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The Bodleian D inns henc has, 485

After her folk emigrated, without prohibition, With the fair offspring Congancneiss.

Also in LL. i68 b 19 ; BB. 376 b 49 ; H. 30 a ; Lee. 474 b ; and R. 106 b 1.

Sliab Mis. Two mountains were so called, one in Antrim (now Slemish), the other between Tralee and Killarney, in Kerry. See O'Curry, Lectures, pp. 394, 448 ; Keating, p. 201 ; O'Donovan, Four Masters, A.M. 4319.

Eockaid, son of Mairid. See the tale of his death, LU. 39 a et seq.

[18. Loch Lein.] — Loch Lein, cidh dia da?

Ni ansa .1. Loch .1. Lein Linnfiaccla[i]ch xixaic Bain Eolgaig vi\aic Bannaig, cerd sen Side Buidb. Is e romboi fo^ loch ic denam niamlesstair [Fainde] Foltlibre ingine Flidaise^ [13a i]. lar scur a opn each n-aidhce [focheirded] a hindeoin uad [co hindeoin na nDeisi] cosin feirt, 3 na frasa foceirded^ iarsin din muin it eat na nemanna rosilat ann di. Nithnemannach dorigni a cetna oc slaidi cu[a]ich Concobrt/> raaio. Nessa a [thjuaid. Is do sin ata [Loch] Lein ;) Ind[eo]i« na nDeissi. Unde Loch Len.

Len Linfiacclach rc^ac Bain Bolcaig* fo Loch Lein li;zdiacac (?) leir. cerd cen ciargestul, cen cain, fodail niamlesstair fo neim.

The Lake, that is, of Len Linnfiaclach, son of Ban Bolgach, son of Bannach. He was the craftsman of Sid Buidb (" Bodb's Fairy-mound"). It is he that was under the lake making the bright vessel of Fann the Long-haired, daughter of Flidais. Every night, after quitting his work, he used to fling his anvil away to the Indeoin na nDese ("The Anvil of the Desi"), to the mound ; and the showers which, thereafter, it used to cast forth from the back, they are the pearls which were there sown by it. Nithnemannach did the same in beating out the cup of Conor mac Nessa in the north. Hence is " Loch Lein" and the " Anvil of the Desi".

Len Linnfiaclach, son of Ban Bolgach,

Under Lough Lein . . . manifest,

A craftsman without a black deed, without reproach,

Distributed bright vessels under heaven.

Also in BB. 379a5 ; H. 32b; Lee. 477a; and R. loBa i. Versified, LL. 154b 35.

Loch Lim, now the Lake of Killarney. See O'Curry, Lectures, 75.

Sid Buidb, v. supra, No. 4.

Indioin na nDise, now Mullach IndeSna (anglieised Mullaghnoney), near Clonmel, co. Tipperary. Four Masters, A.D. 852; Chron. Scot., p. 389. See O'Curry, M. and C., iii, 203. For cerd sen side Buidb H. has cerd-side Buidb.

The text seems corrupt. For for lock H. has isin lock. The third and fourth sentences stand thus in H. :

^ MS. ior. - MS. ingine foltlibri fligais. ^ MS. foceiredid.

  • MS. bolcaid.