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v /

A

Rioghachca emeaNN.

ANNALSOP

THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND,BY THE FOUR MASTERS,FROM

THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE YEAREDITED PROM KSS. IN IKE LIBRAE! OP THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY

1616.

AND OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, WITH

A TRANSLATION, AND COPIOUS NOTES,

BY JOHN O'DONOVAN, LLD.,BAEEISTEE AT LAW.

M.RI.A.,

pro nob'a

"Olim Kegibui panbant, none per Prindpes factionibos et studiis trahnntur nee alind adversus validiirimaa gentes utilius. quam quod in commune non consulont. Rams doabos tribusve cmtatibos ad propnlsandnm commune:.

periculum conventus

ita

dam

singuli

pagnant turn-era vincnntnr."

TACITUS, AGBICOLA,

c. 12.

SECOND EDITION. VOL.I.

DUBLIN:HODGES, SMITH, ANDCO., GRAFTON-STREET. BOOKSELLERS TO THE UNIYEBSITT.

1856.

DUBLIN

:

ISrtnUB at 0>e antOergitj

BY M.

H. GILL.

TO?.n F 'oD Dia pfol 50 bpar. a Ii 5 e, ! 50 mab ano no b,a6 5ac p 105 opDan a r mo na para conOo 5 a,b aipe im a comall 01, dim^m ^lumjeal n Ct r uaice 60 pacgip Dpuim Caom .,. teamuip. emeappionn. Ipeab mpom ar innce po habnachc. ponceap, haonachc Obba ona macaip TTluimne, Luijne, i Laijne Decc 5 o po,

-|

i

-\

nObba.

Cach CuileCaichip.

Caichip,

i

f biiabomfi, n F oc r r

KF

hQirinp^n copcaip Caiceap in r in cona6 Ua6a D0 T in mal 5

Id

n

an

Qoip Domain,

cfo a cpi. cpi mile cuicc

Qn oapa bliabam DOhi.1.

pije Gpf-

moin op Gpinn. cinfb an bliabainp la hGpearhon.female rather than the maleBede's Hist. Eccl.lib.i. c.

TTlileab DO cuicim Qimipsin ^lumseal mac

ccac bile

Uomaibmname.It

naoi

mbpopac

aib'ne nGle,

line.

See also

1.

was the name of Tara Hill among the See Petrie's Antiquities of Tara Hill, Firbolgsp. 108.11

In preference

to Odhb/ia.

It is stated in the

Book

of Lecan, and in the Leabhar-Gabhcda of

From

her

it

was

called:

i.

e.

from hertold

it

was

the O'Clerys, that Heremon,called Geide Ollgothach,wife,

who was

otherwise

called

Teamhair.

This story

is

had put away his lawful Odhbha, the mother of his elder children, Muimhne, Luighne, and Laighne, and marriedTea, the daughter of Lughaidh

better in Mageoghegan's translationnals of Clonmacnoise, as follows:

somewhat of the An-

maci.e.

Itha,

from

before they landed on this land, Tea, the daughter of Louthus, that was wifefirst,

" But

whomof

Tara was named Tea- mur,;

the

mound

of Heremon,

desired one request of her said

Tea

that

Odhbha

followed her children to

Ireland, and died of grief from being repudiated

husband and kinsmen, which they accordingly granted, which was, that the place she shouldmostlike of in the

by her husband, and was interred at Odhbha, in Meath, where her children raised a mound toher{

kingdom should

be, for ever

after, called

by her name; and that the place so

memory

See note

',

infra.

Dower: cmnpcpa. The cmnpcpa was a reward always given by the husband to the wife,at their marriage,

be ever after the principal seat of her posterity to dwell in ; and upon their landing she chose Ley try mm" [6iac-bpuim], "whichcalled shouldis,

among Turks and other easterngies, Tribes,

the Jews, and

a custom which prevailed is still observed by thenations.

See Genealop.

since that time, called Taragh, where the King's pallace stood for many hundred years after, and which she caused to be called Tea-

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach,e.

207,

note8

T.

Druim-Caoin:

i.

the Hill of Caen, a man's

Mur, in Irish, is a town or pallace in English, and being joyned to Tea, maketh it to be the house, pallace, or town of Tea."

mur.

3503.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.whom Eremhonwho

31

requested of Eremhon a choice in whatever place she should select it, that she might be hill, as her dower interred therein, and that her mound and her gravestone might be thereon,

Tea, daughter of Lughaidh; son of Ith, 6 the repudiation of Odhbha was the Teaf,

married in Spain, to

and where every prince ever to be born of her race should dwell. The guarantees who undertook to execute this for her were Amhergin Gluingealraised,

and Emhear Finn.is

The

hill

she selected was Druim-Caein sinit

,

i.

e.

Teamhair.

It

from her

it

was

called",

and

was she

interred. died,

Odhbha, the mother ofinterred at Odhbha'.

Muimhne, Luighne, and Laighne,j ,

and was

Thegeal,

battle of Cuil Caichir;

in

which Caicher washis grave

slain

by Amergin Gluinfrom

[was fought] this year

and

was dug

in that place, so that

him Cuil Caichir was named.year of the reign of Eremhon over Ireland. Amhergin Gluingeal, son of Milidh, fell in the battle of Biletineadh" this year by Eremhon. The eruption of the nine Brosnachs i. e. rivers1

The Age

of the World, 3503.

The second

,

This derivation

is,

however, evidently legen-

the summit of a

hill

giving

nameis

to a territory

dary, for Ceariiaip was very common in Ireland as a woman's name, and it was applied to morehills

in the ancient Meath,

which

mentioned in

than Teamhair, in Meath

:

as

Teamhair

Luachra, in Kerry, and TeamhairBhrogha-Niadh,In Cormac's Glossary it is stated, that the cearhaip of a house means a grianan,in Leinster.

O'Dugan's topographical poem as the lordship of O'h-Aedha, a name now usually anglicised See it mentioned at A. D. 890 and Hughes1016.

The name, which would beis

anglicised

a bower, boudoir, or balcony, and that ceamaip of the country means a hill commanding ai. e.

another place of this name in Partry-of-the-inountain, on theOvey,is

now

obsolete.

There

That this is evidently the pleasant prospect. true meaning of the term is further manifestfrom the use ofit

west side of Lough Mask, in the county of Mayo, generally called Odhbha-Ceara, and anglicisedBallovey.j

in old Irish writings, as in

Cuil- Caichir

:

i.

e.

Caicher's corner, or angle,

the following passage in an Irish tract describing the Siege of Troy, in H. 2, 15, "Oo ponao

now unknown.*Bile-tineadh:i.

e.

the ancient Tree of the Fire.is

Ona cpeb cam cumbacca popab leip pop Ceamaip oinjna na carpac DO oalluc oo DiuBpacao." " Then was o'poipoecpm-|

This

is

said to

be in Cula-Breagh, and

the place

-)

-|

now

called Coill a' Bhile, anglice Billywood, in

-\

erected a

protecting house, and a look-out tower upon the teamhair and digna of the city,fine,

the parish of Moynalty, barony of Lower Kells, and county Meath. Nine Brosnachs.-r-Tbere are only two rivers1

to reconnoitre, view,'

Odhbha

and discharge [weapons]." This was the name of a mound on

of this

name

at present.

The other seven were

only small tributary streams to these.

emeaNH.32nao,

[3504.

Rije

.,.

aibne Laijfn, n ceopa nllmpionncuicc cfo cpi mile1

Ua

nOiliolla ipin bliaDam

cfona.

doip Domain,Gpfmoin

a

pe.

Cln cn, 5 eaD

bliaDam Do

pi 5

e,

pulman

bpemean,!i

Loc Riach, Loch Da Loch 6aa6, Loc Ren, Loc pionnmaije, Loc ^peine, Caoch Laijmb, Loc Laoj mo Ulcoib. Qn naomaD blia&ain Do pije cuic cfo a ofich. Qoip Domain, cpi mile Gaoan laip ccac Compaipe miDe. Comamm Gpfmoin Do cfp Un, Gn, -] Ppegabail ecin Ddl nUib Nell, na cfopa Socc Connachcaib, Gichne} i i i i

each 6peo 5 am ITlannnan Do cuicim lap an pig i Loc buaboij, comaibm na loch po in blia&am cfona. Loc Cimbe,

~[

nQpaibe

-\

Oal Riaoa an

blia&ampi.

Qibne laopiDe.tle

m Nine Righes There of this name in LeinsterCallan, in the county of

are only four riversat present; ;

one near

the county of Eoscommon. Charles O'Conor, of Belanagare, resided near

Plunkett,

in

Kilkenny

the second

this lake beforeestate.*

he succeeded to his father's

of Kildare and flowing between the counties Meath, and paying its tribute to the Liffey, near

Loch Ren

This name

still

exists,

and

is

Lucan; and the third in the county of Wicklow, and uniting with the Liffey near Blessington;and the fourth in the north-west of the Queen'sCounty.Three Uinsionnsolla, is

near applied to a small lakeplain of

Fenagh, in the

Magh

It is situated

Rein, in the county of Leitrim. on the northern boundary of the

UKOiliolla,

or Tir-Oili-

townland of Fenaghbeg. Loch Finnmhaighe. This name'

is

preservedIt is

the barony of Tirerrill, in the county of

on the

Down

Survey,

as

Lough Fenvoy.

Sligo

;

but there

is

no river now bearing the

situated in the barony of Carrigallen,

and county

name

of Uinsionn in this barony. Breoahan in Feimhin. Feimhin

of Leitrim, and

is

now

called Garadice1

Lough*,

was the

See note ', under the year1386.u

257, and note

under

name of a level plain in the south-east of the now county of Tipperary, comprised in the present baronies of Iffa and Offa East;

Loch Greine:

i.

e.

the Lake of Grian (a woin the north

but the

man's name),of the

name Breoghanp

is:

now

obsolete.

now Lough Graney, See map county of Clare

to Tribes

and

Loch Cimbe

more usually written Loch

Cime,

Hackett, in the barony of See O'Flaherty's Clare, and county of Galway.Ogygia, part the same lakeiii. c.

now Lough

Customs of Hy-Many. w Loch Riach Now

Lough Reagh, near thein the

town of the same name

county of Galway.

is

and part iii. c. 79, where called Loch Sealga but this is17,;

"Loch Da Chaech This was the ancient name of Waterford harbour between Leinsterand Munster.y

a mistake, for Loch Sealga

is near Carn-Traoich, not far from Tulsk, in the county of Roscommon. q Loch Buadhaigh: i. e. the lake of the victo-

Loch Laegh

This

is

translated " lacus vi-

tuli,"is

rious man.'

Not

identified.

Loch Baadh

Now Lough

Baah, near Cas-

by Adamnan. The position of this lough determined by the ancient ecclesiastical Irish writers, who place the church of Cill Kuaidh,

3506.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.m,

33

of Eile; of the nine Righes

i.

e.

rivers of Leinster;

and of the three Uinsionns"

of Hy-Oiliolla. The Age of the World, 3506.

Fulman and Man tan

fell

year of the reign of Eremon. Feimhin and by the king in the battle of Breogan, in

The

fifth

;

Loch Cimbe", u Loch Greine Loch Buadhaigh", Loch Baadh Loch Ren', Loch Finnmhaighe', x y Loch Riach", Loch Da-Chaech in Leinster, and Loch Laegh in Ulster. The Age of the World, 3510. The ninth year of the reign of Eremon, z Un, En, and Edan, fell by him in the battle of Comhraire in Meath. Thethe eruption of the following lakes [took place] in the same yearr,

:

,

,

,

,

and of the of the three Socs", in Connaught eruption of Eithne, in Ui-Neill'.; c and Dal-Riada, this year. These are rivers. Fregabhail between Dal-Araidhe; ,

now

Kilroot,

on

its

brink.

It is

nowstill

called

Eochaidh Feidhleach, and wife of Conchobhar

Belfast Lough, close

upon the margin of whichchurch areto

Mac

some remains ofseen.'

this

be

King of Ulster in the first century. See the Book of Lecan, fol. 175, a. b. This river formed the boundary between North andNessa,

Comhraire

There was a church erected at

Southpartb

Teffia in St. Patrick's timec.

See Ogygia,

by St. Colman mac Fintain (the brother of St. Fursa of Peronne), whose festivalthis place

iii.

85.

The three Socs.

Michael Brennan, in his Irishstates that the threestill

was celebrated here on the 25th of September.

poem on the River Shannon,

The placewhichis

is

now

called in Irish Cill

Compaipe,

Sucks of Connaught are the rivers

called the

anglicised Kilcomreragh. It is situated

Suck and its tributaries, theSheffin and the Riverof Clonbrock, in the county of Galway

near thecashel,lire

hill of Uisneach, in the barony of Moyand county of Westmeath. See the FeiAenguis, at 16th November; the Irish Calen-

See

under A. D. 1263, where the course of the main branch of the Ceopa Suca is described.notec

",

dar of O'Clery, at 25th September; and Colgan's

Freghabhail

Now

the Ravel Water, which

Ada Sanctorum,*

p. 95, col. 2.

rises in a small lake called

Aganamunican, on

the Eiver Inny, which discharges itself into Lough Ree, to the south-west of Ballymahon, in the county of WestEithne, in Ui-NeiU.

Now

the mountain of Slieveanee, in the parish of Dunaghy, in the county of Antrim, and, flowing

meath.

By

the

Nepotum

Nettl,

name Ui-Neill is meant terra the ancient Meath having beenit

through the valley of Glenravel, to which it gives name, joins the Dungonnell River near the old burial ground of Deschart, whencetheir united waters flow in a south-east course

so called in later ages, because

was divided

among the sons of Niall of the Nine Hostages, and possessed by their descendants till the EngIt would have been more correct to call this territory " Midhe," at this early lish Invasion.

until they fall into the Maine Water, near Glary ford See Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down,

Connor,

and Dromore, by the Rev. WilliamI.

Reeves, M. B., M. R.

A., pp. 334, 335.

The

period.

The River Eithne wasis

originally called

Glaisi-Bearamain, andits

said to have derived

territory of Dal-Araidhe extended from Newry to this river ; and that of Dal-Riada comprised

present name from Eithne, daughter of King

the remainder of the county of Antrim.

34

aNNQta Ric-shachca eiReawN.Qoip Domain,cfo a r e Decc. rpi mfle cuicc

[3517.

Qnpini

cuicceab bliabain t>ecci

oGpeamon

i

pije, n

a ecc a poipceann na pee

Rdic beoraij o r Goip

nQpjjac Ropy.

Qn cfo bliabain Do cfo a pfchc Decc. Qoip Ooihoin, rpi mile cuicc DO Laijne, clann epfrhoin ccoirhpije op 6pmn. TTIuimne, DO Uijne, 1 cuicc cfo a naoi Decc. ppoipcfnn na ccpf Qoip Domain, cpf mile mbliaban po acbarh TTIuimne cCpuacham, Luighne Laijjne copcparop hi ccach Qpoa Labpann la macaib Gmip.i

-]

i

-|

6p, Opba, peapon,hi"\

-]

Pepjen

cfirpe meic

Gmep

Ificbliabain Doib.

Qp

leicblia&oin a leicbliabampi ap 05 an pij Nuaba Neachc aipimnppin

Nuabaicn Neachc DO m bliaoamfi

corhlan,-|

6mip la

hlpial pdib,

mac

naoip Domain. Uopcpacop an clanD nGpfmom,! ccac Cuile TTIapra lap bpopbaD na

Ificbliabna pempdire.

cfo pice anaoi. Ctoip Domain, cpi mile cuiccbliabain po Ipiail

Q

bpoipcfnO an Dfcmabi

pdib mic Gpfmom hi pije, puaip bap TTlai^ TTluaiDe. Qp Cac CtpDa lap an Ipial ppaib po po cuipic na caca po. Car Guile TTlapca, Inmaoich hi Ueachba cropcaip Scipne mac Ouib mic porhoip, car Ufni

maije

ccopcaip an Ipeoil cfona TTlopemip, opfpoib bolg. Qp naimpip Luj l?och, na maj, cogbail na pdch, robpucrab na naibneab po. Qciao na plfccab maije, Tllagh Sele nUib Nell, TTIajh nGle la Caijmu, TTlajh Rechfc, TPajhii

ccopcaip Gocha Gachceann pf pomoipe,-]

Car Locmaije

mac

i

-|

i

Sanaip

i

Connachcaib, TTlajh Uechc la hUibSee note under A.M. 3501, sup. d See note A. M. 2242, sup.,

mac

Uaip, TTIa^h pairne la

^Argot-Ross.e'

Muaidhe, now Knockmoy, six miles south-eastof

Ard-LadhrannFergen

Tuam,

in the county of Galway,

which

is

Called Feorgna in Mageoghegan'a

in Keating's History of and most of the genealogical accounts of the race of Heber-Finn.

Annak of Clonmacnoise,Ireland,

probably the place alluded to in the text. Tribes and Customs of HyMany, p. 6.k

See

Ard-Inmhaoith

Would beis

anglicised

Ard-

invy, but the'

name

obsolete.is

Called "Irialus Vates" by Dr. Lynch and O'Flaherty, and "Iriell the Prophet," by Connell Mageoghegan."

'

trial Faidh.

Tenmaoith

This plain

referred to as inis

Connaught, under A. M. 3549, but the name

Cuil-Marta.Not

identified.

It

is

called

now unknown. m

Lochmaghe.

This

is

Cuilmartra by O'Flaherty. Magh Muaidhe This may be the plain of the River Moy, flowing between the counties of

near Thurles, in the county of Tipperary Luachmagh, A. D. 1598.n

probably Loughma, See

Magh-Sde

in Ui-Neitt:

i.

e.

the Plain of the

Mayo andwas

Sligo, in

also applied to

Connaught; but the name a plain near the hill of Cnoc

Eiver Sele, in the country of the southern UiThe River Sele, which Neill, that is, Meath.

3516.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.of the World, 3516.

35

The Age

The

fifteenth year of the reign of Eremhon;

he died at the end of this period at Rath-Beothaigh over the Eoir, in Argat-Ross". The Age of the World, 3517. The first year of the joint reign of Muimhne,

Luighne, and Laighne, sons of Eremon, over Ireland. The Age of the World, 3519. At the end of these three years Muimhne e died at Cruachain. Luighne and Laighne fell in the battle of Ard-Ladhron bythe sons of Emhear.

and Fergen f the four sons of Emer, reigned half a year. This half year and the half year of Nuadhat Neacht make a full year and to Nuadhat Neacht it is reckoned in the age of the world. These sons of EmerEr, Orba, Fearon,,

;

were

slain

by

Irial

Faidh s son of Eremon, in the battle of Cuil-Marta,

h,

at the

end of the half year

aforesaid.

The Age

of the World, 3520.

At

the end of this, the tenth year of the

It was by reign of Irial Faidh, son of Eremon, he died at Magh-Muaidhe'. the battle of Cuil-marta this Irial Faidh the following battles were fought:

;

the battle of Ard-Inmaoith

k,

in

Teathbha, in1

which

fell Stirne,

son of Dubh, son

of

Tenmaighe in which fell Eocha Echcheann, king of m in which fell the battle of Lochmaighe the Fomorians Lughroth, son of Mofemis of the Firbolgs. It was in the time of the same Irial that the clearing;

Fomhor

the. battle;

of

,

,

of the plains, the erection of the forts,

and the eruption of theMagh-Sele, in Ui-Neillq,

rivers following,;

took place.Leinster;

These are the plainsp;

n

:

Magh nEle,

in

Magh-Reicheat

Magh-Sanais

in

Connaught

;

Magh-Techt, in Ui-

gave name to this place,water.It rises in

is now called the BlackLough Eamor, near Virginia,

having been the residence of Finn Mac Cumhailin the third century, and of Colonel Grace in the seventeenth See note m , under A. D. 1475,

in the county of Cavan, and, flowing through the barony of Upper Kells, by Tailten, in Meath,

and note m under A. D. 1418.,

pays

its

tribute to the

Boyne

at Dubh-chomar,is

now

the town of Navan.

This river

dis-

tinctly

mentioned as near Taltenia, in the Triii.

partite Life of St. Patrick, lib.

c.

4,

apud

Keating adds that this plain Leix, in the present Queen's County; but in the Preface to the Feilire-Aenguis it is mentioned as a plain in Ui-Failghe (Offaly),Magh-Reicheat.Laoighis, Lis ine.

r

Colgan, Trias Thaum, p. 129; and Colgan observes, in a note, p. 173, that it was, in his owntime, called

containing the church of Cuil-Beannchair,

Coolbanagher,

alias

Whitechurch.is

It

is

now nowin

Abha-dhubh.

called, in English,

Morett, and

a

manor

Now Moyelly, a Magh-n-Ele in Leinster townland in the parish of Kilmanaghan, barony of Kilcoursey, and King's County, famous as

the barony of Portnahinch, adjoining the Great Heath of Maryborough, in the Queen's county,q

Magh-Sanais.

Not

identified.

F2

[3530.

36

h Lu 5 na i cCianOaipbpeac, TTla 5 hdipcfpa, TTla 5 h nOa,pbpfc pocapcaib Chuile F f6a i pfpnmms, Hlaj comaip, nacca, TTlas nln, r la hUlcoib, TTlag Cuma la hU,b Nell, TTlag pfpmhaije la TTlaj TTlme, TTlaj Coba, TTlaj Qciao na pacha, Rach Cpoich TTloi 5 ,ni r hOipjmllaib, -] TTlaj Rmcca. i Rac Cumcfoha i Seriine, Rach bacain Lacapna, Rach Lochaio n^lap, i,

i

capn,

Rac Rach 5laipe cu,l5 Da n 5 oipreap Rac Ciombaoic mo GaTTiain, Rac 6uip 5 Slechcmoij. Na haibne, Siu>p, peil, 6pcpe la TTlochaish,

i

-]

murhain, na cpf pionna.-j na cpi Coimoe. aoi r Domain, cpi mile cuicc cfo rpiocac.

Qn

cfo bliaoain DO pije Gcpel,

mac

Qn picfcmab bliaDain anaoi. Qoip Domain, cpi mile cuicc cfo cfcpacac mic Gpfmoin, i pi^e 50 ccopcaip la Conrhaol mac DGrpel, mac Ipeoil pai6,*

Ipeoil

pdm, 0? Gpinn

inopin.

Magh-techt, inis

Ui-Mac- Uais.

Unknown.See

Ui-Mac Mais

believed to be the barony of

is the Irish name of hagh, i. e. the Alder Plain, the barony of Farney, in the county of Monaghan.

of Westmeath. Moygoish, in the county

O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part

iii.

76.

or

of the Corner Magh-Cuile-feadha, i. e. the Plain Angle of the Wood, was probably the ancient

Magh-Faithne, in Airthera.

Poirm

ip

incorrect.

Called IDa^ na h-iapcapaiB by Keating, which is is Magh-Faithne is obsolete. Arthera

name of thebarony.J

district

around Loughfea, in thise.

Magh-Comair:

i.

the Plain of the Con-

the Irish name of the baronies of Orior, in the

fluence.

county of Armagh.Magh-Dairbhreacli : i. e. the Plain of the Oaks. This plain is situated at the foot of thehill'

Keating places this in Ui-Neill, i. e. It is was probably the plain around in Meath.

Cummer, near Clonard,

in Meath.

There

is

of Croghan, in the north of the King's County. The territory of Fotharta Dairbhis

another Magh-Comair, now anglice Muckamore, near the town of Antrim, in the county of Antrim.*

reach

referred to, in the old Irish authorities,

Magh-Midhe.

This

is

placed in Cianachta

as adjoining this hill,

which was ancientlyiii. c.

called

by Keating.a

Bri-Eile.u

See Ogygia, part

64.this

Magh- Cobha.

Magh-Luglma.

Keatingit

calls

Magh

i.

e.

Iveagh, in Ulster,

This is placed in Ui-Eathach, See note u by Keating

,

Luinge.

We

are not told in which of the dis-

under A. D. 1252.bc

tricts called

Cianachtai.

was

situated.

Magh-inis : was the ancientin the county of

w

the insular plain. This name of the barony of Lecale,e.

Magh- Cuma, in Ui-Neill. Unknown. Magh-Fearnmhaighe : now Farney, a baronyMagh-Riada.county of Monaghan. This was the ancient name

in the south of thed

See Tripartite Life of St. Patrick in Trias Thaum, part iii. c. 60, and

Down.

of a plain in Laoighis, or Leix, in the present

"Magh-inis hodie LethColgan's note, p. 185 cathuil appellatur, in qua et ciuitas Dunensis:

Queen's County, and contained the forts of

Lec-Reda and Eath-Bacain, where the chiefs ofLaoighis resided, and the church called

et

Saballmn iacent."

Domh-

'Magh- Cuile-feadha,

in Fearnmhagh.

Fearnm-

nach-mor.

See the Tripartite Life of St. Pa-

3530.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.r

37

Mac-Uaisbhreach;

;

Magh-Faithne, in Airtheara Magh-Dairbhreach', in Fotharla Dairw u Magh-Lughna in Cianachta Magh-inis in Uladh Magh-Cuile;

5

,

;

,

;

feadha, in

Fearnmhagh*; Magh-Comairb;

y;

z

Magh-Midhec,

Cuma, in Ui-Neill These are the fortscalled

Magh-Fearnmhaighe8;

in Oirghiallae;

:

Rath-Croich, in Magh-inis

Maghand Magh-Riadad f Rath-Cuinceadha, in Seimhne; ;

Magh-Cobha;

a

.

;

Rath-Bacain, in Latharnais

Rath-Lochaid,at

at;

Glascharn

h;

Rath-glaisicuilg,;

which

Rath-Ciombaoith',1

Eamhainthe Siuir

Finns"

Sleachtmhagh and the three Coimdes".. ;

The rivers were

m,

Rath-Mothaigh* Rath-Buirg, in Feil", Ercre in Munster the three,

;

The AgeThe Age

of the World, 3530.

This was the

first

year of the reign of

Eithrial, son of Trial Faidh,

over Ireland.

of the World, 3549.

son of Irial Faidh, son of

The twentieth year of the reign of'Eithrial, Eremon, when he fell by Conmhael, son of Emer, inBuirech by Keating. Not identified. m The Now anglice " The Suir," which .rises in Sliabh Aldiuin, or the Devil's Bittain, in the

trick in Trias Tfiaum., p. 155.'

Rath-Croich, in Magh-inis

:

i.

e.

in the ba-

rony of Locale, in the county of Down.identified.'

Not

Moun-

Rath- Cuincheadka in Seimhne

Island-Magee,

barony of Ikerrin, and county of Tipperary, and, flowing by or through Thurles,Holycross, Golden Bridge, and Cahir, Ardfinan,

in the

county of Antrim, was anciently called Rinn-Seimhne, and this fort was probably on it, but the name is obsolete.1

and Carrick-on-Suir, and Waterford,Uisceadh, about a mile below Waterford.n Feil.

finally

unites with the Barrow, at Comar-na na dtri n-

Rath-bacain, in'Latharna:

i.

e.

in Larne,

a territory, in the county of Antrim, now included in the barony of Upper Glenarm. The

There

is

a river of this

name

in the

name6

of this fort

is

obsolete.

county of Kerry, giving name to the village of Abbeyfeale, by which it passes ; but it isquite evident, from the Leabhar-Gabhala of theO'Clerys, that the river Corrane, which

Rath-Lochaid, at Glascharn

Both names

unknown.'

Hows

Rath-Cimbaoith

This was the name of one

from Loch Luighdheach,

of the forts at Emania, or the Navan, near

Arin

magh.

There was another

fort of the

name

Corrane Lough, in the barony of Iveragh, in the west of the same " Abhainncounty, was also originally calledalias

the plain of Seimhne, near Island-Magee, in the present county of Antrim.k

Feile,"

and that

is

the river here alluded

to.

Ercre.v

Now unknown.The River Finn, flowing

Rath-Mothaigh.glice

Now

Raith-Mothaigh, an-

The

three Finns.

Ryemoghy,

in a parish of the

same name,

barony of Raphoe and county of Donegal ; and there can be little doubt that Sleachtmhagh was the name of a plain in this parish.1

in the

through the barony of Raphoe, in the county of Donegal, was the principal one of these. Theothertoit.*

two were probably tributary streamsthree Coimdes.

Rath-Buirg, in Sleachtmhagh

Called Ratli-

The

Not

identified.

38

Rioghachca eiReawN.i

[3550.

MM cCuipcpe, TTlasSeipille la hUib bpailje, TTlash Ochcaip la Laijniu,Locmaghla Conaille,-|

jiemfp an Gcpeoil pi po plechcaicc Ueanma 5 h la Connachroib, TTlajh LujaD la Luine, TTlajh

Gmip

ccac ttaipfno. Ip

i

na maijhe

pi,

mbealais la

TTlaj T?oc la

hUib Gachoach.

i

ceo bliabain Do pije Conrhaoil, Qoip Domain, cpf mile cuig cfo caoja. Qn mac Girinp, op Gpinn innpm. Ceo 17i Gpeann a TTlurhoin epiDe. anaoi. lap mbeic Oech Qoip Domain, cpf mfle 0(115 cet) peacrmojac mbliaDna picfc DoConmaol, macGmip, pije nGpeann copcaip ccacQonaij TTlacha la Cijfpnmup mac pollaijh. Conmaol rpa ap laip DO cuipfb na car caca po, cac ^eipille, ccopcaip palap mac Gpearhom, car beppe, Slebe 6fta la hUib Cpemrainn, car Ucha, cacCnucha, cac Slebe TTloDaipn ccopcaip Sempoch mac Inboich, each Clepe, cac Capn moip i ccopcaipi i i

Ollac, cac Cocha Lfin popGapna, TTlaipcine,-] popTTlob Ruic,

mac

TTlopebip,

opfpoib bolj, cac Gle.

Qoip Domain,

cpi mile cuij cfo

occmoac.

Qn

ceo bliaDain Do pije

Uijfpnmaip mic pollai^ op Gpinn.CCoip Domain, cpf mfle cfo

occmojac a haon.

Qn oapa blia&ain Doi

pije

Uijfpnmaip, comaibm na naoi loch po.Raeire.is

Loch nUaipy

TTlibe,

Loch

nlaipn,

',

that this

Genit. Raeireann. O'Flaherty says the name of a hill in Hyfalgia, but

Lochmhagh, in Conaille

Keating places this

in

Connaught.*

does notplace

tell

us

its

exact situation.

It

is

the

now

called

Raeipe mop,

in the territory

Called by Keating Magh-rath. Magh-roth. This was the name of a plain in the present

of Iregan, or barony of Tinnahinch, in the Queen's County, which was a part of the ancient

There is another place Ui-Failghe, or Offaly. of the name in the territory of Ui-Muireadhaigh,near Athy, in the county of Kildare.'

county of Down, the position of which is determined by the village of Moira. a Aenach-Macha This was another name forEmania, or the Navanfort,

near Armagh. Keat-

Teanmhagh.'

Unknown.

Magh-Lughadh.u

Unknown.:i.

ing says that Conmael was buried at the south side of Aenach-Macha, at a place then called Feart Conmhaoil. See Halliday's edit., p. 320.e.

Magh-bealaiffh, in Ui-Tuirtre

plain of

b

Geisill

NowThis

Geshil, in the King's County,

the road or pass.a tribe

Ui-Tuirtre was the name of

and territory in the present county of Antrim, but the name of the plain is unknown. "Magh-Oemlle: i. e. the plain of GeshilL This was the ancient name of a plain included in thepresent barony of Geshill, in the King's County, 1 Afagh-Ochtair, in Leinster. Unknown.

is probably Bearhaven, in the south-west of the county of Cork. d Sliabh-Beatha. There is no Sliabh Beatha

c

Berra.

but that on the borders of the counFermanagh and Monaghan, already menf under A. M. 2242. tioned, note Ucha. Not identified.in Irelandties

of

,

3550.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.r.

39

the battle of Kaeirecleared:

It,

was

in the reign of this Eithrial that these plains;

were1;

8

Teanmaghu;

in

Connaughtwy;

Maghz,

Lughadh', in;

Luighne

;

Magh-Bea-

laigh, in Ui-Tuirtre

Magh-Geisille

,

in Ui-Failghe

Magh-ochtair, in Leinster

Lochtnhagh, in Conaille

Magh-roth

in Ui-Eathach.first first

The AgeMunster.

of the World, 3550.

This was the

Conmael, son of Eraer, over Ireland.

He was

the

year of the reign of king of Ireland from

Conmael, son of Emer, having been thirty years in the sovereignty of Ireland, fell, in the battle of Aenach-Macha", by Tighernmus, son of Follach. By Conmael had been fought these battles the the battle of Berra the battle of Geisill", in which fell Palap, son of Eremonof the World, 3579.: ;

The Age

;

battle of Sliabh Beatha", in

Ui Creamhthainn

;

the battle of

Uchae

;

the battle

of

Cnucha;

f;

the battle of Sliabh Modhairn*, in

which1

Inboith

the battle of Clere"; the battle of Carnmor'

,

Semroth, son of in which fell Ollachfell;

the battle of

Lein", against the Ernai and Martinei, and against n the battle of Ele Ruith, son of Mofebis of the Firbolgs1 ;.

Loch

Mogh

The AgeThe Age

of the World, 3580.

The

first

year of the reign of Tighernmas,year of the reign of Tighern-

son of Folloch, over Ireland.of the World, 3581.

The second:

mas, the eruption of these nine lakes [occurred]f

Loch Uair,The

in

Meath

;

Loch

Cnucha.

This place

is

described as over the

k

Loch-Lein

lakes at Killarney were

River Liffey, in Leinster.reign of Lughaidh

See Keating in thethe Battle of

originally so called.to the1

The name

is

now

applied

Mac Con, and

upper lake only.

Cnucha.1

It

was probably the ancient name ofThis was the ancient

Castleknock.Sliabh- Modhairn.

name of

a range of heights near Ballybay, in the barony of Cremorne, and county of Mo-

Ernai, sept of the Firbolgs, seated in the present county of Kerry. m Martinet. sept of the Firbolgs anciently seated in the baronies of Coshlea and Small

A

A

County,

in the

county of Limerick, and in thatfol.

The Mourne mountains, in the south naghan. of the county of Down, were originally calledBeanna Boirche, and had not received their present"

of Clanwilliam, in the county of Tipperary

See Book of Lismore,is

176,

a. a.

where Emly

referred to as in the very centre of this terrin

nameClere

before the fourteenth century.

tory.

Not

identified. It

may be Cape

Clear,

Ele.

A territory in the

south of the King's

Co. Cork, or Clare Island, county Mayo.

County.

This was probably Carn-mor Sleibhe Beatha, for the situation of which seeCarn-mor.note',

'

Loch Uair.

These lakes are1

set

down

iu a

A. M. 2242,

p. 3,

supra.

very irregular order by the Four Masters. Keating and O'Flaherty have given their names

aNwata Rioshacnca eiueaNN.,

[3656.

cConnacca*, Loch Sadeano, Loch nQ.llfno Oubloch 1 Loch Daball lOippallaib. pealiail, Loch ^aBaip, d r f an blmbam p an cfo eaoccac a r e. dor ooma,; cp, mil* T* o r Spurn. t>o U, 5 f P nma r na pi* blmbau, oecc ap cp* F fchc,b r eaccma6 apaill oepfnncoib 1 Or la, r po bpireab na caca f o pop fiol nBmh.p n F opcaca each Glle na Qc.ao f o o,le cen mo cac r om. Jacca"pcenela,b hi^n, each Locmu, 5 e ccapchaiT Oa 5 a,pr* mac eopcaip Rocopb, mac5oUa,n, each Chuile Rpaochain, carh tU micSollam, each Cula a,pD mui^r, Semne, each Q.po each Cula ach 5 uipc Hla^e Cechr, each Commaip, 01 F^paoac mac RoN,aDh hi cConnachcaiB, car Caipn F^6oij copch p each Cnameoille hi Connach 6 chmpb, mic ^ollain, pdicfp Capn pfpa6ai5, each Con 5 n ai 6e Uuaic Gaba, each ca!b each Cuile F ea6a, each Reabh, mbpepne, Da each Ueachba, each Cluana TTlu.prcce, Cluana Cua r Seachc ccaca a 5 Loch LujChuile i ndp 5 ac Rop, each Gle, cac beppe,Loch

Loch

Ce Connachcmb,,

,

1

.

,

R

,

,

,

,

i

,

i

in better succession.

The Four Masters should:

from Febhal, son of Lodan, one of the Tuatha-

order have transcribed them in the following

De-Dananns.u

Loch LochUair, Lochn-Iairn, Loch Saighleann, Loch Ce in Meath and Dubh-loch,Gabhair,;

Loch- Gabhair.

This lough

is

now

dried up,anglice

but the place

is still called

Loch Gobhar,

and LochUair

Ailleann, in

Connaught

;

and Loch

Feabhail and Loch Dabhall, in Ulster.is

LochUail,

See Colgan's.4cta Sanctorum, Lagore&r Logore n. 14, and Proceedings of the Royal Irish p. 422,

now

corruptly called in Irish

Loch

Academy,"this

vol.

i.

p.

424.

and is situated near Mulanglice Lough Owel, in the county of Westmeath. lingar, p Loch n-Iairn. Now Lough Iron, situated onthe western boundary of the barony of Corkaree,in the county of9

Dubh-loch: the Black Lough. Keating places

now lough in the territory of Ard-Cianachta, the barony of Ferrard, in the county of Louth.This was the Loch- Dabhall, in Oirghialla. ancient name of a lake not far from the town of*

Westmeath.

Loch Ce

in Connaught.

Now Lough

Key,

near Boyle, in the county of Eoscommon. ' Now Loch Sheelin, on the Loch Saileann

w Armagh, but the name is obsolete. See note , on Cluain-Dabhail, under the year 1514. 'Elle Otherwise Elne or Magh Elne, was the

borders of the counties of Cavan, Longford, and

name"

of a district lying between the rivers

Bann

Meath.s

and Bush, in the present county of Antrim.

Loch n- Ailleann.;

Now Lough

Allen, in the

Lochmagh:

i.

e.

Plain of the Lake; the situauncertain.

county of Leitrim'

by some considered the true

tion of this lake

is

source of the Shannon.Foyle, an arm of the sea between the counties of Londonderry

"Cul-ard, in Magh-iniscale,b

In the barony of Lethe Corner or

Loch Feabhail.

Now Lough

county of Down.i.

Cuil-Fraechain:

e.

Angle of

and Donegal. It is stated in the Dinnseanchus and by Keating, that this lough took its name

the Bilberries ; not identified.c

Magh-Teacht.See A. M.

3656.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.p;

41s

n-Iairn

naught

;

Loch Ce q in Connaught; Loch Saileann Loch n-Ailleann in ConLoch Feabhail'; Loch Gabhair"; Dubhloch"; and Loch DabhalF, in,

r

;

,

Oirghialla.

The Age

of the World, 3656.

This was the seventeenth year above three

It was by him the following batscore of Tighearnmas, as king over Ireland. tles were gained over the race of Emhear, and others of the Irish, and foreigners

besides.

These were the;

battles

:

the battle of Elle y in which,

fell

Rochorb,

son of Gollanof Gollan;

the battle of

z

Lochmagh1,

,

in

which;

fell

Dagairne, son of Goll, son;

the battle of Cul-ardc;

in

Magh-inis

the battle of Cuil Fraechanbd;

the battle of Commar the battle of Cul-Athguirte the battle of Magh-techt f the battle of Ard-Niadh in Connaught in Seirnhne the battle of Carn,

;

,

;

Fearadhaigh

E,

in

which

fellis1

whom

Carn-Fearadhaigh1

Fearadha_ch, son of Rochorb, son of Gollan, from h the battle of Cnamh-choill in Connaught; called;

,

the battle of Cuil-Feadha

Tuath-Eabha

;

the battle ofReabh"; the battle of Congnaidhe, in the battle of Cluain-Cuas m in Teathbha the battle of Cluain; ,

;

Muirsge", in Breifnethe battle of Berrad q;

;

the two battles of Cuil

,

in Argat-Rossr;

;

the battle of Ele p

;

seven battles at Loch LughdhachThere are countThis was someis

two otherit

battles at

Commar

Notthe

identified.

place of this name, butfied

has not been identi-

less places of'

name

in Ireland.

Cul-Athguirt, in Seimhne.

by any of our writers. k Beabh. Unknown.Congnaidh, in Tuath-Eabha

where near Island Magee, but the nameobsolete.'

nowis

Tuath-Eabhaandis

now

called Machaire-Eabha,

situated

Ard-Niadh

:

i.

e.

Hill of the

Hero

;

not

at the foot of Binbulbin, in the

barony of Car-

identified.

bery, and county of10

Sligo.

Carn-Feradhaigh: i. e. Fearadhach's Cam or This is referred to in the Sepulchral Heap.*

Cluan-cuas:

i.

e.

the Plain of the Caves,

now

Cloncoose, in the

Book of Lecan,

fol.

204, as on the southernIt

Longford.i.

barony of Granard, county of See Inquisitions, Lagenia, Longford,

boundary of the territory of Cliu-Mail.

was

Jac.n

I.

probably the ancient name of Seefin, in the barony of Coshlea, in the south of the county ofLimerick."

Cluain-Muirsge.

Not

identified.

Cuil, in Argat-Ross.

Now

Coole, in the pa-

rish of Bathbeagh,i.

on the Nore, county Kilkenny.

Cnamh-choill :

e.

Wood

of the Bones. This

p

Eile

Not

identified.

There are several

was probably the ancient name of a wood in the district of Cuil-Cnamha, in the east of the barony of Tireragh, and county of Sligo. There were

places of theq

name

in Ireland.

Bern.

Probably Beare, in the county of

Cork.'

two other places of1

thise.

name

in Munster.

Loch Lughdach

Corner or Angle of the Cuil-feadha Wood. St. Columbkille fought a battle at a: i.

Corrane lough, in

Loch Luigheach, or the barony of Iveragh, and

Now

county of Kerry.

42bach, Da caroil)i

dNNCita Rioshachca eiReanRnQpjao Rop,cpi

[3657

cacha pop piopa bolg, cac Cuile pobaipi

pop Gpna.poicpib Qipchip Cualann pooup bfpb Qp laip po curhoaijic Lippe. Uchaoan cfpo opfpoib Oap^ac in nGpmn ap cup. dp laip cugab puamnab bpfcnappa t>op cuipn uaine. Qp na pfimiup cobpuchcab cfopa pop eooishib, copcaip, jopm, i noub aibnfoli Gpeann, pubna, Uopann,-] Callann, a nanmanna. Qbpoipcfno

Op

la Uijfpnmup tieop po bfpbab op ap cup

nGpmn,

i

-]

-|

na bliabna poacbailpiorh-, 50 cfopaib cfrpamnaib pfp nGpeann ime, mopbail TTlaije Slechc, ipm mbpfipne, 05 abpab DoCpom Cpoach, aipoiobal abapcha Do na pleaccanaib DO Gpfnn eipibe, oioche hSariina Do hponpab innpin. C(pi

an majh. ponpac pip Gpionn im Uijfpnniap hipuibe po haimnmjeab Qoip Domain, cpi mile pe cfo caojacc a peachc. Qn cCo bliabain

oGpino ^an pij lap cCijfpnmapQoip Domain,cpi mile

innpin.

pe cfo pfpccac a cpi. Qn peachcmab bliabain 6aoi 6pe jan pfj ppi pe na pfchc mbliaban pin. inopin. Qoip Domain, cpi mile pe cfo peapccac a cfraip. Qn ceao bliabain

oGochaib Guojabach na pij 6p Gpinn

inopin.

Qp

aipe acbfpap Gochaibi

Guojabach ppip ap ap laipcuccab ilbpfchcpab jaca oacas

neoijib ap cup

Cuil-Fobhair

This was the name of a place

iu the district of Muintir-Fathaigh, otherwisecalled Dealbhna-Cuile-Fabhair,

on the east side

silver pinns to put in men's and women's garments about their necks; and also he was the first that ever found" [i. e. invented]

make gold and

of

Lough'

Corrib, in the county of Galway.

Foithre-Airthir-Liffe.

Keating

calls

the

" the " coloured clothes in dyeing of" [parti-] Ireland." that Tighearnmas was Keating says thefirst Irish

place Fotharta-Oirer Life, but the true reading is Fotharta-Airthir-Life, i. e. the Territory of

king who established the custom

Fotharta, to the east of the River Life.

For

of distinguishing the rank of his subjects by different colours in their dress, as one colourin the

the situation of the seven Fothartas, see Ogygia,partcaluiii. c.

garment of a

slave,

two colours in the

64, and

Duald Mac Firbis's genealogi-

work (Marquis of Drogheda's copy, p. 139). Feara- Cualann. See A. M. 3501. * Goblets and brooches. In Mageoghegan's

garment of a peasant, three in that of a soldier, four in that of a brughaidh or public victualler, five

in that of the chieftain of a territory,(chief professor)

and

six in that of the ollav

Annals of Clonmacnoise, the following notices are given under the reign of " He was the first who caused Tighernmas:translation of the

and in those of kings and Queens. Nearly the same account is given in the Book of Leean, fol. 290, a, a; and in H. 2. 18, Trin. Coll. Dub.;

standing cuppes to be made, the refining of gould and silver, and procured his Goldsmith

which

latter

manuscript adds that

all

these

(named Ugden), that dwelt near the

Liffie,

to

colours were then used in the bishop's dress, The Four Masters ascribe the establishment of

3657-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.;

43!,

Argat-RossIt

three battles against the Firbolgs

;

the battle of Cuil-Fobhair

against the Ernai.

was by Tighearnmas[Itit.

also

that gold

was

first

smelted in Ireland, inFeara-Cualann",

Foithre-Airthir-Lifie'.

was] Uchadan, an

artificer of the

was by him that goblets and brooches" were first covered with gold and silver in Ireland. It was by him that clothes were dyed It was in his reign the three black rivers of Ireland purple, blue, and green.that smeltedIt

burst forth,

Fubhnax Torann y and Callann 2, ,

,

their names.

At

the end of this

year he died, with the three-fourths of the men of Ireland about him, at the meeting of Magh-Slecht", in Breifne, at the worshipping of Crom Cruach, which

was the chief idol of adoration in Ireland.

This happened on the night of

was from the genuflections which the men of Ireland made about Tighearnmas here that the plain was named.Samhainprecisely.It

b

This was the first year of Ireland without death of] Tighearnmas. a king, after [the The Age of the World, 3663. This was the seventh year. Ireland was without a king during the period of these seven years.the World, 3657.

The Age of

The Age

of the World, 3664.

ghadhach, as king over Ireland. He it was by him the variety of colour wasthese colours to Eochaidh Eadghadhach.

year of Eochaidh Eadwas called Eochaidh Eadghadhach becausefirst

This was the

first

put on clothes in Ireland, to

dis-

stood near a river called Gathard, and St. Pa1

Fubhna, now most probably the in Tyrone See A. D. 1516.7

1

Una

River,

trick erected a church called

Domhnachmor,place.

in the

immediate vicinity of thelib. ii.c.

See

Torann.

Unknown. There is a Touro River

Vita Tripart.,

31.

According to the

near Youghal. 1 Callann*

Now

the River Gallon,

in the

Dinnsenchus, this was the principal idol of all the colonies that settled in Ireland from theearliest period to the

county of Armagh.Magh-Sleacht.excidii

time ofit

St. Patrick,

and

This

is

translated campus

by Dr. O'Conor, but more correctly, campus adorationis, by Colgan. Trias Thaum., This was the name of a plain in the p. 133.barony of Tullyhaw and county of Cavan. The

they were wont to offer to animals, and other offeringsb

the firstlings of See Rerun Hiberi.

nicarum Scriptores, Prolegomena, partisis

p. 22.

The eve of All- Hallows Night of Samhain so called by the Irish at the present day. Itcompoundedc

Meg-Shamhradhain, now Ballymagauran, and the island of Port, are menvillage of Baile

of

fam, summer, and pum,Dr. O'Conor translates this

end.Genuflections.

tioned as situated in this plain.

See note on "

Baile-Mheg-Shamhradhain, under A. D. 1431.

Crom Cruach,

the chief idol of the Pagan Irish,

propter excidium quod passi sunt viri Hibernise ;" but this is evidently erroneous.

G2

44i

CINNCKXI Rio^hachca

emeawN.

[3667.

aoin ap a foach, oca fpeal 50 huapal. nGpinn, DeiDipOeliujab onopa gac aoo i nfooijib Op amlaib Din po Debg fccoppa, aenDac nfooijib mogab,i

amopp, a cpi

i

neooijhib oajlaoch

~\

oiscijfpnab, a cearaipi

i

nfooijib bpujab,i

a

cuig

i

a pe nfooijib cijeapnab cuach,cfo cpi mile pe

neooijib ollarhan,

a pfchc

neDoijib

pioj 1 pfojhan.

bliabam pfpccac a peachc. Qn cfcpamab DGochaib. hi bpoipcfno an cfcpamab bliabain Dia pije DO pocaip la Cfpmna mac Gbpic ccach Uearhpa. a hochc. Ctn cfo bliabain Do Qoip Domain, cpi mile pe cfo peapccac mac Gbpic, mic 6mip, mic Ip, mic TTlileab, Sobaipce i DO Cfpmna pionD, Da ruaich i nOun Sobaipce, op Gpinn, i po pannpac.eacoppa ap Do, Sobaipce reap nOun Cfpmna. Oa ceopi'j Gpeann Do Sliocc Ip laopiDe.Qoip Domain,i i

-j

Cfpmna

i

Qoip Domain, cpi mile peachc ccfo a peachc. Ctp mbfin cfcpachac blia&ain DO na piojhaib pi a ccomplaiciup op Gpinn, Do cheap Sobaipce la Do pochaip Cfpmna la hGochaib bpaobapliGochaib TTleanD opomoipib,-\

glap

mac Conmaoil.

,

Qoip Domain, cpi mile peachc cceD a hochc.

Qn

ceo bliabam oGochaib

paobapglap, mac Conmail, mic Gmip, op Gpinn. Qoip Domain, cpi mile peachc cceo piche a peace, lap mbfic imoppo DGochaiD piche bliabam pije Gpeann copchaip la piacha Cabpainnei i

QciaD anopo na caca po cuipiD na noiojoil a achap. maije po pleaccaio la hGochaiD ppaobapglap. Cach Luacpa OeabaD, each popaiD Da gopc, each Comaip cpi nuipcce, each Uuama Opeacon nUib bpium bpeippne, each Opoma Liacan. Qciacc na maije, TTlajh Smfccach Capmaini

~\

i

d

Dun-Sobhairce.

Now Dunseverick,

near the

Kingsborough's Sale Catalogue, where thelowing notice of this place occurs : "Places of note in this barony" [i. e."are,1.

fol-

Giants' Causeway, in the north of the county of

Antrim'

See A. M. 3501.i.

Gourde's]

Dun-Cearmna:

e.

Cearmna's Dun, or Fort,

Kingrone;

2.

Castle-ni-park and Rin-

Keating (Holiday's edition, p. 125) says that was called Dun-Mhic-Padruig, in his own It was the name of an old fort situated time.this

corran, &c.; 3.

The Old Head

of Kinsale, a

noted promontory anciently called Dun-Cermna, or Down-Cermna, from Cearmna, King of halfIreland, who, upon the division of the kingdome between him and Sovarcy, came hither and

on the Old Head of Kinsale, a famous promonSee tory in the south of the county of CorkO'Brien's Irish Dictionary, in voce

Dun-Cearmna

;

built his royal seat,

and

called it after his

own

and Carbria

manuscript, written in 1686, which formed No. 591 of the late Lord

Notitia, a

name.

Of

later years it

was

called

Down

m

c

Patrick."

3667-3

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

45

tinguish the honour of each by his raiment, from the lowest to the highest. Thus was the distinction made between them one colour in the clothes of slaves ;:

two

in the clothes of soldiers;

lords of territories

three in the clothes of goodly heroes, or young six in the clothes of ollavs seven in the clothes of kings; ;

and queens.

The Age

of the World, 3667.

Thefell

of the fourth year of his reign, he

fourth year of Eochaidh. At the end by Cearmna, son of Ebric, in the battle

year of [the joint reign of] Sobhairce and Cearmna Finn, the two sons of Ebric, son of Emher, son of Ir, sonfirst

of Teamhair [Tara]. The Age of the World, 3668.

The

of Milidh, over Ireland

Sobhairce [resided] inat

and they divided it between them into two parts the north, atDun-Sobhairce d and Cearmna in the south,; :

;

Dun-Cearmnae

.

These were the

first

The Age

of the World, 3707.

kings of Ireland of the race of Ir. After these kings had been forty years in

by Eochaidh Meann, of the Fomorians by Eochaidh Faebharghlas, son of Conmael. The Age of the World, 3708. The first year of Eochaidh Faebhar-ghlas, son of Conmael, son of Emhear, over Ireland. The Age of the World, 3727. After Eochaidh had been twenty years in thethe joint sovereignty of Ireland, Sobhairce;

was

slain

and Cearmna

fell

sovereignty of Ireland, he was slain by FiachaLabhrainne, in the battle of Carman [Wexford],in revenge of his father. These were the battles that were fought, andthe plains that were cleared,

by Eochaidh Faebharghlasg;

:

the battle of Luachair11

the battle of Comar-tri-nUisge the battle of Tuaim-Drecon', in Ui-Briuin-Breifne ; the battle of Druim-Liathain".;

Deadhadl/ the

battle of Fosadh-da-ghort

;

These are the plains

1

:

Magh-Smeathrach

,

in Ui-Failghe

;

Magh-n-Aidhne

m,

'

Luachair-Deadhadh

Now

Sliabh-Luachra,

on the borders of the counties of Cavan and

anglice Slieve Loughra, near Castleisland, in the county of Kerry.1

Fermanagh,k

Druim-Liaihain

This

is

probably intendedor

Fosadh-da-ghort

The Habitationi.

of the

for Druim-leathan,lane, in the

now Drumlahan,Not

Drum-

two

Fields.

Note.

identified.e.

county of Cavan.identified.

Comar-tri-nUisge:

the Meeting of the

'

Magh-Smeathrach

Three Waters,1

i.

of the rivers Suir, Nore, and

m

Magh-n-Aidhne

A

level

district in the.

Barrow, near Waterford.

Tuaim-Drecon:

of Brecon,

i. e. the mount or tumulus now Toomregan, near Ballyconnell,

present county of Galway, all comprised in the diocese of Kilmacduagh. Keating reads Magh-

Laighne.

46

aNNdta Rioshachca eiReaNRi

[3728.

Connachraib, TTla 5 h a 5 "Cbone, TTlaj Luipg epoch la hUib ppailje, h Da 5 abop la hdipjmllaib. Leamna, TTla 5 h nlmp, Tlla 5 h pubna, TTla 5 Qn ceo bliaDam DO ccfo piche a hochc. mile Domain,-]

Uoip

cpi

pfchc

pije piachac tabpainne op Gpmn inopin. caoccac a haon. doip Domain, cpi mile peachc cceo-]

bliaoam picic po poipcfno pije piachac Labpainne, mumo Don TTlumom ccac bealgaDain. dp lap an bpiacha tabpainne pi Cach ^aclaije ccopcaip TTlopebip mac 6acpo bpipeaD na cara po. Dach paobapjlaip, each paippje pop cloinn Grhip, each Slebe pfimin, each an bail puil Loch Gpne. lap meabpain an caca ppf hGpnoib opfpoib bolj conao uaca ainmnijcep an loch poppa ap ann po meab'aiD an loch caippib, na cceopa .1. loch cap Gpnaib. dp a pfimiupan piachacfona cobpuchcab ITlano, naibneaD, Labpano, Dia po 111 an popainm paippium.i

cfrparhab Do cfp la hGochaib

Qn

i

i

-| pleapc, Domain, cpi mile pfcc cceo caosac a Do. Qoip

Qn

ceo bliaDam DO pfje

Gachoac

TTlopebip, op Gpinn inDpin. bliaDam ap mile peachc cceD peachcmojac a DO. Qoip Domain, cpi ccac pichic DGochaiD pije nGpeann, co ccopcaip la hGonjup Olmucaba

TTlumo,

mac

i

i

Cliach.n

Magh-Luirg.

Now

the plains of Boyle, in

in

Tyrone'

flows.i.

the county of Koscommon.

Magh-da-ghabhar :Goats.

e.

the Plain of the

Two

"Magh-Leamhna. and otherwise called Closach, in the time ofColgan,

This plain was well known, "

who

describes

it

as

Eegio campestris

Tironiae Diocesis Clocharensis vulgoaliis

Mag-Lemna

Magh-da-ghabhal, i- e. Forks," which is probably the correct form. See Magh-da-ghabhal under the year 1011.Keating" the Plain of the

calls it

Two

Clossach dicta."

It is

shewn on an old

s

Bealgadan.

Now

Bulgadan, a townland in

Map of Ulster, preserved in the State Papers' " the Countrie of Cormac Office, London, asMac Barone"[O'Neill].

the parish of Kilbreedy Major, near Kilmallock,in the'

county of Limerick.

The

fort of

Augher

Gathlach.

NowNot

probably Gayly, in the ba-

and the village of Ballygawley are representedas in this district, the

rony of Iraghticonor, county of Kerry.u

on

its

town of Clogher being western, and the church of Errigal-Keeits

Fairrge

identified.i. e.

w

Sliabh Feimhin:

the mountain of Feim-

roge on'

northern boundary, and the Riverit.

Blackwater flowing throughMagh-n-Inir.Nionair.'

hin, a territory comprised in the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the county of Tipperary. This

Called

by Keating Magh-

mountainpionn,i.

is

now

locally called SliaB

na m-ban

Now unknown.

e.

the Mountain of the Fair

Women,

Magh-Fubhna: i. e. the plain of the River Fubhna. This was probably the ancient name of the district through which the River Oona

evidently a corruption of SUab na mban Peirheann, i. e. the Mountain of the Women

which

is

of Feimhin

See Leabharnag-Ceart,

p. 18.

Ac-

3728.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.p, ;

4?

Magh-Luirg", in Connaught Magh-Leamhna r and Magh-da-ghabhar in Oirghialla.,

Magh-n-Inir

,

Magh-Fubhna

q,

The AgeThe Age

of the World, 3728.

This was the

first

year of the reign of

Fiacha Labhrainne over Ireland.

This was the twenty-fourth year, the termination of the reign of Fiacha Labhrainne and he fell by Eochaidh Mumho, It was by this Fiacha Labhrainne the of Munster, in the battle of Bealgadan'. the battle of Gathlach', in which fell Mofebis, following battles were gainedof the World, 3751.;:

son of Eochaidh Faebharghlas; the battle of Fairrge", against the race of Emhear; the battle of Sliabh Feimhin"; a battle against the Ernai, [a sept] of the Firbolgs,

After the battle was gained from [on the plain] where Loch Erne" [now] is. them, the lake flowed over them, so that it was from them the lake is named,that"is,

a lake over the Ernai."

It

wasfirst

in the reign of the

same Fiacha that,

the springing of these three rivers

took place, [namely], the Fleasc 1 the

Mandz and,

the Labhrann", from

which

[last] the surname [Labhrainne] clung

to him.

The Age of the World, 3752. This was the first year of the feign of Eochaidh Mumho, son of Mofebis, over Ireland. The Age of the World, 3772. Twenty-one years was Eochaidh in the sovereignty of Ireland, when he fell by Aengus Olmucadha, son of Fiacha Labhrainne, in the battle of Cliachb.

cording to a local legend, the women of this mountain were enchanted beauties, who were

*

The Labhrann.

The

genitive form

is

6a-

bpainne or 6aBpmnne.of Ireland,calls this

Keating, in his History

contemporary with Finn Mac Cumhaill, thechief of the Irish militia in the third century. 1 Loch-Erne: i. e. Lough Erne, in the county

InBeap tuBpuinne, which 325) anglicises "theLarne;" but 'Haliday (p. this is incorrect, because the Lame (in thecounty of Antrim) is called, in Irish, Latharna. We have no direct evidence to prove the situation or modern name of the Labhrann. Thecalled Sabhrann.

The same account of the eruption given in the Leabhar-Gabhala, and by Duald Mac Firbis (Marquis of Drogheda'sFermanagh.of this lakeis

copy, p. 9.)Flesk, a river flowing through the barony of Magunihy, in the southeast of the county of Kerry.'

*

The Fleasc.

Now the

Eiver Lee, in the county of Cork, was originally But the Eiver Labhrann was

evidently in the same region with the Flesk and the Mang, and it may not be rash to conjecturethat it was the old name of the Casan-Ciarraighe, or Cashen River, in the county of Kerry,"

The Mand,

recte

Mang

Now

the Maine, a

river flowing through the barony of acmy, in the west of the samecalls it

TroughanKeating

county.

Cliach.A

InBeap

mum 5 e.

territory lying around

Knock-

any, in the

county of Limerick.

48

emeciNN.

[3773.

a cpi. Qn ceo bliabam fchc cceD Qoip Domain, cpi mile r j-fccmojac DO pije Qonjupa Olmucaba, mac PIOCO Latipamne, op Gpinn inpinn. ceo nocac. lap mbfic Ddengup OlmuChip Domain, cpi mile peachc ccach Capman la caba ochc mbliabna Decc inn aipopije Gpeann Do cfp hGnna nQipgreach. Qpe Qengup po bpip na caca po, each Clepe, each each cat Slebe ccpich Copca baipccinn,i

Cuipce,

Cuil^e pop TTlhaipcmei

i

each Caipn TCicfba, Ruip Ppaocam TTluipipcc copchaip ppaochan pdib, each Guile T?aca nOeapmurham, each SleBe Cua pop Gpna, each dipoamac Smeachpa, pi pomoipe, caoja cac pop Cpuicchaibi ii

copcaip Smiopjoll

caca pop fncuaici pop piopa bolg, Da each Dec pop LonjbapDaib, cficpe Qciac na locha po comaibmpeac ina pe, Coch aonbfichi la hUib Colaipc. na ngapan TTlaij Luipg la Connachcaib, -| Cperhcuinn, Loch Saileac, Loch-|i

Qp la hQonjup Ona po pleachcaD i l?op Cecce. TTlupbpuchc eioip na maije yo, TTlaj 5^ lnne t) ecori ^ a Cenel Conaill, TTlash TTlucpuime laGabaAengus Olmucadha: i. Swine See Ogygia, partc e.

Aengus27.

of the large

1

Cuil-Ratha:

i.

e.

Corner, or Angle of the

iii. c.

In Mageo-

FortI

ghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmac" Enos noise, the name of this king is anglicised

Sliabh Cua.

Now

SliabhGua, anglice Slieve

OUmujaio,def

Olmoye," and in Irish, in the margin, Qohjup i.e. Aengus the great Destroyer.

Gua, in the parish of Sheskinan, barony of Decies-without-Drum, and county of Waterford.

The morecalled

elevated part of this;

mountain

is

now

CarmannClere.

Now Wexford.Notidentified.

See A. M. 3727.

See A. M. 3579.

Cuirce

See

it

again men-

Cnoc Maeldomhnaigh but the whole range was originally called Sliabh Cua. m Ard-Achadh There are many places ofthis

tioned under A.s

M. 4981.Thereis

name

in Ireland,

nowis

anglicised Ardagh,

Sliabh- Cailge

no mountain in the

but that here referred toin theII

probably Ardagh,

territory of Corca-Bhaiscinn

now

bearing this

county of Longford.: i.

name.

It

appears from the Life of St. Senanus,

Cruithean-Tuath

e.

the nation or country

the territory of Corca-Bhaiscinn originally comprised the barony of Ibrickan, as well as those

of the Picts.

Moyarta and Clonderalaw, and it may, therefore, be well conjectured that Sliabh Cailge wasof

bards.

Longobardai : i. e. the Longobardi, or LomThis name was scarcely known to the

Irish at the period

we

are treating

of.

They

the ancient

name of Sliabh-Callain,

in the ba-

are mentioned

rony of Ibrickan. The only other elevation that could with propriety be called a mountain is

the

first

by Tacitus and by Suetonius in century, and by Prosper in the fourth,these,

and from

no doubt, the Irish writers

first

Moveen, in the barony of Moyarta. h Eos-Fraechan Rosreaghan, in the barony of Murresk, and county of Mayo. Carn-Riceadha Not identified.'

became acquainted with the name. It would appear from the lives of St. Patrick, that one of his nephews was of this tribe.p Colaisti.

Not

identified.

These

foreign

3773.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.This was thefirst

49

After Aengus Olmucadha had been eighd teen years in the sovereignty of Ireland, he fell in the battle of Carmann by,

The Age of the World, 3773. c Aengus Olmucadha over Ireland. The Age of the World, 3790.It

year of the reign of

Enna Airgtheach.battle of Clere6;

was Aengus

that gained the following battles.f; ,

The

the battle of Sliabh-Cailge g against the the battle of Ros-Fraechan", in Martini, in the territory of Corca-Bhaiscinn Muirisc, in which fell Fraechan, the prophet the battle of Carn-Rieeadha' the k the battle of Sliabh Cua against the battle of Cuil-ratha in South Munster m in which fell Ernai the battle of Ard-achadh Smiorgall, son of Smeathra, the Cruifchean-Tuath" and the Firof the Fomorians fifty battles against the battle of Cuirce; ; ;1

,

;

,

;

,

king

;

bolo-s

twelve battles against the Longbardai ; and four battles against the p These are the lakes which burst forth in his time Loch Aenbheithe Colaisti;11.

:

,

in

Ui-Cremhthainn;

;

Loch Saileach

r;

s

Loch-na-ngasan

,

in

Magh-Luirg, in Con11.

It was naught and the eruption of the sea between Eabha' and Ros-Cette w by Aengus also that these plains were cleared Magh-Glinne-Decon ,'in Cinel:

mentioned by name in MageogheAnnals of Clonmacnoise, " in which it is merely stated that strangers made many invasions in his time, but he coutribes are not

by Keating Loch Sailcheadain,

i.

e.

laws

saliceti.

gan's translation of the

Nots

identified.

Loch-na-nGasan:

i.

e.

Lake of the Sprigs orstrict

Sprays.

The Editor made

inquiry in the

ragiously withstood and drove them out to the cost of their bloods and lives, by giving them

territory of Moylurg, or barony of Boyle, in the county of Roscommon, for the name of this lake,

many bloodyfieldsq

overthrows, and covering diversthe Lake of the one

but found that

it is

obsolete.

Nothing has been

with heaps of their dead bodies."i.

Loch-Aenbheithe:

e.

yet discovered to identify it. This is otherwise called Magh Eabha, ^Eabha.

Birch Tree.

The

territory of

Ui-Creamhthainnbarony of Slane, p. 184, and O'Fla-

was known in the time of Colgan, who describesit

and now always Machaire- Eabha, anglice Magherow. See Magh-nEabha, under A. M. 2859u

as a regiuncula included in the

Ros-Cette.

This was the ancient? name of a

in

Meath

See Trias Thaum.,

iii. c. 76. The most conherty's Ogygia, part siderable lake now in this territory is Bellahoe

" the Rosses," lying point of land now called between the river of Sligo and that of Drumcliff,

in the

Lough, on the confines of the counties of Meath and Monaghan, and about four miles and a quarter to the south of the

Sligo.

It is separated

barony of Carbury, and county of from Machaire-Eabha by

town of Carrickmacross ;

the creek and river of Drumcliffe. " Called Magh-GlinneMagh-Glinne-Decon

and this'

is

probably the Loch Aenbheithe reCalled

ferred to in the text.

of acornseither

Dearcon by Keating, i. e. the plain of the valley but there is no place now bearing ;

Loch Saileach: Lake of the Sallows.

name

in Tirconnell.

H

50

QHNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.

[3791-

la taijne, Connacca, TTlaj Cuile caol la Cenel mfcojaine, TTlaj nOfnpciac Qolma 5 h la Calpaijib, TTlaj Qpcaill la Ciappaige Luachpa,-) TTlagh Luacpa Oeaohaib. ceo bliabam oGnna Qoip Domain, cpi rhfle pfchc cceo nocac a haon. Qn Qipjcech na pi op Gpinn mpin. ccaichfm pfcc Qoip Domain, cpi mile ochr cceo a pfcc oecc. lap

mblia&on ppicfc oGnna Qipgrfc pije Gpeann DO cfp la Roiceachcaij, mac each Raijne. CXp lap an Gnna Qipgcfc TTiaoin, mic Qonjupa OlmucaDa, amaille po DO ponra pcech aiji^ic nQipgfc Rop,5o ccapao Dpfpoib Gpeanni i

i

pe heachaib

i

Qoip Domain,Roicfceaij

caippchib. cpi mile ochr cceo a hochc Decc.TTiaoin op Gpinn inopin.cpi

Qn1

ceo bliabam DOppoipcfno cuicc

mac

Qoip Domain,Qipcpii

mile ochc cceo cfcpacac a Do.i

mbliaban ppicfc Do Roiceaccaij

pije

Gpeann

cojichaip. la

SeDna mac

cCpuacham.cpi mile

ochc cceo ceacpacac a cpi. Qn ceD bliaDain DO pfje Sheona, mic Qipcpi, mic Gbpic, mic Gmip, mic Ip. Qoip Domain, cpi mfle ochc cceo cfrpacac apeachc. lap mbfic cuicc la ITluineamon, bliabna DO Seona ipin pije, copchaip la piaca pionpcochac

Qoip Domain,

-\

mac Caip Clochaij,

i

cCpuacham.

Qoip Domain, cpi mile ochc cceo ceacpacac a hocc.

Qn

ceo bliaDain

DO pfje piachac pionpcochaij op Gpinn. Qoip Domain, cpi mile ochc cceo peapccac a pfcc. lap mbeic opiachaiD pionpcochac piche bliabain pije Gpionn Do cfp la TTluineamon mac Caip.i 1

Magh-Mucruimhe

: i.

e.

the Plain of the Eec-

*

Aelmhagh:are not told in

i.

e.

the Plain of the Lime.

We

koning of the Swine. This

name

is

now

obsolete,

It was anAently applied to a plain in the county of Galway, lying immediately to the west of the town of Athenry. See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part ni. c. 67"

Ireland called

which of the many districts in Calraighe, this plain was situated,

in this plain a"

According to O'Clery's Irish Calendar, there was church called Domhnach-mor, inMagh-Arcaill, in Ciarraiffhe-Luachra is not now applied to any plain in

which seven bishops were interred.ThisKerry,

Magh-Cuile-Cad: the Corner or Angle.

i.

e.

the Narrow Plain of

This was the name of a

name

narrow plain in the barony of Banagh, in the west of the county of Donegal.Magh-n-Oensciath, in Leinster.fiedpiachai6 pionnailcfp mac e oe Ollgocliaij.

5

lap mbeir piche bliabain pie Gpionn, copchaip ccarh bpfgha la bfpnjal,' Qp la piacha pionnailcfp corpoDachr Oiin Chuile

a haon.

i

Cfnanoup. ^ac Du ina mbiooh a apup pom ba CeananDup a amm. Ctp lap an pijpi cfrup po rocailre calom nGpinn Do cum uipcce Do beich hi cuppaib. 6a Deacmaic Don connall a ioch Diompulang ina plair.Sibpinne.1.i

Ctoip Domain, rpi mile naoijal,

cceo nocac a

Do.

Qn

ceo blia&am Do bfpn-

mac ^e6e Ollgorhai j, op 6pmn.i

Qoip Domain, cfcpe mi'le a rpi. lap mbeich Da bliaoain Decc pije n6peann DO bfpnjal mac 5 e 6 e Ollgochaij Do cfp la hOilill mac Slanuill,"]

la Siopna

mac Oen.

Ctoip Domain, cffpe mile a cfcaip.

Qn

ceo blia&am Do

pijje Oiliolla,

mic Slanuill, op

Gpmo

mnpin.

Qoip Domain, cfrpe mfle anaoi Decc.

lap mbeic pe blia&na Decc DOilioll,

mac

Slanuill, hi

pije nGpeann, copchaip la Siopna

mac Oen.Siopna mac Den, mac Oen, po pcap

Qoip Domain, ceafpe mile pice.mic Oemain,hi

Qn ceo Bliabam Do

pije

nGpeann

innpin..1.

Qpi

e an Siopna pa,

plaiciup Cearhpa ppi hUllcoib

ppi pliocc Ip.

Qp

6

Dna po oiojail poppa

Rocfchcaij mac maoin po mapbpac cCpuachain, 50 rcopcaip bfpngal mac 5e6e Ollgochaij, Oilioll mac Slanoill leip.-|

monarchs themselves from the loudness of their own voices, and not from the sweetness or mellifluousness of the voices of their subjects.11

Kells, a town in" East Meath. The former name denotes arx anguli adukerii ; and Ma-

geoghegan, in his translation of the Annals ofClonmacnoise, says ofit:

The term ce.nopiono, now pronounced ceannann, is still in common use,and applied to whatfacedisi.

i

Calf: literally White-headed.

cow

:

05

.1.

bo

Q'Clery.

founded Dun-Cowle Sevrille (or rather Dun-Chuile Sibhrinne), now called (foravoidingof bawdiness) Kells."

"

He

commonlye.

called a white-

The

latter

cow or

name, Cean-

horse,

having a star or whitei.e.

annus, was

spot on the forehead.

'Dun-Chuile-Sibrinne:

Ceanannus, now

first anglicised Kenlis, which is now translated Headfort, in the name of the seat of the present proprietor. There is no other place

3972.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.;

57

the sovereignty of Ireland

and he

fell at

the end of that time by Fiacha, son

of Finnachta.

The Age

of the World, 3972.

The

first

year of Fiacha Finnailches, son

of Finnachta, in the sovereignty of Ireland. forth iri his reign was white-headed*.

Every

calf* that

was brought

After Fiacha Finnailches had been twenty of Ireland, he fell in the battle of Breagh, by Bearnyears in the sovereignty son of Gedhe Ollghothach. It was by Fiacha Finnailches that Dun-chuile-

The Age

of the World, 3991.

ghal,

Ceanannus, was erected. Wherever his habitation was [placed], Ceanannus was its name. It was by this king that the earth was first dug in 3 It was difficult for the stalk to sustain Ireland, that water might be in wells.Sibrinne,

z

i.

e.

its

corn in his reign. The Age of the World, 3992.

The

first

year [of the reign] of Bearnghal,

Gedhe Ollghothach, over Ireland. The Age of the World, 4003. Bearnghal, the son of Gedhe Ollghothach, after having been twelve years in the sovereignty of Ireland, fell by Oilioll, sonson ofof Slanoll, and Sirna, son of Dian.

The AgeOilioll,

of the

World, 4004.

This was the

first

year of the reign of

son of Slanoll, over Ireland. The Age of the World, 4019. Oilioll, son of Slanoll, after having been sixteen years in the sovereignty of Ireland, fell by Sirna, son of Dian.

The Age

of the World, 4020.

This was the

first

year of the reign ofIt

Sirna, son of Dian, son of

Deman,It

in the sovereignty of Ireland.

was

this

Sirna, son of Dian, that wrested the

Ulta

b,

i.

e.

the race of

Ir.

government of Teamhair [Tara] from the was he, too, that revenged upon them [the deathat

of] Roitheachtaigh mac Main, whom they had slain Bearnghal, son of Gedhe Ollghothach, and Oilioll, son

Cruachainfell

;

so that

of Slanoll,

by him.

now bearing1

this

name in

Ireland, except Cean-

annus, or Kells, in the county of Kilkenny.

The

stalk.

This word, connall,

is still

used

to denote stalk,

and comnleac or connlac, stalks

talitas in ejus regimine," in which he mistakes the meaning of every -word except ma plair. b The Ulta: i. e. the people of Ulster, descended from Ir, son of Milesius. " Oilell was king 15

or stubbles. Dr. O'Conor, who is more apt to miss the meanings of Irish words that are in common use than of ancient words, translates this sentenceas follows:

years,

and then was

slain

by Siorna Mac Deyn

(of the sept of Heremon), who was he that violently took the government of the sceptre ofthis land

"Portentosa erat

pestilentise

mor-

from the sept of Ulster."

Ann.

Clon.

58

awNQta Rio^hachca eiReaNN.

[4169-

ceo pfpcac a naoi. lap mbeic ceo 50 Ifich DO Qoip Domain, cecpe mile mac Oein, Do ceap Id Roceachbliaonaib pijhe nGpeann Do Siopna Saojlac, e an Siopna po po bpip car Qipceatcpa Roam nQillmn.i

caij

nQppal, each mona each Luacpa, each Claipe, poichnifrld hUib Pailje FP Hlaipcme 1 Gpna, TTliDe. each Samna, each Cnuicc Ochoip. 801516 Do pop pomoipib hi ccpich hi cCiannaccaib an can cug dp laip beop po cuipeaD cac TTlona UpojaiDe ima pigh, Lujaip mac Luijoij .1. Do piol Gmip, poplfon opomoipib nGpinn a ainm. CtccaipgiD Siopna pip Gpeann DO chachugaD ppiii 50SleBe Qipbpeacli, car pop Ulcaib, od cac

mac

i

dp

Cmn

Duin

i

i

Ceapapn

TTlom Upojaioe.

Re mbeic 05-|

Do puipmfb plaiDe an caca Doib-\

cam

popP".

conapaD tujaip,amailli ppiu.

Ceapapn De conamuincip,

opong Dipim opfpoib Gpeanni

a raimpip Siopna ona cobpuchcab Sciopcaije Laijmb, Ooailce hi TTlumain -| Slaine la TTnaijh TTluipcemne, Leamna Cpic Roipp, Niche hUib Cpemcamn. Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile ceo peachcmojac. Qn ceo bliaDain Do pije

Qp

i

i

Roceachcaij, mic Roam, opc

Gpmn

innpin.k

Aittinn

This was the ancienthill of

large fort on the

name of a Cnoc Qilmne, anglice

Samhain

Now

Cnoc-Samhna,

i.e.

the

hill

of Samhain, not far from Bruree, in the parish of Tankardstown, barony of Coshma, and county See Life of St. Fionnchu in the of Limerick

Kildarelymote,

Knockaulin, near Kilcullen, in the county of See Dinnsenchus, in the Book of Balfol.

193.

Book of Lismore,O'Flahertycalls it

fol.

70,

b.

d Airceattairtair,

Aras-Kel-

'

Cnoc-Ochair

Not

identified,

which was one of the names of the large rath at Downpatrick, in the county of Down.* f

Sliabh-Airbhreach

Not

identified.

Moin-Trogaidhe: i. e. the Bog of Trogaidhe. This was probably situated in CiannachtaBreagh, in the east of the ancient Meath,

m

Ceann-duin in Assaldistrict lying

Assal was the ancient

and not in the northern Ciannachta, in thepresent county of Londonderry. length of this monarch's reign

name of the

round Cnoc-DromaGroom,in the

Theis

great

Assail, anglice Tory-Hill, near

evidently

county of Limerick ; but no name like Ceannduin is now to be found in that neighbourhood.

legendary, or rather a blunder of transcribers, O'Flaherty, Ogygia, part m. c. 32, refers to the

There is no Moin-Foichnigh in Ui-Failghe bog now bearing this name in the territory ofOffaly.h

Book

of Lecan,

fol.

291, to shew that he lived

150 years, for which reason he was called theLong-lived.

The Annals

of Clonmacnoise, as

Luachair:

i.

e.

Sliabh Luachra, near Castle-

translated

island, in the1

Claire

A

county of Kerry. lull near Duntrileague, in theSee note under A. D. 1600.

lowing notice of

by Mageoghegan, in which the folhim occurs, give him a reign:

of only twenty years

county of Limerick

" Oilell was king

1

5 years, and then was slain

4169.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.of the World, 4169.

59

Sirna Saeghlach, son of Dian, after having been a century and a half in the sovereignty of Ireland fell by RoitheachThis was the Sirna who gained the battle of taigh, son of Roan, at Aillinn

The Age

.

Aircealtair" over the Ultoniansbattle of Ceann-duin, in Assalf;

;

the

two

battles

6 of Sliabh Airbhreach

;

the,

over the Martini and Ernai

;

the battle of Moin-Foichnigh, in Ui Failghe 8 the battle of Luachair"; the battle of Claire' the;

battle of Samhain"; the battle of

Cnoc-Ochairm

1 .

AnIt

on the Fomorians,

in the territory of Meath.,

was made by him was by him, moreover, wasattack

in Ciannachta, when Lughair, son of fought the battle of Moin-Troghaidhe Lughaidh, of the race of Emhear, had brought in a force of Fomorians into Sirna drew the men of Ireland Ireland, with their king, Ceasarn by name. to

make

battle against

them

to Moin-Trogaidhe.

As

they were fighting the

battle a plague

with theirthem.It

was sent upon them, of which Lughair and Ceasarn perished, people, and a countless number of the men of Ireland along withSirna, also,

was in the time of;

happened the eruption of the;

Scirtach", in;

Leinsterof the

of the Doailt,

,

in Crich Rois;

of the Kith", in Magh-MuirtheimhneSlaine, in

Leamhainq

in

Munster

and of the

Ui Creamhthainn r

.

The Age

of the World, 4170.

This was the

first

year of the reign of Roi-

theachtaigh, son of Roan, over Ireland.

by Siorna mac Deyn of the

who was heof Ulster.

sept of Heremon, that violently took the governthis land

years together /before he was King, and that" " [he fought] only against the Ulstermen."n

ment of the sceptre ofSiorna,himself, inin to

from the septKing,

after

slaying this

The Scirtach: i. e. the Eiver Skirt. The Doailt, in Feara-Rois. A stream

in the

was King

whose time Lowgire mac

Lowagh brought King Siorna wentTrogyein

Fomoraghs into Ireland. meet them at the Bog ofall

south of Monaghan. p Nith. This was the ancient name of theriver of Ardee, flowing through the plain of Conaille Muirtheimhne, in the county of Louth.

Kyannaghta, with

the forces of

the kingdom, where a cruel battel was fought between them with such vehemency that almost

See Combat of Cuchulainn and Ferdia mac

Domain.q

both sides perished therein with overlabouring themselves, and especially the Irish nation withtheir King.

The Leamhain.in the

Now

the Laune, near Kil-

larney,'

county of Kerry.

See note un-

Also Lowgyre and Kisarne, King Others write of the Fomoraghs, were slain.that King Siorna was slain

der A. D. 1570.

The

Slaine, in

Ui-Creamhthainn

This was

by Rohaghty mac

the

name of

a small stream flowing into theside,

Eoayn, when he had reigned 21 years. It is also reported of him that he lived an outlaw 100

Boyne from the northBaile-Slaine,

near the village of

now

Slane, in Meath.

i2

go

aNNdta Rioshachca

eirceaNN.pe.

[4176.

lap mbec peachc mbliabna hi pighe nGpeann DO Roceachcaig, po loipcc ceni jealam 6 hi nDun Sobaipce. Op lap an Roceachcaij po appichc cappaic ceicpe nfch

a Qoip Domain, ceirpe mile ceo peachcmoj;ac

ap cup

i

nGpinn.

Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile ceo peachcmo^ac apfchc.

Gn bliabam DGlim

hi pfje nGpeann, 50 copchaip i ppoipcfno Oillpinpneachca, mac Roceachcaij, na bliabna pin la 5' a ^ cliai 6. mac Oiliolla Olcaoin. T?o peapab pneachca

mop

50 mblap pfona ipm mbliabainpi.

Ctp aipe po gaipcf Oillpinpneachca

oepium.

Qoip Domain, ceirpe mile ceo pfchcmojac a hochc. Qn ceo bliaDam DO 5' a llc ^ aiD ^ ac Oiliolla Olcaoin, mic Sfopna, pije nGpeann. lap mbech naoi Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile ceo ochcmojac a pe.i)

mbliabna DO ^mllchaiDTTluaiDe.

i

pighe nGpeann Do pochaip la

hQpc Imleachceo bliaoain

i

ffloij

Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile ceo ochcmojac a pfcc. Imleach, mac Glim Oillpinpneachca, pije nGpeannii

Qn

oQpc

innpin.

Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile ceD nochac a hochc. lap mbeic Da bliaoain Decc oQpc Imleac pije nGpeann Do cfp la NuaDac pionnpdil. Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile ceD nocac a naoi. Qn ceiD bliaDam DO pije'

Nua&aiD pmnpdil op Gpinn innpin. Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile Da ceo cpiocac a hochc. lap mbeic Da pichfc bliabam hi pije nGpeann Do NuaDa pionnpdil Do cfp la 6peap, mac QipcImlij.

Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile Da ceo cpiocac a naoi. Qn ceo bliaDam Do pije 6peip mic Qipc Imlig op Gpinn innpin. Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile Da ceo cfcpacac a peachc. lap mbeic naoi mbliabna DO bpeap la hGochaiD hi pije nGpeann Doi

pochaip

nQpcach

Capn Conlnam.Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile Da ceo cfrpacac a hochc.'

Gn bliabam

"

[Irish] king that ever used coaches with four horses

Chariots." Roheaghty was the first"

t

EUm

great Wine-snow!it

Qaifinshneackla: literally, Elim of the " He was so called because

in Ireland.last,

He

reigned seven years, and, atfire at

rained

He

was burned by wilde was a very good king."

Dunsovarkie.Clon.

of Clonmacnoise.

snow continually that year." Annals Both derivations are mere

Annals of

guesses of late writers.

4176.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.the World, 4176.

61

The Age ofverick].It

After Roitheachtaigh had been seven years

in the sovereignty of Ireland, lightning

was by

this

Dun-Sobhairce [DunseRoitheachtaigh that chariots of four horses were firstat5

burned him

used in Ireland.

The Agetaigh, after

of the World, 4177.

Elim Oillfinshneachta, son of Roitheach-

having been one year in the sovereignty of Ireland, fell, at the end of that year, by Giallchaidh, son of Oilioll Ollchain. Snow, with the taste of wine, fell in this year, whence he was called Oillfinshneachta1.

The Age

of the World, 4178.

The

first

year of Giallchaidh, son of Olioll

Olchain, son of Sirna, in the sovereignty of Ireland. The Age of the World, 4186. Giallchaidh, after having been nine years in the sovereignty of Ireland, fell by Art Imleach, in Magh Muaidhe".

The Age of

the World, 4187.

This was the

first

year of Art Imleach, .son

of Elim Oillfinshneachta, in the sovereignty of Ireland. The Age of the World, 4198. Art Imleach, after having years" in the sovereignty of Ireland, fell by Nuadhat Finnfail.

been

twelve

The Age of

the World, 4199.Ireland.

This was the

first

year of the reign of

Nuadhat Finnfail over

The AgeThe AgeBreas, son of

of the World, 4238.

Nuadhat

years in the sovereignty of Ireland, fell

having been forty son of Art Imleach. by Breas*,Finnfail, afterfirst

of the World, 4239.

This was the

year of the reign of

Art Imleach, over

Ireland.

of the World, 4247. Breas, after having been nine years in the of Ireland, fell by Eochaidh Apthach, at Carn-Conluain y sovereignty The Age of the World, 4248. Eochaidh Apthach z was one year in the.

The Age

u

Magh-Muaidhe

This was either the plain

of the River Moy, in North Connaught, or a plain situated at the foot of Cnoc-Muaidhe, or

Knockmoy, A. M. 3529, supra.

in

the county of Gal way

See

Breas. He is called Breasrigh by Keating, and Breasry in the Annals of Clonmaciioise, " In whose time which add Fomorie came into Ireland ; but he overthrew them in again:

*

w Twelve The Annals of Clonmacnoise years. " he give him but a reign of six years, and add:builded seven Dowries or Pallaces for himself, to " dwell in them to recreate himself."

many1*

battles,

and did quite expel them out of

the kingdom."

Carn-ConLuain.

Not"

identified.

Eochaidh Apthach

Septemiii.

tain

Eochye Ophagh, Capof the former king's guards. He was of Cor-

munimentac.

fossis

vallavit."

Ogygia, part

32.

" kelaye" [Race of Lughaidh, son of Ith] usurped the kingdom and name of king thereof, after the

62

awHata Rioshactica emeaNN.-\

[4249.i

oGochaiD Qpcach, mac pmn,hi pije nGpeann,blia&na pin la pionn,

oo pochaip

bpoipceann na

mac bpacha.

Ctn ceD bliaDam Do Qoip Domain, ceirpe mile Da ceo cfcpocac a naoi. pije pmn, mic bpacha, op Gpmn innpin. mbeic Da bliaDain Qoip Domain, ceicpe mile Da ceD pfccmojac. lap Do cfp la Seona mac bpfip pichic hi pijhe nGpeann opionn mac bpacha

ap a TTlumain.

Qoip Domain, ceirpe mile Da ceD pfccmojac a liaon. Qn ceiD bliaDam DO Seona lonnappaij, mac bpeip, m