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The Expulsion of the Dessi

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Kuno Meyer

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I would like to thank Donnchadh Ó Corráin for supplying the following summary from his forthcoming book, Medieval Irish Manuscripts (Turnhout: Brepols 2015). The story is known under various names: 'Tucait Indarba na nDéssi'; 'Tairired na nDéisi'; 'Tochomlod na nDési ó Themraig' (recension 1, 8th century; recension 2, 11th century, c. AD 1050). The migration legend of the Déisi, from Tara to Leinster and then to East Munster where they got land for settlement through their offspring, Eithne Uathach, wife of Óengus mac Nad Fraích, king of Cashel. The tale is not historical and it links the Déisi to the legends of Uí Néill. It is, however, based in part on narratives and genealogies that go back at least to the seventh century. To this is attached an early settlement tract, Do thoirgib na nDéssi, an invaluable listing of early lineages and lordships. There is a short Latin summary in Dublin, Trinity College Library, 1298 (olim H. 2. 7), col. 78 and a longer Latin version in the Life of St Declán by Charles Plummer. It includes the texts 'Ceithri maic batar la hArttchorb mac Mes Chuirb .i. Brecc & Óengus & Eochuid & Forad' (recension 1); 'Cid dia tá cóechad Cormaic hi Temraig?' (recension 2).

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    Manuscript Sources
  1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 502, ff. 72rb19–73r30 (facs. pp. 131b–133b); first half of 12th century. [Version A (=recension 1), the older one, complete.]
  2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 610 ('Saltair mic Ruisdeard'), ff. 99vb15–102rb13; 15th century (AD 1453x1454). [Version A, complete.]
  3. Dublin, RIA, D ii 1 (1225) al. Book of Uí Maine, ff. 35ra1–va73; 14th century? [Version A, incomplete.]
  4. Dublin, RIA, 23 O 48 (476) al. Liber Flavus Fergusiorum, part 2, f. 51va–b; 15th century (c. AD 1435x1440) [Version B (=recension 2), the later one, fragment.]
  5. Dublin, RIA, 23 E 25 (1229) al. Lebor na hUidre, p. 53a33–54b21; second half of 11th century to 13th century?; fragment; interpolated. [Version B, fragment, earlier than H. 3. 17 and H. 2. 15.]
  6. Dublin, Trinity College Library, 1316 olim H. 2. 15A, pp. 67a–68b; 14th to 15th century. [Version B, complete, contains material added later.]
  7. Dublin, Trinity College Library, 1336 olim H. 3. 17, part 6, cols. 720–723; 15th to 16th century [Version B, complete].
    Internet availability
  1. Volume 14 of Y Cymmrodor is available on www.archive.org.
    Editions and translations
  1. Kuno Meyer (ed. & trans.), The expulsion of the Dessi, Y Cymmrodor 14 (1901) 101–135. (Rawl. 502; variants from MS Laud 610).
  2. Kuno Meyer (ed.), 'Tucait indarba na nDéssi', in Osborn J. Bergin, R. I. Best et al. (eds.), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, 1 (Halle 1907), 15–24 (TCL 1316, variants from TCL 1336).
  3. Charles Plummer (ed.), Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, 2 vols. (Oxford 1910), 2 33–35 (Latin version).
  4. R. I. Best & Osborn J. Bergin (eds.), Lebor na hUidre (Dublin 1929), 137–141 (RIA 23 O 48, diplomatic edition).
  5. Vernam Hull, 'The Book of Uí Maine version of the Expulsion of the Déssi', Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 24 (1954) 266–271.
  6. Máigréad Ní C. Dobb al. Margaret E. Dobbs (ed.), 'From the Book of Fermoy', Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 20 (1936), 161–184: 174–177 (loose paraphrase of the opening section of Tucait Indarba na nDéssi, from Dublin, RIA, 23 E 29 (1134) al. Book of Fermoy, pp. 77a–78b; 15th century).
  7. Séamus Pender, 'Two unpublished versions of the Expulsion of the Déssi', in Séamus Pender (ed.), Féilscríbhinn Torna (Cork 1947), 209–17 (MSS RIA D ii 1 and RIA 23 O 48); corrections by Vernam Hull, 'The later version of the Expulsion of the Déssi', Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 24 (1954) 270–71.
  8. Vernam Hull, 'The later version of the Expulsion of the Déssi', Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 27 (1958/59) 14–63. (RIA 23 E 25, TCL 1316 and TCL 1336].
    Literature
  1. Eugene O'Curry, On the manners and customs of the ancient Irish, ed. W. K. Sullivan, 3 vols. (Dublin, 1873; facs. repr. Dublin, 1996), 2, 205–208.
  2. Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville, Catalogue de la littérature épique de l'Irlande (Paris 1883).
  3. Heinrich Zimmer, Nennius Vindicatus. Über Entstehung, Geschichte und Quellen der Historia Brittonum (Berlin 1893).
  4. Kuno Meyer, 'Gauls in Ireland', Ériu, 4 (1908/10) 208.
  5. Eoin MacNeill, 'The native place of St. Patrick', PRIA, Section C, vol 37 (1924-1927) 118–140.
  6. Vernam Hull, 'A collation of Tucait indarba na nDéissi', Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 24 (1954), 132–134 (re-collation of TCL 1316 ).
  7. Vernam Hull, 'The Book of Uí Maine version of the Expulsion of the Déssi', Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 24 (1954), 266–271.
  8. Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, 'On the LU version of 'The expulsion of the Dési'', Celtica 11 (1976), 150–157.
  9. Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, 'The Déissi and Dyfed', Éigse, 20 (1984), 1–33.
  10. Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, 'The expulsion of the Déisi', Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 110 (2005) 13–20.
  11. Thomas Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland (Cambridge 2000).
    The edition used in the electronic edition
  1. Kuno Meyer, The expulsion of the Dessi in Y Cymmrodor. volume 14, London, The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1901) page 101–135

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The Expulsion of the Déssi

Our knowledge of Irish history during the early centuries of our era is fortunately not confined to the meagre accounts of the Annals. In addition to them, and as independent sources, we possess a large mass of materials in the histories of individual tribes, genealogical tables, chronological poems, sagas, and saints' Lives, all bearing upon the early history of Ireland. These materials are, of course, of the most varied origin and age, and will have to be carefully tested and sifted. Not until this has been done will the historian of Ireland have before him all the materials which Irish literature affords.

Much inedited matter of this kind is found in the Bodleian codices Rawlinson B. 502 and 512, and in Laud 610. Among other important texts I may mention the piece called Baile in Scáil, or The Vision of the Phantom, which enumerates more than fifty Irish kings from Conn Cétchachach (A.D. 123–157) downward to the eleventh century, together with the duration of their reigns, long lists of battles fought by them, the circumstances of their deaths, and other details.1 But it is the tribal histories that are perhaps of the greatest historical value, as they certainly are of the widest interest. One of these, dealing

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with what in a term borrowed from contemporary history may be called the trekkings of the tribe of the Déssi2 and originally written, as has been shown,3 in the latter half of the eighth century, is here edited and translated for the first time. Its special interest for Welsh students lies in the fact that it contains an account of an Irish settlement in Wales during the third century (section 11).

Two different versions of the story have come down to us. The older, the one printed, which I will call A, has been preserved in Laud 610, fo. 99b 2–102a 2, and in Rawl. B. 502, fo. 72a 2–73a 2. In Laud the title is De causis torche na nDéssi .i. acuis toirge na nDésse, while Rawl. has the heading Tairirid na nDéssi. As is so often the case in dealing with Irish texts, it was difficult to decide which of the two copies to make the staple of the edition, as neither is in every way superior to the other, and both correct and supplement each other. The best thing undoubtedly would be to do, as Stokes has done with Félire Oengusso, and Windisch with several pieces in the Irische Texte, to print both copies in extenso, but this would have taken up too much space. I have, therefore, selected the Rawlinson text as needing, on the whole, less correction than that of Laud, though the latter excels it in retaining a more archaic spelling. As regards the text itself, the two copies are in the main almost identical,

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though the single paragraphs are differently arranged. The most important variants of Laud are given in the footnotes. Where Laud deviates from Rawlinson I have sometimes indicated this in the translation by putting the reading of Laud in parenthesis; in a few cases these translations have been put at the foot of the page. Towards the end of both copies the scribes have become careless, and each has blundered in his own way.

The second and later version of our story, which I will call B, deserves a separate publication. So far as I know, it has come down to us in three copies, the oldest of which is a fragment contained in the Book of the Dun, pp. 53a–54b. It has the heading Tucait innarba na nDési im Mumain & aided Cormaic. Its gaps can easily be supplied from two later copies, one in H. 3. 17, col. 720b–723a (entitled Cóechad Cormaic i Temraig), the other in H. 2. 15, pp. 67a–68b ( Tucaid cháechta Cormaic do Aengus Gaibuaibtheach & aigead Ceallaig & fotha indarbtha na nDeissi do Muig Breag). The latter MS preserves a number of poems not contained in the other copies. Whether one of the two versions, or ehich of them, is identical with the Tochomlad na nDési a Temraig quoted in the list of tales in D'Arbois de Jubainville's Catalogue, p. 263, and with the Longes Eithne Uathaige (ib., p. 171), I cannot say.

K. M.

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Tairired na n-Dessi inso ara choibne fri Fotharto ocus batar trichait bliadan la Laigniu.

Cethri maic batar la h-Arttchorb mac Mes Chuirb .i. Brecc & Oengus & Eochuid5 & Forad6. Forad dano, mac side cumaile7 & ni ragaib thir, & is he ba siniu8 dib. Nert coecat immurgu la h-Oengus.Bæ dano mac tét la rig Temrach .i. Conn mac Cormbmaic. Gabais laim ingine Foraid9 .i. Forach a h-ainm & fordoscarastar. Forumai Oengus for a h-iarair na h-ingine10, co luid11 hi Temraig. Ni tharraid gabail na slabrad batar ar comlaid na slige;12 ar ba h-écen fer cechtar a da slabrad side dogres.13 Confhacca a chomalta14 for dheis maic ind rig. ‘Ni maculammar in clemnas nua sin,’ ar Oengus.15 Friscair mac ind rig: ‘Daimthi dail cuind dam-sa!16 Archena déma-su cen co dama-su.’ ‘Nocon fhodem cetumus,’17 ar Oengus. Atróeraid Oengus din t-sleig triit.18 Bi dano indala slabrad suil ind rig, co roemaid19 ina chind.20 In tan dosreng in sleig a dochum,

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rodbi fochoir na sleigi triasin deogbaire, conid se conapaid prius. Is arna slabradaib tra ba h-Oengus Gæbuaibthech a ainm-seom.Is desin rognid Ocheill for Temraig sechtair .i. clasa rath la Cormac, conid inte no foihed som dogres, ar ni ba h-ada ri co n-anim do fheis i Temraig. Conid de asberar Achell ar Themair nó ar aicce Temrach, daig na fhaichle bæ ar suil ind rig.21Bebais mac ind rig & dobert Oengus in mnai leis.Dobert Cormac sluago forsna Deisse & ro mebdatar secht catha forthu ria n-Oengus co maccaib a brathar .i. Russ & Eogan.22 Ba rii Oengus dar eisse m-Bricc co cenn .xl. laithi. Et balobrathair cach fer iarum, ar ni foerlangtar nert ind fhlatha & ind laith gaile 'moalé. Is ann asbeir-som: ‘Forasselbthai for rige. Is dech dam-sa mo nert fodessin.’Tecmall ri Temrach firu h-Erenn forthu & ni damair cert catha doib, co tarlaicset a thir do. Dolotar iarum co Laigniu co Fiachaig m-Baicceda mac Catháir, co rochart side h-Ú Bairrche remib asa tir & fothaigtir na Deisse and co

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h-aimsir Crimthaind maic Ennæ Ceinselaig maic Labrada maic Bresail Belaig maic Fiachach Baicceda.23Dorala læch24 amra la h-U25 Bairrchi .i. Eochu Guinech mac Oengusa, co rosglan side dia thir.26 Beirthius Crimthand mac Ennæ i n-Aird Ladrann fodes27 immirge na n-Deisse, conid de ata Tir na h-Immergi & Aes na h-Immergi o shein ille.Mell ingen Ernbraind ben Crimthaind bert macco do Chrimthund & atbath Mell iar suidiu. Ocus dobreth Cuiniu ingen Ernbraind do iarum.28 Bert Cuiniu ingin do .i. Eithne Uathach. Bæ Bri mac Bairceda in drui isin dun in n-aidchi29 rogenair Eithne. {Ms folio 72b1} ‘Ind ingen rogenair30 innocht,’ ar Bri, ‘rosfessatar31 fir h-Erenn uili32 & ardaig na h-ingine sin gebait a mathre in tir artrefat.’33 Amail atchualatar34 som coir in sceoil sin lasin druid,35 co m-bad tria chumachtu na h-ingine nogebtais forbbæ,36 ros-altatar37 for carnaib38 mac m-bec co m-bad luath no-assad.39 Is de ba h-Eithne Uathach a h-ainm-se, ardaig nos-aigtis in meicc bicc.40

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Is e a senathair in druad sin dano rochachain41 a n-imthechta doib h-ic tuidecht atuaid h-ic Ath Truisten.42 Is ann asbert:

‘Ni o Temair dochumlaid ticid ticid dothaide gluind mara cotob catha crethit cetnaanad tuidecht do mac Daurthecht deircthe Eogan sceo echta scen macco Echach Airiman Artt ero Corp coitual cel cichsit dat fhiannæ im Findchad mac Niod atroinne noifidir ruthit min mairfitit coicthe rann Dil diairithe Lethe Laidcind ilar lenthus diacoi crochæ marfit Dil nad flathius gaile genithar gaibthiut co firu Fochlæ ifaitse dos clich doarnid arus mac Mes Chuirb mogithar dalsus condesil fidgella forderga ordd araserb slas ninde mac n-Dega diagraif arrigthius rige os cach ros codidian desingar ar Ros mac Feochair Feig falnathar cotafodlaib gergair cain iarnithu mac Riath rascthius itreichnimi conoid ni.’ Ni.43

Ticht44 tra o Chormac i n-diaid mac m-Bric .i. Ros & Eogan, co n-digsitis afrithisi co Cormac. Amail rochuala Oengus, asbert friu:45 ‘In fir,’ ar se, ‘tuidecht fri h-immarchur sid & choræ frib-se?’ ‘Fír,’46 ol seat. ‘Ronbia slan cach neich dorigensam47 & ronbiat da chutrumma ar tire liar tir fodesin48 & og coræ co brath.’

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‘Na49 denid,’ ar Oengus, ‘nadimfhacbaid-se50 m'oenur! Roforbia51 da trian in52 tire araglainfem.53 Remthus54 do for clannaib for mo chlainn-se co brath. Ocus mo chlann-sa do dul i cath & hi crích ria cach & do bith fodeoid ic tudecht a crich.55 Ocus co n-irglantar tir remib.56 Nach-imfacbaid-se!’ Dorigset57 iarum anisin & dobretha58 fir59 fris .i. fir ciche & gruaide, nime & talman, gréne & esca, druchta & daithe, mara & tire.Luid Eochaid mac Artt Chuirp dar muir cona chlaind hi crich Demed60, conid ann atbathatar61 a maic & a h-ui. Conid dib Cenel Crimthaind allæ,62 dia ta Tualodor mac Rígin maic Catacuind maic Caittienn maic Clotenn maic Næe maic Artuir maic Retheoir maic Congair maic Gartbuir maic Alchoil maic Trestin maic Aeda Brosc maic Corath maic Echach Almuir maic Artt Chuirp.63Dobert Cormac h-úa Cuind breic im da milid Oengusa ind rig64 .i. Grainne & Moinne, diatat65 Granrige & Moinrige. Adberthi66 uad fri cechtar de i n-ecmais67 araile: ‘Is bec do brig lat rig, a Grainne.68 Ni tabar hi cosmailius fri Moinne n-Gall.’69 Asbered a chummat cetna fri Moinne. Et asbeir side fri Oengus: ‘Dia nomthabarthar-sa70 hi

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cubes fri Grainne, dobér-sa in sleig se triut-su.’ O rafitir Cormac ord na h-aire dodasicfad a n-dis i n-oenaidchi immoalle. It h-e rotheilcset slog fair inna dun & rongeguin indara de & roort mac a brathar 'moalle fris.71Dosbert Crimthann i n-Ard Ladrann iarsain. Et docoirsetar maic Crimthainn cocad frisna Deisse72 .i. Eochu, is e rogab doib in n-darbre cona frenaib & doscartsat i m-maidm as hi tir n-Osairge.Imaittreib doib alla aniar hi Commur Tri n-Usce hi r-rind tire Tigernaich.73 Ardosfaicce74 ri Osraige matan moch iar n-denam a n-aittreib.75 ‘Is mili tige & mile n-dethach ani thall,’ ar se. Is de asberar Milidach.76 Gebtait forn. Atasaigid hi tenid, loiscitir a nh-uile aittreba77 & nistalla leo thiar iar suidiu.78 Doloingset as & dothaegat iar79 muir siar, co n-gabsat i nh-Irchuilind tiar.80{Ms folio 72b2} Isind aimsir sin ba marb ben Oengusa maic Nad Fraich rig Caisil81, et dothæt nech uad do thochmarc na h-ingine cucco, ar robæ Eithne moalle friu-som thiar. Atrogell Oengus a tri rinnroisc di. Batar se a tri rindroisc .i. faithchi Chaissil82 o Luaisc co Caissel do

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thabairt di & a maithriu do airisem ann. Et in cenel nothogfaitis83 do aurglanad rempu & a dilsi doib in tiri sin. Et comsaire doib frisna teora h-Eoganachta Muman .i. Eoganacht Raithlind & Eoganacht Locha Lein & Eoganacht h-Ua Fidgeinti84 co nh-Uib Liathain.Togait85 iarum na Deisse Osairgi do aurglanad rempu86 & do chocad87 friu. Lotar da druid lasna Deisse .i. Drong88 et Cecht89. Bæ dano drui la h-Osairgiu .i. Dil moccu Chrecca, & roptar daltai doside druid na n-Deisse. Dobertsat na Deisse secht catha do Osairgib & romaidset na secht catha sin ria n-Osairgi forsna Deissib90 hi Lethet Laidcind i n-Ard Chatha.91Dobreth Eithne Uathach iarsin comairle dia meithre .i. dula92 co cenn adchomairc Muman, co fath-brithemain93 Casil, co Lugaid Laigde Cosc, conid h-e roscobair tria gæs & trebairi.94 Ba h-e ba brithem do Chorccu Laigde. Ar robæ95 imthus do96 Chorccu Laigdi & do Eoganacht hi Caissiul97 .i. in tan nobid ri do Chorccu Laigdi, nobid brithem do Eoganacht. Oengus mac Nad Fraich ba ri in tan sin & Lugaid Laigdi Cosc98 ba brithem.

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Tiagait maithi na n-Deise & Eithne h-Uathach leo co Lugaid99 Cosc & asberat fris: ‘Ronfoire100 im chobair dún101. Rotbia tir linni dar a eisse cen chis, cen chongabail,102 cen dunad, cen biathad, & ni thicfam dar cert ar do chlaind co brath.’103 Naidmthir104 fir n-Oengussa & fir n-Eithne & fir flatha na n-Deisse fri sodain. ‘Congraid for n-druide damsa,’ ar Lugaid105 Cosc, .i. Droch & Checht. Con-graiter106 do, et dobretha di muinnir .i. da phaitt doib107, h-it e lana do fin. Dobreth doib-sium a tirib Gall & biad Gall lais, ar ba mescamail sobruige inti nochaithed.108 ‘Berid in fricill109 se do for n-aite & apraid fris at for n-aithrig do debaid fris.110 Et berid tecosc111 dia ingin iar n-ol ind fhinæ.’112Dorigset amlaid.113 Et arfofhet Díl114 in fricill115 & roscar-som ind ingen & ro-oslaid in fuiriud rempu.116 Dall didiu in Dil.117 Rochomairc ind ingin dó ar belaib a dalta isin tan ba mesc.118 ‘A mo sruith,’ ar ind ingen, ‘im bia tesargain119 na n-Deisse indorsa?’120 ‘Biaid amæ,’121 ar Dil, ‘mad i n-Urd turcbad grían foraib & na robeotais & na roruibtis nech ann. Ar inti bifas nó genfas nech do slog araile immarach ar thus, noco n-aittrefa in tir sin122 co

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brath.’ ‘Bess ni h-ingnad anisin,’123 ar ind ingen, ardaig co cloistis na gillæ. ‘Dia m-beind hi cœmthecht na n-Desse,124 nodolbfaind125 boin deirg do duiniu & nogonfaitis Osairgi in boin sin.’126Mosdáilet an druid127 cosna Deissib fochetoir fothuaid do Chasiul & doberat na Dessi leo co m-batar i n-Urd matan moch iarnabarach.128 Astuat tenid129 cairthind ann & foidit a diaid sair co h-Osairgib. Tecait130 Osairgi iarum co h-Inneoin & fucairthir la Dil na rorubtha & na robeota nech dona Deissib ann.131 Dolbait dano druid na n-Deisse aithech132 hi richt bo dergce133 .i. Dochet a anmain,134 ar soire dia chlaind dogrés. Teit iarum ina n-dail135 & cotmeil foraib & giallaid gail & gonair forsind ath fri Indeoin aniar.136 Is de asberar Ath Bo Deirge. Conid iarum adchonncatar co m-ba137 colann duine iarna guin.Maitte for Ossairgib sair co h-Andobru138 & imsoat Ossairgi a sain & doberat a m-biu139 & a m-marbu coema i n-airther Ratha sair.140 Maidte foraib atherruch o Andobur

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co Lainnen.141 Na h-othurbi142 forfhacabsat Ossairgi i n-airthiur Ratha rosgegnatar143 na Desse oc tintud144 anair. Is de ata Belach n-Eca iar145 fiad Ratha.Rannait iarum na Dessi i cetrib rannaib na tiri sin.146 Cach clann tarraid in cethramaid sin, ata a chuit isin tir.147 Coeca toirgi lasna Dessib, a .xxu.148 {Ms folio 73a1} dib tarthatar raind & a .xxu.149 aile na150 tarthatar & is dona toirgib sin is ainm Dessi, ar it e fil fo chis151 & dligud & bothachas152 na n-Deisse153 dona flaithib .i. do Dail Fiachach Suidge & ni h-ainm doib-side Deisse. Cach154 longas tra rofitir Eithne h-Uathach la h-Erind dosreclam155 cosna Deisse, fobith nodigbaitis156 Dal Fiachach Suidge isna157 cathaib mencib.

Do thoirgib na n-Dessi inso sis

Dobert158 Semuin159 di Ultaib cucu dia tat Semuine.160Dobert cuco Nemungin161 di h-Uaithnib .l. dia tat Nechtarge.

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Dobert162 cuco tri macco Lugdach163 Cosca britheman Corco Laigdi a Cassiul .l.164Tri chóicait dano do thrib maccaib Oengusa maic Derbchon maic Cormaic Ulfhatai de quibus Mechain.165Coeca do maccaib Feideilmid Brufhir,166 de quibus167 Bruirige.Coeca do maccaib Odro,168 de quibus Odraige.169Nonbur di maccaib Ditha do Ernaib, de quibus170 Corco Ditha.Cet læch luid Benta in t-eces171 di Ultaib de quo172 Bentraige.Nonbur do maccaib Conaill maic Neill de quo173 Condrige.174Nonbur do maccaib Suird maic Mugdornæ Duib de quo Sordraige.175Nonbur do maccaib Munigblæ maic Mugdornæ Duib176 de quibus177 Duibrige. Maic ingine Briuin in sin..ix. do maccaib Mugdornæ Cerbfhir do Chairige.178.ix. do maccaib Laidir maic Firchi do Ladraige.179Tri nonbuir do Oengus Firgabræ mac Conaire maic Messi Buachalla do Gabraige.180

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.ix. do Afir do Ernaib do Uraige.181.ix. do Fhir Menn mac Cuscraid Mind Macha maic Conchobuir do Mennraige..ix. do mac182 Glasschaich maic Moga Ruith do Rodraige.183Tri nonbuir do Oengus Chreca184 mac Conchobuir Mæl maic Formæl185 di Ultaib (is e nochrecad goo186 hi Temair) a quo Crecraige.Binne & Eochaid Cóen 187 do Bintrige & do Choenrige. Nonbur doib..ix. do Naithir mc Fircheich do Nathraige.188.ix. do Nudfhir189 do Laignib do Nudraige.190.ix. do maccaib Blait do Blatrige.191.ix. do Nindfhir m. Bairrche do Nindrige. ty192.ix. do Fhiur Luide ar Sid ar Femen do Ludraige.193.ix. do Chærfhir194 di Chruithnib do Chærige.195Tri nonbuir do thrib maccaib Bonnfhir do Bonnraige.196.ix. do Luthor mc Arda do Luthraige.197.ix. do Blotchoin198 di Bretnaib do Blotraige.199

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.ix. do Grutbit mac Dubain do Grutbrige.200.ix. do mac Buidb201 do Bodbrige..ix. do mac Grinnir do Ultaib do Grinnrige.202.ix. do Gallaib do Muinrige im mac Muinmind.203.ix. do Maine mac Cuinrige.204.ix. do mac Dimáin do Darfhiniu do Chorco Dimaine.205.ix. do macco Ennæ Uniche di Gallaib do Chorcco Uniche.206Coeca207 do Glasschatt mac Ailella Auluim di Chattraige.208Coeca do trib maccaib Mathrach maic Ailella Auluim do Dal maic Cuirb.209Coeca Tidil210 maic Ailella Auluim do Dal Tidil Cichich forsa m-batar .iii. cicheich.211.ix. do Magneth212 Gall do Dal Magned.213.ix. do Michoil do Dairfhiniu di Dal Michoil.214

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Tri nonbuir do maccaib Dorchon m. h-Uair do Dal Dorchon.215Tri nonbuir do maccaib Luigne216 di Ernaib do Dal Luigni.Coeca do trib maccaib Nuidni maic Con Rui do Dal Nuidni.217.ix. do trib maccaib Niamdæ di Dal Niamdæ.218.ix. do Loiscniu mac Cuinniath do Dal Loscind.219Tri lege220 Eithne h-Uathaig dia ta Dal Niath Lega.221Tri maic Moga Caintich do Dal Mogaide.222Tri m. Cairinne cerdda do Cherdraige.223Læmman224 mac Niathaig maic Briuin is e cetnagaibed giallu Fer-chair. Fathbrithem.Cæchros mac Fiaich cetarogaib cath n-Inde do laim.225Teora h-ingena Ernbraind: Mell & Belge226 & Cinnu. Dochuatar co Crimthann227 a triur, cach h-æ228 i n-diaid araile. Sil Mella o Meill, h-Úi Beilge o Beilge. Eithne namma ruc Cinnu do.229O doluid iarum230 Corbmac asa rige231 iarna gollad232 do Oengus mac Art Chuirp, gabais Carpre Liphechar in

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flaith ar belaib a athar. Is i abairt dognid233 Cormac ar a belaib cach dia .i. dobered a da mer immun colg234 n-det & a mer hi235 timchul lainne a sceith. Is ed noin-choisced sain slaidi muintire Cairpre immun m-Boinn sanchan {Ms folio 73a2} .i. do cach leith.236 Is de doloinsich237 hi crich Laigen. O rabi238 Fiachu Sraiptine & Colla h-Uais239 & Colla Mend do Mugdornaib240 rig na n-Deisse241 .i. Brecc mac Artt Chuirp, rochartsat Laigen sic uaid242 siar for Commur trian in t-sluaig. Tuait do Chassiul do chuingid chobrad o Oengus. Is annsin marbais Fedelmid Clar mac hui Braichte & Anlathe mac Eogain i n-Etarbaine. Is de ata Carn m-Brigti ingine Dubthaich maic Duib maic Lugdach di Ultaib.In trian iarum doluid atuaid, hit e turcaibset inn ingin .i. Eithni Uathach ingen Crimthainn. Moalle longsigset Osairgi & Corco Laigdi, at it he batar ech — ech —. Ar gabsat o Chommur Tri n-Usce co Birra Lagen, i m-batar hi tir Osairge, co h-Eochair anair. Is de ata Ath Fothart & Daire Lagen la h-Ossairgi. Is inund aimser hi lotar243 na Deissi for Gabruan244 & Fene for Fid Mar & Fothairt245 for Gabruan sair. Ar robatar Fothairt for longais iar n-Gabran246 iar n-guin Echach Domplen maic Carpre Liphechair do Sarniad247 mac Cirb248 brathair Bronaich do Fhothartaib.

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Forshluinte Dal Fiachach Suidge

Semuinrige, Nechtraige, Bentraige, Odraige, Osraige, Bruirige o Bruru mac Artharu rig Cruthni, Sordraige, Latraige, Carraige, Gabraige, Cairige, Mentrige, Rotraige, Rudraige, Blairige, Ranrige, Luidrige .i. fer luid hi sid, Callraige .iii. maic, Bodraige, Lubentraige, Crobentraige, Corco Che, Corco Ainige, Corco Dithech, Dal Mechoin, Dál Mathrach, Dál Maigne, Dál Luigne, Dál Mencuirp, Dal n-Inidæ, Dál n-Uidne, Dál n-Dorchon, Dorchu ma Linne, Dál Luiscne. h-It h-e insin dia n-gairter Deisse .i. ar dihuaise nó ar diahuaise .i. ar immad a l-lamdia nó ar h-uaise nó ar deisse nó diuisse nó ar gaire ind inaid asrogeinset nó ara n-difhisse, amail ata a tuirim & a taiririud & a toirge la cach. Teora bliadna trichat o doludsat249 na Deisse o Themair co tucsat Lagin dorair doib for Gabruan250 & for Commur251 Tri n-Usci iar maidm secht catha forthu.252