the Caiseal, and
stone;
many
latter were
C</isea^builder
Leinster. Duhhaltach
Mac Firbissigh's
still valuable
the
an Aire-Desa ;
of the
No
instance
recorded
of
an
ecclesiastical
the
;
The
uses
of
colours
to
distin-
at
the
his
description
of
Concliobar
visited
by
physicians
from
the
enemy's
camp,
w
scribes the persons who gave
them
Bun
Smirammairy
now
The
dye-stuffs
used
Coluincille. The
of
keepers;
of
the
British
exiles
of
bestowing
Torques.
Uses
of
the
Tara
Torques
a
dispute
about
the
manner
of
death
of
Fothadli
Story of
smelter
by
Irish
harpers
Migration of
authority for th s
and
harper.
occurs
again
iu
connection
with
the
word
Aidbsi;
the
author
heard
the
Crondn
;
in this
the
seventeenth
century,
harp
Henry
the
Eighth
for
another.
There
can
Dr. Petrie's
forgiven
Dr.
Petrie.
Joy's ac-
of Kildare. Harps
of
rescued
expeditions
;
life
name
of
a
tinkling
bell;
the
Pipaireadha,
or
the
the
author
illustration
of
the
curved
parts
Timpan
illustrated
name ior
Aidbsi or
of the
The
Luinntog.
The
Uisnech
;
still
of
them
named
O'Brien;
the
the
Ocht
Foclach
Mdr
accents,
cadences,
and musical
analysis of
this poem
most
generic name for
modern
names
for
"jig", and Cor,
or
Italian.
Rinnceadh
fada,
a
country
dance.
Conclusion.
APPENDIX.
I.
The
Chuailgne
412-463
shirt,
Creduma (bronze).
FOR READ.
6]\
iin
cec
ye]\
1G5,
line
3,
to
carved
brooches
Book
of
near Dublin.
structures
"Eathof
stone
; why
called
Aileach
of
Cruachan
The
to
builder
In the
I had to say
the
ancient
Gaedhil.
I
with these
the adoption
;
which
were the
occupied
the
country
memory, and carried
to such a
antiquity
or
Four Masters)
Tanihlacht
(or
Tallaght,
in
the
of
years,
we
by
Nemhidh
;
no-
tions,
"
of
raised
The
Rath.
in which
or court. Some-
times also the Rath consisted of two or three concentric
walls or
The Dun.
trench
by
a
third,
great foun-
with
the
con-
the Lis,
urfce.
into
of
wliich
is
not
known,
that
the
first founded
also
Tigh-Temracli,
poem preserved
poet. The
precise time
essay on
/*'
the
compartment
e., Picts]
them
in
compartments,
and
sub-compart-
ments,
the
"thirty
thousand
men",
which,
preserved
to
our
Leinster
and
Kings,
when
measured
in
each
containing
within
it
a
paper copy
in the
the residence
of the
be now
who planned
One stone closed".
that
the
stone). All
tliese build-
Prison
in
a
second
one
house
into
bronze
were
the
ridge.
The
built
upon
mitting light into it.
; four times
the
one
the four
Cruachaji.
of ancient
of
Tochnarc
nEimire,
or
^^i'*"'^'^-
before the
Christian era.
as Cormac
bronze
around
it;
four
the terms
that the
mere
of these
one of the Milesian brothers
who
DS
Danann.
in
Mur, or
Lothchain
exist,
And
table
Hath
[She has]
clear vessels
Within
it
are
red
Are
all
Of [birds'] wings
our literature
not
only
of Jericho.
Aileach, assisted
the
Balur,
the
son
of
Buan-lam-
[in
Leinster].
bility of the
lisses
in
abundance
[river]
Muaidhe
under
the
mound
I
17
tained
lime
denial of the
of
Down,
derives
be
supposed
the
a
gift
gratify
his
mere
which
these
scenes
feast
for
Conchohar
Mac
Nessa,
and
his house excel-
and
heroes
of
Ulster.
That
grianan
was
in
it
on
all
lows,
as
well
as
with
a
full
supply
of
ale
and
cient,
of
the
on the
province
the
women
other women of Ulster'.
the
splendour
husband
excels
the
—
'
dost
thou
be-
much
upon
Emer.
place,
that
of thera
been
by
Bricrind.
They
returned to the house then. They passed over the first ridge
with
a
quiet,
steps were
the
house
[in
getting
the
lead
other who
was
contest
to
and
they
answered
both
purposes,)
were
gorgeously
adorned
and
emblazoned.
So
that,
be
of the Aire' Desa;
of the Air^-Ard;
a
house
No instance
oratory of
whe-
ther
the
descriptions,
of
at Bath Hudhraidhe,
not
government
particular
character
of
the
dwellings
of
the
twelfth
century.
Kesidences
ancient
seat
in
place near
year
were
written.
It
appears
that
Emania,
Emania
who
was
killed
in
a
battle
with
the
in the year
dwellings of
of the
Division
of
land
nor
dwellings;
those
who
required
to
support
the
rank
of
a
cow-chief,
or
increased
by
or store
his father.
a
ploughing
machine,
namely,
land of four times
panies
ground
grinding
purposes
entitled to
into
it
;
if
it
be
a
lock
(of
skins
are
to
far from our
immediate object. All
this information, however,
AirS-DSsa
Aire-Desa
was
their
furniture
in
it,
as
well
as
iron
ones
before
enumerated,
20
follows.
Seven
Erinn,
as
distinguished
from
those
great edifices of which I spoke in the last Lecture. But
the
Laws
code,
said
on
man
always
sits.
Its
lintel
a
sheep
for
For cutting its
receives
the
finish
(aurscartadh).
To
disfigure
(or
cut)
a
cow
paid
(and
the
finish
of
a
channel
For
the
for its disfigurement till it is rendered useless, there is
a
cumhal,
or
cows,
of
architecture and
four
ridges;
that
is,
two
four
hands
was the
more general
form. The
plan of
The
plan
of
tapering, from
top
ranged
which
were
gads, that
is, twisted
a round wicker-
Saint
Colman
Ela,
oi
Lnnn
Ela
(now
called
the
struck him;
his heel
was soon
lay:
thus
fervour of
his faith".
the
introduction
of
Chris-
was
whom I shall
lull. Lut
it is,
of course,
of
Erinn.
wood
end
of
the
year
found
soon
returned
from
the
wood;
and
found him
Barrow.
again, in
that the
and said
he should
that
Ui-Deagha,
poem;
assembled, from
the east
had
'
among
all
Ui-Deagha
more
apples,
and
green
rushes,
until
this
oratory
be
filled'.
pinginn
to
the
whole
%iaig/i.
cause
of
the of
no
less
than
unassailable. Law regulating
author's
correction
of
and
or
pledging.
ances-
word which
by
the Round
Towers and
tence
of
Gohhan
legend
it
professes
to
trace
the origin of the name of Traigli Tuirbhi, now the
strand
Ballymote,
and
He
used not come
unless he
[that
is,
from]
the
Sabh
Ildanach
name.
over all strands,
send.
south
was
strong.
It
is
from
the
above
Erinn,
according
to
our
Euiaenn.
the
son
o£
Ethomaii\
and Trog,
fex
(cerciy\
door-
keeper,
longer,
and placed in the chair of the ollamh, or chief
professor of the
De Da-
nanus the
most important
own
grandfather,
Balor
"of
years,
until
kings
of
Erinn
Tara accompanied
accounts
Teige, the
son of
Munster.
runs
along
the
coast
from
the
of
Ahhan,
a
distin-
guished
there
every place in
account
the
barony of Ballyadams,
immediate neighbourhood. Bishop Ihar,
however,
the
Saer
enters;
but
as
yet
I
have
only
a
manuscript,
were
it
within
my
what has
he built
More conspicuous
to
seduce
him
into
his
own
allegiance.
It
begins
He
'
verb
usual
-ughucih.
Cf.
-uglmdli, the
to the auspiciousness
in
duib
could
from
a
vellum
MS.^''""^
of
the
twelfth
to him.
All good
•OI
 
and fifty
years before
the presumed
of Gobban
our Gaedhelic
our
from more
ready
material.
And
the
same
edifices
arose
from
the
circumstance
of
cllcTie,
•oiAn
tjuchAis
tipVie
tig-oA.
Aue
cAch
iiiAicli
•06
of
shingles,
it
is
;
the other sixth
to each
of them.
must have
church over that,
or
of
its
correct
application
yet,
as
a
matter
of
interest
base of
ment
chur-
ches
and
feet,
hundi-ed
feet
that
an
who had the good
tract, in the
and public discussion which
translation,
as
well
now
than
laborious investigations, to say,
after long
oiiamhs;
motc,
preserved
in
a
death, or
various
departments
of
literature
or
the
to
the
rank
ollaveshlp in any profession or art,
should
submit
his
the
arts
of
a
mason
a
judges,
doctors,
etc.'^^^
(22)
Class
H,
2,
16.
own sixth, six
which
added
to
cows
by
his
would
be
quite
absurd,
because,
for
instance,
in
versatile genius: he
on
the'
other,
and
remain
as
the Round Towers
not
immediately
within
my
reach".
Such
by
misspelling
it
pa.ssage:
jg
either of
which, most
to
signify
I
have
shown,
however,
that
this
was
not
the
oratory
of
fifteen
were paid for
a
higher
wiitten inaccu-
This
view
nor
even
to
himself;
it
was
not
at
more congenial
the
first
part
such an
57
which
required
these
three
edifices,
and so forth.
Fidhadh,
at
Hafh
Cruachain^
mentioned
in
a
previous
lecture.^^'^
tation,
because
there
is
down
name
was
Fmniann,
the
son
of
as
it
the Lord to build
of
Bith,
1 may
battle
transferred
to
digression,
if
isting
Mac
Fergiisa
Cerrhheoil,
the sixth
Soc/ira,
continued.
all
East
to
con-
and
These were
say here-
after). The
to appear forth-
Boclira,
resided
at
Dun
Tulcha^
the
vegetable-garden
and
heat.
decay.
to it and
it
to
now, after their
tains
of
when preparing to
reaping-hook
of
a
widow's
reaping
the
holly
with;
the
chess-
board
of
a
griddles, and gridlets, or the small spatulas
with which
 
on other
islands of
not
correct
Ailtach.
Cathaii-;
the
to
the "champion's
that
the
Milesians
were
a
of
the
primitive
periods
the
settlement
of
a
tribe,
or
the
palace
remains
of
some
of
which
fortunately
still
in
some
same with the
they bring turf in
floor
; so
ancient
that
four
other
appear to have
the door in
much burdened
to attempt
perfect
preser-
also,
in
the island
are four
passed
much
of
the
bay
of
any
other
kind
in any
that
it
will
make any
number, are
in the
parishes of
the
led to
station
Dunbeg
[little
fort],
which
protected
the
city
which
and extending
middle
of
dry
masonry,
with
fort through
a low
square opening"/^^
to the
extract from
both
into
account,
we
may
sup-
whose circular
instances
find that
amount simply
to this
round houses
;
this fact
has
the
Dingle
promontory.
The
mistake
occurs
in
the
summer
of
1856,
promontory,
the
Richard
^'
not
of his absenting him-
professional
;
Royal Irish
sheet
52
of
few calu-
ground
filled with
Mr. Du notice,
observe,
it
is
quite
clear
that
the
idea
which
suggested
protection
whatever.
It
cannot,
a
stronghold
erected
on
a
point
of
land
projecting
considerably
into
Glenn
Fahan,
namely,
the
you
may
performed
by
Imcheall. Garhhan
is recorded
requisite
for
the
esta-
thei
e
king
on the
Arann
Islands.
for themselves, as
Arann Islands
great island, another most ancient fortress,
bearing the name of
or bee-hive houses,
with
of
Endach, his
Du
Noyer's
islands: why
has it
chateau
 
was
svir-
rounded
by
a
tion,
made
in
Leabliar ria h-Uidhre,
as well
of them
province.
After
having
to
be
from
the
county
of
Kerry.
contending
champions
about
the
over
his
exaggerated strain of
original:
was
in
the
see
the
broad
expanse
of
the
ocean
between
story
of
the
tree
of
a
them
required
but Laeghaire
but it did not reach him. He stretched his arm
towards
Laeghaire
then,
and
palms, in the same
the bench at
day
together
till
the
evening,
when
and the
come
to
the
that
the
monster
speak
if
friends,
let
them
at-
tack
dead the
and
placed
men
came
them near him in
the
giant,
he
would
spring
up
into
the
the velocity
action,
such
was
the
lect.
xxii.
bounding
fury
cathair,
where
it
they
—
:
'
ladies of
excepted".
the
and
form
of
the
of
the
his
cemineii?'
History
of
Kerry,
already
quoted,
summit
of
a
conical
mountain
of
palace
of
a
king,
would
be
marked
but
I shall
how warmly
Curoi himself,
on his
to
after the
same
condition
side,
to
awaken
famous
harbour,
which
was
of
Limerick,
only
a
lower
scale
more unfounded
returned
to
Erinn
a
It may also
7-,
in the
dis-
appeared,
or
even
sunk
into
insignificance.
It
the
Fir-
bolgs
when,
a curious
published in
preserved
ter-
ritories
and
importance
 
there
are
9
1
, distribu-
ted
as
The
in the
tale of
;
;
il7a«e,- of
pounds. tStory of
of the
Exile of
mo-
narch
and
of
it:
sovereignty,
and
he
broke
by
him
made,
luchadan
was
the
name
the
gold
Tighei^nmas was seventy-seven
time.
And
he
. . .
gave
tre]\
11-
un^uish*'^'
here
mentioned
as
having
into
which
the
people
other
way
than
by
or
colours which
remote enough
of
the
display
of
their
Hill, as
The reader
They
had
been
wealth.
There
were
brought
before
Chuailgne,
from
ginally
written
of
a
much
older
version
garments
worn
by
either
distinguished
the Tain Bo
war
commence.
Medhbh's
the seven
Maints her
ANCIENT
ERINN.
91
been
in
exile
in
her
kingdom,
with
his
exiled
parties
are
in the
next
their
were
in-
;
of
their
feet.
Medbh is
until the
seen.
I
have
already
quoted
the
mate-
rials,
form
an
accurate
chief-
tains
of
(^''^
'oebj
-pA-
says
and
a
red
hem
of
gold,
<^^^
|\0
gt-Af)'
LaIII-
c6ii\
cviciMinmiA
1-pe
yAUA
yocAeb
irobecAn,
beoib
0011A5
cAnATOO
beip^;
1f6
Anii'c
n-AT)-
AjXT)
Buais in
report is
of ceitcJiaj
described as
one
his skin".'"*
had
brown,
thick,
fici
I-15C1
-pecAfin-oivuinijCOcnAppib
cac
if
bpvAc;
fAibe
"oo.
in
Aipinuc
nA
bu'onipn.
'Oa
bfAcc
bene
jAfb
from the
them in
the centre ;
Nucruthach
(lite-
of
2.]
(5?)
[original:
ERINN.
97
white,
clean,
pure
shining
gauntlets
accoutrements,
however,
some
descriptions,
though
tale
of
the
Tain
Bo
Chuailyne,
betake him
in Lecture
xv. (vol.
dismissed
of
forms,
dress,
his
breast;
a
111
biAij.
unto
nie.
She
would
have
deemed
it
a
great
desirous
that
of
Cadle.
"oib,
fobc
CAffbui-oe
bAyv
AfAibe
; oA
weir,
said
Cuchulaind,
'they
are
Connac,
[son
Fingin
looked
one
.
white
metal
(silver
bronze)
to
fit
'
eyes,
having
tled gold
of
plied
with
the
choicest,
most
delicious,
and
eighty-
ierdiadh;
without
any
forcible
exaction
whatever
eternity,
and
Crossachs,
that
the
Royal
must
have
weighed
more
come
down
to
in
nar-
that I
evidence
("'•
the text of the whole episode of the combat of
t'xickidaind
his breast.^'^^^
-poix
his
dreams
or
his
imagination.
to
this
account
is
sfiven
stood",
continues
or bosses of
and the
within
the
with the tight,
explicit.
hips, and wrapped uaLeinidh,
(66) :
of
Loinges
nMac
nDuildermaita,
or
the
of
the
Cham-
castle
coming towards
gray
black-
spotted
stallion
under
him,
[having]
a
golden
mouthpiece
in
his
mouth;
two
spears
race.
(67)
[original:
l\etnib, ACAf
hair)
the ochrath
that
worn
by
the
inferior
people,
but
that
it
appertained
to
A
Objects
connected
laws.
The
in
embroidery
Book
of
to
the
colours
formed
part
Ui Maine. Stipends paid by the king of Connacht to
the
kings
of :
Dealbhna
kings
of:
Ui
Brea
;
Fealain.
Connacht
to
for
Nor [was
tutes
of
Erlnn
against the loss
or
an
article
equal
to
itin
value,
there
shall
of
a
pledged
needle
paid
as
each]
is
It is in ornamentation she is paid
as
;
is an
an
contents
of
wife.
If
it
contains but two of its lawful articles, there are two
ounces
a
workbag of
are in
it does
in it, it is three ounces [of silver that are
paid].
If
that
is
paid.
But
value]
that
is,
workbag
of
silver,
and
a
diadem
of
gold
gold thread,
not contain
those things
ancient
Erinn,
intended
in bpeit)
^"^'^'
•
distress
their
price or pay being
of the
the cloth,
when upon
on
for
spinning
wool.^^"'
9.
For
a
rolling
beam,
that
rolled up
prepares
the
taken off the vertical reel, was laid, and wound off
into
balls
13.
For
a
border
having a bor-
own
facilitates to her
in
which
coiaat)
-00
Trinity College,
Dublin. There
is good
15.
For
a
Crioll,
that
is,
a
bag
formed
of
were
small
wooden
repositaries
of
prepared
materials,
which
the
ture
of
domestic
clothing,
may
be
which are
of the common
an amount
under
the
Irish
sixth
colour.
A
third
the
be
still
growing,
scutch".^
and
the
supply
of
a black
In
order
account of these tributes
washing
and
the
by
with
Glaissin,
no
dark
which deemed it unlucky
extracts
from
above,
of
it
in
reel
in
skenes
out
extracts.
ing,
as
well
the
wooden
pms,
(I'l)
[original:
]ao-
•pi\
An
Aeincij
-ppiA
structing in
Aengus
of
the
Firbolg
was put in
the
c1it\oip
p^MU]'
Atiet\inn
of January.
[or
Kilcoek]
in
Cairbre
ua
as draw-
ing and
embroidering now
be
clearly
in
the
as
these,
still
preserv-
ing
all
their
brilliancy,
in
a
book
the
book,
like
its
penmanship,
stand
perhaps
This
was
written
by
the
which,
from
its
anti-
quity
Green
close
of
of'thftH*'^'
as
follows:
An
hundred
hogs
in
statute
tribute
An
Cashel,
is
entitled
To
at Samhain [from
In readiness for
Fifty
oxen
and
fifty
cows,
Orbhraidhe.
Of
cows
are
bestowed
on
persons
of
tribe
perhaps,
including
his
men-at-arms.
Thus
To the
AileacJis
subordinate
kings
or
chiefs,
the
Three
Fifty
our
poet
Ulidia,
ale,
Ten
ships
to
cows not sickly,
And an hundred
Cathal,
Cathai.
his
to,
orrarito'"^
An
was,
among
other
and
ten
kingly
mantles.
hogs,
cows,
an enumeration of
chiefs,
petty king,
as sung
For
chiefs/''*^
his
house.
The
We
further
Abbeyfeale,
on
the
borders
of
And seven
133
The
kinsf
liable,
among
stipends
many
other
things,
to
the
following
items:
To two
award."^^*
phenomena
of
winds,
which
I
The
wind?,
so
tJiat
the
; the yellow and the
between
the
black
and
bic
cennn
ocuf
in
aIat)
5ert?icA«s JioV,
visits
the
six
cup
bearers;
of
of
Caiiscrach
Mend;
companions
the king's
nine guardsmen
Sencha,
the
tales
on
a poem
flax,
preparatory
to
their
being
vised
as
we
civil
dress.
festivals,
still
treating
the
subject
as
far
as
scarcely, if at
discontented
by
British coast
the moiinrch
he repaired
reach T
c.mrt'of
/>a-
Botkav
splendid
company
Materials
of
Ancient
Irish
and
I
high
king
of
Erinn,
Conaire,
Then
Ferrogain
hoods to
Cur-
Ci\wicencuAic,
they are now unintelligible.
*'
said
Ferrogain,
and
iroce|\cA
piACAC
Cet1t)]\A15
gold, and three
the
violet
;
two
shoulder
blades.
cheeks of
of
a
:
house could
niAib ^-jMcui'obig noi^A
i:o|\bo]'cci oa6
Upon
AI'AbicbuiLioc
cbociMj
cofcoT)Ac,
riAif- Acciu
"
and
Banna
[that
is,
;
CAe.
that
man".'^^"'^^
said
Ivgcel,
itnbi.
I
know
are the king's
first,
and
They wore
with
a
Ferfordae,
upon
Nine
nAib -pn
benci impu,
l^op-
T^ogAb
c«inApct)Ai impu,
^JJ_
rinni
Caiunul,
and
Cellgen,
"oe co-
swift
as
a
spear in his hand.
Ailill,
and the
Dael
Uladh"S^^^^
Celt-
in
the
county
ERINN.
149
-description
of
it
blows, it
to house-
keeping, his
Eiinn.
And
cige
upon
them.
Identify
those
jesters;
could
refrain
from
laughing
at
them".
Spanish,
{Slum lati-
Biror
the
 
are
Dub
cupbearers
private
drink-
But
it
may
be
objected
with its gorgeous
the
degree
of
exaggeration
in
many
of
are wholly
excrescences,
undoubtedly real,
on the
can
be
no
ra-
n'^,T^''"'"\
tional
in
remote
times.
Then
as
fain
uo
regards
the head, neck,
accuracy
of
1'
«c/yi?e,
the
authenticity
of
the
descriptions
and
lectures;
and
although
the
references
the
gifts
and
presents
made
by
I
have
deemed
it
worth
while
to
quote
another
in the
the
year
1194.
I
cue
-oAm
Ca'65
U\
tocA
Fonioriau
king,
in
Aithirne Ailgisach, king
of a large sized
laAv respecting
the mode
or Scottish
Bruighean
Daderga,
lieference
to
a carved brooch in the Book of Munster. Another reference
to a carved
of the subject of
battle
centuries.
of
Erinn
(whose
father,
Art,
was
waters, was
Danann;
river
Boyne.
Chuailgne,
con-
caTaicade
in
ornamented
with
other
caval-
mortification,
they
saw
coming
towards
them
one would
loops
; a
wheel-brooch
{Both)
of
Ac&y
biiAij'Dib
riAfbej.
Vot^
tiApiAipuc
iirou-
puib
at
their
sides,
inlaid
with
same
time,
I proceed
gold confining
was
written.
It
gold attached
This
;
obtuse point at
at the
broad end
form
a
a
solid
surface,
appeared
like
a
golden
rope
closely
with
a
few
only,
and
first
translate
Lord 664.
the
shield,
with
from
the kings and chiefs, under the t e terror of his
satirical
tongue.
presents
for
the
good
words;
but
valuable
no one knew
what
:
"
iDpuc
i'L'oacacIi
imon
treasures, in
the hands of
the
Royal
in
the
bay,
and
a
brooch of
gold, and
the fact
of his
their
brooches,
J^^"'"^
whether
they
wore
other
over
large
in
the
story
of
the
;
Ain- co-pecAn
brooches.
Acadcmy
are
some
own
country,
Cano,
canfsonof
already
slain
wives
accompanied
yvAli
Aedh
Slaine,
who
received
them
hospitably,
with
stones.
Again
the Bindghean
^^
Mac
Niadh,
Mac
Cumhaill.
It
appears
that
With shining
precious stones
njlonn,
iTti
•ook
f'Oiit
6iy\
the
time
illustrative
of
the
subject
of
dress
and
gone out
of use.
5011
l-Aec,
(•ciac
When
artist
makes
it
lustrous
by
wrist,
arm,
or
ankle.
Fainne
continues
to
be
the word
reference
fiueiiie
liiocliuAibli,
dish
strain
in
the
tenth
stanza:
gage
visited her court.
^^j
gtanzalO"!
two different
was, by
taking a
sists of a mere skeleton, formed of four thin leaves
standing
out
A.),
of older Irish antiquaries
man-
ner
of
death
of
Fothadh
ornaments placed on
for the
Magh
Leana.
of
the term
Fraich.
Magh
Leafki
in
Kerry
and apprentice charioteers
lecture, while
are
wreathed
bars
bent
most accurately
re-
from the base
singularly wrought
of
An-
therto
have
escaped
remained
unnoticed
by
the
learned.
and
conclusions
as
do I believe
that these capa-
be
worn
as
torques
at
the
neck,
although
only to
neck, as
well as
and
see
if
among
them
there
lec-
the
library
death
be
borne
by
them
Airgteach;
he
poet.
You
will
be
sorry,
said
Dalian
Forgaill
[the
the
Caute's
ac-
warrior,
of him
in
"
cAniboi
roj\
Acuf
AniACAiTA,
Acuf
A
which
is
in
the
ground
of
to
the
two
gold
Here,
as
in
the
former
case
a
lady's
Lnglialdh
Laga,
as
stated
already,
century, and anccs-
forced
him
to her
the
present
ruined
ab-
bey
has slain kings". And
folio
124,
a. ;
Failgi, worn
Muintorc,
which
is
a
name
compounded
of
these metals. The Muinche
these
lectures
may
far
back
Muineamhon, he died
It was
name
mentioned
in
West
Munster,
in
which
fought
historical
mountain
references
of
same
kind
lady
Bee
with many-
story of
Maelduin's Navi-
they
the Scot-
tish women
gold (around
their
heads.
Muintorc,
as
^-"^v"-
ornaments
for
and
Medhh,
at
the
fifty
steeds
which
formed
31ael-
Land
or probably exists at
it,
ieana,-
This ring, or
ever
glorious
me-
cayed
wooden
shaft
of
which
period of
were
subsequently
presented
by
his
these
remarks
I
eleventh
Its
showers
of
silver
spangles
magnificent,
Its
give it here
forms I
shall now
use among
a
thread, or fine
passages
tions given
cmcuH
"
carried] nine goads
drivers".'^*^*^
;
ciM
Bruighean
Daderga
ear-rings.
To
this
or
Ear-rings;
Chiiimriuch^
which
literally
not
the
order to
latter. The
monarch,
him'in
the"
Laeghaire
more than
of
chariot.
of
Find-
with its buttoning at
of the charioteer
to
keep
his
hair
from
falling
else
mifLentiAib. "bjunciie
CuAco
oeop
^o\\
AT)ib
ciiaIait)
Vii
a
former
lecture
of
the hair
mentioned
Maelann or point-
Petrie's collection,
and also
will be
ornaments,
whether
at
must
have
been
they were
of
the
hair,
for the hair mentioned
by
gentlemen,
but
by
hair
to
fastem^dV
the hair
were generally
of the hair;
character,
sim-
plicity,
and
the
olden
times.
Passing
pre-
cise
balls or hollow shells were attached to the hair. The
very
ancient
and
Bri
sparkles
and
of
the
gold
against
locks
or
strands,
gracefully
carved,
and
all
sorts,
and
the
balls
tresses
of
his
description
of
the
monarch
Conaire
316r,
at
her
free
toilette,
which
were
at
once
had
not
imtil
(ns)
[original
race,
here
a
some-
what
each neck,
As deliglitful
side,
side,
And
no
one
seeth
us
the
great
Tuatha
most
splendid
colour.
And
p.
195.]
w")
[See
original
in
Atlantis,
vol.
ii
on
the
top
or combs,
mention
in
our
nota
zaiic/,
articles
belonging
when,
besides
whilst the Land
the
or
Laws
crown,
to
which
I
"
places
The
queens
who
were
head
of
queen
Mairend.
The
condition
of
queen
Mairend
her
to
the
assembly,
however,
had
tion
introduces, we
a
queen's
our
con-
ception
of
the
C|\ Ane]\c
idea
whole head.
The
j/mrfof
Bo
Chuailgne,
where
we
are
: two
from the hoofs
this
story
carry
[that is] the
power of the
and-twenty
leaves
of
red
Lc'n
is
derived
from
a
peculiarity
of
his
teeth
was
not
the
legen-
fjuiid—
note
Cerd-
raighe
the
first
Cerd
or
goldsmith
There
is
a
the
Book
queen of
lectures, were
com
age
of
his
had
The
last
king
demanded
and
received
an
said he. Nera
CUAlb COn'DAIg
vpif,
ACAf
Cacaijic
in
"
those
November
eves
that
called
the
Borr
Bruinn,
a
few
said
king
Fingin.
concealment in
from
the
Niad-Nair
[in
the
Saviour
was
born]
wdiich
recesses
of
the
Uisncch [in
prophetess]
the
nnatiierceie-
been found
Mac Bubraith,
of
of
cvii^ahocc.
-po-
CA|\]MTiocAb cunnipcoA,
CAibcliep c1]^co^ c^ A •do
'oe)^50|\
oftiienameof
IjUcJita
of
Dinnseanchas,
Kinamoy.
or
the
three
showers
about
him
from
his many hammers,
of
Gomer.
•oo bicVi
metal,
but
of
the
man
proper,
and
Tipperary,
province
of
Gom
oma-
IMunster
and its neighbourhood.
as to which.
by the Royal L'isli
Academy, and consequently they
melted them
to have been
the
Milton.
of
the
county
bronze
swords.
The
other
is
chased
so
the
neighbourhood
of
Cullen
who
remembered
anything
abuut
carved
wooden
image
was
really
found
there,
there
appears
to
in
the
bronze
near
the
pommel;
of
gold
smel-
xxix.
ters
of
circumstances,
there
is
tribe
of
were descended
"
who
had
a
son
bear
a
very
insignificant
which, he
articles,
must have
appear
that
peat,
except
tlie
the
oak
and
fir, were rotten, and some horns, which from their size (they were
said to
O'Curry
(:!9i)
[original:
fep
oib
co
years
Cerclraiqlie,
the
last
of
the
seven
circa
A.D.
^^°'
;
I
cannot
some
222.
b.,
lower
corner.]
iiiAc
cViijeiMiAis
111AC
AilellA
Oloini.
readings
among
our
ancient
manuscripts,
I
ornamental
king's radiating
a radius
or crest
battle,
as
about
the
personal
Among these were
their
professions
with
their
artizans
may
other
ar«-^
hands
or
fists
In
Vretdne, the
has been handed down
his decisions about
almost
down
to
our
own
times.
in
Lord lOSG,^-'-*^'
a beautiful
northern
Whilst
bringing
(2M4)
[original
should find
county of
cups,
Dr.
Burney.
Le-
gend
harp
playing,
this
legend.
of the
northern or
form
they
went
their
surviving
words
the
Daghda,
pion]
followed
the
ofl" the
'faama^jf^
the
son
upon
of
Delbath,
hanging
upon
ibllows here
the
ha'rp;°
had
[in its
the
three
[musical]
to
by
taking
Aff
An
Se-
mACOetbAic,
ifAnn
boi
in
I have here
Egypt;
invented
and communi-
cated to
dancing,
in allu-
acute,
Egyptian
Mercury,
that
explanatory
of
the
their
native
country".
I
the Daghdas invocation of
defect,
cannot
be
;
into but two
or bags
and pfpe'sof
the mysterious music ?
share to
to
the
sounds
the
harp-playing
IS
cxtaut
a
vcry
ancient
and
smgulariy
a
chieftain
of
West
Connacht.
colour
royal house,
silver,
and
horse-switch,
in
their
hands
a
king,
hospitably re-
the
harp-
yam
Bo
bags
of
the
skins
of
as
tlie
strings
vibrated
[these
They [the
AililTs and
Three
comely
of Uaithne
[the harper]
bA
b|\Ac; piTO|\iiine co
in-bAccAii
opT)A
yoy,
ACAf
miLecVi
AfgAix)
eocli^.
—H.
was
whom
This
passage
is,
as
I
have
said,
from
our
the invention of
are really
and
vio-
lently,
whereupon
a
i^an'
by
the
spot. Feasting and music
had arrived,
expecting
to
be
is
"
constant crying.
"Oo
"beic
mle
acc
bioc
-oogpA.
dncit
of
the
magical
mansion
of
Glenn-
deirgdeis
was
bpAn,—
brazier, the
give
an
enu-
meration,
apparently,
of
all
proba-
bility,
the
names
The
Dagh-
of
the
apparently
de-
scription
ably treated
to anything
I could
the music
Dublin, the son of Sitrick; and that, of the har-
pers sent
of
con-
trary,
much,
if
not
Irish.
objects, held
a
century, at
the time
a
man
dressed
feet
are
bare
extended
round
two
garnet'.
BTidofflgures
added
their
harp
originally
out
of
Egypt.
[The
From
the
the
quadrants
in relievo
whether
the
;
that, in
tunic
as
conclusive
been
confirmed
some
old
up the
"
or Invasions"; and the account there preserved is just this:
we
island
mean) ;
that
Par-
had.
thalon
Gaedhelic writers
in
three
parties; that one of these parties settled on the nearest
coasc of
; that another
or
afterwards took, or
received, the name
as
deities.
;
of
their
;
the
the
four
cities
travels,
as
may
be
seen
the
author
not in older
the
Tuatha
De
Danann,
and
that
they
spoke
Latin,
Greek,
and
Gaedhelic
too.^^"^^
Now,
article had no idea that the Tuatha De Danann had
ever
been
in them.
some
ion;
Greek
Ia
to have
been its
we have
no reason
is
of the
quadrangular iiarp
have
by
no
mconsiderable
expense
of
research
and
thought
succeeded
in
this
explanation.
history of the
of Erinn.
tioned
in
connection
with
Aidbsi; the author heard the Crondn or
throat
accompaniment
dirges
of Athairne.
a
and
to
the
meaning
of
h- Uidhre. Fifth
still
the
the
person-
"Adven-
com-
On
the
and chief
provincial king
pleasant
custom
Seanchan'a
Seanchan
was
They
delicacies
which
hospitable
host
was
he could not satisfy
guests; but he
philoso-
repaired
for
all his
said he,
:
her
con-
stantly.
And
one
day
that
sea
a
the sounds
strand
^^^^'
name
his
comparison
with
the
legends
and
of vibrations
on an
are, of
course, fictitious
of
high breasted
dronn,
the
story
of
Noah's
origin
of
the
Cruit.
There
is
a
very
thousands of
by
connection with
extract
11
no
cocAf-
iffecA]\
Iffe^o
Doric
language
of the
his
share.
They
The
name
of
the
of
time
With
the
only place
her
southern
parts
historical
reference
mutual
partiality
of
the
young
action.
the
Suan-
xxxi.
traiahe
(or
happened,
it",
said
the
druids
and the poets shall lose their heads if they do not discover who
has done this".
"
a
death
sleep,
so
"
coibneA-p
friends were to
particular
a
death
sleep",
etc.^^-*'
This,
of the too great in-
crease
of
their
numbers
Limavady
[Leim-a-
Mha-
daigli],
in
the
retired from the
this time, with Dalian
in their favour,
chorus)
is, scientific purring
chorus) was the
was
Dirna,
women
to
the
shapes
As
a
my
sword".'^"^
praise
of
Crdndii, must have
at great
woman
end of each verse,
I
have
;
"
a
kind
of
the
followed in
Aidbsi
and
Cepog
Dalian
Forgall.
The
and performed their
Dal-
St. Colum
told him, and that
with which
P^-^^
And
making
straight
for
that
tlie
pas-
sage
Ireland
an
abbot".^'-*^^
Craif-
tines,
Cruit,
A- Uidhre, of which the
existing
copy
was
made
that
the
harp
the force and
;
if
ceil
5^1
—
Ceis;
and
900
copy of this celebrated
poem preserved in Leahhar
am
The quotation
and commentary
that I
h-Uidhre;
but
the
following
version
of
nothing
"Liber
Hymnorum":
.^^^^^
the^^l?.—
ceTO
fif
tity
of
small
harp,
but
for
to
the eleventh
harps, the
harp
strument. We
;
his harp
heavy strings were in the
large harp
the
poet,
proper
tune
this
fact
is
broken,
that
is
Coir
when
one
and
notwith-
the
the
tury;
harp
in
this
country,
Lamlichrann,
plrts'of'the
^^1'^'
harmonic
curve
diffe-
fountfin'this
; and Goloca,
num-
the
of Lecan,
teenth century. Attention paid
was
distin-
guished
from
harp
doubt that this harp
could its
those concerned?
The merry
Seantraoi,
musical notes
bound and
The first
the
incident
connected
music
OilioW].
^Aingis-f"''^
for
us'
a
sleep
timpanist,
Fer-Jl,
him,
with
all
(336)
[original
aided
by
the forces of
this story
that
the
Timpan
was
a
stringed
stringed
"
the library of
peculiar character
as
Feidlilimidh
Mac
Crimltthainn,
sang
these
words
there
Woe is
sure of
crossed
the
Shannon
year
845
then an established
to this
when
any
conclusions
from
compass with
made in my last lecture, the number of the strings
1^',"")?]^/^"
is
thirty
find in the
the
county
of
century,
Going back
Donnslehhe
O
Sochlachann,
vicar
of
whether
or
that
might
have
been,
our
chronicler,
which
forward.
About
the
year
1680,
a
right
to
the
Ulidians
of
the
Rudrician
or
Irian
race,
of
its
honour.
I
strings are spoken
said
known in
The humorous last
the Cruitire, or harper,
artists,
in
a
of
which
one of
and
of
allude to
the harp
preserved in
with
some
The
discussion of the
cautious and accu-
carrying
ing circumstance in the
to
whom
it
originally
or, more probably, to
by
any
chance
any
ac-
much
that another
of Clare,
ancestor of
the pre-
sent brave
accom-
plishments
and,
among
the
This
Doniichadh
Cairhreach
O'Brien
who
It
poem,
occa-
sion
of
a special
mission into
sheep
by
some
means
that
I
beauty
A
man's
grief
With
dexterous
The slender,
shall
get
^^^'^,^^'^1'
and
that
Mac
Conmidhe
Ay
tiA
a
Donogh
O'Brien?
It
may
indeed
seem
present
the
harp
to
1509,
would
it
be
too
the
which
I
have
delivered
to
your
tresorer".
Supposing
or
the Mac Mahons
Now,
Macnamara
living? Arthur
to
As
far,
O'Briens, but those of the more illustrious sept of the
O'iSeills.
To
no
such
specimen
has
so
boldly,
is repre-
such as it
copy
Book
of
commenced
appear in
word
Upon an examination, then, of
a
I do
an
authority
as
I
may
so
old.
now
by
of
a
crystal,
rstothe
an
day.''**^^
The
not those ol
poetry,
strange claim
let
our
only
feel-
ing
be,
Patrick
or
1 792 ? A harp of
1509.
translated in Mr.
R.I.A. The harps
Society of Belfast.
die". The
of
ble,
from
the
went
to
was
"Four
Mas-
There are,
of
have
recorded
in
s|^'j.^;^°;^^g
im-
flight,
1216,
or
thereabouts,
a
time
that
O'Brien,
owing
to
family
broils
and
men
been lost
another addressed
following is
of
the
grassy
[fields],
Of
steeds,
of
spears,
[or,
of
at the
time that
he addressed
cousin
of
his
a
him
piece into it.
well
pleased
hospitahties
of
Fermoy".
of the south that he felt inclined to abandon even the
plains
of
Roscommon
for
the
rich
;
Roche
and
south
Munster
to
his
into
Scotland
at
Mac
Conmidhes
poem
was not
poems of
greatness
trust,
Whilst
sorrows
of
down.
has
ceased.
1570
English
Queen
as
chronicled
by
the
only of all his
faithful warders
council of
Ireland, choosing
to
abandon
his
estates
and
Cianmaurice [in
festival of
time.
earl,
and
A c|\uic cAem oLlAin-nA
UaiL,
pA
A
cjAUic
rubAnj; cLaiii be^Ac
1^5,
\:-^^1,
in the
a
nation,
indeed,
we
of
so
Christianity, both at
apostle
their harps would
but
ad-
mirable
Bunting's
or pins
great part covered
Fitzgeralds, namely,
sur-
mounted
by
the household.
by
Wine
Butler
should
I
the
unsuccessful.
It
contained
crowded
ornaments,
and
richly,
in
IGll,
is,
in
it
in
1661,
was
of
conserved, and of
of
a
later
age.
The
Hampson,
a
visionary
and
fruitless
attempt
to
organize
a
Harp
Society,
through
wliose
patronage
a
school
view to
promote this
and
engravings
of
a
doubt
that
its
form
we
; for
we
are
informed
a faded recollection.
on
harp,
Captain Art Ma-
for
whom
indebted
for
the
privilege
died, and its
owner having given
and
I
have
a
pleasure
in
yet
exists,
county of Wicklow, the beautiful
seat of Sir George F.
J.
or
inscription.
trict of
the ancestor
"the
of
it
bears
he
I
think
it
is
a
which have
have never seen,
have
classes
and
creeds
our city
soul',
striking
an
instrument
which
perpetuate
the
ex-
the"exer-^
istcncc
of
the
harp
of
and
with
a
knowledge
of
only
a
of
been
taught
to
play
melodies
springing
from
man's
sensibilities.
Fashion
will
not
now
allow
great poet has
world'
There is
been
as
I
have
acquaintance
and
Scotland.
of
I
cannot
resist
Muirmdhach
of
a
re-
o'Daiyor
existing
ac-
of
Cnoc
Muaidh,
in
the
county
not forget
but such
posterity
he
O'Daly,
or,
as
was
called,
particu-
Blessed
of
the
learned
O'Daly
family
is
set
down
by
the
O'Clerys
and
Mac
Firbis
as
INSTRUiMENTS
use of the harp
of
the
synod
from the
(1840),
all
of
place
or
instance
of
the
per-
formances
harp, or any
these
their
of Carman.
Banquet-
ing-
mentioned
in
some
bronze
bells
in
tlie
of fruit,
and on horses
invention.
The
Crann-Ciuil, or Musical Tree; it was a generic term for
any
where
it
is
a
the fair of Carman,
as
now
only
horn, and
as
an
this is manifestly
for
war
out
other
"
of
such
name
Buinne
itself
as
applying
of
ancient
antiquity, ex-
actly similar;
one
to his royal
Cornaire
are
introduced,
from
a
pieces
feet
five
inches
three
hAin,
Acu-r
5i\Aiplini
piece at least,
"<>
music
nients?"
night,
Almhain (now
time
resided
"
half
of
Donnho was
the son
and
telhng
of
to equip
plait hair
tloff
tlie
and tri-
.^^^*^
including
•oe'6
"ouin,
a
"Ooinnbo
! -pobic
Ap
comji An
It was
roar
writer. This
head
the buffoon's
head was
in
instruments
of
them
relathig
his
of
all:
Here
is
a
com-
mand
you,
yet, let
warrior heard the music
'
same night, and he found
the
thou didst
earth
no
pAJA-o
ipn
oocum.
Ha
cojIac.
Ilin
mif
e
 
and the
ster, and
about the year
names
of
place
assigned
tioneTin
the
to
him
is the Craebh Ciuil, or
Musi-
cal
Branch;
•p-oe
"oinnn
aiiocc,
-peb
00
the great
Craehh
a
former
lecture'^*^^'
as told
of
Connacht,
at
Sleim-
Tain Bo
peculiar
to
the
distinction
and
of
it
was
ornamented
with
carbuncle,
so
was
is
what
has
ever
since
and over
of
Ui
and
ocuy
in the
;
of
Fermoy.
for
Tara],
he
of
balls) of
not
known
to
the
apples
pro-
duced
go to sleep and repose with the music, and no
sorrow
wonderful Branch
I
have
friends.
He
to his
"
indicative
or
symbolic
of
peacef;*'^'*
reposc
and
peace,
military
not
so
regularly
globu-
lar.
They
this
ring
a
effective
instrument
whose
ancient
writings
I
just
enumerated,
as
old),
clergy.
They
consisted,
learned anti-
quary just
from
B,
Crotal,
or
bell-cymbal
a specimen
tongue,
although
encircled
them
all
round
xxTTv.
It
shaken, such
it
Crothla
which
two
interesting
times
in
our
country,
of his approach
of
this
hermitage
was
to be
country
parts
as the
to
the
Senchus
Mor,
of
Christianity
into
this
country.
An
instance
of
is no
such instrument
and
that
all
that
same
class.
The
performance,
he
promised
him
heaven,
in
when
CraJin
Ciuil
was
applied
indiscrimi-
nately
Next in order
The
Cms-
Cuiseach,
a
of
which
is
a
mentioned
is no attempt
veins
Invasions of Ireland, in the
story
have given
her para-
the Siege of Troy.
or Pipes ;
of
the
;
the
R.I.A.
graduated scale
found
in
England;
were
Danish,
erroneous;
Smith's
error
that
one instrument,
reproduced by
"Commander's
Stall",
borrowed
fiom
Wagner;
Sir
relating
wounded
skilful
per-
by
Find
him:
to your forehead, or to some
other member ofyour members, and
it
Ballymote
[f.
186.
b.
The
first
(377)
a very
human
voice,
and
Buinde
or
Buinne,
a
pipe
Alexan-
over-
throw
the
Serrdha,
the
moss
which
;
flesh
camels, and
by
[order
the
same
their
arms, adorned with gold and silver, and from their gems of
pre-
cious
stones,
in the
is taken
from Orus.
others relating
X.
 
Rev. Dr. Norman
any more
it had, it
power,
will
St.
A
ilblie
namely,
•ooriA
have
recounted
this
curious
legend
in
Ajax
instrument,
and
to
Feidldemidh
Mac
indeed
Oircin.
To
this
connec-
tion
formance,
but
a
section
of
"
to
ancient sayings
runs
thus:
compared
to
compared
to
the
harp.
reference
to
this
instrument,
as described in
in the
the
bag-
pipes
to
this
1855
from
the
lips
draw
a list
which I have
same
or
calhng
attention,
and
the
Stoc
Focra,
blast.
Could
the
tribes,
and
the heads of the
terruptions, they that are
the
same
purpose or
city
all
the
people
shall
shout
be
spoken
of,
Enoch
the
from
their
graves"/^^^^
And
in
the
The
Stoc,
is
ancient poem
lady
king
and
queen
of
Connacht,
of these
;
a.]
and
apprised
which
they
laid
siege
to
it,
and
after
a
and put thy
came a certain ruler and worshipped him, saying,
'
'
is not
put forth, he
our
the
Cornua
of
the
ancient
Cor/mT"'^
Romans,
which
was
which
of
the
I'o
the
edges
of
the
moulded
horn,
The
Buccina
is
the'iToman
desciibed
in
Rees'
Encyclopaedia
as
the
concave
sur-
specimen of
a straight
used
for
the
of that
to
the
Committee
of
(page
109,
Appendix),
except
in
any
I
ever
heard
the
wide
ends,
which
seems
think
there
must
have
been
mouth-
Mr. Ousley's
be
apparent
to
any
man
of
common
as
to
the
smaller
ins-truments,
1
and
holes
and
all,
showing
easy it would
^x'^v-
of
remembered that in
they, that, at first
view, they could scarcely
the possession of
by
a
scale
injured
by
half
an
inch
diameter;
these
little
of
be
sufficiently
evident
from
the
bought
onthem';°"^
by
a
the bishop's
posses-
of them
to be
infinite
of
it
has
a
a
smith's
Danish
might
say,
the
Smith's
found in the county of Cork,
did
one instrument, reprinted,
part of
524
represented
as
trumpe-
in
Wagners
Handbuch
der
Alterthiimer,
Saxony,
where
the
article
here
in
1787.
The
trumpets
;
to
;
and
cmnman*
be
hidden
by
old
flir
as
they
a
grave
mistake,
and
of Sir
Wm Wilde's
third. Many
menta.
of
a
Welsh
Cruit.
one
by
a modi-
of
the
Timpan
materials
Dermait
;
Lethrind
signified
and
timpanist
were
compiled
by
the
Bo Aire ;
Tim-
panist
me
word
is
the
Teillinn.
harp,
as
well
as
assump-
must
be
correct,
because
instances
(very
few,
I
which
I
alluded
to,
as
well
as
upon
the
antiquity
the Cruit,
be
number of threads
It would appear,
to
its
various
measures,
wherein
the
poet's
skill
was
;
Grufijth
ap
Conan
intro-
duced
the
am only
the side
where the
with
a
board
ending
in
a
filled. It is used mostly to
hold
salt;
out or
clearly
understand
that
his
vmder
the
name
Tiinpan.
1
am
equally
certain
that
we
of
a
broken
heart.
is Bri LeitJi,
;
chilled
a
Teillinn is found in
his life
way.
Of
king
last;
but
o^
Marhharis
answer
I
have
got
(400)
[orijiinal
CoLccli<Mi\
cen
coiAOAfAin
injen,
i-j'e
CupA
bie]'i:iiipi\i,
approach 'of
The next and third
the perverse
a
The
word
the
mTiigof"
more
ancient
initial letter,
of some
I meet the word
Great Book
o£Dun
the women
and sister
timbrels and with
the
(page
50),
bif-
-oo
Leinster, and differ
I'o this address
beyond all ques-
had
been
placed
under
sails to
came to a
the
It
is
curious,
puts
the Forbais,
and the wisest
chief,
of the
Boyne, near
incredulity
until
one
day
that
he
all his attendants
nized
at
once
as
that
of
the youth if
poem
of
of the
imagination, still
M13)
[oricrinal
ocIac
AUnnn
il-oeAtbAc;
ocuf
r\&
lieoiti,
little
doubt
that
our
clear
on
two
discussion. First,
And
secondly,
it
proves
beyond
like that
from it, this very
times the Cruitire, or
^F^'^j?^'fj'''y
form two
distinct classes
that
this
was
ha^^piTye^d
entitled
certainty
We
of
the
in
the
Laws, we
find that
so
his Eiiechkmd, or honour-
musician of
ciiicf iim
proceed
xxxvi.
to
give
some
Petre's
History
and
Antiquities
of
Tara,
the
Cnaimh-fhear, a
in the
the
ancient
bone was
possibly
Royal
Irish
Academy
above a
or
harper.
He
is
also
ti'e
CruUht
is
assigned
a
spe-
the
Banqueting
play-
ing
lady Deirdie
for the
Feddnach or
the
Fer.
'Vhd
scventli
Carman, already
of
the
Pipaire,
and
fair of
curved
horn
or
speaking
trum-
pet
is
the
Sturganaidhe,
that
ancients;
re-
is
has
been
the Adventures
accompaniment produced
the Dordun;
latter
word
occurs
in
the
pagan
Gaedhil
sang
Dialogue
in
a
MS.
as Lxdnneoji
or music
laudation;
Esnad.
The
"
Sinn or
Sianan, applied
in the
a
verse,
but
also
to
a
particular
kind
of
Cohim
Cille,
at
the
This
meeting
and
this
a
former
lecture.
performance,
known
amongst
us
as
we have
the au-
thority of
elegy on the death of St. Coliim Cille, preserved in
an
ancient
vellum
MS.,
lately
as
follows:
at
this
time;
of
ancient fragments of
was Mesraeda)
begging
from
him
a
shwnby
saw
in
this
coincidence
a
the
hound
to
Conchobar'".
Ulster
shall
sing
submit.
The
cha-
; but
we
;
cheerfulness.
who
were
and
grief.
There-
upon
the
of
Ulster
felt
pronounced
an
language
of
the
professional
bards
of
This
oration
term
the
seventeenth
composed, or
women, in concert,
hermit
that,
''
fasten
thee
thee everywhere, from one
long
and it
means
thiia
INSTRUMENTS
Crondn,
or
purring,
a
nature
of
chief
Company".
pQQ^
Seancha?i,
the term
Crann-Dord.
the rifra 5d
brown
chuaiigne
Kerry,
^'''^i
this
-i, ,
PI-
1
the
ancient
shepherds
of
melody. And
it".'^^^^
the
following
The
sixth
num-
quatrain
[yecie
Ardaii\
pagan
or
ancient
Gaedhil
sang
and
different
ancient
harp.
The
tone
of
that
part
fo
was
prefixed
to
xxxvn.
the
word
Dord;
Fo-Dord,
the
called An-
king of
it in which the
was from
Dingle
in
Ker-
passage
have
arisen
from
the
circumstance
that
the
Coxm-Dord
of
the
or
of his beautiful
Branch",^"'^
If
we
read
this
or
blend,
wooden
The
Three
reason to
said
one
of all
the fairy
nobleness,
the
same
counte-
nances
of
Bansidhe
(or
fairy
so
that
Bensidlie's
what
semblies
were
kind,
I
cry
is
called
killed
the
passage, and
the sons
Sianan,
is
and
also
in
to
lona
on
the
into the
northern seas.
a new island,
word Sian, or
^iTfluIceiU
Magee, on
a
immediately
near.
Here
St.
Mochae,
to
had
his
way
to
of
music
in
which
three
been a
a
place,
when
tract
on
versification,
which
is
preserved
the
term
motc.
In
that
copy
a'^ti^dto
will sing
of
to the
air of
"
called
verse of &
necessarily
imply
hi.s
having
lived
after
the
permanent
mentioned, but
in this tale. The author does not want to establish
a
kind
of
ancient
or
is
the
last
lecture
down to us in
a
f'e
exist
a
unk,',ownm
of
a
demonstrated.
by
myself,
could
lay
before
any vague
have been
A botcAin buit)!,
quatrains
of
which
the
stanza
is
^composed,
consist
line
in
the
whole
stanza.
These
peculiarities
cannot,
of
valour,
the
stu-
dent
heard upon Slighed nDala,
mounted
with
a
ever
;
day.
of
the
subject,
but
merely,
of Seaghan O'Duihhir
a
stanzas
in all. The
the wicked at the
^-xxvui.
Xlie
Ui
or
0'
this
poem
The
Ui
or
0'
does
iiot
his great-
that this poem was
vowel
that
of
the
present,
"OiA
mop
"oom
iioniAiii.
Christ the
The Son
have for
is
to
1
feel
that,
our
noTwitten"^
aucicnt
Irish
prosody
illustration
of
a
theory,
Irish
there
still
exist
means
of
a
so
often
re-
be-
containing
twccn
the
quccn
each
of
AccediA
Af
And the freedom
of thy children,
in
the
to
the
first
part
of
limits
of
a
well-defined
and
the
Cuchu-
laind.
The
in which the latter
eight
as was sufficient to explain the continuation of the dialogue.
Tlie fourth is
and
his
success in the
dialogue
Cuchulaind
against
and the
It
poems
are
composed
of
odd
sixteen
the
air
which
we
have
provi-
might
referred. The
than for me
present
there in
not
the
combat
that
age
of
712 years
Chnailgne;
and
specimen of this
kind of verse.
is
Etan
Cend
Derg
(of
this
day
under
take victory.]
the year 558.
the dates ascribed
versification
are
found,
we
may,
;
of my
consolation
music;
been supported in the effort lately
made
of
that
appeal
to
volumc
little
duke,
a
music
the
 
term
can
lies
to
to Dannsa
so.
-?'<'»'
The
former
is
later
said:
for
a
or move
It is cii-
written Raghla,
it should
Sweden or Nor-
into
Ireland.
"jig"
seen.
It
to exist is preserved
not
contain
the
episodes
The one in
Leinster.
This
copy
is
the Editor is
^Ae bubj^A
"PejTOiAX) nA
ceccA pin,
OClip
pA
1p
AmbAit)
pA
valiant
advantage
over
and disgrace
before
pleasant,
sweet,
mtoxicatmg
liquor,
so
that
piomisea
And great
and the
extent of
And thus
Avas Medb
A
It
1
Here is
one who
will not
refuse thee
III1II ITlAtlAITO,
to a consort
With lofty speech and despotic
power.
Send
silver.
earth
of
the
feats,
O
with
six
Mutual
champions
her,
as
he
'"'eidiad.
thought,
on
Cuchu-
laind
fall
by
him.
pip
in mo-o,
nin geib
one foot in
I, I
trust, yield
To shun
rage
Because
of
his
blood-red
sword.
the
troops.
valour,
-pttiAju
—
UAnic
"oo 1T1e-ob
im nA
no compAC
combAint),
Ferdiad
went
FerdUd
teiia
of
the
promise
of
; and if
be their
5-
Ha
pA-o
fepp
bA|i
^^CA^iAt)
popjemen
mo
Ferdiad
and
;
We will
battle
him there.
at
Why
Cuchn-
all
until
chariot is yoked, step
And
then
the
battle-
oca]'
in
^^^]\
in
necb
in
pec
bun
bAibe
in
bibe
ip
bUA-OAC
A
ni-buAit)
1p
cu
"oo
friction
of
advance
of
the
cham-
pion
and
"Good,
O
Ferdiad!"
^"'^o'"'!;
said
the
servant,
chariot
describes
With
By the foot
He
is
[the
presage
his
home
tufty-maned,
ready-going,
broad
backed
steed
CO]'
-[MinfA,
am, and it
me,
thee.
thee
of this
day. For
unfriendly
invectives
against
the
other
and
to
slay
thee,
In
our
will
reproach
thee,
'T
is
accomplished
In presence of
If
mountain.
Sharp
weapons
shall
be
time.
F.
Desist
Thou heart
with
me
cliAb,
reyy
'Oo cuaca]1
n-jocnAccA
neic
437
was betrothed
For
when
reproaches'l^
we
with Aife,
wilder-
ness,
through
and though
it
shall
not
avail
thee
ford".
and
their eight
other
with
those
the
faces
and
fciAc
com-
"OA
teije-p,
ptAnpeii
]aa
bepcbeA
-|aa
cne-OAib
ocAp
ac pA]A
Cac1i biAT),
CoincutAinx) ;
-oai^
Cuchulaind.
And
the
spears
from
shooting Avas
so good,
"
hath
the
hands
of
the other
forthwith, and
their
gashes,
the purveyors
®
*^°'" **'
for
they could have passed through
their
bodies
on
that
Cuchulaind,
hands
of
their
chariot-
repetition
of
bestowed three
Their charioteers
and curing
co
1110c
a]\
nA
CviculAin-o.
mo
bbAt)
ie
443
ford
and features and
thee
"
not
subdue".
these words,
for thy love,
But to test
To
With
C.
50
moc
a^
nA
ocAp comlAint)
5ett chnepp,
11a gAbApcA^
C.
From me my soul
feats
the
heavy""'"
"
swords this day,
by
the
And
then
they
took
two
long
on that
day. They
destroy, until
larger than
the
that
of
evening's
close.
hands of
that that
And it
combat
Ferdiad
puts
fight was
spangled gold
upon it,
on his
apron of
c^thA]\]\ cacIia,
-oe
bA]i
pomum blip
good
words
to
me,
that
my
courage
Cin'oip
CucutAint)
"o'tiii
ocAp in
coin-OA]'
HaIa
CucnbAinx)
uaxd
bApv
bAp
50
afar
became more
furious, and
above. And
it was
and cast
Cuchulaind from
of the
from
above.
of the ford.
away
as
a
lewd
woman
would
cast
cfueVmhlimi
He binds
as
the
hawk
darts
on
into
the
troubled
clouds
above. And
then it
]iAiAfet:A|A
in n-AbAinx)
50
]ia
fobAij
bemiiienAib,
ocai"
yocAl-
a
uaccai]\
gibiA
in
jAC
"oe bA]i
was
the
clo.seness
rivpr out
the
ford,
so
that
unless
it
dropped
continued
his
un-
guarded
it was
cut open.
And when
Ferdiad heard
the Gae-Bulg
mentioned, he
up
to
foot,
and
he
threw
the protections
battle.
Thou
not
by
mec,
ocA-p
riA
pnt)
Con-
beiiic
ec
ocAp
mic
bo
ChuAitnge.
ip
AmbATO
-|\A
bAI
5A
]IAX),
OCAf
spake
these
words:
was
unhappy
for
that there will
playing
vul-
ture
to
contend for
Tain Bo
"
iii-bol^A
right.
Thou thy chariot no longer driving.
Sad the deed
We the pupils of
and
a
each
my
hands,
^°^,f
Celtic peoples of Europe,
3.
pA^A,
etc.), at
have
been
could
of the
small
portion
the
it
probably
contained
an
introduction
and thus
O'L. O'C.
on the
of
these
known. The
does not
the
year
696,
refers
to
"
be-
lieved
it
to
have
been
as the
-oa LeA-
Hin.
A]\
iitoi
Aire.
He
rank
after
mining the qualifications,
-poii^Aiit, ca-
rank
than
the
JiVe
See
much
discussion
as
to
its
true
meaning.
It
correspon
Is
to
and Stokes'
Irish Glosses,
ut est At/tach turc
each
chief
or
High
Tuatha,
ruing, there were
this subject
in Inteoduction.
Ger-
MSS.
means
a
face, and gart,
traverse
its
territory.
his
penitlty",
etc.,
in
which
Smachts,
or
fines,
were
summarily
the
person.
The
properly
a
Fer
Tonga.
non-ap-
pearance.
A
hind-
that he
:
from the
Celtic, as
we have
?
CO
him.
of
Brugh-Law.^^'"
The
other
Fer
Midboth
evidence]
without
increase,
Diguin,
insult
(491)
man,
and
Toinj,
App.
p.
473,
and
note
574,
of
the
people
is
alike
responsible
for
kept, to
as
a
redeemed
hostage,
while
he
in the
tendance, or a bad
sion of the liability
in perfect
Corns
grades of
the territory,
or
A1]AecbA]' 1\iA-|^m ]\o
bA CV1A1]\-0X)1-0,
i^ecAib.
innpn,
\:e\\
riA
cpeAbAiT)
payment
of
Second
Fer
exculpated
from
with him upon Folach.''**'^' lie is entitled to cream on
new
years
to
bearded,
were
afterwards
put
for
the
fine.
It
to
any
apparently
related
dm,
to
tlie
injured
ni hey Ajit)-
-ou, co]AbA
[|:o]\be]AA],
Vide
O'Curry's
Gloss.
(508)
Cainne,
to
enable
him
to
control
or custumal,
18.1 76. a.). The
inoiji
cAcli
"01
noi
A
AiclnjA
be]'
A
C151
pt
^aiaiti,
i^eoic
of
whom his
father has
ten Seds
then. It
the
grade
his rank is derived ;
wealth.
ADartaid
Inidi^^'*^
tides
of
every
country.
The
Ch't/iar
pends,
and
prices
THE
pork and a hog cured in bacon'^^"'^ with a cow,
or
malt,
and
half
of
the
higher
grade
he traverses
mainte-
and
on
Sundays.
His
honour
t^'^J
yopfUToix)
Avife,
and
his
son of
dians,
his
honour
in
its
fulness,
and
he
and
ten
Seds.
He
"ooi^Ait)
ocvi-p
"oenmAi
m
Amib
ocui^
•oom-
riAcliAib,
ocu^'
[bachelor
of
B6-
Aireship],^^-^'
day of
not
neAv
him
who
wounded
hiiu
(or
by
the
territory
whose
dry
measure.
^l/rwe(/
seven
Cumals
him,
for
his
Ansv/er:
His
deeds:
occa-
ce]'bAn
Brugh-Law.
He
livering
Zend
mru,
to
speak,
to
say.
See
-|\inii [cobcAi]\],
Bo-Aire who dispenses
judgment. He has
two vats in
a
of a rooting hog
ment
has three
nAixjm,
a
oe;
sheep
stay
at
all
times
own co-grade, in
good,
robbery,
without
Avounding
[or
killing]
Seds for going through
h'.s
i8.'i.i).
any-
the Dire
with
resti-
tution
of
everything,
A
account of
the
oi]\eTiA]\
miedi
nileche. IIIa'oa
roof,
new
rushes
are
and
restitution.
Of
:
to one-half
grinding. If
except what
is torn
IIAX)
^O
cbombAlllg
A
zh\]\
Caici
foniAine
nijAUgpeiA,
-|\iAm
the
B6-Aires,
because
his
himself want, he gives
of
each
coav
in
corn
grain
Desa.
When
not
an
Aire
not
among
Brughfers
he
Bo-
hi
cbuifedi,
ociip
the
despotic
rule,
or
lordship.
is the
iiia-oa
gelt
<>'C-
if an excess
him in that case.
security,
as
we
been
richly
orna-
mented.
His
honour
with sufficient
bo Ai]\ec1i
itIacIiai?
'Oej
-otigi-o
[yo]\-
CAicb,
MS.
p.
419]
to
anything for
his
honour].
Question.
from a person's
again
Bo
-Aires,
every
uroi
1)"
1^•^^6^.
"oo
in
the legal
fines, etc.
II. 2.
dn^i,
ici|a
G'pciAAi
CAipi,
eight
beds
(.518)
coshering
king and
refec-
on that night
the
Lestar
varied
in
size
was
intended ;
life
of
St.
out of, both
called
appears to
of
the
ppiu.
his
their summer food.
rank and equal,
Toing,
he
is
a
Naidm,
he
:
—
'
Unga)
Umaidc,
or
OAc -oin
nnicleiclie
-oiiine.
tnAni
"oepnAc
co
cenn
niif
-oo
ceic
-onA
iiepep?
A]\
in-oi
Ap
nAiraT)!.)
ott)Ap