and of all Ireland, in the
second century. This sept was seated in the baronyt of Slewmargy, in the
south-east of the Queen’s County. See Leabhar nagCeart pp.212, note m. O’Gormain. – This family was driven from this territory after the English Invasion, and the chief of them ultimately fixed his residence in the barony of Ibrickan, in Thomond. The name of this family is always written MacGormain in the Irish annals, and MacGorman on all the old tombstones of the family in the county of Clare. See Leabhar nagCeart pp.213, 214, note m. Dinn-righ, i.e. the Hill of Kings. This was the most ancient palace of the kings of Leinster. The ruins of it are pointed out in the townland of Ballyknocken, on the west side of the River Barrow, about a quarter of a mile to the south of Leighlin Bridge, in the county of Carlow. See Leabhar nagCeart pp.14, 15, note o. Maistin, now Mullaghmast, a remarkable fort, situated on a hill of the same name, in the parish of Narraghmore, about five miles to the east of Athy, in the county of Kildare. See Leabhar nagCeart pp.14, note j. Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 1577.
From the second verse above and the detailed references to the Ossaige and the area around the Barrow, it may be that Ó Huidhrín was being sponsored by the Ossaige. |
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Uí Bhearrchon an bhruit bhuidhe, rí na críche Ó Caolluidhe, clár na feadhna as trom do thil, an fonn ós Bearbha bhraoinghil. ... Ar Uíbh Eineachlais uile Ó Fiachrach, flaith Almhuine, Ó hAodha ar Uíbh Deagha dhamh Dán geala craobha ar ccromagh. ... Rí an Fhearroinn Deisgeartoigh dhéin, rianna áireamh ní haimhréidh, as d’Ó Dhuibhginn as dual sin, an sluagh ó Dhuibhlinn doisghil. Féinnidh a Fothart an Chairn stuagh gille náraigh neamhghairbh, laoch fa maith gníomhradh le gáibh an flaith líonmhar Ó Lorcáin. Críoch na cCeinél, caomh an fonn, a bhfearonn na bhfód subhdhonn, cuan as gartghloine fó ghréin, Ó hArtghoile as dual di-séin. |
Of Ui Bearchon of the yellow mantle, King of the territory is O'Caollaidhe The plain of the tribe who return heavily, Is the land over the bright-flowing Bearbha. ... Over all Ui-Inechrais Is O'Fiachra chief of Amhain, O h-Aodha over Ui-Deaghaidh for me, For whom the trees blossom after bending. ... Lord of the fine Fearann-deiscertach Which is not uneven to be mentioned, To O'Duibhginn it is hereditary, The host from the black pool of fair bushes. Hero of Fothart of the carn, A stately, modest, polished youth; A hero of good deeds with darts, The affluent chief O'Lorcain. Crioch na-gcenel fair the land. Land of the sod of brown berries, A harbour the fairest under the sun, O' h-Artghoile is its hereditary chief Fearann-deiscertach, i.e, the southern land. This is probably the present barony of Bargy. The family name O'Duibhginn is still very common in Leinster, and is anglicised Deegin and Duggan. It is to be distinguished from O'Dubhagain. Fothart of the Carn, so called from Carnsore point, its eastern extremity, now the barony of Forth, in the south-east of the county of Wexford. The people called Fotharta were, according to the Irish genealogists, the descendants of Eochaidh Finn Fothairt, brother of Conn of the Hundred Battles. O'Lorcain, now always anglicised Larkin, without the prefix 0'. This name is very common in Leinster, but the pedigree has not been preserved, as the family had sunk into obscurity at an early period. Crioch-na-gCenel, also called Fearann na gCenel. — Fernegenall was granted by the Earl Richard Strongbow to Maurice de Preudergast. See Harris's Hibernica, p. 41. This territory would appear to have comprised the district around Artramont, and to be included in the barony of Shelnialiere East. It was divided from the town of Wexford by the River Slaney, The exact situation of this territory is pointed out as follows by Giraldus, Topographia Hib., Dist. ii., c, 32, where it is corruptly called Fernigenan : — "De ratis per sanctum Ivorum a Fernigenan expulsis. Est in Lagenia provincia quaedam quae Fernigenan [Fernigenal] dicitur, quam á Gwesefordia solum Slanensis aqua disterminat, Unde mures maiores qui vulgariter Rati vocantur per imprecationem Sancti Yuori Episcopi (cujus forte libros corroserant) prorsus expulsi, nee ibi postea nasci nec vivere possunt inuecti." O'h-Artghoile, now Hartley or Hartilly, without the prefix 0'. This name is still extant in south Leinster, where the Irish-speaking people pronounce it O'h-Airtialla. |
Note: Shearman has the O
h-Aodha [Hughes] as part of the Uí Bairrche.
1585 Proclamation of Parliament
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M1585.8 Foccra Parlimenti do
thabhairt d'feraibh Ereann
dia fhorcongra for a maithibh
a beith i m-Bealtaine do sonnradh i n-Ath Cliath uair battar urmhór fear n-Erenn umhal dia b-prionnsa
co t-tangattar uile gnúis do gnuis lasan f-forcongra íshin go h-Ath Cliath. M1585.9 Tangattar ann maithe c-Cenel c-Conaill & Eoghain
.i. Ua Neill Toirrdhealbhach Luineach
mac Neill Conallaigh, mic Airt, mic Cuinn, mic Enri, mic Eoghain,
& Aodh mac An Fhir Dhorcha, mic
Cuinn Bhacaigh, mic Cuinn, mic Enri mic Eoghain .i. an barún ócc O Neill
dia ro gairedh iarla Tire h-Eoghain ar an b-parliment-sin, & Ua Domhnaill Aedh mac Maghnusa, mic Aodha
Duibh, mic Aedha Ruaidh mic Neill Ghairbh, mic Toirrdhealbhaigh an Fhiona.
Magg Uidhir, Cú Chonnacht mac Con
Connacht, mic Con Chonnacht mic Briain, mic Pilip, mic Tomais, O Dochartaigh Sean Ócc, mac Seain
mic Feilim mic Conchobhair Charraigh, O Baoighill Toirrdhealbhach mac Neill mic Toirrdhealbhaigh Óicc, mic
Toirrdhealbhaigh Mhóir, & O
Gallchubhair Eoin mac Tuathail, mic Seain, mic Ruaidhri mic Aodha.
M1585.10 Do-chóidh isin
choimheirghe-sin, Mag Mathghamna .i.
Rossa mac Airt, mic Briain na Moicheirghe, mic Remainn mic Glaisne, O Catháin .i. Ruaidhri mac Maghnusa, mic
Donnchaidh an Einigh, mic Seain, mic Aibhne, Conn mac Néill Óicc mic Neill, mic Cuinn,
mic Aodha Buidhe do Clannaibh
Neill Cloinne Aedha Buidhe. Mag
Aengusa, Aedh, mac Domhnaill Óicc, mic Domhnaill Cheir. M1585.11 Do-chóidhsiot ann Gairbhtriann Connacht .i. O Ruairc Brian, mac Briain, mic Eocchain Uí
Ruairc, O Raighilligh .i. Sean
Ruadh mac Aodha Conallaigh, mic Maoíl Mordha mic Seain, mic Cathail,
& dearbhrathair a athar .i. Emann
mac Maoíl Mhórdha & iatt araon ag caithemh i n-aghaidh
aroile im thighearnas na tíre,
& bheos Síol f-Ferghail
do díbh leithibh .i. Ó Fergail
Bán Uilliam mac Domhnaill, mic Conmaic, O Fergail Buidhe Fachtna mac Briain mic Rudhraighe, mic Cathail. M1585.12 Do dheachattar ann Síol Muiredhaigh cona
f-forthuathaibh .i. mac Uí Concobhair
Duinn Aodh, mac Diarmatta, mic Cairpre, mic Eoghain Chaoích mic Feilim Gengcaigh,
O Concobhair Ruadh, Tadhcc Ócc mac
Taidhg Bhuidhe mic Cathail Ruaidh, O Concobhair Sliccigh Domhnall, mac Taidhcc, mic Cathail Óicc mic
Domhnaill, mic Eoghain, mic Domhnaill mic Muirchertaigh, & fer ionait Mec Diarmatta Mhaighe Luircc .i. Brian mac
Ruaidhri, mic Taidhcc mic Ruaidhri Óicc, óir baí Mac Diarmatta fein .i. Tadhcc mac
Eocchain ina shenóir chian-aosda. O Beirn Cairbre mac Taidhcc mic Cairpre mic Maoíleachlainn. M1585.13 Do-chóidh ann Tadhcc mac Uilliam mic Taidhcc Duibh Uí
Cheallaigh, O Madagain .i.
Domhnall mac Seain, mic Bresail. M1585.14 Do-chóidh and tra iarla Cloinne Riocairt Uillecc
mac Riocaird mic Uillicc na c-Centt, & dias mac An Ghiolla Dhuibh Uí Sheachnasaigh Sean, & Diarmait. M1585.15 Ní dheachaidh ann aon badh
ionairmhe ó trian iartharach chóiccidh Chonnacht acht Murchadh
na t-Tuagh mac Taidhcc mic Murchaidh mic Ruaidhri Uí Flaitbeartaigh. M1585.16 Do-chóidh ann tra iarla Tuadhmumhan .i. Donnchadh
mac Conchobhair mic Donnchaidh mic Conchobhair mic Toirrdhealbhaigh mic
Taidhcc Uí Bhriain, & Sir
Toirrdhealbhach mac Domhnaill mic Conchobhair mic Toirrdhealbhaigh mic
Taidhcc Uí Bhriain iarna togha mar ridire parlimenti a c-conntae An Cláir. M1585.17 Do-chuaid ann Toirrdhealbhach mac Taidhcc mic Concobhair
Uí Bhriain, & tighearna
an taoibhe thiar do Cloinn Chuiléin
.i. Mac Conmara Sean mac
Taidhcc, & Baothghalach
mac Aodha mic Baothgalaigh Meg Flannchadha an dara ridire parlimenti
as an c-conntae cedna. M1585.18 Do-thaot ann mac Uí Lochlaind Boirne .i. Rossa mac Uaithne,
mic Maoileachlainn mic Rudhraighe mic Ana. Mac Uí Bhriain Ara .i. Muircheartach (.i. espocc Cille Da Lua), mac
Toirrdhealbhaigh mic Muirceartaigh mic Domnaill mic Taidhcc. O Cerbhaill .i. An Calbhach mac
Uilliam Uidhir mic Fir Gan Ainm mic Maol Ruanaidh mic Seain. Mag Cochláin .i. Sean mac Airt mic Corbmaic,
O Duibhidhir Coille na Manach .i.
Pilip mac Uaithne. M1585.19 Do-chóidh ann Mac Briain Ó c-Cuanach .i. Muircheartach mac Toirrdhealbhaigh, mic
Muircheartaigh, tighearna
Cairrcce ó c-Coinnell, & Fásaigh Luimnigh .i. Brian Dubh, mac Donnchaidh, mic Mathghamhna,
mic Donnchaidh, mic Briain Duibh Uí Bhriain. Conchobhar na Moinge, mac Uilliam Chaoích, mic Diarmata Uí Mhaoil Riain
tigherna Uaitne Uí Mhaoil Riain M1585.20 Do-chóidh don parliment-sin drong do mhaithibh Sleachta Eoghain Mhóir cona f-forthuathaibh. Mag Cárthaigh Mór Domhnall mac Domhnaill,
mic Corbmaic Ladhraigh, Mag
Carthaigh Cairbreach Eoghan mac Domnaill mic Finghin, mic Domhnaill mic
Diarmada an Dúnaidh, & clann a dheise dearbhrathar Domhnall mac Corbmaic na h-Aine,
& Fíngin mac Donnchaidh. M1585.21 Do-chuaidh ann bheós an dias
bai i c-cendairrci re 'roile im thighearnas Dhuithche
Ealla .i. Diarmait mac Eoccain
mic Donnchaidh an Bhóthair mic Eóghain Mheg Donnchaidh, & Donnchadh mac Corbmaic Óicc, mic Corbmaic
Mhég Donnchaidh. M1585.22 Do-chuaidh ann dna Ó Suillebháin Berre, Eocchan mac Diarmatta,
mic Domnaill, mic Donnchaidh meic Diarmatta Bailbh, O Suillebhan Mór .i. Eocchan mac Domhnaill,
mic Domhnaill na Sccredaighe. O Mathghamhna an Fhuinn Iartharaigh Conchobhar mac Conchobhair Fhinn
Óicc, mic Concobhair Fhind mic Conchobhair Uí Mhathgamhna, & Ó h-Eidirscceóil Mór Fínghin mac
Conchobair mic Fínghin mic Concobhair. M1585.23 Do-chuaidh din Mac Giolla Pattraicc Osraighe Fínghin mac
Briain mic Fínghin, Mág Eochagán
Connla, mac Concobhair, mic Laighne. O Maol Muaidh .i. Conall mac Cathaoír. M1585.24 Ní h-áirimhthear aon do dhol
gusan b-parliment-sin badh
ionairmhe do Shliocht Laoíghsigh Lendmhóir
mic Conaill Chernaigh, do Shliocht Rossa Failgigh, mic Cathaoír Mhóir ó Uíbh Failge, ná bheós do Shíol Daire Bharraigh mic Cathaoír Móir
do Chaomhanchoíbh, Branaigh, Tuathalaigh, Uí Dhuinn,
Uí Dhíomasaigh ar an c-cor
c-cédna Acht cena tainicc gusan b-parliment-sin sinnsear
Ghaibhle Raghnaill Fiachaidh mac Aedha, mic Seain mic
Domhnaill Ghlais ó Ghlionn
Mhaoíl Ughra. M1585.25 Iar t-tionól na n-uasal-sin uile co h-Ath Cliath, & iar m-beith
ré h-athaidh ann ní ro cuireadh crioch for an b-parliment an bliadhain-si, & ro sccaoílsiot iaromh dia
t-tighibh. M1585.26 Tanaicc gobernoir chóiccidh Connacht co n-druing do dhaoínibh
onorcha, & do chomhairle Baile Atha Cliath i c-cóiccidh Connacht, tangattar cétus do
congmhail seission i Mainistir Innsi
i c-conntae An Chláir.
Do-rónadh ordaighthe ionggnatha aca annsin .i. deich sgillingi d'orducchadh
don bhainrioghain in gach aén
chethramhain chille & tuaithe dá m-baoí isin tír cénmotha liberti do thabhairt do dhaoínibh
maithe an tíre, & cúicc scillingi acc tighearna Tuadhmumhan
i lurcc chiosa na bainrioghna
in gach aén-chethramhain tuaithe d'fearann t-saér & dhaor dia m-baoí isin
tír uile, acht amhain liberti
& fearainn eglaisi. Ro deilighsiot dna triocha chéd Ceneoil f-Fermhaic
ré tighearna Tuadhmuman, ro bhaoí ina fherann
cíosa agá shinnsearaibh riamh go sin, & tucsat tighearnas an triochait
chéd-sin do bharún Innsi I Chuinn do Mhurchadh mac Murchadha mic Diarmada Uí
Bhriain. Ro h-ordaiccheadh, & ro h-aontaigeadh mar an c-cédna cíos
& cúirt Corcu M'ruadh do Thoirrdhealbhach mac Domhnaill mic
Conchobhair Uí Bhriain ar lurcc a athar dia t-tuccadh an tír-sin ó
thús (a tighearnas Tuadhmumhan) lá h-iarla Tuadhmumhan .i. Concobhar
mac Donnchaidh Uí Bhriain. Ro dheilighsiot a chíos & a uaisle ré
gach cend popail, & re gach tighearna triochait
chétt baoí isin tír ó shin amach cenmotá Sean Mac Conmara tighearna
an taoibhe thiar do Cloinn Cuilein
na ro chuir a lámh ar an composision shin do-rónsatt. Do-rónsatt an
composision cedna i c-conntaé na Gaillmhe,
i c-conntae Rossa Comain, i
c-contae Maighe Eo, & i
c-conntae Shliccigh. |
M1585.8 A proclamation of Parliament
was issued to the men of Ireland, commanding their chiefs to assemble in
Dublin precisely on May-day, for the greater part of the people of Ireland
were at this time obedient to their sovereign; and, accordingly, they all at
that summons did meet in Dublin face to face. M1585.9 Thither came the chiefs of
Kinel-Connell and Kinel-Owen, namely, O'Neill (Turlough Luineach, the son of
Niall Conallagh, son of Art, son of Con, son of Henry, son of Owen), and
Hugh, the son of Ferdoragh, son of Con Bacagh, son of Con, son of Henry, son
of Owen, i.e. the young Baron O'Neill, who obtained the title of Earl of
Tyrone at this Parliament; and O'Donnell (Hugh Roe, the son of Manus, son of
Hugh Duv, son of Hugh Roe, son of Niall Garv, son of Turlough of the Wine);
Maguire (Cuconnaught, the son of Cuconnaught, son of Brian, son of Philip,
son of Thomas); O'Doherty (John Oge, the son of John, son of Felim, son of
Conor Carragh); O'Boyle (Turlough, the son of Niall, son of Turlough Oge, son
of Turlough More); and O'Gallagher (Owen, the son of Tuathal, son of John,
son of Rory, son of Hugh). M1585.10 To this assembly also
repaired Mac Mahon (Ross, the son of Art, son of Brian of the Early Rising,
son of Redmond, son of Glasny); O'Kane (Rory, the son of Manus, son of
Donough the Hospitable, son of John, son of Aibhne; Con, the son of Niall
Oge, son of Niall, son of Con, son of Hugh Boy O'Neill, as representative of
the O'Neills of Clannaboy; and Magennis (Hugh, the son of Donnell Oge, son of
Donnell Duv). M1585.11 Thither came also the chiefs
of the Rough Third of Connaught; namely, O'Rourke (Brian, the son of Brian,
son of Owen) ; O'Reilly (John Roe, the son of Hugh Conallagh, son of
Maelmora, son of John, son of Cathal), and his uncle, Edmond, son of Maelmora,
both of whom were then at strife with each other concerning the lordship of
their country; also both the O'Farrells, viz. O'Farrell Bane (William, the
son of Donnell, son of Cormac), and O'Farrell Boy (Fachtna, the son of Brian,
son of Rory, son of Cathal). M1585.12 Thither also repaired the
Sil-Murray, with their dependents: namely, the son of O'Conor Don (Hugh, the
son of Dermot, son of Carbry, son of Owen Caech, son of Felim Geanncach);
O'Conor Roe (Teige Oge, the son of Teige Boy, son of Cathal Roe); O'Conor
Sligo (Donnell, the son of Teige, son of Cathal Oge, son of Donnell, son of
Owen, son of Donnell, son of Murtough); and a deputy from Mac Dermot of
Moylurg, namely, Brian, son of Rory, son of Teige, son of Rory Oge, for Mac
Dermot himself (i.e. Teige, the son of Owen) was a very old man; and O'Beirn
(Carbry, the son of Teige, son of Carbry, son of Melaghlin). M1585.13 Thither went also Teige, the
son of William, son of Teige Duv O'Kelly; and O'Madden (Donnell, the son of
John, son of Breasal). M1585.14 Thither likewise went the
Earl of Clanrickard (Ulick, the son of Rickard, son of Ulick-na-gCeann); and
the two sons of Gilla-Duv O'Shaughnessy, i.e. John and Dermot. M1585.15 None worthy of note went
thither from West Connaught, with the exception of Murrough of the
Battle-axes, the son of Teige, son of Murrough, son of Rory O'Flaherty. M1585.16 Thither, in like manner,
went the Earl of Thomond (Donough, the son of Conor, son of Donough, son of
Conor, son of Turlough, son of Teige O'Brien); and Sir Turlough, the son of
Donnell, son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of Teige O'Brien, who had been
elected a Knight of Parliament for the county of Clare. M1585.17 Thither went Turlough, son of
Teige, son of Conor O'Brien; and also the Lord of the Western part of
Clann-Coilein, namely, Mac Namara (John, the son of Teige); and Boethius, the
son of Hugh, son of Boethius Mac Clancy, the second Knight of Parliament
elected to represent the county of Clare. M1585.18 Thither repaired the son of
O'Loughlin of Burren (Rossa, the son of Owny, son of Melaghlin, son of Rury,
son of Ana); Mac-I-Brien Ara, Bishop of Killaloe, namely, Murtough, son of
Turlough, son of Murtough, son of Donnell, son of Teige; O'Carroll (Calvagh,
the son of William Odhar, son of Ferganainm, son of Mulrony, son of John);
Mac Coghlan (John, the son of Art, son of Cormac); and O'Dwyer of
Coill-na-manach (Philip, son of Owny). M1585.19 Thither went Mac-Brien of
Hy-Cuanagh, namely, Murtough, the son of Turlough, son of Murtough; the Lord
of Carrigogunnell and of Fasach-Luimnighe, namely, Brian Duv, the son of
Donough, son of Mahon, son of Donough, son of Brian Duv O'Brien; and
Conor-na-Moinge of the Long Hair, son of William Caech, son of Dermot
O'Mulryan, Lord of Uaithne-Ui-Mhaoilriain. M1585.20 To this Parliament repaired
some of the chiefs of the descendants of Eoghan More, with their dependents,
namely, Mac Carthy More (Donnell, the son of Donnell, son of Cormac
Ladhrach); Mac Carthy Cairbreach (Owen, son of Donnell, son of Fineen, son of
Donnell, son of Dermot-an-Duna), and the sons of his two brothers, namely,
Donnell, son of Cormac-na-hAine, and Fineen, the son of Donough. M1585.21 Thither also went the two
chiefs who were at strife with each other concerning the lordship of
Duhallow, namely, Dermot, the son of Owen, son of Donough an-Bhothair, son of
Owen, son of Donough; and Donough, the son of Cormac Oge, son of Cormac, son
of Donough. M1585.22 Thither likewise went
O'Sullivan Beare (Owen, son of Dermot, son of Donnell, son of Donough, son of
Dermot Balbh); O'Sullivan More (Owen, the son of Donnell, son of Donnell, son
of Donnell-na-Sgreadaighe); O'Mahony the Western, namely, Conor, the son of
Conor Fin Oge, son of Conor Fin, son of Conor O'Mahony; and O'Driscoll More
(Fineen, the son of Conor, son of Fineen, son of Conor). M1585.23 Thither likewise repaired
Mac Gillapatrick of Ossory (Fineen, the son of Brian, son of Fineen);
Mageoghegan (Conla, the son of Conor, son of Leyny); and O'Molloy (Connell,
the son of Cahir). M1585.24 None worthy of note are said
to have gone to that Parliament of the race of Laoighseach Leannmor, son of
Conall Cearnach; or of the race of Rossa Failghe, the son of Cahir More, from
Offaly; or of the descendants of Daire
Barach, the son of Cahir More; or of the Kavanaghs, Byrnes, Tooles,
O'Dunnes, or O'Dempsys. To this Parliament, however, went the senior of
Gaval-Rannall, namely, Fiagh, the son of Hugh, son of John, son of Donnell
Glas of Glenmalure. M1585.25 All these nobles assembled
in Dublin, and remained there for some time; but the business of the
Parliament was not finished this year. They then departed for their
respective homes. M1585.26 The Governor of the province
of Connaught, with a number of other men of distinction, and of the Council
of Dublin, went to the province of Connaught, to hold, in the first place, a
session in the monastery of Ennis, in the county of Clare. Here they enacted
unusual ordinances, namely: that ten shillings should be paid to the Queen
for every quarter of land in the country, as well ecclesiastical as lay
lands, excepting the liberties which they themselves consented to grant to
the gentlemen of the country; and that, over and above the Queen's rent, five
shillings should be paid to the Lord of Thomond for every quarter of land
free and unfree in the whole country, except the liberties and church land.
They took from the Earl of Thomond the district of Kinel-Fearmaic, which had
been theretofore under tribute to his ancestors, and gave the lordship of it
to the Baron of Inchiquin, Murrough, the son of Murrough, son of Dermot
O'Brien. It was also ordained and agreed that Turlough, the son of Donnell,
son of Conor O'Brien, should have the rents and court of Corcomroe the
castle of Dumhach in succession to his father, to whom it had been first
given out of the lordship of Thomond by the Earl of Thomond, namely, Conor,
the son of Donough O'Brien. They deprived of title and tribute every head or
chief of a sept, and every other lord of a triocha-ched throughout the whole
country (with the exception of John Mac Namara, Lord of the western part of
the district of Clann-Coilein), who did not subscribe his signature to this
ordinance of their's. They acted a like ordinance in the counties of Galway,
Roscommon, Mayo, and Sligo. |
Manuscript: 811.
R.I.A. no. 88 (23 / F / 14) c.1770
570. Cuigear bodach
ar tteacht o shliabh $
670. Deoraidh sonna
sliocht Chathaoir $
1569. O cheathrar
gluaisid Gaoidhil $
Also
642. Dead niamhghlan mar fhras neamhonn $
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570. Cuigear bodach ar tteacht o shliabh $ Length:
short 1q Period: Areas: Classes: Manuscripts: RIA88(23/F/14) ?M. O Gorman c. 1770 RIA759(23/F/15)P. OConnell M. OGorm. Motifs: Poet Christian Names: Poet Surnames: Patron Christian Names: father’s name only (Cathal Breac) Patron Surnames: Meter Vars: Poem: 1 Cúigear bodach ar tteacht o shliabh do threibh
Chathail Bhric Mhic Caisiagh ar n-erghe
damh don charnán bastim sibh do Chlainn Ghormáin. |
To these five
Boors, who Can’t their Lineage trace Beyond the
source of Cahal mac Caishia’s race, By Bardic
pow’r, I give th’O’Gorman Name At lofty
Callann from my Leacht
Supréme. [Leacht is
underlined in ms.] It is evident that the above five Peasants
of the Caishie Name, must be descended from Corc mac Fearghais, and came from
Corcamroe to Ibrickan, to be under the Sanction of the Princes of Thomond; -
also, that they chose to adopt the Mac Gorman Name, as being both poweful and
respectable then in that Quarter. The Historiographers, among other
privileges, could alter names at Discretion; and any Name that stood the
Roles for three years, could not be obliterated after. The Mac Brodin’s were
supported in their Dignity until the Death of Donogh O’Brien 4th. Earl of
Thomond, and Lord President of Munster which happened in 1624. It was then, I
conceive, that Teige Mac Daire and Lughaidh O’Clery form’d a plan for
poetical disputation, in expectation of being supported by their respective
Patrons in the South and North of Ireland; but that Design failed; For the
Nobility of the Kingdom shamefully declined from supporting a work of so
laudable an Institution. So that the Bardic Order met with a total reduction
in the Reign of James the First. |
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Deoraidh
sonna sliocht Chathaoir $ Length:
very long 69 qq Period: 63. 16th
ult Areas: 5.
Munster Classes: 10. eulogy
mp Manuscripts: 9213.
Stoneyhurst
A/II/20ii C. O Corbain 1701 9349.
TCD1411
(H.6.7) D. O Conaill 1737 9357.
King’s
Inns4 Sean O Briain 1740-1 9493.
TCD1294iii
(H.2.3) M. O Gorman 9504.
RIA88(23/F/14)
?M. O Gorman c. 1770 Motifs: 31. patron’s
personal appearance eulogised 157.
patrons’
hospitality to poets 330.
king’s
officer (fear gradha) 650.
almsgiving 761.
historical
comparisons (Bruidhean da Choca) 810.
house 831.
women’s
occupation(embroidery) Poet
Christian Names: 437.
Maoilin
Og (Stoneyhurst A/II/20ii) Poet
Surnames: 93. MacBruaideadha Patron
Christian Names: 206.
Domhnall
mac Maoileachlainn Patron
Surnames: 222.
MacGormain Meter
Vars: 2.
deibhidhe Deoraidh sonna
sliocht Chathaoir [TCD 1411 (H.6.7), 506 (2nd copy)] Maoilín Óg Mac Bruaideadha cecinit [Deibhidhe, Dán Díreach] [mac frequently for meic here] 1 Deóraidh
sonna
sliocht Chathaoir lucht
na síodhbhrog sochlachaoin fóir liag na leómha[i]n cheannsa deóraidh iad san oirear-sa. 2 Deoraidh son[n]a
an chaor churadh fá shíol cCais chláir fhionnMhúmhan fá mbiodh tnúith bailbhinnsi
Breadh na Laighnigh-si ó mhúr Maisdean. 3 Aithne dhamh go ttárla ar
ttús sliocht
Cathaoir cuid dá n-iomthús fóir deaghfhear gan díoth tuirsi críoch Laighean fán laochraidh-si. 4 Ar tteacht don
tromhdáimh-si a-nall roighne laoch chríche Cualann fonn
snasbhog ór dheacra dul do ghabhsad r(i)ompa rugadh. 5 Mar sin dáibh ag díol a
bhfonn go ttáinigh laochradh Lochlonn loingeas greadh slaitleabha(i)r seang tar lear d’aith[t]reabhadh Éireann. 6 Críoch an imirce ón tír
shoir [leg. thoir?] do gabh drong díobh a nUltaibh is drong eile a n-uaithnibh Cliach fán ndoire shuaithnigh sheinliath. 7 Do líonsad uaithne an
fhóid ghil clann
Ghormáin iad an uair-sin ógbhaidh Chearma ag soighidh
siar dealbha is do ghroidhibh Gailian. 8 As an ttír-sin le cloinn Chais teagaid so ar seachna a ndúthchais críoch ó mBóirche is ó mBuíghe ní fríth coibhche a ccosmhuile. 9 Do thoghsad ar tteacht a-nall uí Bhreacáin fraochdha an fearann fonn
dorcha is deighshéan ’na dhiaig fá ceinél bhfromhtha
bhfinnBhriain. 10 A-tá an dream-so is
bithbheó bladh le ré cheithre chéad bliaghan ag riar dámh ag tógbháil truagh ós an cclár bhfódbhán bhfionnfhuar. 11 Ní chuala ón ló sin a-lé clann
Ghormáin na ngreadh
síthe gan ursa theann
deighfhir díobh dream lér dheiligh gach doighníom. 12 Mairidh
deigfher díop
(?) a-niogh ’gár fágbhadh fonn
a s[h]innsear longport
congmhála cliar ndoirbh fán bhfial gormanda ghreadhshoir[bh]. 13 Fear nách téid troig lé
fánaidh [507] ceannuighe
an fhoinn Bhreacánaigh oighre Mhaoil armghloin Eachluinn ó Charmoin chaoil chaisealchuirr. 14 Fear nách iomdha a
aithghin d’fior an síol tTáil-si léar tréigeadh fonn
síodhfhoirfe sean saingeal fear síodhaighthe saobhchaing(h)ean. 15 Domhnall an deighfhear
grádha fear fraochdha feadh teagmhála ag sin fear caomhna a chinidh fear as aobhdha a n-óiltigh(th)ibh. 16 Fear [’g]a bhfuil ceannas
chloinn Táil is dúil oinig fhear Gabhrán fear nár chuir comhardha ar chradh ’sá bfuil
solabhra seanchadh. 17 Fear is ionnamhail
d’athaoil chuirfeas mé go mórChathaoir iongnadh a mhéad do mheabhair tré fhíoghradh ghéag geinealaigh. 18 Dómhnall fírbheach na bhfer ghráidh mac Maoileachluinn
meic
Gormáin mheic Maoil Eachluinn
daithghil duibh chaithmhig shaoir neamhchruinn
náirigh. 19 Meic Duinn meic
Maoil mhaith Eachluinn mac [leg. meic] Co(i)n Eabha an earraghthroim ceann
sleachta
Dhiarmada is Duinn ealta is grianbhoga gormfhuinn. 20 Dob é ceap na bhfear
bhfearrdha Cú Eabha an airm
loinneardha fód seangshlat is ceannr críochs meic
Seághainr
deaghmhac Dáibhíodh. 21 Meic
Con Eabha an earraigh throim mac [sic] Co(i)n Mheadha mac [sic] Dómhnaill mac [sic] Conchubhair seagh gach slóigh fear go ttromchulaidh
ttionóil. 22 Meic
Co(i)n Mheadha meic
Murchaidh meic
Eithigheirn
fhionnthulchaigh meic
Sgannláin
an chómhrádh chaoimh meic
Gormáin agnár ionntaoibh. 23 Mac [sic] Muircheartaig meic
Donnchaidh meic
Aodha an chuilg chómharthaidh mac [sic] Treasa(ch)
meic
Duachdhuibh duinn mar luathChoin chleasa Cu(a)lann. 24 Meic
Gosáin nár chongaibh cradh meic
Dúnagáin duinn Almhan mac
[leg. meic] Gormáin ór chin(n)
an chlann fir do chreit Collbhán Cualann. 25 Meic
Eachach dárab
sliocht so meic
Caibhdean meic
Maoil Úmha meic
Suibhne na sleagh mbarr ghlana f(h)ear glanr suirghe na seangbhan. 26 Meic
Dómhnaill chaoimhmac Cormaic [508] mac Diarmada duasoirdheirc mac Eochaidh
Ghuinigh greadhnaigh an mhuirir dá mhínleanmhuin. 27 Eochaidh Guineach um ghníomh
ga mac Aongusa meic
Earca mac Bracháin bhuadhaig meic
Féig do ba lánoirdheircr laoichmhéid. 28 Meic
Dáire barraigh bláith
bhinn mac Cathaoir mhóir meic
Feidhlim iul glan a-támaoid do thriall triúr do ráinig(h)
magh Mhaicniadh. 29 Ríoghra Laighean na learg
mbreac Cathaoir mór dob é a n-aoincheap fear ngruadh ngil is nglac ttana uaidh do chin(n)
mac
Muirchadha. 30 Géag shaor ór síoladh Branaigh ’s na laoich tromdha Thuathailigh ’s Uí Fháilge na bhfonn
ttoraidh fonn
fá daingne ar Dhanaraibh. 31 Do chloinn Chathaoir
nár char luach Ó Fearghuil fla[i]th na bhforttuath dursan claondáil Gall ’na ngar Í Fhaoláin is clann
Cholgan. 32 Uí Dhíomasaidh is Uí Dhuinn uaidh is Uí Bairce an bhogfhuinn ór chin(n)
an chlann-sin
Ghormáin fir nár thaibhsigh tromchongháir. 33 Fillfe[idh] mé ní meanma
shlím ar Chathaoir fionnmac
Fheidhlim mac do Chormac gealta gaoth ealta ndonnbhrat
fá deaghlaoch. 34 Meic
Nia Chorb is í Chon Chorb leanfa[idh] mé suas an seanlorg mac Conchubhair bhúidh boggluair confadhaig n-úir
n-abhrashuaidh [leg. -radr-]. 35 Meic
Finn deaghmhac
Rosa Ruaidh meic
Feargusa
fairrge fleadhfhuair meic
Nuadha Neacht seaghdha
sean mac Séadna do chleacht
cóigeadh. 36 Meic
Luídheach laoichfhinn
laoch Náis mac Breasail Bhric go mbiothghnáis mac Fiacha foibhric gaoith grinn mac [an] laoich oirdheirc Oilill. 37 Meic
Fearadhaig nár bhris bóid mac Nuadha Fhinn
mac Allóid mac Airt náir mac Modha Airt cáin [leg. cairt?] chláir Logha ’na laochchairt. 38 Meic
Criomhthain chosgraig gan cheilg meic
Fearadhaig Fhinn airmdheirg eochair ghéib(l)inn
Teamhra an triú[i]r meic
Fei(dh)lim fherrda
Fhoirtriú[i]n. 39 Feidhlim Foirtriuin go
bhfoghuil [509] mac Feargusa foirteamhuil meic
Breasail chaomhbrais churadh fá mac Aonguis ollamhu(i)n. 40 Mac Oilioll bhracháin
shaoir sheing mac Labhr[aidh] Loinnsigh
luaidheim Oilioll Áine a athair sin do chuirr báire ar Bhreaghaibh.s 41 Meic
Laoghaire Luirc fá mac d’Iúghoine Mhór na míonghlac meic
Eochaidh bhuadhaig
bhladhmhóir gan uamhan re n-ollamhnaibh. 42 A-nois buailid fá chloinn cCuinn clann
Ghormáin is clann
Tuairim ag Iúghoine is ceann
dá ccraoibh gearr go crúsnoidher a ccómhghaoil. 43 Don tsíol cCuinn chéadna
is congaibh is sliocht
Dái Thí tréanbh[l]ádhaigh sliocht
na cColla is clann[a]
Néill dronga nár
chrannda
caithréim. 44 Don tsíol cCuinn-si
clann nDálaigh fine Ruairc is Raghallaidh gabhla fulaing ó bhfuil frais go rinnr umhalr is
Iorrais. 45 Don tsíol cCuinn-si
is cómhghaol dáibh ríoghra Mídhe clann
Cholmáin is sliocht
Aodha saoir Sláine dá chraoibh ghaoldha ghlanáille. 46 Don tsíol cCuinn-si
nár chlaon smacht síol cConchubhair cláir Connacht luath choinnmhe
Chruachan Meadhbha fóirne u[a]llcha innfheadhma. 47 Ar shliocht Ughaine
is iul glan a-tá an rí(gh) is ríoghroidh Alban brath a-nonn
uaim-si orthadh [leg. orthaibh?] drong as uaisle d’Albanchaibh. 48 Ar áirimh mé
Mórdha a ndáil ’s na fir chródha clann
Ghormáin dream do threibh na saorbhrogh séimh dá threibh a haonbhun iad-séin. 49 Ughaine mac Eachaigh áird mac Duach laghdhraigh
luinn
lonnghairg mac
Fiacha tolgraigh nár
shlím do ordaigh f[h]iacha ar Éirinn. 50 Meic
Muireadhaig bholgraigh
bhuain meic
Síomóin bhric fear feadhmchruaidh mac Aodháin ghlais fá glas snuadh bras gach aondáil ’gá iomluadh. 51 Meic
Nuadhad Finn fáil
fearrdha mac Giallchad guirt goirmTheamhra mar doineanna
do dháil maoin meic
Oilealla áin fholtchaoin. 52 Mac Síorna mac Déin meic
Maoin [510] mac Roitheachta áird fholtchaoin mac Aonguis ollmhuchaidh mhir gan clódh bfocal re bhfillidh. [corrupt?] 53 Mac Fiachaidh labhrainne
ón loch mac Smiorghuill mac Seanbhoths mac Tighearmhais do thuill toirm le loing imealghlais aghghairbh. 54 Mac
Follaigh mac
Eithrial óig mac Irial fáidh go bhfialmhóid níor ghné dearóil gleic na bhfer meic
Éireamhóin meic
Míleadh. 55 C(h)úig glúine is tríocha
túillmheach ó Eireamhón fhionnbhruí[gh]neach dul tar gábhadh is gearr uaim go hÁdhamh ceann
na ccaomhshluadh. 56 Mar sin téid meic Maoil
Eachloinn go ceap cháich cuaird neamhmhearbhthuill Adhamh aosda an chuain chlannaigh uaigh as taosdha thángamuir. 57 Fillfead don dul-so ar
Dhómhnall gnúis chaoin aghaidh
abhra[dh]mhall troig chobhsaidh go ccladh bhfeadhma lámh chosnaimh na caithbheárna. 58 Mac
Maoil Eachluinn an
airm naoi taobh solus ón sia neamhghnaoi rosg sochair glan mur
ghoirmshreibh dóchus [leg.dochair?] cár re caomhordaib [leg. -airrdhibh?]. 59 Déad rionnghlan
mur fhrais
neamhonn gruadh sholusda shaoirghnédho[nn] nár chréachtnuigh
ainmhí [leg. ainimh?] ná aoir ós realtuin d’aighidh fhochaoil. 60 Tárla iosdag caolshlat
ccorr sa[n] bhfonn
dúthchais ag Dómhnall ó nách filltear
dámh doiligh finntreabh
go bhfá(i)l bhf[í]oroinigh. 61 Brogh mar bhruíghin Dá
Choga ag ua Dhuinn
is Dhiarmoda le haghaidh aoidheadh do riar saoirfher
do ghabháil Gailian. 62 Brugh
mur bhruíghin
Mac Dá Reo a ccrích Laighean na laoimcheó an ccéin rug ar athghnaoi sin ní lámhthaoi dru(i)d dá dhóirsibh. 63 Brogh so mur bhruíghin
Dá Bhreagh [leg. Bhearg?] ’nár thuit gá doilge díbhfearg fághlach re foraire sgeoil Conaire d’armaibh aincheoil. 64 Brugh so a ccendchar
cheárd na suadh brugh lán dá lingid marcshluagh greadha srianbhoga crua(dh)
ccorr um
ua Dhiarmoda uim
Dhómhnoll. 65 Do-gheabhtha sa ghlanbhrog
fhionn [511] bró churadh ós cionn
fithchioll ’s bró mhallbhan ag cur chorthar brog léar snadhmadh sobharthan. 66 Tig ’na cceann ar
cionn oidhche lucht
cúmtha sgéal sgiamhfhoirfe don treibh thaobháird nách treabh shlím fer
do gach aonáird d’Éirinn. 67 Tig an fhla[i]th ’s an
fear fághla don tigh-si is tigh ríoghdhámhna tig an file ’sa[n] fear grá[i]dh san tig [leg. teagh] oirdheircra re
tromdháimh. 68 Port oinig iarthar ó tTáil iosdadh chaithmheach an chlocháin port na n-ógbhan ’s na n-eachlach ródbhrog bocht
is baintreabhach. 69 Mac Mheic Gormáin glac
bháirrgheal ar ndias abaigh
ionfháidheadh ar cceann
síodha ar ngealladh gar earradh
díola gach deoradh. Deora[idh]... |
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1569. O cheathrar gluaisid Gaoidhil $ Length: very long 69qq Certainty:
1 Period: 63.
16th
ult Areas: 5.
Munster Classes: 4.
Genealogical Manuscripts: 9296.
RIA
11 (E/iv/3) Aindr. MacCruitin 1727 9493.
TCD
1294 (H.2.3) M. O Gorman 9504.
RIA
88 (23/F/14) ?M. O Gorman c. 1770 9597.
Mayn.
C 95 Peadar O Conaill c. 1784 9698.
Mayn.
C 87b O Currys 19th cent. Motifs: 11.
another
patron Aod mc Aoda MegAongusa 113.
poets
as one of several learned classes 157.
patrons
liberality to poets 335.
listing
subject territories 770.
historical
allusions
811.
landscape 837.
music
(stoc, crot)
Poet
Christian Names: 437.
Maoilin
Og (RIA 11)
Poet
Surnames: 93.
MacBruaideadha Patron
Christian Names: 565.
Uaithne
mac Maoileachlainn mhic Uaithne Patron
Surnames: 499.
O
Lochlainn (fl. 1594) d. 1617 Apologue
Subclasses: 126.
Ollamh
Fodhla celebrates 1st Feis Teamhra 128.
Arrival
of Milesians
Meter
Vars: 2.
deibhidhe Poem: Ó cheathrar gluaisid Gaoidhil [RIA 11 (E/iv/3), 49] Maoilín Óg Mac Bruaidíogha cecinit [date 1594 in qt 68] [Deibhidhe, Dán Díreach for the most part] 1 Ó cheathrar gluaisid Gaoidhil eol damh tré chóir
ccraobhsgaoilidh dream ór leathnaigh preamha a bhfad sgéala an chethrair ór
chlansad. 2 Ar shliocht cethrair cneasda a
ríomh fuair Banba brugh na ndeighríogh na fóid bheannrua[i]dh fá bhrat(h) fiodh a ttáid deaghshluaigh mac
Míleadh. 3 Díobh-san Ír na n-iorgal tte (i)’s Éiriomhón céidrí(gh)
ar ccríche ’s is díobh Íth 7
Éibhior fionn go líon bhféinedh et bhfithchioll. 4 Ós iath Fódla ní fes damh d’féin Gaoidhiol na
ngleodh n-urlamh tulcha lethna fá mín muir acht síol na cceithre cceap-soin. 5 Labhram d’Ír na n-éacht bhfeardha sinnsior slóigh na s[e]ínEamhna déar dílionn an cheithre chep an beithir shidhsheang
shroillbhreac. 6 Lé cloinn Ír na n-arm seans a n-íoc fasdógh na
bhfileadh dream s(o)in nách
séadmhaoidh sochar céadlaoidh gach fíor (leg.
fhir) ealadhan. 7 Tairgfe[idh] mé fromhtha a[n] snas [leg. fras?] sliocht Ír an uair-si d’amas lucht na múr(r) bhfionnchorr bhfleadhaigh tímchioll a nglún
ngeiniolaigh. 8 Cóir a bhféachain [leg. ndé-] don dul-so sliocht Ír nách cailg comharsa gach fear díobh bearar
[leg. béarthar] go a bhun [50] síol na ttréanchon nár tubadh. 9 Tamhain d’f[h]íodhbaidh f[h]uinn Bóirne [is] chuige a-tá ar
ttarraig-ne is fiu a dheaghbhlaidh
déanamh air rédáimh [leg. rédhamh?]
don ealmhaigh Ulltaigh. 10 Uaithne an cédghlún fár chum mhe mhic Maoil (s)Eachloinn meic Uaithne aigne neamhchruinn shaor shnaisréidh Mao(i)l (s)Eachloinn a n-athair-séin. 11 Dob é an té-sin do thuirmheas ceann aidhe na n-ogailghreas mac Rúdhraighe fá tenn troid ní a cceann turbhuidhe thriallaid. 12 Úna is Donchadh ’na dhiaigh so go hAna Bacach do-bhéar-so lorg an chethrair do chin
uaidh ag s(o)in ferchoin na
bhfionnshluaigh. 13 Brian Maoil (s)Eachloinn orra soin sliocht Mhaoil (s)Eachloinn ón ársaigh dream gan dimiadh ré díol
sgol Irial díobh et Donchadh. 14 Ón mBrian-so sliocht bhoigréidh Bhriain léigiom seacha sliocht Íriail is ó Dhonchadh an taobh thoir sortha(i)n na ccraobh is
cumhain. 15 Dá bhráthair oile aithne dhamhs ag Ana Bacach bladhmhar nár donnadh ó dheabaidh rann dlighter [leg. dleaghair?] slo(i)nn(i)odh na saorchlann. 16 Cuibhreannaigh san taobh-so thoir díobh Mathghamhain mac Donchaidh (i)s Conchubhar medhraighe
mear nior leanbaidhe (é) ré a
laoidheadh. 17 Sloinnfiod d’éis Ana Bhacaigh Donchadh is da ndeaghfhlathaibhr Congalach ós a ccionn soin an mionn comhramhach ciall(dh)aigh. 18 Ó Chongalach chláir Neachtain a-tá mac mic
Mhuirchiortaigh cuibhrennach ón ttaoibh-si thiar gan daoirse is gan
dimhiadh. 19 Ós cionn Chongalaigh sa[n]
chraoibh sloinnfiod budh sloinne neamhchlaoin Amhalgaidh Mao(i)l Seachlainn na sleaghs craobh do ghealchoill na
nGaoidheal. 20 Amhalgaidh Mao(i)l (s)Eachloinn oiles is Lochloinn learg Siudaine Amhalgaidh fer fa fraochdha a ttóirrs ’s an meirfherr
laochdha Lochloinn.r 21 Ón Lochloinn-si darb ceap Corc muinntior Lochloinn na longphort dob fhiu stuaidh
bhairrleabha(i)r Breagh [na] sluaigh d’ainmneadhadh uadhuibh [leg. -sean?]. 22 Síol cConchubhair Chorcmo Rua(i)dh [51] a-nois deaghluim fá
deghshlua(i)gh an chuire do chuain
Mheidhbhe ’s do shlua(i)gh mhuighe
Múirtheimhne. 23 Gur roinn Lochloinn leath im leath is Conchubhar cruith
suaimhneach fuinn chorra an dá Chorcmo Rua(i)dh níor dhulta orra
d’aontslua(i)gh. 24 An leath siar ón sia foghail cuid an churadh
Chonchubhair gabhas Lochloinn an taobh thoir níor chlaon ccomhthro[i]m
an chlann-soin. 25 An chríoch do thogh Lochloinns annamh críoch ’na comharchuing ar tiorma ’s ar thorthadh
[leg. -ibh?] fiodh ní hiomdha a haithghin
d’oirer. 26 Tír fá tíghe torchair cuan tír na n-aoiltreabh bhfionn bhfeghfhuar tír is sia a n-aghaidh annlucht ’nar lia arr et
abhollghort. 27 Tír iona lia labhra stoc is ceol taighiuir téad
mbeannchrot tír ’na sia a(i)n mhídhe
fá mhuirn ionar lia file et
fíonchuirm. 28 Tír iona lia lucht siubhail brúghaidh et breithiomhain is leagha (dhaibh) ré
leighes cneadh et mesr feadha
ag faoisgedh. 29 Tír fhonnghlas is ainmhian bruith ionar lia ollamh is annruith is órd crábaidh ré cúl ceall [et] múr sádhail et
sídhghleann. 30 Fian Bóirne na mban leabhair ní beag é dá n-uaisliugadh gach a ttarrthaidh díobh dúthaigh san tír náraighr
neamhchúthail. 31 Síol cCuirc na ccéimionn ccalgda do dhearbh iad d’fuil (?) saorchlannda aicme dár dhual [leg.
dúthaigh?] díol sgol a mbí[odh] fúthaibh ag
foghnamh. 32 An Lochluinn cia dár cuings mac merchobhsaigh Mhaoil
S[h]eachlainn mac Arga ar nach cluinter cair muinntior Arga is uadh-soin.s 33 Samhragán Flaithbertach fial Dubhrois Reachtabhra roimhian mac laoch Dubh dá Chríoch
’na ccenn ara ccur do bhír
Buirionn. 34 Maol Dubh is Fuilne Fuilioch Seanach na sleagh ruinnghoineach Aimhirgín is ár n-aigh
[leg. n-úidh?] air do chlaidhimlibh múir Murbaigh. 35 Tál ó ccantar Carn mac Táil Broc is Conbhroc cuing
nemhnáir Osgar Meisin dúin
dealbhdha [52] do dhlighfiodh [leg.
dhleiseadh?] múr mínEamhna. 36 Meisin Suiliath budh sean clú Earc is Osgar is Onchú Neachtain Athchorb na n-arm naoidh a spairn cathcholg nách
claontaoidh. 37 Aodh Ghnaoi an gha leathain leabhair Aidhbhleith an ghraidh
ghaisgeamhuil Meadhruadh is ollamh na
bhfer oiredh [leg. orradh?] deaghdhuan an dias-soin. 38 Deidé is Eochaidh Corc cennruaidh Feargas Ruis ruithenruaidhs craobh Fanat freamh na
fola fea(d)gh an ránag
Rughradha. 39 Rígh Éirionn an fhuinn tarthaigh Rúghraighe an rúin
neamhmhaithfigh flaith cheannso ar nach ccuala trom is ua(i)dha [a]n dream-so
a-deram. 40 Magh Ránuill nach réigh muighe Uí Fhearghail na hangoile fuinn taobhghlasa nách tréig fiodh is Méig Aonghuso ón oirer. 41 Ua Loingsigh d’uaislibh Uladh clanna Céir chláir fhionnMhumhan gasraidh chrodha lán gach
lios Uí Mhórdha do chlár
Laoighis. 42 Uí Cheallaigh chláir Cuailgne thoir is Mac Giolla Réigh
Riabhaigh do bhuing gach fuil dá
bhfolaibh Uí Du[i]bh-loinn Ui Leathlobhair. 43 Uí Dhuinnsléibhe an lúidh
neamhghainn Uí Innéirge Uí Ghníomhuill dá threibh gan oilbhéim
orra Uí Dhroighnéin Uí
Díchiolla. 44 Uí Mhaoilmhiadhaigh nár mhín fuaim is dáil míleata medhruaidh a-nall fíorbhun na fola is clann lionmhar Labhradha. 45 Don chraoibh-si fós Fer Muige is Uí mBéice a Benntruighe ferchoin fhuartha fhóid
Cobha is óig uallcha ó
nEachadha. 46 Mar sin ghabhlaid [na] gaolta uaithne iomchras easaonta neamhchóir a bhfuagra as a
bhfonn seachnóin Fódla lé forlonn. 47 Leanfad don lorgain dírigh d’éis cuartuighthe is
cóimhshínigh is laoch soin d’fionnmhaigh Eamhna nósmurr shiubhlaigh shinnseardha. 48 Sitric is Dubh caomh cretbhán Foghmhar ann is Airgiodmhár síorlámh líonr
tacharr díomsaighr fionnr is brathr don bhuidhen-soin. 49 Labhra Cairbre nár chlaon rath [53] Ollamh Fód(h)la na bfhianchath cura[i]dh ’sa mbuaidh nach
bearthar Ulaidh is uaidh ainmníghthior. 50 Ag so an céidrí(gh) cian ó shoin do chum feis Temhra(ch) a tTeamhraigh taighleoir fionnmhuighe [leg. -mhagh?] mú(i)r nUladh is mú(i)r n-iomghla(i)n
n-ollamha(i)n. 51 Fiachaidh Fíansgothach an flaith Sedhna Airt Airtre Eachach Éibhric Éibhior 7
Ír léir neimhghlic déanamh
doighníomh. 52 Deaghlam(h) sonn an sliocht áighe tar chloinn Mhíleadh Easbáine go líon tréinfher ’na
ttionól Ír Eibhior is Éiriomhón. 53 Beir uaim an cethramadh cep Íth mac Breoghain na mborbghleac ní sliocht tacair sliocht na sen bíodhr nách do
mhac(h)aibh Míleadh. 54 Ón ccethrar-so reacaim ribh do ghabhluighiodar
Gaoidhil ceithre taca do gh[e]abh
grei(dh)m gach ré seal aca d’Éirinn. 55 Ag so tuairim aonroinn uaim go hÁdhamh ó Ír Armruaidh óigfhir nár chleacht a ccáinedh seacht ccóigir ré a ccómháireamh. 56 Do chuir mé saordha an snuidhe d’uaislibh préimhe [leg.
fhr-?] Rúdhraighe bláth na fóirne-si ón
ttaoibh thuaidh a ccraoibh chóimhnesa a
ccomhuaim. 57 Tarla díobh-sain suaithnedh linn cúig rígh fhithchiod ós
(ós) Éirinn múr Teamhrach fan
tslatchoill shean ó dhá[gh]chloinn mherdha Mhíleadh. 58 Tríocha(t) rígh oile a nEamhuin don ghasraigh óig
fhíonfhleadhaigh ós cóigidh na
bhfiadhchladh bhfionn cúigidh iathmha(i)gh na
hÉirionn. 59 Naoi ccéd bliadhain do bhí soin tír Uladh na n-óg
n-oirdeircr tír ionar mhíochuid ré mes fán ttriocha[i]d rígh do
ráidheas. 60 Ar chuirios díom druim ar dhruim budh é mac mic Uí Lochluinn dream do chosain clo(idh)
Uisneach ró thosaidh an
tiomsach-soin. 61 Fada an uidhe aonlaoidh dhamh dol ar cuaird uaidh go hÁdhamh ’s a-nall tar mh’ais go
hUaithne nách tais a n-am
iombhuailte.r 62 Aithne dhamh dúthaigh a shean [54] Oileach Néid nách nuaidh
déanamh port flatha as nár tóirnedh truagh ’nár hóirnedh Macha Mongruadh. 63 Ráith Eamhna na n-amharc réigh longphort chloinne Ír éi-séin im Shionuinngnáth nach serg grian ailgedhr oiriorbh(bh)lath Oirghiall. 64 D’áitreabh sinnser sluaigh Bóirne iathmha(i)gh glan(a) Dúin
Sobhaircer ’sa[n] fiagh fionn-so um na fedhaibh ionnsa a holl [leg. thriall?] a ttuadhMhumhuin. 65 Maigh Líne ór luighsiod a-noir dar leat ní dóibh budh duthaigh dar let ní leo Loch
Feabhail ’s a dhath mar cheo a
ccineamhuin. 66 Ar chuid chríche chloinne hÍr a-táid ó Éirne uichtmhín síol ríghNéill go Tráigh
tTuirbhe ós clár mhínréigh
Mhodhairne. 67 Ó shíol gColla ó chlannaibh Cuinn doibh is dúthaigh na deaghfhuinn dá héiliúghadh madh áil dol do rádh (na) seinleabhurr seanchadh. 68 Sé chéd acht sé bliadhna a-mháin míle ó choimpert Críost chomhláin Rí an Luain an tur\. (?)
[leg. tuir] fá treise go huair cumtha [leg. cuir?] na
craoibhe-se. [date 1594] 69 Aodh mac Aodh[a] an ualaigh thruim meic Aonghusa an fer comuinn cenn na n-óg nách adhlaig(h) ra(i)th da n-adhraid óig Ó
nEachach. O... |
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642. Dead niamhghlan
mar fhras neamhonn $ Length: short 1q Period: 63.
16th
ult Areas: 5.
Munster Classes: 20.
eulogy
wp Manuscripts: 9277.
RIA58(23/K/44)Tum.
MacMuirgh. 1721-
Motifs: 10.
Envoi
to spouse
31.
praise
of personal appearance 188.
too
honourable to be endangered by satire Poet
Christian Names: 437.
Maoilin
Og (RIA58)
Poet
Surnames: 1.
cname
only Patron
Christian Names: 1.
sname
only Patron
Surnames: 222.
wife
of MacGormain ?
Meter
Vars: 2.
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Leabhar Branach 59 Eochaid Ó Heóghusa cc. Teallach einigh iath Laighean ; Bradán Life na learg sean, 5870 posd einigh íochtuir Laighean, brath caomhthaigh fásfhairche Fáil, aonghuin básuighthe bannáil. [To Feilim mac Fiachaidh (†1630).] |
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1839-1841 Co. Clare - Ordnance Survey Letters by John O'Donovan and
Eugene Curry
https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/osl/ibrickan.htm
Part III pages 21-5. Letters
and Extracts relative to Ancient Territories of Thomond
III. Ibrickan, in Irish Ui
Bracáin
This Territory was a part
of the country of the Corca Vaskin until towards the end of the 12th Century,
when the Leinster family of Mac Gorman settled in it under the auspices of
O’Brien. This family flourished a long time in Leinster under the tribe name of
Hy-Bairrche, as being descended Daire Barrach, son of Cathaoir Mor, Monarch of
Ireland in the Second Century. Their country comprised the Barony of Slieve Margy
in the Queen’s County and a part of the level plain around the Town of Carlow.
The last notice which
occurs of them as Chiefs of this Territory in Leinster is at the year 1142,
where it is stated that “Donogh, the son of Hugh Mac Gorman, Lord of Hy-Bairrche,
was slain by Gilpatrick, son of Donogh Fitzpatrick (Mac Giolla-Padruig) Lord of
Ossory.” It is highly probable that they were driven out by the Lord Walter De
Riddlesford, who became master of all this tract about Carlow towards the end
of the 12th Century. The first of this family who settled in Munster was
Mortogh the son of Donogh Mac Gorman, whose descendants bore the tribe name of
Hy-Breacain from their great Lagenian ancestor Breacan or Bracan, the grandson
of Daire Barrach. The expulsion of the Mac Gormans from their original
Territory and their dispersion into various parts of Ireland are recorded in
the following lines by Maoilin Oge Mac Brody:-
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Crioc a niomairce on ttir toir. Do ghab drong diobh a nolltoibh. Is drong oile a nuaithnib cliach. Fan ndoire snaithing seinliath. Do lionsad uaithne an bhuird ghil. Clann Gormain iad an uair sin. Ogbadh cearmna ag siotche siar. Deabhadh is groidhibh Gaillian. As an tirsin le si cloinn cais. Tagaid seo ar seachna a ndutchais. Crioch ó mbairce is O mbuidhe. Mor frit coibche a co os muile. Do thoghsad iar tteacht anall. Ui breacain fraochda an fearann. Fonn dorchadh is deighsean na ndiag. Fa chineal bhfromtha bfinn briain. Ata an dream so is bithbeo bladh. Re ráe ceithre cead bliadhain. Ag rias dámh ag togbail truagh. Os an cc lar bfodban bfionnuar. Genealach Aile Meag Gormain, as Seanleabar i seilbh Cathal Ui Conchobair. Domnail Mac Diarmada M. Domnaill M. Coineabha M. Seaain M. Daibi M. Coineaba M. Coinmeada M. Domnaill M. Concobair M. Coinmeada M. Murchadh M. Eigtighearna M. Sganlain M. Gormain M. Muirceartac i.e., an cead duine tainicc do Mumhain do laighnibh do sliocht daire barraigh do reir droinge re Seanchus.[presume error – not the first to go to Munster - died 1103 or 1124 probably in Leinster] [gap in genealogy] M. Donuchadh Donnchadh Mac Aeda Tigearna Ua mBairrce do tuitim lagiolla P. Mac Donnchadh tigearna Osraide etc., A.Q.M. 1142. [error 1032] M. Treasaigh M. Duaich Duibh M. Gosain M. Dunagain M. Gormain, a quo an Fine. Mac Eachach Mac Maoilumha Mac Suibhne Mac Domnaill Mac Cormaic Mac Diarmada Mac Eacach Guinigh Mac Aonguss Mac Earca Mac Breacain na Brocain, i.e., nabarthar Ui Breacain Mac Daire Barraig Mac Cathaoir Moir |
From the Country of Hy-Bairrche in
the eastern province, they proceed to shun their
patrimony |
In 1165 Feargal O’Molloy, Lord of
Feara-Ceall and Kinel-Fiachrach, lamp of the valor and hospitality of the men
of Meath, was killed by the Hy-Bracain. Qu? Where were the Hy-Bracain then
located?
O'Donovan, John & Curry, Eugene (1839) Ordnance Survey Letters Clare. Part II. Letters and Extracts relative to Ancient Territories of Thomond, 1841.
III. Ibrickan, in Irish Ui Bracáin
[NOTE: This May Actually Be A
Reference To Ard Breacain In Meath
M1165.10 Fearghal Ua
Maelmhuaidh, lord of Feara-Ceall (men of the churches, Co. Offaly) and
Cinel-Fiachach (Co. Offaly/Meath), lamp of the prowess and hospitality of the
men of Meath, was slain by the Ui-Bracain.]
In
1563 the death of Mac Brody, Ollave of the Hy-Bracain and Hy-Fearmaic is
recorded.
Genealach Ui Lochlaind.
Mailechadh
Mac Donchadh
Mac Congalaich
Mac Amlaoib
Mac Mailechadh do marbad ineanach duin i.e., Ri Corcomruad agus Corcobaircind.
Mac Lochlaind do baided sa Gaillim.
Book
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