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COLONEL- MALCOLMOF POLTALLOCH
CAMPBELL COLLECTION
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&i.
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