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[RISH METRICS
WITH A GLOSSARY, AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE
POETS OF IRELAND

BY

KUNO MEYER

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PREFACE
No

proper and

full

account of Irish versification from the oldest

period of unrhymed alliterative verse to the gradual supersession

of dan dueach by English metres can be

have special investigations into

Meanwhile

have thought

its

useful to

it

we

written until

first

history at almost every point.

sum up

form the

in a concise

present state of our knowledge both on alliterative and the strict

syllabic poetry.

have

aside altogether both the

left

modern

metres, the looser forms of syllabic poetry, such as glachas and

bruilingecht, x

and the so-called

'

which

rhetorics,' for the latter of

the student should consult Windisch's articles in the Revue Celtique,

vol. v, pp.

my

In

389 and 478.

account of

syllabic

poetry

have followed

almost

throughout Thurneysen's masterly and lucid treatise in his lrische

Verslehren in the third

As he

Texte.

first

volume of Stokes' and Windisch's

lrische

traced the origin of the syllabic metres to the

hymn poetry of the fifth and sixth centuries, so he was also

among modern scholars to recognize and establish all the
By basing his exposition
essential laws of this kind of poetry.
Latin
the

first

upon the form of the verse-end in the different metres, he has

brought light and order into the chaos of native tradition. The
examples by which I have illustrated the various rules and metres
are taken either from the Old-Irish treatises printed by Thurneysen

in

which case the source

is

not indicated

or from

well-known

poems.
It

should be noticed that throughout this book an accent denotes

stress,

not length, which

is

marked by a horizontal

bar.

dot

under a vowel marks elision.

I

hope that

this

primer

the study of Irish metrics.

will stimulate Irish

students to take up

Almost every paragraph

See O'Molloy, Grammatica Latino-hibernica, cap.

xxi

and

in

it

xxiii.

calls

PREFACE

vi

for further

metrics

to

minute investigation, the value of which

;

for

will

it

incidentally add

to

pronunciation and the history of the language.

rhyme and

not confined

is

our knowledge of

The

part played

by actual pronunciation on the one hand,

by tradition on the other
the change in the pronunciation of

in

alliteration

consonants and vowels, such as

nants, oi

and

th, dh,

at; the effect of sandhi

gh, initial

before conso-

the division of syllables in

pronunciation, &c.

to establish from

a close observation of the laws of

On some

alliteration.

and much

all this

else

it

should be possible

rhyme and

of these points Whitley Stokes, in the intro-

duction to his edition of Gorman's Martyrology, pp. xxx-xxxviii,

has collected valuable material, and established certain laws.

As

may add an observation, which so

I know has not been made before, though it is a commonin Welsh metrics.
If dh and d come together, they have

to the part played by sandhi,

far as

place

between them the value of /, as in the following couplet from

Goffraidh Fionn ua Clrigh's poem entitled Marbnad D
'

'

t
marbhnadk Dc,

nl

trebhadh tnidh,

garmhac

duinj dleghar din.

The same rule would naturally apply in the case of gh + g, bh + b.

One word of advice to the beginner will not be out of place. He
must accustom himself to read
stress,

Irish poetry entirely by ordinary

word-

discarding altogether the fanciful theories as to any regular

interchange between stressed and unstressed syllables,

or as to any

secondary stress enabling certain syllables to carry a rhythmical

accent. 2

At no period can unstressed, half-stressed, or even the

fully-stressed final syllables of

accent.

Munster pronunciation carry such an

Unless the ordinary accentuation

is

followed, neither the

laws of rhyme nor alliteration can be properly understood

attention paid to

accent words as

while

rhyme and alliteration often teaches us to correctly

to whose stress there may have been any doubt.

Thus, some scholars would not have wrongly placed the

stress in

and dochum on the final syllable if they had known that these
words rhyme with ligiu and toffund respectively.

didiu

of

Such

my

as the theory put forward

by

me

in the

Metrical Excursus at the end

edition of Cath Fionntragha.

-As assumed by Zimmer

in his

KeUische Studien,

II,

p. 160.

PREFACE
I

vii

hope that the list of poets which is appended will be found

It was my intention to include the name of every Irish poet

useful.

except those

still

and

One drawback

faulty.

alive

but the

list

is

sure to be both imperfect

name

to its utility is that the tribal

sometimes placed immediately behind the Christian

name, sometimes at the end. That for completeness' sake I have
(sloinneadh)

is

also included fabulous or mythical poets will not, I trust,

annoy

anybody.
In conclusion,

Tadhg

heartily for

Donnchadha

additions to the

list

my

friends Professors Bergin

many

valuable suggestions, and

desire to thank

and Thurneysen very

for

several

important

corrections

and

of poets.

K. M.

March, igog.

IRISH METRICS
We

can distinguish three successive periods in the history of

Irish versification

(i)

period of rhythmical alliterative poetry (Early Irish).

This period

(2)

on into

lasts

period

(2).

of unrhythmical

syllabic

poetry,

i.e.,

poetry

containing a fixed number of syllables in each verse, with end-rhyme

or consonance, internal rhyme, and alliteration (Old, Middle,

Modern

Early
(3)

period of rhythmical poetry in which the same sequence

of vowels recurs

Modern
The

and

Irish).

in

the stressed syllables of each verse (Later

Irish).

last

period

lies

outside the scope of this primer.

It arose

towards the

end of the sixteenth century, probably under the influence of English poetry,

and continues
used during

till

For a description of the metres commonly

between the two chief classes

the present day.

this period,

and

for the distinction

of these metres [amhrdn and caoineadh) see P. Dinneen,

Ruaidh u
Oidhche

of

Silledbhdin, pp. xxxix

(Zeitschrift

Irelaiid,

f.

pp. 548

celt. Phil, v.,

ff.

Mac

ff.

L. C. Stern,

pp. 286

ff.)

Erlean, Ddnta,

D. Hyde,

Amhrdin

Amhrdin Eoghain

Cirt an Mheadhin

is

Literary

Hutory

Caointe Seathrin

Citinn, pp. 13-15.

A. Alliterative Poetry

Few specimens

of the rhythmical alliterative poetry of the

Those we have are mostly to be

found scattered through some of the oldest sagas, often side by
side with poems in the later syllabic metres.

first

period have reached us.

"

IRISH METRICS

following are the principles and laws of versification

The

(i)

Each

generally four.

The

end

half-lines

fr^j'

a^

in disyllables.

103

I., p.

crde lcce,

lndbruth lga,

lchar ga,

Rssa,

a^y

Cex.
;

160):

rth rirech,

rcht fltha,

fuaimm

dch

drjuch drnchrand,

dilib,

tinne,
*> *-

'&**&

drus nme.

da drnbalc,

Some

277 {Dindienchas

Cellique, vol. xvi., p.

K qSJJsS^

fo chch crad.

g Llss flnd frge

(2)

Fo-chn Cnall,
'

Revue

of stressed syllables,

pause or caesura divides the line into two halves.

Windisch, Irische Texte

number

line contains a certain

of the stressed syllables in every line alliterate

but

the principle'and distribution of alliteration vary greatly, as will be

seen from the following examples

lb., p. 104:

Fo-chn
Ct

Ct,

crde n-ga,
u

dL<vuA" cL^H

irr

mgen

mac Mgach,

Ib., p. 21

crathraid cu,

tcbaid lbru,

fo-chn Lbraid

line, it

with cathu in the preceding

BCr. 18 d

lb., p.

gnid cthu,

tirnid trunu,
Here, in the fourth

4*d*A,*U*.

'^jtA

**0flathlm ar chlideb,
*
<*^y. ^*^* *-

allchu mrib

Mnnraid gssa,

Cf. ocbul,

?' /"

lichdn o'caib,

^jjuU.

Cf^-

Ct mac Mgach.

Fo-chn Lbraid

dijfcrtf

*-*****
ix*

trthan gach,

tren trssa,

cin trb tnthach,

<w^,jL**

chrad,

ithre n-la,

seems

line,

sufficient that

unless

we may

criathraid should alliterate

substitute ocbaid for tocbaid.

2.

276:
Gritrfg,

bare bdbae,

snrechtaid bada, *..*- **/ 0-*-f2.

p

brth brtha,

ALLITERATIVE POETRY
*******-

drch crad,

breo dgla,
cinsiu chrad,

Crde ndrcon, &C. 1

tSr.-u.

.aUM~^~

<j.

tSnnJ..

For further examples see Dindsenchas 42 Togal Bruidne Da Derga $ 157,

Appendix 156 Tain Bo Cualnge (ed. Windisch), 11. 4956, 5636, 5731, 5784,
;

ib.

5829. Longerlines will be found

211,

Ir.

T.

I.,

pp. 23

Thes. Palceo-hib.

(cf.

II., p.

322),

&c.

18, 212, 261, 262, 263, 267, 268, 270,

Alliteration

4 The following rules apply both to the purely

Cf.
poetry of the first period and to syllabic poetry.
to be noted that, even in Old-Irish, alliteration

alliterative
21.

It

traditional

is

is

and

no longer based upon pronunciation.

(1)

Any vowel may

(2)

except

f,

s,p, with

also with ch

Note.

alliterate with

consonant can

lenited form, so that e.g. c

its

(i.e. x),

In Old

and

with

alliterate
s

with ih

(i.e.

Irish

itself

may

sm, Sec,

sc, si,

stop,

may

s,

or,

alliterate

and any combination of

alliterate. 3

by a stop

poetry, s followed

and the same

followed by a liquid or nasal

may

later h).

]>,

and Early-Middle Irish poetry,

with other consonants, such as

and Early-Modern

any other.

only with itself repeated,

alliterate

(sc,

In Later-Middle
sp,

st)

can only

while s followed by a vowel and

alliterate

with each other.

"

Professor

W.

P.

Ker (The Dark Ages,

drawn attention

321) has

p.

to

the analogies between Irish alliterative verse and the following specimen of
ancient Latin:
uti tu morbos
visos invisosque

viduertatem

vastitudinemque

calamitates

intemperiasque

prohibessis, defendas
uti fruges

averruncesque:

frumenta

vineta virgultaque

grandire beneque

evenire

pastores pecua

siris,

salva servassis

honam salutem
valetudinemque
domo
familiaeque nostrae.
Cato, De Re Rustica, 141

duisque

mihi

arranged by
F. D. Allen, Early Latin.

As

the possibility of

(On

Prof. Atkinson

older syllabic poetry:

ib.

Aug. 25

scail.

ib.

ib.

7337

s,

4365

&c,

sr,

Fi. July 8

ro sreth seel.
:

si,

Irish Metric,

soillsi scuir.

serda in seel, &c.

with sc has been denied by

subjoin a few examples from the

scribnid seibaid.

Saltair na
ib.

alliterating

p. 8),

6031

Rann,
:

1.

2257

ib.
:

as sia do seel.

12: seel cechsenaid.

oclit
ib.

mbliadna

6591

sescat, ni

siethaib seel.

IRISH METRICS

word beginning with

(3) In a

f, the following sound counts for

alliteration, e.g. d'zarraid fz'anbothe, a chrich wile d'

Ir.

Note.

Occasionally/

Texte

III., p. 520,

(4) s

repeated.
*-**.

found to

is

alliterate

folmugud.

with/, as: do /eiss

la Ftixb,

803, an alliteration merely for the eye.

1.

= h) before vowels should alliterate only with itself

But it is also found to alliterate with th, e. g. Salt, na

Rann, 1577 dna mo //nnchosc di Jain. Book of Fenagh, p. 296,

22
ib. p. 228, 30
do T^igernach 's do .Sinchell.
gbtait in tlr
Muaid da ill. Or it is treated as quiescent, so that the vowels
alliterate, e.g. cic bliadna do S^tna ard.
ic athchumai int ssir.
LL. 130 b 39 bliadain ar FVchit sain. SR. 2051 ar is derb lat
tVc di sain.
do samla ni fail. This
Book of Fenagh, p. 202,
:

is

always the case where

frit

s/uagaib,

Book

Windisch) 3439.

(ed.

i.

As / with /, so s
SR.

ro-juidig each jeis,

323.

may

dot s/aidi

Maine co

/In a s/oig,

also alliterate (for the eye) with

set ro-jaig, ib. 471.

E. Gwynn, Poems from Dindsenchas,

Note

2.

We

after lenition or

'

father,'

aspiration

co Aim
tarlaic

is

s,

as

is

sin jenchas each jin,

p. 38.

see from these rules that the laws of alliteration were fixed
'

had affected

initial c,

(5) n- before vowels (in eclipse)

'

readily'

Oscur

z'rehor n-cll, Ir.

As the laws of

and

t,

h,

&c, do not count

^41main cona hardrthaib,

(6)

is

of Fenagh, p. 320, 21.

Note
iCU/^r***.

TBC.

precedes a consonant, as

it

T.

1.,

p, f, and

for alliteration, e.g.

p. 158.

Poems from Dinds.

alliteration

s.

as in a /zathair 'her

p. 14.

were fixed before the change of

d, nd into nn, mp to b, and of mb into mm had taken

and as these laws became traditional, c may alliterate with
g (written c in Old- and Middle-Ir.), / with d (written /), p
with b (written p), b with mb, d with nd, as cin a clu fair
their fame,' Brre co mblaid, dercaim in ndomun.

nc to g, ni to
place,

'

(7)

Only unstressed

words

[iarmbirla)

may

alliterating words, e.g:

lar

mbrimliud duit cech Megail.

stand

between

SYLLABIC POETRY

B. Syllabic Poetry

The mass

century

of Irish poetry from the eighth to the seventeenth

composed

is

metres requiring

in

number of

(i) a fixed

each verse, (2) rhyme, or consonance, in the final

word of each verse or couplet. There is no rhythm (regulated
syllables

stress),

in

except in the rhyming words at the end

rhyme

debide-metrts (see 16) even the

is

and

in

the

unrhythmical.

Examples
(a)

**-**/&*

IM& T"
'tt^T.

Cech

mrtir, cech dthrubach,

cech nib ro-bi i ngnmnat',

rop scfath dun diar n-mdegail,

-

b-

rop siget an

we have seven syllables in each verse,

rhythmical rhyme at the end of the couplets.
Here

(3)

Msse ocus Pngur ban,

bith a

mnma-sam

cchtar nthar

mu mnma

fri si/gg,

mnai.

fri

and

disyllabic

sindJw

fria

cin im sincheirdd.

Here, in a debide-metre, we have seven syllables in each verse and

monosyllabic unrhythmical rhyme

rhyming syllable in the

second it is unstressed.
Note.

first

As Thurneysen, Zur

end of the verses, the

at the

couplet being stressed, while in the

irische?i

Accent-

und

Verslehre (Rev. Celt. VI.,

pp. 336-347), has conclusively shown, this metrical system was derived from Latin

See alsoWilh. Meyer, Gesammelte

fifth and sixth centuries.
Abhandlungen zur Mittellateinischen Rhythmik, vol. I., pp. 174 ff. The pattern
upon which some of the oldest Irish metres were modelled is to be found in such
trochaic measures as S. Hilary's Hymnus in laudem Christi, beginning:

hymn-poetry of the

Ymnum

dicat turba frtrum,

Christo regi concinntes

ymnum

cantus prsonet,

laudem demus dbitam.

Here the first verse of each couplet contains eight, the second seven syllables.
The two couplets form a
The first verse ends in j. _ the second in j.
In the following example from St. Colman's Hymnus in laudem
quatrain.
S. Michaelis Archangeli, the couplets are joined by rhyme
.

Gloria

sit

semper Do

Simul cum

6 Every

spiritu sncto

poem (dan

f.,

patri atque
in

uno

filio

consilio.

or lidi.) consists of a varying

stanzas {rami m., or comarg) each of which

number of

must make independent

IRISH METRICS

sense {cobge

The most common form

ceille).

quatrain consisting of four verses {rami

are called rann tuisech,

The two

medonach,

r.

f.,

of the stanza

or cethramthu

leth-dedenach,

r.

is

the

These

f.).

dedenach.

r.

and the two last form coup\ets(/efh-rann m.),

and are distinguished as leth-rann tisech and leth-rann dedenach,
or seolad and comad.
7

Example

first verses

Clocn binn

benar

n-aidchi githe,

ba

limm dola

ferr

ina di

inds

mn

ndil

Here we have a quatrain consisting of four verses

which a + b and c + d form couplets.

bithe.

(a, b, c, d),

of

8 The various metres (aiste f.) are distinguished (i) by the

number of syllables required in every line
(2) by the form
;

and position of the rhyme.

Technical Terms
9

syllable (sillab

number

or a

f.)

of syllables, as a metrical unit,

is

called

each (m.), corresponding with Latin pes 'verse-foot.'

if

Feet varying from one to eight syllables are distinguished,

dialt n. (n. pi. dialta)

recomarc

'

iarcomarc

two
'

syllables

'

'

(n. pi.

recomarcach

'
;

'

'

as follows

monosyllabic'

disyllabic'

iarcomarcach

'

trisyllabic'

four syllables.'

itself

syllables.'

brechta)

10 The rhyming
rhyme

six syllables.'

claidemnus 'seven

the

'

hence dialtach

'

five syllables.'

luibenchossach

bricht

'

three syllables

feles (n. pl.fetesa)

cloenre

one syllable

'

eight syllables.'

'

verse-end

is

cuibdivs (m.).

called rinn (n. pi. rinn,

of the couplets, sal-chuibdius that

of the quatrain.

The

latter

we

Mid.

Ir.

Lan-chuibdius denotes the rhyme

at

the

end of the

first

renna) and
at the

end

and third verses

shall call csesura.

Example
*

Is Fedlimid in
a,

faVwt%J~<
Here

aithrige
ri

17

diarbo

Connacht cen chatk

and chath stand

chuibdius {debide, see

16)

in

monar

oinlath/

l* J,1t*-

ocus Mide do mannra'.

caesura, while oinlathi

and mannrad form lan-

with rl and chath respectively.

^Uv^j

SYLLABIC POETRY

Rhyme
Rhyme

11

proper commences with the stressed vowel of the

word, and consists

the agreement of

in

the vowels both in

all

quantity and quality, while the rhyming consonants must belong

same

to the

as cin

i',

d'/,

But
and

with

Thus

class.
ail,

as mo'r

cr,

as coil

oi,

in later Old-Irish the

froich,

diphthong oi

and

(oe)

12 In the older poetry the consonants

rhyme, into the following three classes

The

stops

c (gg, g),

Examples

spirants.

mucc, bochtdn

o 1',

and the diphthong di

(de)

ee/

which may rhyme with

combination with

in

carpa/

ec,

purposes of

for the

fall,

/ {dd),

(bb),

each other either by themselves or

pur/

allowed to rhyme.

a are

(i)

with d\ as ma?r

a*

&c.

sro'n,

can only rhyme with

in early Old-Irish at

with

oi

area/, s/ech/

liquids, or

Cm'//

dec,

:ftii/,

corpdn.

(2) The liquids /, r, the nasals n, ng, ??i, and the spirants
d( = dh), g( = gk), b ( = bh), m ( = mh), ch, th, f, which may rhyme
either by themselves or in combination with each other, but so

rhyme with

that 'aspirated' consonants

with 'unaspirated

dangeu

ainm
seng

ange/,

duine

lenn,

/inn

After

group, as: call

(3) s
bossa

Examples

only.

/rebair

airvi,

Note.

'

snide

degaid,

Birn, /ac]i/mad

'aspirated,'
:

mor

unaspirated'

'

rdn, dorus

teches,

scllh

a/trag^

iaidbsigud

tomus,

fir

athkim, foglaimm

may rhyme

final 11

rig,

comraind,

faiUsigtid.

with single consonants of this

star.

can only rhyme with

cossa.

rethes

/uige, ca lhrach

long vowels
cein, ciall

0/

itself,

mis

as

See Thurneysen, Rev. Celt,

v,

13 In later times stricter rules prevail,

re/hes

scis,

329

/eches,

vn, 305.

according to which

consonants are classed as follows

(1) Voiceless stops: p, c,
(2)

Voiced stops:

t.

b, g, d.

(3) Voiceless spirants

Voiced spirants

(5)

Double consonants

(6)

s.

f,

(4)

ch, th.

bh, dh, gh, mh, and

:

11,

NOTE. Homonyms may rhyme,

fichit

'

they fight

'

and fichit

'

scores.'

(O.

as e.g.

mm,

Ir.

dim

'

L,

n,

r.

mb), nn, ng,

a fortress

'

and dun

rr.

'

to us,'

IRISH METRICS

Consonance

We

14

and

have to distinguish between consonance in monosyllables

polysyllables.

In monosyllables consonance consists in the stressed vowels

and the following consonants being either palatal or non-palatal,
while the consonants must also belong to the same class.
(i)

Example
Tri
41h./>

4*4 .*-.

maicNera

arlln \rg,

tri

senlech Arad nad bo barb,

(2) In polysyllables

syllable of the word.

maicUislend, cobra ngrg,

c+^-oiAa.^*.,
$

a Cruachnaib Con-alad rd.

consonance begins with the

first

unstressed

The consonants must belong

Cf. 25.

*"*i:

to

the same class, and both vowels and consonants must be either
palatal or non-palatal.

Examples

{*^.

Fland tendlach Tmrach,

(a)

tendr Ftla rainn,

th anall o-mi\ai?)im,
[b)

is si

In spirut nib d aittreb

diar sndud co slma

a chland <\o-ggainii.

ar cuirp

is

i^ce.l-uJr. -$
'

ar n-nma,

ar gbud, ar g/ra.

Here the -aimm of doinenaimm consonates with the -ainn of ferainn

and dogegainn, and the -Una of solum with the -nma of anma and
the -Ira of galra.

15

quatrain in which

When

cethar-chubaid.

the metre

is

there

called scilie

'

all
is

four verses consonate

is

said to be

no consonance between the

verses,

loose.'

Debide-rhyme
16 There

is

a third kind of rhyme which only occurs in the metres

See 33. In these the two verses of the couplet

rhyme and if the first verse ends in a monosyllable, the second
must end in a disyllable or trisyllable similarly, if the first ends
in a disyllable, the second must end in a trisyllable.
In the
first verse the rhyme begins with the last stressed vowel, while
called debide.
;

in the second the unstressed final syllable or syllables

rhyme, which

is

thus unrhythmical.

form the

SYLLABIC POETRY

Examples
Ro-slechtatar

(a)

OLuiS^i
jnujz^

rogdatar co Dla ndzV

1^*5
J -^

Qt*t>n

j cairt

im dilgud cinad Adaim.

nam-mr, mr n-thbach,

lbinn glainidi gldrdai,

-ii

17 In debide there

leirg

in

*lr'

breis

firmimint, glan

tegdais, cachta

a short one, as gle

clu

SR. +73.

drqchte dronai drgdrdai.

Thus gulh may rhyme with

airmite{a)n, glana

comblechta.

SR. 2169.

immedon na -pmcha/hrach

greater freedom of rhyme, amounting some-

is

times to mere consonance.

L.ivcruoke.,

sluag n-uag na n-angel nibnar,

iar \ar

uili

co?n?nairge, ti

caindromma,

alt

f- *6

f*id^.*

tinfiud,
:

fichet,

long vowel may rhyme with

bit,

snd

indrada, bo

dartado,

in gnu.

Rhyme

Internal

18 Both in those metres in which the single verses rhyme, and

those in which the couplets rhyme

in

rhymes between

word or words

a
in

internal rhyme.

It

Conclamantes deo ignum

vox pulset omnem anrem

opport2///tf7 dedit

19

We

in the

Examples
() In

in

is

and some word

obligatory in the second

is

no consonance

and the end-rhyme ( 15). The

kind of rhyme is aiccill anticipation,' and
'

it is

called aicclech.

ba maten,

in

ba

acht ro-fetar racha

(b)

in caesura ( 10)

caesura

for this

a stanza containing

^en

per \audem vicariam.

non-debide metres whenever there

name

additional

aegrotanti homini.

can distinguish two kinds of internal rhyme

between the word

CoiuM^j.

curam

rhyme between the word

all

technical

find

\\ymnum sanctae Mriae.

second verse of the couplet. This

half of

often

occurs already in Latin hymn-poetry, e.g.

ut

(1)

we

word or words in the first and second, and a

the third and fourth verses.
This is called

fyjn,
d' ec,

Guidiu itge doaib,

cain popul co

Ytgdci/h,

in ba for

mr

tlr

in bit

no

for muir,

nl fetar cuin.

*#-

Q
eJ.ntfw- v

romm-airraratrogbus
in xigrad im-rprdus.

^W^Ut^ c*&*>.

' f1"H>-

****

"

a^M^^e /- M/^'

Fl. Prol. 17.

IRISH METRICS

10

(2)

in the

rhyme between any word

be obligatory,

it

any word

in the first verse with

Though

second verse of a couplet.

this

cannot be said to

enters largely into poetry of almost any metre,

especially in later times.

Examples:
v*<~*>

tz&&&dL.&&A

Ri each thuir ihafhaigdin deirg

(a)

ba

feib

derb \aiss os each

ro-fiiajliaigfein firmimeint, tup..'

maig

ros-d^/3

don

mam cruthaig.
"SR. 145

(b)

Lesc amlesc sinn co Ath Clath,

co din Amlib na n-rscath,

Ath CXiath na \ann

is

's

na lecht

dJan,

is

mall

mo

heaping

of

rhyme

internal

(f

1024) ZcPvH.n*.
called

technically

is

y*J'

imthecht.

MacLiac
20 The

*<

ff.

breccad, e. g.

Ua

Bricc Bxegain

nd

lice \cbair

ticc

Temair

t^*H iJj*^^
(m~<l tn.i^

tqraib,

muir dar Mumain, daig n dubaig,

Tomair.

traig dar Tulaig

Alliteration

21 In the oldest syllabic poetry alliteration {uaimm n.) occurs

only sporadically and without any fixed laws
or

parts

Hymn

poems show no

of

65, 67, 69,

Otia

Mas.

time

its

1.

122,

71, 73, &c.

ill.

employment becomes more

In Felire Oingusso there

is

indeed some poems

See

it.

Imram Brain

3; Zeitschr.

1.

of

trace

216,

1.

4.

Broccn's

e. g.

27, 28,

30,

37,

49;

In the course of

regular.

alliteration in every stanza

and

in

Rann, though occasionally we find a whole quatrain

without alliteration (e.g. 329 ff.), as a rule one verse at least contains
At a later period it appears obligatory in the third and last verses
it.
and in the poetry of the twelfth and following
of a quatrain

Sal/air na

centuries

22

we often

find every verse of a

Alliteration in the final

occurs in other positions

Uaimm

it

is

poem

words of the verse

called

aimm

is

containing

when

it

gniiise.

di rind denotes alliteration at the end of a poem.

Ballymote, p.

it.

called fir-aimm

See Book of

h
2>22 \b.

last word of a stanza by alliteration with the first (or the first
word of the following stanza, a practice much used in longer poems
an aid to memory, is in Middle Irish technically called Jidrad freccomail,

Connecting the

stressed)
as

in Later Irish conachlann.

HjUcL f*~<u~

\U

It is often

UK

merely alliteration for the eye.

J^cK

J>^

C*& 4*3

^^'

SYLLABIC POETRY

'

11

'

Elision

23 In the oldest poetry elision {bddud) was but rarely practised

and

cannot be said to have been obligatory

any time during

the Old and Early-Middle Irish periods. Verses in which hiatus
it

at

For examples

occurs are to be found almost in every poem.

Thes.

see

291,

II.

292, 21.

16.

293,

Trip. Life 112, 15. 17. 186, 13. 19. 468,

25.

294,

But

6.

iadimpi a da

co mbi
fri

rigid.

immedon na

Eua pens

fri

**<e.

d^.

vowel

in

generally elided, as in the following heptasyllabic lines

ro

&c.

15

Later-Middle

in

an unstressed vowel after a word ending

Irish

295,

1.

is

% n*f. te *u3*x ******

airce.

Adam.

24 Elision also occurs sometimes between the end of one verse

and the beginning of the next, as e.g.

^&Ae

I*

b^

*~#- lechta

tri

mac nDlarmata

fothaig mulind maic

Dimma.
LL. 43 b

Mtdo JCz4M>

adteoch

mo

sUAa.

in

d mesraigthe,

adteoch in d uarda.

im sudiu

ic

bith-se

25 For

fri

metrical purposes a

re

gudiu

&c, do

Examples

words to
im-mdch, im-mdig, imma-sch, in-ncht, in-di,

of the

nach du.
Eriu L,

39-i"

U 'fr?? r?
f,uid+J.

not count as part

iar-sn, co-s, immal-l,

san-chdn, fo-chn,

a-7-eir,

fo-din, fo-dssin, imme-gdib, cota-gdib, al-dile, fo-chetoir, untie,

On

^"* <<*
p.

stressed syllable, so that

word begins with the

the proclitics, such as verbal prefixes, prepositions,

which they are prefixed.

in

^jfc^
+ 2.

t*&Ltz*^>.

the other hand, the pronominal suffixes -sa, -se, -su,

nammd.

-si, -ni,

-sin,

-som

count as part of the words to which they are suffixed, so that e.g. fathair-su
?

forms a

{Distinguish betweenlfl^.wDand

trisyllable.

26 Note

that in

many words two

and

sin.}

vowels, which in the later language form

Old and Early-Middle Irish. The following

air,' bidd 'food,' biajd 'will
are some of the most common words : aer
Bdnd the Boyne,' coir 'just,' cridd gen. of ere clay,'\cudid 'he
be,' &c.

one

syllable,

were

disyllabic in

'

'

'

went,' dedc
di'ib

'

ten,'

dead end,' did

'

'

day,' didd gen. oide

'of them.' doib 'to them,' eo (gen. idch)

'under

her,'

fria 'towards his'

{frie,

friii),

'

'

smoke,' dids

'

a pair,'

salmon,' fidch 'raven,' foe

gl'eo

'fight,'

gnid

'servant,'

^V^f

IRISH METRICS

12
'lion,'

led
'

'with her,'

lia

'stone,'

lid

'kick,'

liia

'

'

time,'

ridm

sctdch gen. of see 'hawthorn,' siacht 'reached,' sidn

field,'

sudirc 'pleasant,' toe 'silence,' trior

'sister,'

'helmsman,' nid

latn

champion,' nud 'new,' ode 'young,' rie gen. sg. of re

roe

three persons,'

'

'

'

before,'

strain,' siiir

titiis

'leader-

ship,' ftd 'grandson.'

The name Eogan

yp
(Gaul. Esugenus) counts as trisyllabic in the oldest poetry.

Aphseresis

27 In order to obtain the requisite number of syllables, aphseresis

of unstressed syllables

often resorted

is

always expressed in writing.

'sin, is

'

and

'

Thus

immach 'mack,

's,

isin

is

not

amsir sin cen ord bind, LL.

co rognair mace maith Maire, LL.

How

this

rogenair cor* ginair, &c., as in the

co

following examples of heptasyllabic verse

isin

though

to,

has frequently to be read

to conclude a

a
i

8.

Poem

28 The concluding word {iarcomarc] of every poem must repeat

the whole or part of the first word (or first stressed
word) of the poem (focul tuisech). The repetition of the whole
either

word is technically called saigid; that of half the word, ascnam,

and that of the beginning only, com-indsma, as the following
quatrain teaches

Comindsma do Dondchad
'

saigid so,

is

'

'

in slicht amra,

ascnam dond im each degl,

do,'

'

'

'

Dondchad

'

in t-ainm ollamda.

Syntactic Licences

29 In the older poetry a freer order of words than

in

prose

is

Thus both the substantive and adjective

attributes may precede the noun on which they depend, e. g.
Locho Uair ard ige Lough Owel's high pillar '; lir dar doe over
occasionally found.

'

the

sea's

ro-fdith

rampart

garb

gam

'

'

'

nOchiimbit

fierce

winter

adjective precedes, another follows,

'

a prattling shining brook.'

etim

has

'

in

gone.'

the noun,

October's front

'

Sometimes one
as

brass glass gel

'

SYLLABIC POETRY
30 The

object and

accusative

the

13

sometimes

instrumental

precede the verb, as lucht fris* failti feraim 'the folk to

make welcome

'

notlaic

re

aird airgiss dogne

'

whom

before

high

Christmas thou shouldst make great prayer'; dim dam, a

acht tu ?

no-bera

ce~

'

who

bruid cliiasaib cluinethar

Ir.

T.

I.,

'

will

me

give

tears but thou,

who

crushes him

it

hears

it

De

O God

/JtitLii .in

jw.

with ears,'

p. 68.

The Metres
31

We

as follows

can distinguish four chief groups of different structure,

:

I. Stanzas with rhyming couplets,

and the verse-ends are homosyllabic.

See above,

II. Debtde-sta.nza.s.

III.

which both the verse

in

5 (b).

Stanzas with rhyming couplets containing

A. heterosyllabic verses and homosyllabic verse-ends,

B. homosyllabic verses and heterosyllabic verse-ends,
C. heterosyllabic verses and heterosyllabic verse-ends.

IV. Stanzas of different structure.

32 The most
disyllabic,

1.

common

metres of this group are those called

which the verse-ends are either monosyllabic or

and Cas-bairdne, in which the verse-ends are trisyllabic.

Rannaigechl

in

',

Ra?i?iaigecht diallach (mor), consisting of heptasyllabic verses

with monosyllabic verse-ends (7 +

Ctin luid Iudas tar ord

5

tL*&tt

pn

cctain ro-gab saint

2.

*.xoM>uJiey>.

a
2i 6

is

{bee),

A Emain

demna, digal garg,

lorg

ctin ro-braith lsu n-ard.

saich,

Rannaigechi recomarcach

LL.

^uTtZ? *^*

imm

7*

faILi
idnach ibi

mr ndine

dit

gualainn

asa fidad z-iedim,

ro-gab rige for Erinn.

v.?W fr*-

**

IRISH METRICS

14

A common

3.

shortening of the
1

rdn..

y+

and

Ri rind

7?

fri

mo

Corp slemon

nech,

acht a chuilche

is

When

5.

the whole

t-anim oc demon.

couplet

replaced

is

nech ro-charus

Rindaird (or kth-dechnach), 6 2 + 6 2

Mani

tuicce samlid

not-dlomaim fad
7.

j. aj

B recc-bairdne

ff.

ord

/?

1/.

it

Slat brecht mbr, 6 3 + 6 3

^AUC*a2eu

eSS

p. 22

xo-cxdidius.
ff.

^^ J****?' ^'

dallchilliu doinib.

denotes a variation of rindaird,

+6

in

which the

2
:

aicdib amraib,
ler

tondbn

for ta/main.

%+.*&*''**

rfb^/HW**

'.

's slagach sribanach, \^v&**~* fll \r'e

Less Ruadrach rebnach,

^

by a verse of

for ar \oidib,

fil

dlaib,

verse has only five syllables,

8.

A dram in Coimdid
cusna
nem gelmar co n-ainglib,

^it,

common

called ireochair.

is

Flire Oingusso, Prol. 313

first

less

nochor' techt ni din tkdegul.

Other examples, Iiada7i and Curithir,

6.

is

dinius

chaingen dorigenus

in

in

is

verse to two syllables

20, 404, 124.

first

three syllables, the metre

Qen

re/nor

a bl lin

KC

Another example,

^.Atijj-.jft.

find,

bidbu na ndemon ndderdub,

Meldub

&w *L

first

get

nr' iada Crist a thech frimm.

ocus tib fota

A shortening of the

4.

the

thech no cid

biaid in cholainn oc lobud

.U,-.^-0-9n

in
w'e

respectively {rannaigecht garit).

Rannaigecht chetharchubaid garit recomarcach

(b)

*lih

dub

cid

nocho n-Iadfaider

ttr \ tr

three syllables, so that

verse to

first

Rannaigecht garit dialtach

(a)
a.

two metres consists

variation of these

n-enach n-ailenach,

less frach idjiach.

>

u*t4luL

u^nk^c.

s
"9. Cas-bairdne,
7 + f.

LL. 52^44:
f<U* SUA (***>

ImuJUju.

TCormac Femin,
co

nii ''^

Colmn, Cellach cxaid-ugra

Fogertach,

do-rochratar

cath Belaig muaid-Mugna.

(^u^f^^*^
**Me..

X)lher examples: LL. 27 b 54, i49 b i

do

MA

<u*acCc*a<JL'' &UJ[r&&*4#42~
XyCdi U*

ni HoXAIacI,

Silva Gad., p. 372; ib. p. 388.

SYLLABIC POETRY
10.

Sndm

sebaic

(ar chasbairdne)

which the third verse ends

of casbairdne, in
lt
li:ct *

Cenn Escjach na

fttw

muine luchair

inlAjf.

for a lr,

Carn-rannaigecht

A Mathgamain i
4*5

12.

Rannaigecht

bee

is frit,

ftp
*~-M,u*4

13.

TT^u "a^

rith rig
14.

^wlu^^^M^u
mI~*4.

Ian

lir

fthaigthe,

8*+8 4

777.

83

^^.^

ic

MhIU^ ruvb^*

carrac ruadfaebrach e^J.

^.^^JaJxdthaigthe,

faijjiir, nett grife gxdaigthe. &*f*u>uul,

r * '*? *4

f*W

crathaid in luin \ethanmeiiig:

Laigin ina

A maic

t'dan,

q2

~**v~

Rdin'nn.

Ri Achaid Uir ibairdraignig

Ai

ri~*^.i>uau yrffo

mid mailte moidim

fin duit is

83

1.

ocon maigin muiredrnimnig

15.

**" 4-kfy-

fri

OU-chasbairdne,

dlaim do-ririb

na bairdne,

sithe

ib.

Siir simenbuidi
slain.
-

Tech Duind dmaig, dn'*Congaile,

'

'**"*'

u^tw.

Druimne

24

mor (or Cam-dechnaid),

a milid/a mlainn,

<"""****'

a fir ind airm athramail din,

A maic rig na Cairce a Cualainn,

(frM.

*f

}a**j.,

**-

immon

'

&XL.

p. xxxviii.

Chennglain chim,

tu/su ar tigemse-ni tnith

-

is

lathbechaib,

stab do stiallchlethaib. skatf-eddi *c<aA*n

it

mor, 8 1 + 8

for a variation

monosyllable

in a

adba dona

n-aballgort,

Other examples, Lismore Lives,

11.

name

the

is

15

\ebarg-emlib.

-aW*.

&C*ti-l*~*4l-<it*4

hi Chuind, cella do chabair,

a glee

imm thuind,

a thenga JJ^j* ''teusu,

taniain, <xi,&*~a~.,a-*t"+pJP"3

*l

* a

m ^ic
16.

Suirge mall or
Scl

rt7/<2z'/-

snigid gaim,

17.

Anair or

Gf****-

laglothas,

addition of

'

rind rethes,

fi*

<*A wu.
'_

cam

[carr) to the

metre of six or seven syllables

iC

ro-fith saw?.

tind
teches.
"

The

dordaid da7,

ailair tinidach,

Scian scothas,

23, p. 412, 23.

M*ttuu~, f&k-

Uhaim fitoJU.

a rigthe gerra glassa 2*A*'-?

chella,

rindaird, 3 1

lemm dib

Other examples, RC.

<

imm

hi Chuind, a chrithre

lias

name

of a metre denotes that an original

been extended to eight syllables.

IRISH METRICS

16

Trian rannaigechta mire, 4 + 4

18.

Aed

A~.a~ tein-

Ailig

Rannaigecht

20, p. 132
2
2
4 + 4

bee bee,

Find ua Buidi,

/*^^vu.

d&bU.

With rhyming

caesura this

in the next verse, as

4JtyU*H- ***-&*

limm

]jj a

222;

p.

LU.

ib.

syllables,

When

p.

21.

mor

Rindaird

y.

riu

U
*.tnZU*l.

bee,

Gilla

ri

bTd

PpiM. 1* ******

^"*

8,

LL.

i8

a
,

386; Arch. III.,

verse to three

of four,

it

is

called

89

maic Gilla Chomgaill,

Ultan's

Hymn

on Brigit,

Ir.

T.

I.,

.
4UAJL

attain*.

uasau adamri,

ordnidi

dom

on dairbrig ondguirm.
;

all scdilie.

chomairli
l6>

cuairt

cen balamli.
*

iyeJU^Jlsi

*i*fi

fr

i#~^

W.

A stanza of six verses in this metre is called rothm~iallbaird?ie:

Atha airtheraig

^, A ^^ <^*-^*-Amlib airchjngid
\J^x^U <u K***e
t^cuz HyXn S^

41

first

eight verses instead

Cimgin

QtherexampleS) RC>
23.

ib. 23, p.

chorn'tnach. 1

II., p.

/kh^-^**^''

woib.

887.

3
22. Blogbairdne,
5 + 5
6
eJU^d*.

m. 9eOua^Hath wU* AW u*e

tCCm-u*

<&*

trir uasal din,

ocus Spirut

a~ ctUi-avd.^ Laignib labraim

24

p. 158,

a
Other examples, LL. 297 3i

p.

Mace

the stanza consists of

A
cUiiSrMtA

1.

$^ * h**" a**^ !^t^

With shortening of the

232.

Silva Gad., p. 117, 245,

119*15;

Lism. Lives,

lethrannaigecht

each snlm,

fri

Other examples, RC. 20,

;

if* *e

Muirgel Manann.

Athair ocus

88% i48 a

while sndithe senatnna denotes

in caesura is repeated in another case

ablach Arann,

co Muirgel

20. Lethrannaigecht mor, 5

dMCU**

**~*
*

Madcoablajg

mad

err^e.

p. 385.

noun

a form of this metre in which the

jj.a^u^^.e^.
<M -**"* i***^|

mblfc,

senamain

called

is

ichtar

Another example, Silva Gad.,

j^.fUt^U*4

Silva Gad., p. 242.

lind

diultad dona,

dxxju*Uj

vUa~.

bare ordain din.

recht borrfaid buirr,

19.

orb rgi rain,

uill,

Other examples, RC.

dagri Duiblinde

dne duthaige

Erenn

'iathaige,

trne txjajhaige.

~U&aJ*

^*3-

Ii

t*Z<aUt&

-t*>u^.
l

Corriinach generally denotes an extension of a quatrain either to six or

'

eight verses.

See Thurneysen,

Ir. Versl., p.

132.

SYLLABIC POETRY

17

II.

33 24. Debide
there

Examples

*~*6U

is

and

Debide

(a)

All the verses have seven syllables,

scdille.

rhyme nor consonance between the couplets.

neither

is

scilte

na

nd thgen,

nl hi-side

seel,

j-seo ind aiste blith brass

ngnthaigther

in snchtf.

Mo-chn, a chlaidib Chrbaill,

ba menic raoxcjiglaim, c^a^~
C^
ba menic ac cur chd/ka,
ac dlchennad rd'flaf/ia.

(b)

RC.

Note. In later Middle-Irish

demand that the termination of
of the

first

.-

20, 9.

the stricter laws of versification (dan direach)

the couplets (aird-rinn) should

exceed that

verse (rimi) exactly by one syllable, as in the examples above

while in less

strict

versification (glachas) a trisyllable

is

allowed to rhyme

with a monosyllable.

The

25. Debide imrind.

couplets rhyme, so that

rhyme or consonance.

are joined by

The

first

all

four verses

verses end in a

monosyllable.

Example
M, 5'M

}'**f

wpn.*Uc*~

MtA,

26.

Op-sa becn gabsus

gieith

nocho n-acca belu

eich

Emain

which the

first

imrind.

verses

This

end

tir

chich cen tarfaigid

amail belu ind Xathainig.

a variation

is

of

Is

an u~ds*

is

4
27.

As

'*I

in rannaigecht (32. 3), so in debide a verse of three syllables

is

first

verse (debide garit).

called debide cenelach

p~-An-

fetor

If the

first

may

take

verse ends in a disy liable,

cia lasa faifea

acht rofetar^Etan b<in

^ UcL. 1UU ^t'0

(/tuuL .%

m
*

in

imda du ne dJa
ocus Cl^ re cfa rafa, 1 i+~ski*ux** **-**?
imda samthach Id/a
ic slag dabchach D'iarma'hl
uo&uL ,*&*.

the place of the

the metre

debide imrind,

in a disyllabic

Example:

pu^f,**^

Q&dtU- ****&'

tan,

nochon

C-"

**** fa*
fifea a

J-tytfid,frduL

henara.

^ CKjn-Y*

*.&*.

IRISH METRICS

18

When

28.

called debide

metre
(*^*~ L

fnt.

is

both couplets end in a verse of three syllables, the metre

called debide airend

UA^***1

toXJ-ip~
***<

c,

****

^^-

cuin

ni tora

am-muig

im-mdch

teit

sluzigedach,

29.

metre

in

which the verses of each couplet are joined

In t-en gaires assin

rind bind buide
(b)

called debide guilbnech.

is

Fi

fir

laind gulbnn

thai/,

Debide guilbnech recomarcach

mr do maith

(c)

*e<

dan**. Itt

mo

&

glan gair,

**~*t*
***

AjaK.
*6~* /

inmuin

Mael-Fdbaill,

buide a

cri ard laind,

folt

dar a gualainn.

Debide guilbnech cummaisc (shortened)

Nom-geib

is

cass cor cuirther guth ind \uin.

duib druin,

trocht bass fo beinn buabaill,

b***

.^.uA^i'. #+*A

Rfgbardaw.

shin

is

[a) Debide guilbnech diallach

JU*A.

is

form one word, the

syllables

three

RI Ele

by rhythmical rhyme
*jj&<*~ W.

these

&*

i*.

When

ecoitchenn.

I-1"*!, <*" "*"*

****')

qj^

*Su

irg

fri

each n-indmas acht

delg cia this triam' dmuinn,

mo

ferg

fri

lg

fa**L

suide nl rnam.

'

CA****?

it- 10' $**

30.

These metres again admit of shortenings, as in debide smitach, which

first and last verse by a trisyllable.
Similarly, debide baisse fi i toin

replaces the
replaces the

first

verse by three syllables, the last by a monosyllable, as

Tragn trag,
do-beir a n-as

cumang dJ

31. Debide imrind cenntromm

the

first

verses

ending

nocho tabair do neuch \uag:

in

bo.

has eight syllables in each verse,

disyllable,

the

couplets

in

four-

syllabic words.

Example

uUtt*

A maic Flannacin
~ix*uA-#J-

The addition

of

i Chllaig,

6s

a gabil srin brainig be'nnaig

cenntromm

to the

name

the end-rhyme from three to four syllables.

ri

&*?"

in tire tdicetbennaig,

muing

airig dicelphellaig. ai&t - 1^***

of a metre denotes the extension of

SYLLABIC POETRY

III.

rhyming couplets, containing heterosyllabic

34. A. Stanzas with

verses and homosyllabic verse-ends.

Dechnadfo/a,

32.

+ 62

nidat almai chdilbo,

Masat almai co ndath almai,

UntA^iiiuJa.,

at fer bec 5 ertas faebra

When

U~4

a third couplet

ant

lh

Darlimm

Hm^^.ou^*'^AfkiciA.

att ina
fer fo

W. fiinu^u. i-A

Cuir
'tc~*ui~c.

tocM,

filti

added, the metre

llIdat fr0SSa

snechta

ngrmdi garta

flas

frimm, a

Snedbairdne, 8 4

34.

called

na

*~nz( :a6"~4a~*a.
.'

icAd
f

tu

inrrl tocaid

Rirenn,

35.

This metre

{dechnad cummaisc)

mod

ni

fil

atstn***&

Arch. III.

mite*
b

may be

varied

4-

8 3 ),

by placing

the

4-c**~c*~,<> **&.

ax-canat,

ocus anai.

***

39, i8i
I.,

a
,

29^

p.

182% 183';

p. 50.

four-syllabic

or by alternately placing

it

verse

first

or

last

ir

sl%& 0*0 Jb
J& a^, ktnt

first

A n-asbermais iarna corai,

rH.-fci*

'

>**jtL

4-'

ocus ordan

a2

\***t-

lind buidi biiaball,

p. 3V, 45*1, 21
45
O'Grady, Cat., p. 510; Anecd.

(ollbairdne Ruatnainn,

"

<fl

Ui~tfj
ig6 b

*?^^

elta.

a chostadaig Cualann

Other examples, LL.

p.

i*U&t

***-&

adbul ind

is

e**
J
^^
^^k^wfjU^^^r

bic hC a

ri

<^i(^ic^..

YBL.

fir

rindi rechta,

U^-.SeUMvuhJZ, Rq-_dl foraib Crist mac Muire,

:

mad

acht

>

hoinbo.

dechnad fota fordalach

^'

5=

ar oscaraib Erenn,

fflas

is

muin cecha

each starga chiuaid chorcra,

Dechnad mor,

33.

is

for

cruth as einiu,

fairind find fil

fo grain

basid

ieiliu.

v**-

1*-'-

f-

^.

[AOjJfc^oJC^ Itulcc'LvilyjL
Arch. III. p. 297. ^!>w. ?s?.
""
**fcitjwcouw \Ultt).
C&haC.
'
36. Dechnad mrechtfelesach or cro cummaisc etir rannaigecht moir ht^u^^uj-.
.

'

ocus sruth di

aill, 8

+ 4

Flaind, at tualaing gaiscid grind

at glan, at geth, is

garg do

rind,

c 2

&UJLU Mb *

.HHE3" a^/U^
"^'n icUue).

Hct^JMn One*/ u~t.

co Maistin ma/7/,
at lech, a

Flaind

IRISH METRICS

20

Cummasc

37.

LL. 37o e i7

etir

rannaigecht moir ocus lethrannaigecht, 7

and tach meicc ind Rig

and ind fuil ferr cech fin

ro-ches ar cech

Fil
fil

Another example
Cro cummaisc

38.

Lismore Lives,

39. Bairdnefodesin, 5 2

C gabtha
?

3502

11.

ff.

rannaigecht moir ocus sruth di

elir

Gidil

din,

dolluid assa ihoib.

"** '5f*4^^2^Conchobar cath mergech mr

#
{t**~^
diburgud d'arm rindech ruad

*&*\

+ 5 1.

tentech

txn,

grindech

ger.

aill, 7

ft*****-

Oj^,uJ^<.

2
:

nErenn uiUe,
Cuind co Tuaig

gir fer

consni cert clainde

sil

.>\**t

y*^

I"***"
***.

4l*nt fp* ******

IZasl

iuinde.

35 B. Stanzas with rhyming couplets, containing homosyllabic

and heterosyllabic verse-ends.

verses

Dian

40.

mid'se?ig

chcnntromm

(cf. p.

18 note), 8 2

Mcl-Sechlaind mac Domnaill dathgil,

p. a

y*~*c;w&* daig n daim crannchor,

41. Aefresligc, 7

mo

dorn Tailtin
i

tzJl -iat~u**L*

ljnt^'

\.i'dggjdnaig\^

anfad mara mlbratnaig.

chara,

"***"

A chell chem, ro-chualamar

nl

do chlrcen chrd, cen chrdim

mar

hamlaid ro-fuaramar

at a tasc fo Erinn.

*de**
vvte*~-A

;/}.-

^i^$>^ La^a..

'

Other examples, LL.

1839

ff,

2210

if.;

p.

Zeitschr.

43
v.,

RC.

p. 21

24, p. 182,

Eriu

ii.,

p. 92

Acall.

1.

726

if,

O'Grady, Cat.,

p. 601.
42.

Aefreslige
I

&K4LAMM.

1.

a.L*>LU.''vl*B'-

bee,

with shortening of the

mBennchur

is leis

at

at

first

verse to three syllables

Mongan mac Yuichna,

Conchobur

ar grafaind scailte %<athcha.

""

^TJij^

ttttu

Imr. Brain, p. 86.

43.
ffni(

Ae freslige

lAmjfi

aicclech

(cf. \ 19,

1)

Descert Laigen longpjiortach,

clanda fiuda Fe'rgusa,

fir

limtha an-airm rigni xuada, ^\*x*^-,

dia ndnius-sa tlana.

44. Cro cummaisc etir rannaigec/i/ moir ocus casbairdni, 'f

Uu
oat-

x In^p**.-

&8L*m&.

^*--

hui Scelin scurtemail,

a folt

gobann gatbemnig,

a scol cille cinn ar chin/i,

a chorann macclerig

xxxinn.

-i****.

A4^
4

Jfc-s-4-

f^at**-^

"^'T

SYL L A ETC POETRY

45. Forditan,

'*^,c**i
sl -

ciU*~*

Dairbre deligthe Dairbri,

Dian

46.

lu**>.

ili

echrann oclechda uiljech

*-

fl
Ond

direch duillech ssfota.

aidchi dos-fuc a fer

ro-bi a teg

1.

ioo

Ba ed ascnam

mad

isin flaith

in Ri beres breith for each,

The same

three syllables

benar

limm dola

ferr

49. Sembairdne, 5 3

dia ndernta a chqmol,

A&^*f-u- u~**~.

first

verse

to

inds

ndil

mn

bilithe.

+ 5%

51.

Sndm

suad, 3 1 +

ro-lc fet

fo-cerd faid

os

4*
s

In t-n bee

C.

n-aidchi gaithe,

Da trian rannaigechta f/wire,

36

&*&'*>' *-*&

a sere ocus a anion.

ina dil

50.

aciy.

Clocn bind

ba

shortening of the

with

metre,

tdimgire,

if.

Rannaigecht chtimmaisc or dechubaid fota,

48.

utu tef

findbile oc dinglide.

rot,

Other examples, Tochm. Ferbe,

47.

*u*-t.- a *#*~u^ L*sm.

aidbli Sssoca,

air'seng or ciimmasc rannaigechta moire ocus casbairdne,

taitnem rindnime do

'ia^'coZ***?-

3
-j

4*4-

a stanza of six verses.

a stanza of eight verses

do rind guib

Loch Laig

l^f^- f^-

g\dnb.uidi,

londochrib

cdrrbuidi.

-uefiUtj,

Stanzas with rhyming couplets, containing heterosyllabic

verses and verse-ends.

Dian

52.
82

Wh?

lVI

tnid'seng

Fir

nI

faghXann

sith

acht fer iaghla

Other examples,
is

the metre

Irish rhythms.

Note.
is

In

obligatory.

first

?nhdr,
p.

word of

all

ib.

p.

415

according

is

O'Molloy),

senfocal nch sdraig/her,

fedh Banbha na vabanfoithredh.

Silva Gad., p. 373

ib.

388,

,1.

30.

which Thurneysen regards as the source of

See RC. vi., p. 3366.

sctrad [seudna) metres the internal

There

to

413:

chocaid chomaillter sithchin,

D'

This
most

(seudna

O'Grady, Catalogue,

rhyme called aiccill (j 19, 1)

word in caesura and the

often alliteration between the

the following verse.

t&+-ff*f*

IRISH METRICS

22

mbr

Setrad

53.
8

or

Son a gotha Coluim

mr

Chille,

Other examples, RC. 20,168,

p.

472

ib.

Rights, p. 32
fc*^**[

jj

.a

O'Molloy),

507

p.

ib.

cuw

rmmenn, ed ba

LL.p.i36 b is; O'Gr. Cat.

p. 5 39

Gad.

Silva

p.

ril.

Book

^,'tSLiwv-

423;

vi. p.

of

271.

Mo-laise,

a leca cuirre garbglaise

-'

(&*+

gnan,

CUc

287

p.

Zeitschr.

Fl. lxxiii. 32.

a gilla leochaille Lecaig

a binne os each cteir:

aidble

1.2;

Archiviii., p. 241.

54. Setrad ngabldnach, io 8

Mijjand&ltt&H

w*

to

co cenn cic ct dec cmmenn,

ib.

according

{seudna,

fota

a gg^^g corcra) a chac ar maslaid,

a rethe folta fsaig ar

^****..

{lad.
2
4
55. Ollbreccad dene cenntriiimme, 8 + io

Seudna mheadhonach (O'Molloy),

56.

Ferr

<v4uy.d4.-d4.
u*a.

fo.t..*nru*

silled

na salm nemdaide

Archiv

hi., p.

LdUjtA^^UtG^, Dligid

In

4-

A
uUia.

:\cu^

83

Ri na

Goll

is

Mena do
i

between

varies

&

tu**iu.

&.*/<**

Gall ac cnu&sach cno, taK*+~4'

da]la

Dromma

B.

ass^,

fri

is

himluad n-athisc
Ailill

Book

duit, a

calma a

amra,

p.

erf.

rf,

$i*4h.

King and Hermit, p. 14 ff.

168
Aisl. Meic C., p. 81, 1.

p. 302'';

of Rights,

fa

^*lT^'

i^^i

74*

Meidb

1
p. 262

dindbile,

ingine.

muintir Grcin,

Other examples, LL.

LB.

verse

first

mo

din,

mbl bainne lomma

Tncamar

mo

tu

Maic Muire

59. Setrad ngarit, 8 2 +

p.

the

ft/dpfr

nach indlaic a acqrda.

inte

example

rig,

uile,

balln

LL.

.^.

.'**.-&&*)

a indlacud re aiarba,

lasacht

amlat

"}

id ar brcsalmaib hinne*

58. Setrad mbaccacfi, 8 3

utk *******

+ f.

do^nithi ar lepthaib \inne

234 (Goffraidh Clrig cecinit)

following

the

h as innraic

ni

Cs^e*?-

4 and
aa^ SUt

maira: dogeib in nglir n-tarbaig,

57. O/tbairdne, 4 2

ZZ&t

83

SYLLABIC POETRY
Dechnaid

60.

-K<^.i*i

aicclech (cf.

claig ic,

is

mr do

nert,

is

^j"^

p.

47

Cerball Currig ch'em-Life,

is

lomnn

^ ^"^ ^ ^*t^^

C^i

dorn,

Fenagh,

ebdreche

182

p.

160;
;

..

eaAt

clod catha for Cojid,

sraigles

na

122;

p.

i.

of Rights, p. 62

dechnaid, 6

4-

^\f^

emAJL

i.,

IUl**Mp"\V*
A*****

p.

+ 4

0Sn ^
v^6**
*.&**+*, <"d*h t a ****

b
,

etir

lethan a

\r,

...
ris'
ris' tiben

Lena,

^'

c~^tA un1U * ufr>

-t^Lt <^i. cs*+~*<U -%

ml.

***&**

rindaird ocus lethrannaigecht,

b~

isu.fi-

Do-luid anair Cessair,

cona

Mag

xJluuuJL

p.

Battle of

136;

longadbal,

LL.

dronearmilan
co Drobis drongarmglan
Cro cummaisc

of

no. 41)

65.

ff

Book

271.

vi. p.

p. 8" H i:

q Lumnech
-

Tin B
6415

p. 384.

64. Itmnardbairdne, 6 3

LL.

(cf.

ib.

782;

1.

Zeitschr.

p. 13

if.;

sig foltfind Ytrna.

slataige,

\ SG.

iii.

(^e^^^MLG^..

gebas tech Temra, 4 &**

Other examples, Book of Rights,

p. 122, 6

55;

p.

ii.

3624; Acall. 1. 2956

214; Lismore Lives,

Miscais na ngataige

S,c~*f^.

Cnogba corn

ar-bath

1.

ib.

Book

At freslige ar

63.
.

<

$ a u~Afprk.
-

Silva Gad., p.

nl^vi
ru^o)

Other examples, Eriu,

/.
l- ttu
*u

na^ns^eL

acut at cert Cdthdtr.

etir casbairdne octis lethrannaigecht, 7'

Calnge, ed. Windisch,

>W.

la aicsin a

*m..a tttf

thajjulir,

a Lochlannaig, a gqbln gorm

Cro cummaisc

LL.

cummaisc, 4 +

do drochrannaib

Erennaig,

a Albanaig,
62.

1)

nocho n-urusa do

3
airseng impoid, 4 +8'(cf. no. 46):

D'mn

61.

19,

23
1

cicait ingen,

ingen Be_tha in ben,

cona

Other examples, Lismore Lives,

occurs in Silva Gad., p. 384.

--

&-

trir ier.
p. xviii,

1.

9.

metre

63 +

IRISH METRICS

24

Anair

66.

irebrat'd

or imbas forosna, 6

Fgaid aib

sair fo-thuaid

adba rn

*fantz*>e.

rebach ran

Mimasc, 4 s +

67.

atcondcamar

3'

muir muaid

ro-gab Ian

\fnad.

4-

2
:

mllach, wwW&i*-

tUtU*.

faitf

1
:

'sind dth

cid a sciath ar a

P^-K-

bu***^

"
.

scJ/jfc.

Loid trebraid

68.

in

Aed Connachta

In acabair

+ 5 2 or

bee,

5'+ 4 (eight verses in the stanza).

Stanzas of different structure

Only a few out of a large number of complicated metres are

For a fuller account see Thurneysen, I.e. p. 158 ff.
here given.
37.

Loid

69.

which

litascach is

adds a

it

an extension of debide

Otia Merseiana,

II. p.

82

Is Ian ler, is

lomnn muir,

ro-l curu jn

geth gdnmech

imm

they are

shoi'ter

as a

Inber na da

Lath li

is

group of metres called

certain

of verses of like structure

a verse of

laind ind thqjjbruig,

is

'^
70. In a

scilte (no. 24), to

verse rhyming with the second.

fifth

is

structure.

without

rule

fri

eochraid, a

number

at regular intervals interrupted

citicsrethaid,

x 63

+ 4

1
||

which

is

confined

to

4 x

63

+ 4

^*%

Coimdiu and cumachtach,

?***

Crist cain, ar clothbile,

1
:

comarba nibnime,
*

* />Vve~*jt&*n

nertaid flal firinne

^.p.sHp&^uvU
Trebraid

is

fri

by

former end in trisyllables,

If the

rhyme,

\jZ%ks.
*/*****.

lhanmuir. <* P* *****

intervening short verses.

Eochraid

***

dfitnech,

ferba iqth,

(w. ^uhx*^) \*&.

used to denote the occurrence of consonance throughout.

the

SYLLABIC POETRY
mac Maire

25

ingine,

Isu ard airechda,

ar n-ardflaith oirdnide,

n betha

breithemnas

ic

do brth.

ar brig
3
71. Rtcne dechubaid, 3 x 6

Archiv,

p.

iii.,

217

Other arrangements
1

3 * 6

3 x 7

Aisl.
2

II

1
||

If,

LL.

Meic Congl.,

3 x 6

||

as tic

mac

mo

lgad

Indisfet 'na cua/a

325 8>

3035,

*&

imm

339> 33

42b, 48

^ -^

'
!

ua%

a hilaga

ate.

>

K$

95 36 (Rev. Celt. xv. 422)

Rev. Celt.

3349;

9.

"

Sto*^d^.

<---

Sor</.'

P,f>^. 1 lu^. .ethait bxuana bolg.'

J

mono-

\egind

Indis scla Ch'iatta

Other examples, LL.

ib. xxiii.

p. 35.

in disyllables or

Chlain cheMnd;

sinnaig
1/*.

5'

Yegind

tegim sis co

'

of Fenagh, p. 19+

either half of the stanza.

Cfc^. -~~. Tlcim

lar

11.

Book

2g8

p.

Aisl.

x 62

Can

'

xv., p. 302.

19.

rhyme within
3

||

however, the larger lines end

Ochtfoclach mor,

****'

Silva Gad., p. 382.

||

syllables, they

<?W^

Meic Congl., p. 81,

3
2 x 7 + 5
x 73 + 5

72.

3 x 6 + 4
Rev. Celtique,

J"

2
3 x 6

3 x 7

+ 4

219

ib.

\-*

vi.

176

&*"""*

'*

*******'

Tin B C.,r&3i*.
ib.

xv.

319;

Silva Gad., p. 382.

Other arrangements
2

x 62

||

2 x 62

||

2 x

2 x

4 +

73.

Lethmimasc

Nlrb ingnad

is

Zeitschr. vi

Aisl.

4 +

arranged as follows:
ui

4-

a very
2

3
j

tig

1
||

u\Kkn

257.

||

p. 79, 7.

with debide rhyme

Chunnmil'chilftw;/^

salann for arn cen imm.

4z*4&u*.,i<Li

p.

metre

artificial

Meic Congl.,

ro-secc feil a muintire

Is

^^fy t&bmf

mnann tiiun^a^^^x^a^iiut

amail seccas ruse

imm

chrann.

Q-*H. i \i~LJ,

IRISH METRICS

26
74. Droignech is

the

name

of a metre

of four verses with trisyllabic ending.

from nine to thirteen

rhyme.

syllables.

The concluding words

rhyme with

word

in the

consisting

Each

The second and

of the

first

of stanzas

may

verse

contain

fourth verses

and third verses must

next verses, and consonate with the

end-rhymes.

O'Grady, Catalogue,

p-

399

vdL*,'}'"***

aty4n1Liit*~*4*,v*

Degsamhail Ghuaire, fiorthobar in f loroinigh,

******

ctochotghir in chriochsligh as buaine fa bhtianfolaibh,

,(&i**.-Cttl>i.

ua na gcaithbheodhach as cra do Ghaoidhealaibh,

a* a *rM 6uk
.

fiaithlepghan

don

ccaJU\um>1&**&

ikaoirfeadhain as crdha d gcualabhair,

stiorthir,

O'Gr. wrthoir, fiorthoir MSS.

tjw

APPENDIX

The Poets

Abach

fili

of Ireland

(Dindsenchas 34)

Adamnn mac Rnin 1704

Adnae mac Uthidir 1. cent.
Aed Albanach (Abbott, Cat. p. 288)
Aed Allan 8. cent.
Aedh Buidhe mac Cruitin 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxxx)
Aed Find 9. cent. (Anecdota i, p. 74)
Aedh mac Ainghil (Hugh McCowell) 19. cent.
Aedh mac an Bhaird 18. cent.
Aedh mac an Bhaird mac Nuadhad j-1522
Aedh mac Baethghalaigh mhic Flannchadha f 575
Aedh mac Domhnaill 18. cent. (Gael. J. xvi, p. 2io, b 225 b )
Aedh mac Samhradhin (Gabhrin) 17/18. cent. (O'Gr.
1

p.

577; Gael.

J. xiv, p. 855)

Aedh 'Og mac Craith 15. cent.

Aedh Ollabhar ua Carthaigh 12. cent. (LL. p. igg h )
Aedh Ruadh mac Mathghamhna f'453
Aedh ua Cobhthaig mac an Chlasaigh fi452
Aedh ua Dlaigh 18. cent.
Aedh ua Dlaigh Brifne 11438 (AU.)
Aedh ua Domhnaill 17. cent. (O'R. p. clxvii)
Aedh ua Huiginn mac Briain mhic Fearghail Ruaidh 11487
Aed ua Raithnn FM. 954
Aedacn mac Finnachta ollam Leithe Cuind (TF. p. 176)
Aedhagn ua Rathaille +1726
Aedn ua Mellin (RC. 13, p. 436")

Cat.

APPENDIX

28

Aengus
Aengus
Aengus
Aengus
Aengus
Aengus
Aengus
Aengus
Aengus
Aengus
Aengus
Aengus

Cle D, see Aengus mac Aengobann

Fionn ua Dlaigh f 570

Aengobann maic Oibln
Aengusa f93o (Ir. T. iii,
1

mac
mac
mac
mac
mac
mac

8/9. cent.
p. 8)

Craith ^1461

Dchime

6.

cent. (Otia Merseiana

iii,

Mildin maic Aeda maic Nill (RC.

Suibne (Rawl. B. 502,

p.

47)

vi, p.

183)

p. 72'')

na diadhachta, see Aengus Fionn ua Dlaigh

na n-er, see Aengus Ruadh mac Amhlaoibh

mac Ailello maic Labrada (Ir. T. iii, p. 364)

Ruadh mac Amhlaoibh ua Dhlaigh (an Bard Ruadh)

ollam

fi6i 7

Aengus
Aengus
Aengus
Aengus

Ruadh ua Dlaigh

"("1350

ua Dlaigh fi268
ua Dlaigh Cairbreach 11507
ua Dlaigh mac Cerbhaill Bhuidhe (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 353,
361) JI420
Aenghus ua Dlaigh mac Daighre 16. cent. (Hard, ii, p. 280;
Gael.

36i b

J. ix,

O'Gr. Cat.

p.

504; Abbott, Cat.

Aengus ua Heodhusa t I 35
Aengus ua Heodhusa mac Sein 11480
'Ai mac Olloman (Ir. T. iii, pp. 34, 65
Ailbe Imblecha
Ailill

'Olum

5.

Aindrias
Aindrias
Aindrias

Lism.

fo. i2 5

cent.

fca. 230

(FM. 1170)

Aindiles ua Clumhin

Aindrias

p. 301)

mac Craith (an Mangaire Sgach) 18.

mac Cruitin 18. cent.
mac Marcuis 16/17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
mac Mathghamhna
1

cent.

p. 397)

Aindrias magUidhir 17. cent.

Aingleach ua Domhnalkiin

14. cent.

mac Coisse-dobrin fioi7 (LL. p. 135")

Aircion mac Crannchair na long (O'Gr. Cat. p. 591)
Amairgen Glngel mac Miled
Amairgen mac Amalgado 6. cent.

Airbertach

O'R.

p. clxvii calls

him Angus mac Marcus.

2)

THE POETS OF IRELAND

29-

Amairgen mac Ecetsalaig (CZ. iii, p. 15)

Amhlaoibh mac Firbhisigh f 362
Amhlaoibh Mr mac Firbhisigh fiijS
Anr mac Conglinne 8. cent.
Anluan mac Aedhagin 17. cent.
1

Anmchaid (LL. p. 316c)

Annach mac Duibinse maic Chaibdenaig maic 'Enna maicNill
Nigallaig

6. cent.

Anraoi mac Amhlaoibh

18. cent.

Antoine Cuillean 17/18. cent. (O'R.

Antoine ua Reachtabhra f 1 835
Art
Art

mac Bingheacht (Gael. J. 14, p. 6q^. b )

mac Cobhthaigh (Cumhaidh, Cudhaidhe) (Arthur M'Covey)
i7'5-i773 (Gael.

Art

p. ccviii)

J. x,

Mr ua Murchadha

25

')

18. cent. (Gael.

J. xiv, pp. 75

Art 'Og ua Caoimh 17. cent. (O'R.

Athairne Ailgesach

T.

iii,

mac Athgl

1.

b
,

y6S b )

p. clxviii)

cent.

(RC.

viii,

p.

48;

Ir.

p. 65)

Athairne ua Heodhusa

mac Sein f^Sg

Betach ua Birechin (CZ.

iii,

p. 16)

mac Canach 6. cent.

Bithn mac Brnainn maic Fergusa ua Muiredaig 536-599
Bithn

(Gael. J. iv, p, 229 b )

ices (Hib. Min. p. 46)

Banbn

Baothghalach Dubh

mac Aodhagin

16.

cent.

(O'Gr. Cat.

P- 542)

Baothghalach (Boetius) Ruadh mac Aodhagin (O'R.

Bard Binne 1931 (FM.)

Bard Maile (LL. p. i 5 2 b )

an Bard Ruadh, see Aengus Ruadh mac Amhlaoibh
Bbhionn inghean ui Maoilchonaire 1 1 39

Bee Boirche jjiS

Bee mac D (druad) 1551 (Tig.)
Bcn mac Cla 5. cent. (Fl. 2 pp. 6, 112)
Bcn mac Luigdech 6. cent. (Laud 615, p.
Benn mac Sescnin 1468
Berchn 6. cent.

14)

p. civ)

APPENDIX

30

Bladhmac mac Conbretan mheic Congusa 14th

p.

cent. (O'R.

cxii)

Boetius Ruadh

mac Aodhagin

Braccn Clen

7.

17. cent.

cent. (O'Mulc. 108)

Braccn of Ard Braccin 7 cent.

Brnainn Clana Ferta f577
Bressal briuga (CZ.

iii,

p. 16)

Brian Caoch ua Dlaigh

(O'R., p. cxxxiv)

16. cent.

mac Conmidhe 11582

Brian Dorcha mac Solaimh mhic Chonmidhe "("1542
Brian Dubh ua Raghallaigh 18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxix

Brian Dorcha

O'Gr.

Cat. pp. 66, 579, 602)

Brian

mac Eoghain Mhaoil ua Domhnallin 11582 (O'Gr.

Cat.

pp. 344,401)

mac Giolla Meidhre, see Brian Merriman

mac Roibeird mhic Aedhagin ollamh Ui Chonchobhair
Dhuinn 7 Ui Ainlighi fi473
Brian mac Toirdhealbhaigh mhic Ghiolla Phdraig 17. cent.

Brian

Brian

(O'Gr. p. 653)
Brian Merriman ti8o8

Brian 'Og

Brian 'Og

mac Briainmhic Dhomhnaill Chaim ua Huiginn 11505

mac Briain Ruaidh mac Conmidhe f 5 16
1

Brian Reabhach ua Clirigh

Brian Ruadh

fl.

mac Conmidhe

1730

15. cent.

Brian ua Cathalin 19. cent.

Brian ua Flaithbheartaigh

18. cent.

Brian ua Huidir fer dna do Thrian Chonghail 11485

Brian ua Huiginn mac Ferghail Ruaidh ti47 (Ferm.

Briccne
Briccne

mac
mac

Brigit ingen

Brigni (LL. p.

17^)

Cairbri in biltenga (CZ. p.

iii,

16)

Dubthaig 1525

Brigit ban'fili 7 bandrui ingen

Echdach

Ollathir (O'Mulc. 159

LL. p. 187 Corm. s.v. Brigit)

Broccn Cribdech 10. cent. (LL. p. 43 b )
an Bromach ua Muireadhaigh (O'Gr. Cat.
;

in Chaillech Birri 8. cent.

in Chaillech

b
1

Laigen (Tig. a.d. 604)

rj.

586)

THE POETS OF IRELAND

31

mac Niatach 5. cent.

Cilte mac Rnin 3. cent.
Cainnech moccu Dlon 1598
Caillin

Cairbre Cluchechair (LL.

mac

p. 3

a
1

Mir (Acall. 2551 Fl. 2

Cairbre Lifechair mac Cormaic 3. cent. RC. 12,
Cairbre mac Briain ua Huiginn 11505

Cairbre

fili

Cairbre

Ailella

mac Etnai

p. 16

Ir.

Cairnech

T.

p.

148)

70.

(Etaine) (Crithinbl) (LL. 11* 29; CZ.

iii,

p. 65

Corm. Tr. pp.

6. cent.

mac Giolla Ghunna 18. cent. (Gael. J. 14,

mac Muireadhaigh 17. cent. (H. 3. 18, p. 694)

Cathal Buidhe
Cathal

Cathal ua Fearadhaigh (Gael.

J.

Cathn ua Duinnin

8o9 b )

p. ccix)

(O'Gr. Cat. pp. 51, 564)

cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 575;

14. cent.

mac Cba

Cathaoir

p.

14, p. 799")

Cathal ua Heislionnin 17/18. cent. (O'R.

P-

iii,

37, 144)

18.

Brooke,

307)

Cathbad dri
Ceallach

mac

1.

cent.

Cruitn f 1 373

Ceallach ua Maelchorgais 999 (FM.)

Ceallach ua Ruanada 11079 (LL. p. 38.)

Ceannfelad na foglama mac Ailella maic Betin |6?9

Ceannfaelad ua Cuill ollam Muman 11048
Ceannfaeladh ua Cuill f 1 507

Ceannggin

(Ir.

Cearbhall Buidhe

T.

iii.

p. 101)

mac Taidhg mhic Aengusa Fionnabhraigh ua

Dlaigh 11245
Cearbhall Fionn ua Dlaigh
Cearbhall

mac Conchobhair ua Dlaigh (Ferm.

Cearbhall g ua Dlaigh 17. cent. (H,

Cearbhall ua Dlaigh

Hard.

I, p.

(Maccaomh

fili

8.

Innse

356)

Cearbhalln ua Ceallaigh

Cearmna

4. 26, p.

18. cent.

cent.

Cessirne fili Cuinn Chtchathaig

Cethern mac Fintain 3. cent.

Cethernach ua Cathin

2.

cent.

78*1)

118)

Creamha)

11404

APPENDIX

32
Cile Dabaill

mac Scannlin 1927

Cian ua Mathghamhna
Carn

mac

17. cent.

(O'R.

p. cxcvii)

in tSir

fs49
Cined ua Hartacin 1975

Ciothruadh mac Athairne

ui

Eodhusa

-f

Ciothruadh mac Rithbheartaigh 11478

an Clasach ua Cobhthaig fi4i5
Clothna mac Aengusa primFile 'Erenn fioo9 (LL.

Cobthach mac Sergaile (Ir. T.

Cobhthach ua Carmain fl, 1300

iii,

Cemgen Glinne D Locha |6i

Coireall mac Curnin (Abbott, Cat.
Colgu mac Connacn f87

p. 37)

p. 66)

pp. 291, 307)

Colgu ua Dinechdo 1796

mac Sein 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxx)

Colmn mac Coimgellin (CZ. iii, p. 15)
Colmn mac Fergusa (TF. a.d. 610)
Colmn mac Lnne |6o4 (Corm. Tr. pp. 10, 42 RC.
Colla

Lism. L. pp. 63, 210)

Colmn moccu Chlasaig |662 (Corm. Tr.

p. 82

TF.

xx, p. 40

p. bo)

Colmn ua Seasnin 11. cent.

Colum Cille fS97
Colum Wallace 19. cent.
Comgall Bennchuir 517-602
Comgn, see Mac D Cherda
Commn mac Felchon 8. cent. (23 N 10, p. 93)
Conaing Buidhe ua Maoilchonaire f 3 4. ('Eriu ii, p. 163)
Conaing Buidhe ua Maoilchonaire fi42o (O'R. p. cxx)
1

Conall

Menn

a.d. 703 (TF.)

Conn mac Morna 3. cent.

Conchobhar Cam ua Dlaigh Cairbreach 17. cent.
Conchobhar Crn ua Dlaigh 16. cent. (CZ. ii, p. 330)
Conchobhar mac Criomhthainn 18. cent. (H. 4. 15, p. 680)
Conchobhar mac Nessa 1. cent.
Conchobhar 'Og mac Flannchadha 11483
Conchobhar Ruadh mac an Bhaird f 54.1
1

AnotherConor Roe mac an Bhaird

is

mentioned bv O'R.

p. clxvii,

a.d. i6o.

THE POETS OF IRELAND

33

Conchobhar Ruadh mac Conmidhe f 148 (O'Gr. Cat. p. 342)

Conchobhar uaBriain 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 572 Gael. J. x, 22 b )
Conchobhar ua Cellaigh 13. cent.
Conchobhar ua Coragn fl. 1690 (O'R. p. ccii)
Conchobhar (Maighistir) ua Rordin 18. cent. (Gael. J. 14,
1

p.

6oo b )

Conchobhar ua Silliobhin 18. cent. (Munster

Congal mac Echdach Feidlig (O'R. p. xvi)

Conn mac
Cormac
P-

Poets, p. 306)

Sein ua Nill (Egerton 155, p. 153)

Common 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 576

(Dall)

Brooke,

307)

Cormac fili (LL. p. 28") = Cormac mac Cuilennin ?

Cormac mac Airt 3. cent.
Cormac mac Cearbhaill mhic Chonmidhe 16. cent.
Cormac mac Cuilennin tgo8
Cormac mac Eoghain ua Dlaigh 16. cent. (Ferm. 1 2 a
Cormac mac Fearghail mhic an Bhaird fiS34
Cormac mac Gillacholuim ua Huiginn 16. cent. (O'Gr.
1

Cat.

pp. 344, 447)

Cormac na casbairne ua Dlaigh (O'Gr. Cat. p. 331)

Cormac ua Cianin fi5o8

Cormac ua Cuirnn oide iges n'Eirenn f 1475
Cormac ua Lathin (Reeves' Columba p. 264, Gorm. p. xi)
Cormacn ces mac Melebrigte 1946
an Cosnamhach mac Fearghail mhic Donnchadha Duibh mhic
Aedhagin 11529
Crechduile

(i

nAlbain, RC. 26, p. 8)

Crde ingen Gairi

7.

cent.

Crichenbl cinte, see Cairbre

Crittine

Crnn

fili

7.

(CZ.

cent.

iii,

mac Etnai

p. 16)

(Adamn.

i,

42)

Crossn Finn, see Maol'Isa Crossn Finn

Cruittine (LL. p. 1 86*25, Corm. Tr. p. 102)

Cn ua Lothchin

"[1024

C-Bretan mac Congusa (Tig. a.d. 721)

C-choigcrche macTuathail Bhuidhe ua Duigeannin
(O'R. p. cxc)
C-choigrche (Peregrine) ua Clrigh fi664

17. cent.

APPENDIX

34

C-chollchoille ua Bigellin

fmg

C-Chonnacht mac Maoilsechlainn ua Dlaigh

1590 (O'R.

f.

p. cxlviii)

C-Chonnacht mac Rithbheartaigh f 465

Cu-Chonnacht mac Rithbheartaigh 11524
Cu-Chonnacht mac Tairdhealbhaigh Bhuidhe (Book of the Dean
1

of Lismore)

Cu-Chonnacht na scoile ua Dlaigh fi 139

C-chuimne 1746
Cuigne mac Emoin (Arch, iii, p. 226)

Cuimmine Condeire 1658

Cuimmine Fota f66i
Cuirell mac Curnin
Cuirither mac Doborchon 7. cent.
C-mara mac Mic Liag 11030
Cundedn (Lism. L. p. 107)
Cu-temin mac Aigile (Hy Fiach. p. 40)
C-Uladh mac an Bhaird fi. 1600 (O'R.

p. clix)

Da-chiarc (FM. a.d. 1166)

D Choca

(Hib. Min. p. 46)

Dibhdh mac Gearailt (Gael. J. 14, p. 693)
Dibhdh (Dth) mac Pdraig ua Hiarlaithe

18. cent. (Gael. J.

799 )
Dibhdh ua Bruadair 1650-1693
14, p.

Dibdh ua Murchadha 17. cent. (Hard, i, pp. 228, 337)

Daighre ua Dlaigh ca. 1600
in Dall Clrenech, see Gilla Modhuda na Casaide
Dall

mac

in Dall

Cuarta, see

ua Lonin

Dalian Forgaill
Dalian
Dalian

6.

Samus Dall

airdfile 7 airdsenchaid

na

Muman

fio64

cent.

mac Machacin maic Echthigirn (Dinds.

mac More 9/10. cent. (LL. p. 47% 52 b )

21)

Daniel ua Liathaide |86i

Dathen ces (LU.

p. 32*6,

RC.

16, p.

279)

Dalian mac Alia maic Ere maic Feradaig, CZ.

iii,

p.

15.

THE POETS OF IRELAND

an Deagnach

35

mac Conmidhe fi525

Dennis, see Donnchadh

Derccu

glasfili

p. I2 +

comalta Cairpri maic

Nill

(Rawl.

B.

502,

a
)

Derg mac Drethail (O'Gr.

Cat. p. 592)

Diarmaid Innsi Clothrann (LB. 26 a )

Diarmaid mac an Bhaird fl. 1590 (O'R.
Diarmaid mac Crrthaigh (Gael.

p. cxlix)

J. 14, p.

7o8 b )

Diarmaid mac Cearbhaill (LL. p. i49 b )

Diarmaid mac Conchobhair mhic Dhiarmada mhic Sein mac
Bruaidedha 11563
Diarmaid mac Craith f 4.
Diarmaid mac Eoghain mhic Mhathghamhna ua Dlaigh ollamh
1

Fear Midhe uile fi448

Diarmaid mac Lughadha mhic an Bhaird fl. 1690 (O'R.
Diarmaid mac Muircheadhaigh (Abbott, Cat. p. 316)

p. cci)

Diarmaid mac Sein ua Conaill 19. cent. (Gael. J. 16, p. 21 i a )

Diarmaid mac Taidhg Chaim ua Clirigh "(-1522
Diarmaid 'Og (?) mac Domhnaill mhic Finghin Chaoil ua
Silleabhain 17/18. cent.

Diarmaid
Diarmaid
Diarmaid
Diarmaid
Diarmaid

'Og ua Maoilchonaire 17. cent. (O'R. p. clxii)

'Og ua Murchadha (Gael. J. xiv, p. 757 s )
ua Briain 16/17. cent. (O'R. p. clxiii)
ua Cobhthaigh fl. 1584 (O'R. p. cxlv)
ua Curnin

18. cent. (Gael. J. 3, p. 22,

47)

Diarmaid ua Duibhne

3.

cent.

Diarmaid ua Floinn 19. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 563)

Diarmaid ua Hiffernin (Book of the Dean)
Diarmaid (Darby) ua Riain (Gael. J. iii, 55*)

Diarmaid Ruadh ua Muireadhaigh

fl.

1690 (O'R.

p. cci)

Digdi, see Caillech Birri

Drengdri (Arch,

ii,

p.

142

SG.

p. 93,

28

Ir.

Texts Soc.

vii,

p. 10)

Doiminic Cosgar
Doiminic ua Mongin

18. cent.

(Munster Poets,

p. 344)

Domhnall Carrach mac Eochadha 17. cent. (O'R. p. cxlv)

Domhnall Cnuic an Bhile mac Carthaigh (Ferm. 26 a i H. 4.
;

p. 89)

15,

APPENDIX

36

Domhnall Faire ua Gormin 18. cent. ?

Domhnall Garbh ua Silleabhin 17. cent.
Domhnall na tuile mac Carthaigh (O'Gr.
p. cxxxviii,

Domhnall
Domhnall
Domhnall
Domhnall

Egerton

Cat. p. 632

O'R.

155, p. 156)

Gorm mac Lochlainn (O'Gr. Cat. p. 617}

mac Aedhagin fi529
mac Briain ua Huiginn fi502 (A Clonm., 1501 FM.)
mac Cinnidigh ua Briain 18. cent. (Gael. J. 14,

p. 649*;

Egerton

160, p. 67)

Domhnall mac Dire mac Bruaidedha 16. cent.

Domhnall mac Donnchadha ua Dlaigh (Bolg an dna) 11404
Domhnall mac Eochadha 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxliii)
Domhnall mac Eoghain ua Dlaig 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 343,
362)

Domhnall mac

Fir

gan ainm mac Eochadha

17. cent. (Abbott,

Cat. p. 302)

Domhnall mac Flannagin ca.A.D. 1000 (MS. Mat. pp. 222, 577)
Domhnall mac Gillai na naomh (H. 4. 15, p. 150)
Domhnall mac Taidhg an Gharin 17. cent.
Domhnall mac Taidhg mhic Ghiolla Mhichil ua Fiaich 11507
Domhnall mac Tomis ua Huiginn 16. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 344)
Domhnall na Buile 18. cent. (Munster Poets, p. 226)
Domhnall ua Ceallachin 18. cent.
Domhnall ua Cinnidigh 18. cent.
Domhnall ua Cobhthaigh "f-1446
Domhnall ua Colmin 17. cent.
Domhnall ua Donnabhin 18. cent. (Gael. J. 16, 2i2 b )
Domhnall ua Huallachin (H. 3. 23, p. 18)
Domhnall ua Lorgin 17. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 302)
Domhnall ua Maoilchonaire (FM. a.d. 1487)
Domhnall ua Slibhn ardollam Oirgiall fi 169
Dond na ndan (LL. p. 37 b i7)
Donn b 8. cent. (TF. p. 34)
Donnchadh Baccach ua Maoilchonaire 11404
Donnchadh Caoch ua Mathghamhna 17. cent. (O'R. p. clxxix)
Donnchadh Dall ua Laoghaire (Gael. J. 14, p. 6oo b )
1

O'R.,

p. cxxvii, calls

him Donald mac an Chlasaigh O'Coffey.

THE POETS OF IRELAND

Donnchadh Lose ua Maoilchonaire

13. cent.

37

(ALC.

1233, 1274,

1278, 1288)

Donnchadh mac Briain na Brumha 11. cent.

Donnchadh mac Domhnaill mhic Eochadha 17.

cent. (Abbott,

Cat. p. 302)

Donnchadh mac Eoghain ua Dlaigh (Ferm. p. 95 b )

Donnchadh mac Labhradha 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 607)
Donnchadh mac Sein Bhuidhe mhic Carrthaig f 726
Donnchadh Mr ua Dlaigh f I2 44
Donnchad Ruadh mac Conmara f 814 (CZ. v, 200 Gael.
1

iii.

J.

p. 6.*)

Donnchadh
Donnchadh
Donnchadh
Donnchadh
Donnchadh
Donnchadh
xvi. p.

ua Fialin 16/17. cent. (O'R.

ua Floinn 19. cent.
ua Futhail (Misc.

ua Mathghamhna

Ir.

Arch. Soc.

17. cent.

(an

drchta)

p.

p. ccxxxi)

301)

na Silliobhin

18.

cent.

(Gael

J.

Donnchuach ua Huathghaile 11. cent.

Donnchadh Uasal fi 770.
Dorbn fili Connacht (LU. p. 38 b 7, 394)
Draigen mac Dorndobied (Ir. T. iii, p. 104,

Druimm

p. 370)

(O'R.

ua Muirghiusa (Abbott, Cat.

728

p. clxiii)

6)

Sithe (Dinds. 160)

Dubdchonn (CZ.

iii,

p. 16)

Dubdlethe (FM. a.d. 978)

Dubdartach Birri f865 (Arch,

iii,

p.

291)

Dubdthath mac Stlne 1783 (LL.

p.

14.71.

>

Aisl.

M.

p. 7

Lism, 95 2)
Dubdid (LL. p. 330 b )

Dubhghall mac Firbhisigh fit6o

Dubhlaing ua Hartagin 11. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 26)
Dubhlitir ua Huathghaile (LL. p. i4i b Rawl. B. 502,
in Dubh.silech ua Maoilchonaire (ALC. a.d. 1270)
Dubthach lnfili (LL. 3i5 b )
1

Dubhthach mac Eochadha (AU. a.d. 141 5)

Dubthach moccu Lugair 5. cent. (LL. p. 45",
Identical -with

Conchobar ua Huathgaile,

lector at

p. 68

b
)

45'')

Glenn Uissen,

FM.

1082.

APPENDIX

38

Dubthach ua Duibhgennin 16.

Duinnin ua Maoilchonaire fi23

Dnchad ua Brain

fqyi (CZ.

cent. (O'R. p. cxlvii)

iii,

p. 35)

Dnlang ua Maoilchonaire (ALC.

a.d. 1270)

Eachmarcach Ruadh mac Conmidhe fi42o

'Eachtghus ua Canin (Gorm.

p. x)

Eadbhard do Ngla (Edw. Nagle) 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 570)

'Eamonn an Chnuic ua Riain (Ryan, Rinn) 18. cent. (Gael.
b
Munster Poets, p. 265)
J. iv, 9
'Eamonn do Bhl 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 570)
'Eamonn mac Sein 'Oig Mhaoil (Gael. J. 14, p. 7g8 b )
'Eamonn ua Caiside 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccvi CZ. ii, p. 361)
'Eamonn ua Clirigh (Gael. J. iii, 75')
'Eamonn mac Domhnaigh 17. cent. (O'R. p. cxciij
'Eamonn ua Machin 18. cent. (Egerton 160, p. 20)
;

Eibhlin

Dubh

Eibhlin

ni

ni Chonaill 18. cent. (Gael. J. 7, p. 18)

(Ellen Quilty) 18. cent. (Hard.

Chaoilte

ii>

pp. 82, 149)

'Eigneach ua Duinnin fi4og

Eithne ingen Emangeth (CZ.

En mac Ethomain

(Rev. Celt,

Enri mac Amhlaoibh

Eochaidh
Eochaidh
Eochaidh
Eochaidh
Eochaidh
Eochaidh
Eochaidh
Eochaidh
Eochaidh

p.

16)

xii, p.

7b)

iii,

18. cent.

Dalian, see Dalian Forgaill

iges ua Clirechin
1

Eolach ua Cirn

(LU. 39

11. cent.

15,

LL,

196*)

mac Maoilseachlainn fca. 1610

ollamh Fdla (FM. AM. 3922)
ua Caoimhgin (Abbott, Cat.

p.

378)

ua Flannagin (Flainn) fioo3 (AU.)

ua Ceithnn fio3o (AU. FM.)
ua Heodhusa 16/17. cent

EochuEchbl

di

Albain

1.

(O'R.

cent. (Ir. T.

iii,

p. clxxxiii)

p. ^}

RC.

26, p. 8)

Eocho rgices (m. Oengusa m. Dallain m. Dubthaig m. Miannaig

m. Lugdach) qui hospitatus apud Daimine qui sepultus est in Domnuch
1

Culind

LL.

RC.

3300.

20, 42 Eochaid rg-ces is said to have been contemporary with

Dalian Forgaill, while according to YBL. p. 135' they were identical.

In

THE POETS OF IRELAND

39

Eoghan mac Aodha Buidhe mhic Aedha Duibh ua Domhnaill

mac Aodha ua Cobhthaigh 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxlii)

mac Aengusa ua Dlaigh (Ferm. p. 103
mac an Bhaird 15th cent. (Bruss. MS. 6131-33, fo. i5 b )
mac Briain ua Huiginn (FM. a.d. 15 10)
(an mhirn) mac Carrthaigh 18. cent. (Minister Poets,

Eoghan
Eoghan
Eoghan
Eoghan
Eoghan
p.

')

320)

Eoghan mac Conchobhair ua Dlaigh (Ferm. p. 77'')

Eoghan (an trthir) mac Donnchadha Mhaoil mhic

Craith ca.

1400 (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 342, 359, 660)

Eoghan mac Craith 17. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 289)

Eoghan mac Donnchadha ua Dlaigh 17. cent. (O'R. p. clxvi)

Eoghan mac Goflfradha Finn 15. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 358)
Eoghan mac GofFradha mhic Eoghain mhic Ghoffradha mac an
Bhaird fi6o9

Eoghan Mr ua Comhraidhe 19. cent. (Gael. J. viii, 5i a

Eoghan Mr ua Dlaigh (Ferm. p. n6 b )
Eoghan Ruadh mac an Bhaird Tire Conaill fi5io (O'Gr.
)

P-

Cat.

342)

Eoghan Ruadh mac Fearghail mhic Dhomhnaill Ruaidh mac

an Bhaird fi572

Eoghan Ruadh an
iii,

p.

Eoghan
Eoghan
Eoghan
Eoghan
Eoghan
Eoghan
Eoghan

bhil bhinn ua Silleabhin 11784 (Oss. Soc.

s
97 n. 2 Gael. J. 16, p. 225 )
ua Ceallachin (Eg. 150, p. 719)
;

ua Ceallaigh

18. cent.

ua Caoimh 1656-1726 (O'Gr. Cat. 493, 527, 581)

ua Caomhnaigh 19. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 666)

ua Dlaigh

17. cent.

ua Donnghoile

(Abbott, Cat. p. 303)

17. cent.

ua Dubhthaigh

16.

(Gael.

J. xvi, p.

195

15

cent. (Gael. J. xiv, p. 766'; O'Gr.

Cat. p. 55)

Eoghan Ruadh mac

Uilliaim

mac an Bhaird

17. cent.

(O'R.

p. clxi)

Eoghan ua
1

Fialin fi43i

Another Eoghan Ruadh mac an Bhaird

A.D. 1640.

is

mentioned by O'R.

p.

cxci,

APPENDIX

40

Eoghan ua Raghallaigh

17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxx)

Ein Carsuel fi572 (Gael. J. no. no)

Ein Msach ua Maethagin (Misc. Ir. Arch. Soc.
Ein ua Ceallannin 17/18. cent. (Gael. J. x, 23*)

328)

p.

Ein ua Ruanadha

fi 377
Erard mac Coisse prmices ''Eirenn 990 (AU.)
Erard mac Coisse-briad fio23 (FM.)

Erard ua Maoilchonaire 11482

Erurach Innse Mire (Fl. 2 p.

6)

Etan banfili ingen Dincecht (CZ.

Fachtna mac Sencha
Faifne

cent. (CZ.

3.

Feln mac an gabann

15. cent.

iii,

LU.

16;

p.

iii,

h
38 4o)

p. 16)

(Arch,

ii,

p.

140

FM.

1423)

prmices Laigen 1958 (FM.)

fili

Feidhelm (FM. a.d. 594)

Feidhlim mac Dubhghaill

19. cent.

Feidhlimidh mac Carthaigh (O'Gr. Cat.

Feidhlimidh

mac

Crimthainn

p.

632)

Muman

ri

1847

(Lism.

L.

p. xxxviii)

Fearchar (O'Gr. Cat.

p.

361)

Fearcheart ua Huiginn fi4ig

Ferchertne

fili

Conri i.cent. (CZ.

Ferchertne

fili

Labrada Luirc (CZ.

mac Glaiss 1.
mac Commin

Ferchertne

cent.

Ferchess

2.

cent.

p.

iii,
iii,

41)

p. 4. 6)

(Corm. Tr.

p.

142; R.C. 13,

P- 434)

Fear dna ua Carthaigh 1131 (FM.)

Fear dorcha mac Cormaic ua Dlaigh
p.

cent. (O'Gr. Cat.

17.

578)

Fear dorcha ua Fearghaile

fl.

1730 (O'R. p. ccxxii)

Fear dorcha ua Mellin (Eg. 187, p. 22)

Fear feasa ua (an) Chinte 16/17, cent (O'R.
-

Fear flatha ua

Gnimh

16. cent.

(Hard,

ii,

p.

p. clxxvii)

102; O'Gr. Cat.

p. 642)

He was

one of the scribes of the Book of Hi Maine, as appears from the

ill ': Faslan mac a[n] gabanw na seel do scrib in
caidirni seo da thigerrna carad companaig .i. don easpoc hua CheaUa/g .i.
Muirchertach.
1

following colophon on fo.

THE POETS OF IRELAND

41

mac Domhnaill Ruaidh mac an Bhaird fisso

mac Eochadha -(-1480
Fearghal mac Eoghain ua Fialin fisio
Fearghal mac Luighdhech mac Eochadha 16. cent. (O'R.
Fearghal

Fearghal

p. cxliii)

Fearghal mac Taidhg mhic Aengusa Ruaidh ua Dlaigh ollamh

Corcomodhruadh j-1420
mac Tomis mac Eochadha (Abbott,
Fearghal Muimhneach ua Duibhgeannin

Fearghal

Cat. 300)

(O'R.

cent.

17.

p. exeii)

Fearghal

'Og mac Fearghaile mac an Bhaird 11583 (O'R.

p. cxlii)

Fearghal 'Og mac an Bhaird

Fearghal 'Og

mac Eochadha

Fearghal ua Cionga

fl.

fi.

1625 (O'R. p. clix)

i. cent.

1560 (O'R.

(Abbott, Cat. p. 302;

p. exxxvii)

Fearghal ua Duibhgennin ollamh na Brifne

Fear gan ainm mac Eochadha (O'Gr. Cat.

Feargus fianach (Laws

i,

fili

5.

Feargus

fili

mac Athairne (Laws

cent. (Trip. p. 564)

fili

Finn

Feargus mac Beathadh

Fear

Muman

f 1 357
648)

p. 24)

Feargus

Feargus Fnbl
-$>

p.

(Ir.

T.

iii,

3.

i,

p. 22)

cent. (Dinds. 52)

18. cent. (Gael. J. 16, p.

p. 34,

i96

O'Mulc. 836; Corm. Tr.

p. 11,

61, 62, 81, 84)

Fiacc Sleibte

fl.

500

mac Brdaigh 17/18. cent. (Gael. J. xii, 58 )

Find fili mac Rossa Raid (pronepos Stnai, O'Mulc.
Find mac Cumaill ua B;scne 3, cent.
Fingein mac Flainn fl. 850
Fingein mac Luchta 2. cent.
1

Fiachra

Finghin ua Silliobhin 19. cent. (Gael. J. 16,

Fnn mac Fiachrach di Dl Aride (Laud 610,
Fnn (Ir.T. iii, p. 38)

Finnch Br Gobhann (CZ.

Finnces (Macgn. F. 17)
1

iii,

p. 100.)
b

fo.

97

p. 31)

Another Fearghal 'Og mac an Bhaird

A.D. 1655.

606)

is

mentioned by

OR.

p. exevi,

APPENDIX

42

Fnsnechta ua Cuill
Fintan
Fithel

mac Bchra
3.

Muman

1958

cent.

cent. (LL. p. 149")

Flaithbertach ua
Flaithchius
Flaithri

fili

6.

fili

mac

Hinmhoinn (Lism.

Connacht (LU.

Fithil

3.

fo.

143

p.

39 '4)

cent.

Flaithir (Flaittir ?) 7. cent.

(RC.

13, p.

Flann Fina mac Ossu 1705

Flann mac Aodha mac an Bhaird

370)

(O'Gr.

1743

Cat.

pp.

599, 622)

Flann mac Bairdine do feraib Alban

T.

(Ir.

p. 65)

iii,

Flann mac Conmidhe fl. 1612 (O'R. p. clxxv)

Flann mac Craith fl. 1600 (O'Gr. Cat. p. 380)

Flann mac Domhnaill 1907

Flann mac Eoghain mac Craith

fl.

(O'Gr.

1580

Cat.

pp.

343> 544)

Flann mac Lonin (Mac Laithege)

f 918

Flann mac Milmedc 1977

Flann mac Sein mhic Dhomhnallin 11409 (mentioned

ACL

1288)

Flann Mainistrech fic^

Flann 'Og ua Domhnallin ollamh Connacht 11342
Flann ua Cineda fi 100
Flannacn, see Eochaid ua Flainn

Flannacn mac Cellaig Breg

9.

cent.

(YBL.

p.

2 5 a,

FM.

876.

890. 891)

Flannacn ua Dubthaig fi 168

Fothad na Canine 9. cent. (LL.

p.

i48 a

149")

Nugent 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxiii)

Froinsis ua Maoilmhuidhe 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
Froinsis

Fathach Frchestach (CZ.

iii,

p. 52)

p. 16)

Fulartach (LL. p. 153% 192")

Fursa Cribdech f53

Gaborchenn (quoted TF.

Garbdaire mac Samin 8.
1

a.d. 687)
cent.

Identical with Flann

(Conn. Tr.
mac

p. 8

Ciaith above

Aisl.

M.

p. 7)

THE POETS OF IRELAND

Gearid mac Gearailt

43

18. cent.

Gearid ua Cuillein 18/19. cent.

b
Gearid iarla an dna f 397 (Ferm. 76 )
Gearid Nuinsionn (Gerald Nugent) 16. cent. (Hard,
1

p.

ii,

226)

Aengusa ua Clmin ollam Connacht ti 143 (FM.)

a
Giolla an Choimdedh ua Cormaic 12. cent. (LL. i43 )
Giolla Brighde Albanach mac Conmidhe 13. cent. (O'C
Giolla

ii,

pp. 162-166)

Giolla Brighde (Bonaventura) ua

Heodhosa

16/17. cent.

Giolla Brighde ua Scingn f 382

in Giolla Cam mac Giolla Chiarin fi259
i

Giolla

Coemhain mac

p. 129

Giolla

m.

(ua) Gilla Saer

Samthainne 11072 (LL.

i.)

Caomhain ua Cuirnn (H.

4. 6, p. 2)

Giolla Comhghaill ua Slibhne 103

mac Amhlaoibh fisog

Dubh ua Gluarin (Gael. J.

(FM.)

Giolla Crist

Giolla

xvi, p.

225 a )

Giolla Earnin ua Martain ollamh 'Eirenn fi2i8

mac Ailella ua Braoin

mac Firbhisigh f 30
mac Firbhisigh f 4
Mr mac Firbhisigh 11279

Giolla 'Iosa (Gelasius)

Giolla 'Iosa
Giolla 'Iosa
Giolla 'Iosa

Giolla 'Iosa (Gelasius) ua Dlaigh f 1

(O'Gr. Cat.

Giolla 'Iosa ua Dlaigh 17. cent. (O'R. p.

p.

fi 187

clviii

p.

331)

Abbott, Cat.

302)

Ruadh ua Raghallaigh fi33o

Modudha ua Casaide fi 143 (LL. p.
Muire Caoch mac Cartin 18. cent.

Giolla 'Iosa
Giolla
Giolla

136^)

(O'Gr. Cat.

p.

607)

Giolla Muire (an dall) ua Conallta 1166 (FM.)

naomh
naomh
na naomh
na naomh

Giolla na
Giolla na
Giolla
Giolla

mac Maoilseachlainn ua Huiginn f 1475

mac Ruaidhri Mhr ua Huiginn f 1473
Ruadh mac Eochadha (Abbott, Cat. p. 300)
ua Dlaigh fi232 (O'Gr. Cat.

p.

331)

Writers, p. xcvii, wrongly gives his floruit as 1350.

addressed by him to Maelsechlainn mac Domnaill Mr a Domnaill, who
died in 1247, beginning Cotiall cuingid claimte Neill, is preserved in the
Brussels MS. 6131-33, fo. 35.'

'O'Reilly, Irish

poem

APPENDIX

44
Giolla na

naomh ua Duinn

Slibhe fer liginn Inse Clothrann

fn6o
naomh ua Dnabhra ollam Connacht fnoi
naomh ua Huidhrinn fi42o
na naomh ua Huiginn f 1349
Pdraig mac Briain mhic Mhaoilseachlainn ua Huiginn

Giolla na
Giolla na

Giolla
Giolla

ti485
Giolla Pdraig 'Og ua Fialin f 1 -j.5 1
Giolla Pdraig ua Haireachtaigh (Goll Cluana) ollamh iarthair

Midhi fii3o
Giolla Pdraig ua Huidhir f 1 r 97
an Giolla Riabhach mac Taidhg

Chaim ua

Clirigh ]\S 2 1

an Giolla Riabhach mac Tuathail ua Clirigh

Gionn 18. cent.
Goffraidh Fionn ua Dlaigh 11387
Glasdm cinte (Broma 51)
Goffraidh Fionn ua Dlaigh 11507

mac Tairdhealbhaigh ua Ruarca

Goffraidh

17/18. cent. (O'R.

p. ccvi)

Goffraidh 'Og

mac an Bhaird 11478 (AU.)

Goffraidh ua Clirigh 15. cent.

Goll Cluana, see Giolla Pdraig ua Haireachtaigh

mac Morna

Goll

3.

cent.

GormFlaith ingen Flainn Sinnaf9i9

Gris banliccerd ingen Richisi (SG. ii, p. 482, 23)
Gribne ogmaire ces di Albain (Ir. T. iii, p. 33 RC.
Corm. Tr. pp. 74, 75 Land 610, fo. 98"-)
;

26, p. 8;

Houston

19. cent.

Iarlaithe 6. cent. (Arch,

ingen hi Dulsaini

7.

ii,

cent.

Iollann ua Domhnallin

'Ita

(Corm.

i. cent.

s.v.

prll)

(CZ.

ii,

p.

330; O'Gr. Cat.

380)

p.
Irial

p. 142)

ua Huiginn
fl.

16. cent.

(CZ.

ii,

p.

330)

570

Labhn

draoi, file Albanach (Keat. Hist, iii, p. 58)

Laidcend mac Baircheda (Rawl. B. 502, p. ii5 b )

THE POETS OF IRELAND

Laidgnn scolaige
Laigech

(CZ.

fili

di

Laignib

(Ir.

T.

iii,

p.

101)

p. 16)

iii,

Laisrn (Molasse) Daminse 1564 (or 571, AU.)

Laithec Lidech ingen Laignechin 9. cent. (B.

Ladain ban-ces di Chorco Duibne

I

Lochlainn 'Og ua Dlaigh

16. cent.

7.

(O'R.

Lomaide (Lism. fo. i43 a2 )

Lonn mac Liomhtha (O'Gr. Cat. p. 592)
Luccraid (Lucrith) moccu Chiara (Laud
502, i48

iv 2, p.

6i b )

cent.
p.

cxxxv)

610, fo.

s1

94

Rawl. B.

b
)

Lugaid Dall (Corm.

s.v.

coire Breccin)

Lugaid mac 'Itha

Lughaidh ua Clirigh
Lugair

ln'fili

1.

Mac Amhlaoibh
]\Iac

fca. 1630 (O'Gr. Cat. p. 534)

cent. (LL. p. 315,

. cent.

(O.R.

Rawl. B. 502,

p.

i2o a )

p. cxlv)

an Fileadh, see Giolla Crist mac Amhlaoibh

Mac Bethad mac Ainmere fio4i

Mac Cba 18. cent. (Gael. J. 14, 689 b ), see Cathaoir m. Ccba
Mac Cassarly (Abbott, Cat. p. 300)
Maccaomh Innse Creamha, see Cearbhall ua Dlaigh
MacCochlan (H. 6. 8, p. n b
Mac Coisse, see Airbertach
Mac Colgan 16/17. cent. (O'R. p. clxiii)
Mac Con mac Concoigriche mhic Dhiarmada mhic Thaidhg
)

Chaim ua

Clirigh f 1595

Mac D Cherda mac Mileochtraig maic Dinertaig 7. cent.

Mac Diarmada 17. cent. (O'R. p. clvii)
Mac Giolla Chaoimh 11. cent.
Mac Laithege, see Flann mac Lonin
Mac Lamhaigh Achadh na Muilleann 18. cent. (O'Gr. p. 596)
Mac Lenin (LL. p. 37), see Colmn m. Lnne
Mac Liag fioit> (LL. p. i52 a
Mac Liathglaisse mac Srin meic Duibi (Rawl. B. 502,
1

p.

i6o b 6)

Mac Meic
1

Hardiman

Chaoimh.'

Raith airdFile na
ii,

p.

202,

where

for

Muman

fioo8

'Mheic Liag' (c) read 'Mheic Ghiolla

APPENDIX

46

Mac-nia mac Oengusa (LL. p. 194*)

Mac Raith ua Pain (LL. p. ig8 b
Mac Raith fili m. Flaind m. Echthigirn (BB.
Mac Reith (faith Finn m. Chumaill, SG. 93,
Mac Samin, see Garbdaire
Mac Telne 7. cent.
)

i82 b 32)
28)

Maccu, see Moccu

Medc Ferna f24
Maghnus mac 'Ardghaile an t'Ucaire 18. cent. (Gael. J. x. 46 b )
Maghnus ua Domhnaill 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxxxiv O'Gr. Cat.
;

604)

p.

Maine ces 6. cent. (Rawl. B. 502, p. i2o b )

Mire Bhuidhe ni Laoghaire 19. cent. (Gael. J.
Mire n Dhonnagin 18. cent. (Gael. J. iv. 29)
Mire Lionduin (Alindon)
Mr ua Cillin (Ferm.

Maithias

6, p. 182'')

b
p. i23 )

Manchn Lith f666

mac Craith
mac Conchobhair mhic Dhiarmada mhic Sein (FM.

an Mangaire Sgach, see Andrias

Maoilin

a.d. 1563)

Maoilin mac Tanaidhe mhic Paidin ua Maoilchonaire

f 1441

mac Torna ua Maoilchonaire f 5

Maoilin 'Og mac Maoilin mhic Chonchobhair mac Bruaidedha
Maoilin

fio2 (FM.)
Maoilin ua an Chinte

i. cent.

(CZ.

ii,

p.

349)

Maoilin ua Maoilchonaire (AC1. a.d. 1384)

Maoilire ua Maolagin 13. cent. (O'R.)

Brighde ua Heodhusa

Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
1

1614

mac Scandlin temp. Aeda Rin (LL. p. 33o )

Cainnig ua Tolaig mac Liri Lidig (LL. p. 37 b )
Cobha|6i5 (Tig.)
Conaire mac Torna 15. cent, (mentioned FM. 1487)
e

cich

Fichne (TF. a.d. 852)

geimhridh

(Fl. 2 p. 130)

Tosa Crossn
Identical with
'

finn- fi 137

Mac Raith

ua Paiu

arch-poet in that kind of metre which

is

called crossanaght.'

THE POETS OF IRELAND

47

Maol 'losa Donn mac Aodhagin "[1329

Maol 'losa mac Conmidhe ollamh Ui Nill fi434
Maol 'losa ua Brolchin fio86
Maol 'losa ua Dlaigh ollamh 'Eireann 7 Alban f 1 85
Maol 'losa ua Dlaigh f 1 3 1 1 (AC1.)
Maol 'losa ua Maoilghiric fio88
Maol Muire Bacach ua Garin 16. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 407)
Maol Muire mac Cairbre ua Huiginn 16/17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
1

PP. 344, 442)

Maol

Muire

mac

Connla mac

an

Bhaird

(O'R.

1587

fl.

p. cxlvii)

Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol

Muire
Muire
Muire
Muire
Muire
Muire
Muire

mac Eochadha fi534

mac Craith fl. 1390 (Ferm. 92 b )
mac Taidhg 'Oig ua Huiginn f 1488
ua Cianin ti+59

ua Gormin fu8i
ua Lennin (Arch.
ua Mirn

II, p.

12. cent.

143)

(O'Gr. Cat. p. 646)

Muru Othna |S87

Ptraic, see Ptrne

Seachlainn

mac

Conchonnacht mhic Rithbheartaigh

tl 5 02

Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol
Maol

Seachlainn
Seachlainn

mac Lochlainn ua Maoilchonaire 11489

mac Rithbheartaigh "[1354

Seachlainn ua Cianin fi52o

Seachlainn ua Cobhthaigh 16. cent. (Abbott, Cat.

Seachlainn ua Comhraidhe

19. cent.

p.

Seachlainn ua Domhnallin f 1 3 75
Seachlainn ua Huiginn (H. 3. 19, p. 26)
Maolsuthain ua Cearbhaill fioio (CZ. v, p. 498)

Maol Tamlachta (Abbott, Cat. p. 292)

Maol tuile ua Burchin 8. cent.

Maon mac

'Etna (Edaine) (Dinds. 42, Conn. Tr.

Marbn mac Colmin 7. cent.

Marbgein mac Moga Ruith, Anecd.

ii,

Marcus ua Gribhthin (Eg. 150, p. 398)

Matha ua Higceartaigh 18. cent.
Matha ua Huiginn 1337 (FM.)

301)

(O'Gr. Cat. p. 665)

p. 77.

p. 112)

APPENDIX

48

Matha ua Luinin -f-1396

Matha ua Scingin 11289
mthair Dega maic Cairpri (Rawl. B. 502, p. i28 a )
Mathghamhain ua Duibhgeannin (Gael. J. 14, p. 836*)
Mathghamhain ua Hifearnin 16/17. cent. (O'R. p. clxiii)
Mathghamhain ua Huiginn 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxliii)
Mathghamhain Ruadh ua Huiginn f14.fi
Mathghamhain ua Raghallaigh 14. cent.

Medb Lethderg (LL. p. 44 b

Menma mac Oengusa (Arch,
)

Michel Bacach

ii,

p. 145)

19. cent.

Michel Coimin fi76o

Michel mac Carthaigh

19. cent. (Gael. J. 16, p. 193

Michel mac Cormaic ua Silleabhin

Michel mac Suibhne 19. cent.

Michel 'Og ua Longin

J. 16, p. 213*)

Mob Clrenech, 1544 (AU.)

Moccu Dulsaine 7. cent. (Corm. s. v. prll)
Mochuta mac Finaill do Charraigib Lachra
23

19. cent.

Michel ua Domhnaill (Gael.

fo.

19. cent.

(Bruss.

MS.

2324,

b
)

Mochuta (Carthach) Raithne 1637 (AU.)

MogRuith

(Acall.

1.

2552)

Moling Lachra 1697

Mola Cluana Ferta |6o5

Mongn mac Fachnai f25

Mr Muman 1633
Morann (m. Min) mac Cairbri

Chinnchaitt

1.

cent. (CZ.

p. 16)

Morann mac Cairbri Chroimchinn (CZ. iii, p. 16)

Morcha ua Cairthig "f-1067
Mugrn abb Iae f98o
Muine ices (Ir. T. iii, p. 66)
Muircheartach Bee mac Conchertaig, see Mac Liag
Muircheartach mac an leagha (LL. p. 394)
Muircheartach ua Cionga

fl. 1580 (O'R. p. cxli)

Muircheartach ua Cobhthaigh fl. 1586 (O'R. p. cxlvi)
Muircheartach ua Dlaigh fi459

iii,

THE POETS OF IRELAND

Muircheartach ua Floinn (Ferm.

Muireadhach Albanach (Lessa

(FM.

a.d. 12

Book

p.

in

of the

49

103*)

Daill)

ua Dlaigh (Midhe)

Dean)

Muireadhach ua Carthaigh f 1067

Muireadhach ua Dlaigh 17. cent. (O'R. p. clviii)
Muirghius Ballach mac Conchoigriche mhic Dhiarmada ua
Clirigh f 1572
Muirghius cannach mac Ruaidhri ua Conchobhair f-1224
Muirghius mac Dibhdh Dhuibh mhic Ghearailt fl. i6io(0'R.
p. clxxv)

Muirghius mac Lochlainn ua Maoilchonaire 11487

Muirghius ua Maoilchonaire fl. 1660 (O'R. p. clix)

Muirghius mac Paidin ua Maoilchonaire

f 1543

Muirghius (Muiris) Minte ua Heichthighearnin

Muirghius 'Og mac Gerailt (H.

18. cent.

4. 15, p. 197)

Muirghius ua Dlaigh (AU. a.d. 1415)

fl. 1630 (O'R. p. clxxxv)
Muirghius ua Dubhagin 17. cent. (O'R. p. cxcvii)
Muirghius ua Dlaigh

Muirghius ua Griobtha

18. cent.

Muirghius ua Gibellin fi328

Muirghius ua Heodhusa 16. cent.
Muiris ua

Mumu

Moghan

ices (CZ.

(Gael. J. 16, p. 196^)

iii,

p. 16)

Murchadh gan chris mac Crajth (O'Gr. Cat. p. 338)

Murchadh ua Carthaig prmdrith 7 prmollam Connacht
Murchadh ua Flaithegin f 103
Muru Fathna, see Maol Muru
1

Nide mac Adnai

1.

cent.

(Corm. Tr. 87)

Nide ua Maoilmhanaigh (Abbott, Cat. p. 308)

Nera mac Findchuill a Sid ar Femin (CZ. iii. p.

Nera mac Morainn (CZ. iii, p. 14.)

Niall mac Cannadh 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. cciii)
Niall mac Eoghain Bhig (Book of the Dean)
Niall mac Fearghail ua Huiginn fi46i
Niall ua 'Og ua Huiginn f 46
Niall ua Huiginn fi340
Niall ua Ruanadha 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxliv)
1

16)

-f-1067

APPENDIX

50

Nicolas ua Domhnaill (Gael.

7o8 b )

J. 14, p.

Nindne ces (Tig. a.d. 621)

Noes ces mac Ailella Tassaig (Rawl. B. 502,
Nuadha mac an Bhaird 11488

p. 15

b
i

Nadu Fuin ces, Anecd. ii, p. 77

Nadu ua Lomthuile (Tig. a.d. 721)

Ocha

ces (Arch,

Oisin

mac Find

iii,

241)

p.

cent.

3.

Oliver Plunkett (1629-1681)

Onch

(Fel. 2 p.

70)

Orthanach ua Cellma Cuirrich (TF. a.d. 722

b
LL. p. 5i b )
p. 88

Rawl. B. 502,

Pdraig Cndn

1776-1857

Pdraig Dibhdh (Daeid) an

Padraig

Denn fi828

Pdraig Haicad

fl.

tailliir

gorm

19. cent.

(Gael. J. 14, 584)

1620

mac Lionduin (Alindon) fi 733

Pdraig mac Calpuirn f46i
Pdraig 'Og mac an Bhaird fl. 1690 (O'Gr.
Pdraig

Pdraig Piarais

Cat. p. 55)

17. cent.

Pdraig ua Briain

18. cent.

Pdraig ua Cathalin (Gael.

J.

Pdraig ua Conchobhuir

cent. (Hard,

18.

Pdraig ua Cin (O'Gr. Cat.

14, p.

767")
ii,

pp. 258, 415)

p. 62 1)

Pdraig ua Cuirnin 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccv)

Pdraig ua Dobhailen (Devlin) (Gael.

J.

Pdraig ua Donnghaiie (Gael.

58*)

Pdraig ua Healaidhe (Hard,

Pdraig ua Murchadha

J.
ii,

xli,

p.

iv,

73)

230)

18. cent.

Padraig ua Higceartaigh
Pdraig ua Hiarlaithe (Gael.
Pdraig ua Pronntaigh

J.

18. cent.

Pdraig ua Silleabhin (Gael.

Pdraig Warren

18.

cent.

Pidn ua Maoilchonaire "[1506

J.

14, p.

657

(Gael. J. 14, p. 75 b )
14,

p.

7o8 b )

THE POETS OF IRELAND

Ptrne (Arch,

p. 30 1)

iii,

Peadar Breathnach

mac

Peadar

51

19. cent. (Gael. J. v,

Firfeasa ua

i5

Maoilchonaire

2q b

xii,

17/18. cent.

6o b )

(O'R.

cciv)

p.

Peadar mac Sirtin

19. cent.

Peadar ua Conchobhair

fl.

1800

Peadar ua Doirnn 182-1768 (Gael.

Peadar ua Fichn

x, 44")

J.

18. cent.

Peadar ua Gonaguil
Piarus

Cam

ua Luinin fi44i

Piarus Feiritr fca. 1653

Piarus

mac

Gearailt 18. cent.

Bocht ua Hniginn (Gael.

Pilip

23

27, fo. 25

J. xii., 55

mac Cuinn Chrosaigh

Rev.

i,

H.

3.

19,

p.

12;

Pilip Charly, otherwise Phillips, 18. cent.

Pilip

16.

(Egerton 178,

cent. (Gael. J.

ix,

fo. 7

b
)

307*; Arch.

148)

Pilip

ua Brdaigh
Riabhach mac Amhlaoibh mhic Uidhir
ua Brdaigh 18. cent.
ua Duibhgeannin fi340

Pilip

ua Raghallaigh 17/18. cent. (O'R.

Pilip ministir, see Pilip

Pilip

Pilip

Pl

mac Aodhagn

j-1480

p. ccxxi)

17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccviii)

Pl ua Briain 1750-1820 (Gael.

Raghnall Dall mac Domhnaill

Raghnall mac Eochadha

7.

fl.

1700 (Gael.

16. cent.

Raghnall ua Dlaigh (ollam

Rechtgal ua Siadail

J. x, 29")

J. xiv, p.

767^)

(Abbott, Cat. p. 301)

Desmuman

le

dn) fi 161

cent. (LL. 37"; Ir. T.

p. 7;

iii.

Conn.

Tr. p. 119)

Ristard Barret (Riocard Bairad) 1729-18 19

Ristard de Brc (Abbott, Cat. p. 316)

Robert mac Artir

17. cent.

(O'R.

p. cliv)

Roennu Ressamnach 8. cent. (Aisl. M. p. 109)

Roigne Roscadach mac Ugaini Mir (CZ. iii. p.
Ross Ruad (LL. p. 31
5)

16)

According to a note by Michael O'Clery

fo. 36,

Ptrne

is

in the Brussels

identical with Melptraic presbyter Cluana,

E 2

who

MS.

5057-59,

died a.d. 1028.

APPENDIX

52

Radn Lothra 6. cent.

Ruaidhri Glas mac Carmuic f 1475
Ruaidhri mac Aodha mhic Chraith
1

cent. (O'Gr.

16.

Cat.

Abbott, Cat. p. 301)

PP- 53) 5 8
Ruaidhri mac Craith ollamh Leithe Mogha fi343
5

Ruaidhri Ruadh ua Huiginn 11425

Ruamann

(Ir.

T.

iii.

p. 10)

Hadhmaill (AU. 1376

Rumann mac Colmin 1747

Ruarcn ua

(a)

FM.

1377)

Samthand 1734
Sanctn epscop

Saorbhreathach mac Maoillosa Dhuinn mhic Aodhagin ollamh

Conmhaicne f 1 354
Scandln mac Eoghain (LU. 39*5)
Scandln Mr (CZ.

iii.

p. 37)

Seachnall (Secundinus)

Sadna

file

mac

cent.

5.

Airt Chirb (Rawl. B. 502, p. 165)

Saffraidh ua

Donnchadha 18. cent.

Donnchadha an ghleanna 17.

Sealbhach

cent.

SaTraidh Caol ua

Samus
Samus
Samus
Samus
Samus
Samus
Samus
Samus

g.

Ban mac Conmara

cent.

17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxviii)

Bhailis n Breathnach (Gael. J.

x,

a
1 i

Bonnvill (Eg. 150, p. 670)

Cosgar
Dall

mac Cuarta 17/18.

Madadhin 18.

Dall ua

do Ngla

mac

fl.

cent. (O'R. p. ccxi)

cent.

1760

Coilleadh

(J.

Woods)

18.

cent.

(Gael. J. xiv,

p. 766a)

Samus
Samus
Samus
Samus
Samus
Samus

mac Cunsaidin 18. cent.

mac Gearailt 18. cent. (Gael.

mag

Goireachtaigh

18. cent.

J. xiv, p.

mac

Uilliaim (Gael. J. xiv, p. 709'^

na srn Power (Gael. J. iii, p. 4)

ua Cathin
1

18. cent.

fer

586)

(Egerton 178,

dnta rami glachais,

AU.

fo. 7)

THE POETS OF IRELAND

Samus ua Cearnaigh 19. cent.
Samus ua Coindealbhin (Quinlivan)

19.

53

cent. (Gael. J.

iii,

53

Samus
Samus
Samus
Samus

ua Dlaigh

18. cent.

ua Dorian

ua Leathlobhair (Gael.
Veale

J. xii,

59

b
)

18. cent. (Gael. J. iv, 25)

Sen Ballach ua Duibhgeannin

fl.

1690 (O'R.

p. ccii)

Sen Bn ua Clirigh

Sen Buidhe ua Dlaigh

16. cent. (Gael. J. 14, p. 836";

O'Gr.

Cat. pp. 343, 379)

Sen

Cam mac Con-Uladh mhic

an Bhaird fi459

Sen Clrach mac Domhnaill 1691-1754

Sen do Hra 18. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 383

Gael.

J. 14, p.

709

b
,

16, p. 279")

Sen Lloyd

18. cent.

(Abbott, Cat. p. 383)

Sen mac Aedhagin 11487

Sen mac Bhitir Breathnach

fl.

1600 (Hard,

ii,

pp. 244, 412)

Sen mac Cibhfnn 16. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp, 342, 355)
Sen mac Colgan 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 342, 388)
Sen mac Conaill (O'Gr. Cat. p. 574)

Sen mac Conchobhair mhic Aedhagin 11487

Sen mac Conmidhe fi48
Sen mac Conmidhe (John Conway) it, cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
pp. 342, 368; Abbott, Cat. p. 379)
mac Donnchadha mhic Firbhisigh fi32

Sen
Sen
Sen
Sean
Sen

mac Feargghail 'Oi ua Huiginn fi4Qo

mac Finghin Arda Cianachta 16. cent. (Gael. J. xii, 57
mac Hil (John Mac Hale) 1791-1881
mac Muirghisui Urthaile (O'Gr. Cat. p. 523)
Sen mac Pilip mhic Eochadha (Abbott, Cat. p. 301)
Sen mac Pilip ua Fearghaile 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxix)
Sen mac Ruaidhri 'Oig ua Huiginn 11585 (CZ. ii, p. 343 Abbott
1

')

Cat. pp. 300, 303)

Sen mac Taidhg mhic Mhuircheartaigh ua Ceallachin (Gael.

J. 14, p. 7 99

a
)

Sen mac Torna ua Maoilchonaire fl. 1560

Sen mac Uilliaim mhic Aodha ua Dlaigh j-1490

APPENDIX

51

Sen Mr ua Dubhagin

372 (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 52, 356)

Sen Mr mac Eoghain Clraigh ua Raghallaigh

(O'R. p.

17/18. cent.

cciii)

Sen na Clire (Abbott, Cat.

p.

387)

Sen 'Og mac Raith (Ferm. 119*1)

Sen 'Og ua Dlaigh 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 344, 399)
Sen 'Og ua Gadhra 17. cent. (Gael. J. 14, 712)
Sen Ruadh mac Bradaigh mhic Fiachra (Gael. J. xii, 55'')

Sen Ruadh ua Seitheachin (Abbott, Cat.

Sen ua Braonin

19. cent.

Sen ua Briain

1770

fl.

Sen ua Ciarmhic

p. 316)

18. cent. (Gael. J. 14, p. 649*)

Sen uaClirigh 17. cent.

Sen ua Clumhin 11438 (O'Gr. Cat.

p.

353

Book

of the

Dean)
Sen ua Coilein (John Collins or Cullane) 1754-18 17)
Sen ua Conaill 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 564, 598, 622, 632;
Abbott, Cat.

Sen
Sen
Sen
Sen
Sen
Sen
Sen

p.

383)

ua Cuinneagin (John Cunningham)

ua (mac) Diarmada

ua Duinnin
ua Fialin

17. cent.
1

18. cent.

19. cent.

(O'R.

p. cxcix)

378 (FM.)

ua Fialin 11483 (AU.)

ua Gearin 11507
ua Maothagin (Ferm.

fo.

i2o a i, I2i b i)

Sen ua Murchadha na Rithneach

700-1 762

Sen ua Neachtain 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxiii)

Sen ua Nill 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxix)
Sen ua Nualin 18. cent. (Gael. J. 10, p. 616, 10,

Sen ua Ruanadha f 376

Sean ua Tuama (an ghrinn) 706-1 775
Seann Innse Cathaig mac Gerrchinn 5/6. cent,
Seanbheag ua Hebric (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Seancha mac Ailella
Seancha mac Cruiti.n fi434
Seanchn Torpist 7. cent.
Searlus Buidhe mac Cuilleann (Oss. v, p. 5)
1

Seathrn Ctainn (Geoffrey Keating) 11642

p. 225*)

THE POETS OF IRELAND

55

Segine abb Iae \6$x

Seoirse Robart (Roberts) 18. cent.
Seoirse ua Mille 19. cent.

Sinech Cr

7.

cent. (CZ.

iii,

p.

205)

Sodhradh ua Cuirnn ollamh na Brifne fi347

Siodhradh ua Maoilchonaire 11487
Solamh mac Sein mhic Solaimh mac Conmidhe (FM. a.d.
1506)

Somhairlemac an Bhaird
Sorcha n Ghiobin
Stiophn Segha

Suibhne Geilt

7.

17. cent.

(O'R.p.

cxciii)

18. cent.

19. cent.

cent.

Tadhg an Gadhra mac Aodhagin 17/18. cent.'(0'R. p. cciii)

Tadhg an tarta 18. cent., see Peadar ua Fichn
Tadhg Ballach ua Dlaigh (H. 3. 19, p. 26)
Tadhg Camchosach ua Dlaigh 14. cent.
Tadhg Cam mac Tuathail ua Clirigh "[1565
Tadhg Cam ua Clirigh 1492
Tadhg Dall mac Cairbre ua Huiginn fca. 1615 (O'Gr. Cat.
PP- 344, 407)

Tadhg Dubh ua Crnin 18. cent.

Tadhg Gaodhlach ua Silleabhin f'795
Tadhg mac Aodha ua Cobhthaig f I 554
Tadhg mac Aodhagin fi486
Tadhg mac Cearbhaill Bhuidhe ua Dlaigh {1274 (O'Gr. Cat.
P- 330
Tadhg mac Conchobhair Ruaidh mhic Eachmharcaigh mac
Conmidhe fi493
Tadhg mac Dire mac Bruaidedha 570-1652
Tadhg mac Diarmada 'Oig ua Dlaigh 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
1

pp. 344, 446

Misc.

p.

340)

Tadhg mac Domhnaill 'Og (Ferm. p. 28 a )

Tadhg mac Donnchaidh mhic Taidhg mhic
Dlaigh Corcomruadh {1514
Tadhg mac Sein ua Neachtain

Chearbhaill ua

18. cent.

Tadhg Mor mac Giolla-Choluim ua Huiginn

39

APPENDIX

56

Tadhg Mr ua Cobhthaig 16. cent.

Tadhg Mr ua Huiginn J1315
Tadhg 'Og mac Taidhg Mhir mhic Ghiolla-Choluim ua Huiginn
1

TI448
ua Ceallachin

Tadhg
Tadhg
Tadhg
Tadhg
Tadhg
Tadhg
Tadhg
Tadhg
Tadhg
Tadhg

18. cent.

(Egerton 160,

'Og ua Dlaigh 16. cent.

Ruadh ua Conchobhair (Gael. J. xii,
ua Cobhthaig (FM. a.d. 1546, 1554)
ua Dbhoirenn 18. cent.

91)

p.

p. 57

b
)

ua Doirnin
ua Duinnin 17/18. cent. (CZ.
ua Heachaidhin
ua Neachtain

v, p.

538)

1394

18. cent.

(O'R.

p. ccxxvii)

uaRodaighe (Ruddy, Rody) 1623-1706 (Hard.

Tanaidhe
Tanaidhe
Tanaidhe
Tanaidhe

ii.

p.

429)

mac Maoilin ua Maoilchonaire 11446

mac Pidrign Mhir ua Maoilchonaire 11385
ua Maoilchonaire

136 (LL. p. 106)

Mr mac Duinnin mhic Nidhe mhic Conaing

Bhuidhe ua Maoilchonaire (ALC. a.d. 1270)

Toirdhealbhach Carrach ua Conchobhair fl. 1640
Toirdhealbhach Lidir ua Briain
Toirdhealbhach

mac

18. cent.

Cudhaidhe

(M'Covey) (Gael.

J.

xiv,

p. 694=)

Toirdhealbhach 'Og mac Donnchadha

Toirdhealbhach 'Og ua Briain 17. cent. (O'R.
Toirdhealbhach 'Og ua Mithan (Gael.

p. clxviii)

J. xvi. p.

210 1 )

Toirdhealbhach ua Cearbhallin 1670-1738 (O'R.

Toms Dease 17. cent. (O'R. p. cxcii)

Toms de Riste (Gael. J, iii, 65 a )
Toms Flavell (Hard, p. 337)
Toms Lidir Coisdealbhach 17. cent.
Toms mac Coitir (T. Cotter) 18. cent.
Toms mac Craith fnio
Toms mac Craith 11507
Toms mac Giolla na naomh f I 4z S (O'R.

p. ccxxiii)

i,

Perhaps identical with Tadhg mac Aodha

ui

p. cxxiv)

Chobthaig.

See O'R.

p. cxxxvi

THE POETS OF IRELAND

57

Prinnbhiol (T. Prundivill) (O'Gr. Cat.

Toms

p.

586

Abbott,

Cat. p. 316)

Toms
Toms
Toms
Toms

Ruadh ua

Silliobhin (Gael.

ua Bacachin

iii,

J.

p. 109)

18. cent.

ua Clirigh 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccii)

ua Conduibh 17/18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.

Cat. p. 383

O'R.

p. 591

p. cciii)

Toms Gleeson 18. cent.

Toms ua Huiginn fi 536
Tomcs ua Miodhachin 18. cent.
Torna ces 4. cent.
Torna ua Maoilchonaire 14. cent.

Tun mac

Cairill

s
Tuathal mac an Bhaird (YBL. pp. 394 &c.)
Tuathal mac Maoilseachlainn ua Domhnallin 11404
,

Tuathal

mac Taidhg Chaim ua

Clirigh fi59 2

Tuathal ua Huiginn -[1450

Tuilgne (Tuileagna) Ruadh ua Maoilchonaire

Tuirn mac Tornai

fl.

16. cent.

400

Ua Baoighellin fni8
Ua Baodhasa (Eg. 146)
Ua Dlaigh Midhe (AU. A.D. 141 5)
Ua Derglega (Ir. T. iii, p. 105, 30)
Ua Lonin Cech fio4
Ua Luinin 18. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 303)
Ua Milchin ollam Dl Cais fiog
Ua Maoilcharin 14. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p.
Ua Mil-Ric fi2i8
1

Uaithne mac Uilliaim ua Cobhthaig

Uallach ingen Muimnechin 2 f932

Uilliam Aorach ua Conaill (Gael. J.

14, p.

344)

55

799

Uilliam Buidhe ua Ciarin 18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxxx)

Uilliam Buinnen (Bunghan) 18. cent.

Identical with Diarmaid

mac Eoghain ua Dlaigh

Muineghin, Otia Merseiana

i,

p. 121.

Abbott,

APPENDIX

58

Uilliam Dall ua Hiffearnin (Heichthighearnin)

ii,

fl.

1750 (Hard.

p. 24)

Uilliam Inglis

'("1778

(CZ.

i,

p.

140; O'Gr. Cat,

p.

570)

mac Aengusa mhic Craith

57
Uilliam mac Barin Delvin (Abbott, Cat. p. 367)
Uilliam mac an Leagha (O'Gr. Cat. p. 646 Abbott, Cat. p.
Uilliam mac Cartin an dna 1 668-1 724 (O'Gr. Cat. pp.

Uilliam

-f 1

294)
580,

582, 583)

Uilliam ua Ciarin 17. cent. (O'R. p. cc)

Uilliam ua Dbhoireann

Uilliam ua Dlaigh
Uilliam 'Og
p.

18. cent.

18. cent. (Gael. J. 16, p. 2ii

b
)

mac an Bhaird mac Cormaic \iS7^ (H.

148)

Uilliam 'Og ua Dubhsline 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.

Uilliam

Ruadh mac

Coitir 18. cent.

Uilliam ua Briain 17/18. cent. (O'R.

p. ccxviii)

Uilliam ua Briain 18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxxxii)

Uilliam ua Finin (H.

2. 17, p.

Uilliam ua Hicidhe (Gael.

235)

J. xii,

58

s
)

Uilliam ua Lonin 18. cent.

Uilliam ua Modhrin 18. cent.

Uilliam ua Murchadha (Eg. 150,
Uilliam ua Silleabhin

18. cent.

Ultn Liathdroma

Ultn moccu Chonchobuir 1657

p.

500)

p. 33)

4.

15,

GLOSSARY OF THE RARIiR WORDS

The numbers
an orchard;

aball-gort m.

ablach

f.

apple-trees

acarda profit

Achad Or

n.

ford; 32,

Freshfield) Fresh-

(lit.

1.

Bith n. pr. m. gen. Betha

3$, 31.

3.
;

32, 8.

m. a chief champion

breis

f.

32, 19.

1.

32,

increase, profit.

bran a morsel ace. pi. bruana 37, 72.

bruindiud a flowing, springing forth
;

32,

4-

m. a packhorse

air-ech

33, 31.

aith-rige n. a dethroning

32, 23.

n. pr.

am-lesc, eager

m. Olaf;
;

1.,

gen.

cobair

f.

help

32, 15.

cid holy.
cil-'innach bristling

wattles

cain good

37, 6g.

Arad

ar-canim I recite

cabair

10.

19.

anmech, a shower;

14.

hairy) with

(lit.

37, 73.

19.

CAl*v

cin fair, beautiful.

34, 34.

asa whose; 32, 2.

atarba ("ath-tarba) renewed prof t; 36,

in

Charrac {Rock)

i.,

gen.

11. 1.

na

Cairce 32, 12.

carr-buide^/Zow, tawny; 35, 51.

57-

ath-bach a fraction, part 16.

(O. Ir. aith-chum-be)
later f. a wotcnding.
athramail paternal 32, 11.

cass quick, lively, passionate

ath-chumma

n.,

baccach halting, lame.

bairdne f. bardic art or composition.
balamle f. vanity; 32, 22.
bas-id 3 sg. pres. ind. rel. of the copula

with affixed pers. pron. 3 sg. fem.

bn-foithre a fair wood
36, 52.
becht certain, co7nplete, ccmpact
34,
;

32.

33, 29.

cl-bind sweet-o>nened: 37, 72.

Cenn Escrach
clall-brata

n.

1.

32, 10.

of conspicuous sense?

cloch-oighir m. bosom-heir

36, 65.

33, 34.

braithim I betray

Amlib

n.

a drinking cup

f.

brainech edged

23-

Ara

34,32.

Uttf

bla a shirt; 32, 4.

blede 1

24.

ailnach full of islets or knolls

inius m. delight, joy. 32, 5.

air-chingid

33, 31.

bertaim, I shake, brandish

bt a deed, crime, mischief; 19.

14.

gen. ega

z'c;

36,57.

aicet-phellach hard-skinned
aig

bennach, peaked

32, 10.

32, 19.

I beseech, pray

ad-teoch

refer to the paragraphs.

Cluain, short for Cliiain

33, 26.

37, 74.

mocu Nois

37, 72.

cnasach a collecting, gathering; 36, 58.

cobfige a weaving together.
cobra conversation, speech. 14.
comblicht in milk.
comol n. union; 35, 47.
com-rand f. a share.

In Rawl. B. 502, p. 86a the dat. pi. bledib rhymes with demin, so that the e
is shown to have been short.

of the root

GLOSSARY

60
Cond,

short

Leth

for

Cuind

the

northern half of Ireland; 36, 62.

con-sniim I contest, defend; 34, 30.
cor m. a tune, melody
33, 2<).
cor m. a champion, gen. crad.
costadach checking, restraining; 34,
;

33-

corann

cri

f.

body

corrosion, corruption

34, 41.

criathraim I riddle 3.
f. a spark
voc.

crithir

m. a dragon

pi.

a chrithre

32, 15-

35, 45.

gen. dracon

3.

Drobis f. the river Drow:s 36, 64.

drong-arm-glan bright with crowds of
;

36, 64.

drochet a bridge

drochte 16.

n. pi.

Druimm B5 n.l.
dubaigim /grow
duillech leafy

36, 59.

doss-'fota with tall bushes

draic

weapons

= crothaim I shake, brandish;

32, 14.

credem

I transgress aiatrogbus 1
from what I have transgressed 19.

tonsure; 35, 44.

f.

crathaim

do-ririb in earnest, really; 32, 12.

do-ro-gaibim

36, 58.

black

20.

25, 45.

-cruthach shapeless

19.

ega, see aig.

Ciuachu Con-alad

n.

14.

1.

craid-ugra fiercely quarrelling

32, 9.

cuilche a sheet, cassock; 32, 4.

cuin when ? 19; -when; 33, 28.
cuinsiu f. countenance 3.

eim

f.

eirr

m. a

a tail; gen. eime 32, 19.

chariot-chief. 3.

eithre n. a tail
ela a

swan

3.

3.

nach full of birds 32, 8.

englaim woof {of battle)
33, 24.
e-chrann n. a yew-tree; metaph. a
;

dabchach vatted, stout 33, 26.

daer-dub vile-black 32,4.
;

daig

aflame; metaph.

f.

n hero 20;

Escrach 32,

35,40.
Dairbre n. pr. m. 35, 45.
Dairbre n. 1. 35, 45.
dairbrech

dlaim

an oakwood

f.

(fri)

I tryst

(with)

32, 12.

fid

deg-samail a fair likeness or counterpart; 37,74.

deligthe distinguished; 35,45.
deina the palm of the hand;

Mid. Ir. direch straight.

diomaim /declare; 32, 6.
do-airndim I lay low 3.
do-benim / strike; 3. sg. pies.

gegainn

choose,

frach grassy

fet

sec. fut. sg.

32, 21.

for aratorgbus, possibly to

32, g.
33, 29.

32, 8.

word; gen.

pi. ferba 37, 70.

a whistling; 35, 51.

32, 13.

32, 2.

ind.

m. a lordly
fo-chen welcome
3.
folmugud an evacuating.

do-

for-osnaim

lion

37, 74.

fothach

14.

dond-gorm dark-blue;

37, 70.

m. man, used of a male bird;

fidrad n. lore

36, 64.

do-goim /

(W. gwawd) poetry

n.l. gen. Femin

Femen

flaith-leoghan

fth

fer

fethim /go; perf. sg. 3 rofith 32, 16.

fidnach wooded
32, 8.

32, 2.

37, 69.

a cry; 35, 51.

a lair; 32, 13.

fthaigthe calm

diriuch,

-tiben

fail

ferb a
ace.

33, 29.

dine n. a generation

32, 21.

10.

-tarbach profitless 36, 56.

ethai-bruig the home of ships

dlim /distribute, apportion

34, 34.
dail-chiall of blind sense
32, (j.
data pleasing, comely 33, 26.

dernainn

hero; 35, 45Escir a ridge of sand-hills, n.l. gen.

f.

/ kindle.

mill-feed

Fotla Ireland

24.

14.

have alliteration (aratr'ogbus) with romm-ain.

GLOSSARY
fathaigim I shape
fuin evening;

lichda heroic; compar. lichdu 3.

19.

lebar-gemel f. a long fetter, a fetter

reaching from the wrists to the
ankles. 32, 14. Cf. O. Engl, lang-

19.

fuit cold.

gablanach forked.
gagar m. a beagle; 32,

ganmech sandy

61

borrowed as
See Cormac,
lbenn m. a platform

15.

3", 6g.

fetor,

langfiter

Irish.

p. 26, s.v.
16.

gart hospitality, generosity

gen. garta

leca a cheek-bone

36, 54.

Lecach Molaise n.l. 36,

gen.
lecc f. a flag-stone

34, 32.

gataigem. a thief; 36, 63.

gat-bmnech beating withes
gelmar white 32, 7.

35, 44.

leochaille

lerg

glainide crystal

licce 3.

f.

niggardliness

f.

a slope

36, 54.

battle-field; battle. 14.

lethan-merlech thieving far

16.

54.

glan-buide bright-yellow

35, 51.

lethan-muir n. the broad sea

glrda glorious

liath-ainech grey-faced

f.

liag

16.

grif

f.

a griffin

grind sharp
grinde

f.

61

make

a song, lay

luchar a glitter

lug a lynx

33, 29.

lath-bech a meadow-bee

meadowy
;

36,

36,

32, 10.

bristling

35, 43.

32, 17.

gen. loga

a rudder
luin f. a lance
;

3.

37, 69.
;

32, 14.

Lumnech the lower expanse of

Shannon 36, 64.

32, 23.

37, 69.

lui

trees

full

16.

lathach

32, 6.

lath-lm swift-handed 3.
luchair glittering, bright; 32, 10.

rogdatar

guilbnech beaked.

ibair-draignech

(for "lonrln) quite

lothaim I ladle

perf. pi. 3

gulbnn a small beak

19.

64.

blush.

guidiu I pray 19

33,25.

long-phortachyW/ of camps

grindech sharp, cutting; 34, 38.

giisaim /

long-adbal crowded with ships

34, 32.

f.

lornnan

34, 36.

a band

32, 17.

lid

3.

gen. grife 32, 13.

37, 69.

grdaigthe honoured, exalted; 32, 13.

grafann f. a horse-race; 35, 42.

ardour, valour;

limtha ground, sharpened 35, 43.

lobud a rotting, decaying; 32, 3.
Loch Lig n.l. Belfast Loch 35, 51.

36, 61.

greit

a ladle

llg-dath n. shining colour

gob m. a beak; 35,51.

gobln f. a small fork
Goll n. pr. m. 36, 58.

and wide

32, 14-

a wrestling, fighting; 32, 15.

gleith a grazing
33,25.
glee

into

with yew-

the

32, 14.

idnach full of weapo?is or troops in

battle-array; 32,

mailte

imda plentiful, numerous; 33,26.

im-de-gal

(v. n.

an epithet of mid

of im-de-nchim)

Maistiu

f.,

mlainn

f.

protection

noble'

im-rdim / commemorate;
imrordus 19.
imrol abundance; 34, 34.

perf. sg.

indlacaim I bestow, give 36, 57.

innraic worthy, honest 36, 57.
ithim I eat pres. ind. pi. 3 ethait.
;

'

mead

'132,

2.

n.l.

Mullaghtnast.

(voc.) ?
;

Cf.

ml

'

prince,

32, 12.

mall slow, gentle;

19, 34, 36.

mannraim 1 destroy; 3. 10.

maslad f. reproach, disgrace; 36, 54.
mass f. a mast; 19.
menann clear, evident, manifest; 37,
73-

GLOSSARY

62

mute, stammering; 35,

menn dumb,
44.

mergech with

standards

battle

34, 38.

mesraigthe moderate (zone) 24.

mllach monsterful 36, 66.
mo-chen welcome 33, 24.

32,

Ruadri n. pr. m. gen. Ruadrach.

ruire m. a lord
gen. ruirech 3.

ruse bark, rind

37. 73-

32, 12.

saich bad, evil

32,9; 36, 66.

muire m. a lord dat. pi. murib
muire-druimnech lordly-ridged
;

sail

3.

32,

32,

a willow

f.

sal sea

14-

1.

$$, 29.

36, 64.

samthach

f.

the handle

of a battle-axe

33, 26.

Muirgel n. pr. f. 32, 19.

-mantled; 35, 40.
mul-bratnach

Hop;

scothaim

32, 17.

ad red.

13-

mod m. manner; 34, 34.

midim / boast, tow, promise
10.
monar work
miiaid noble

1.

2. ruad strong; 34,38; 35,43rad-febrach full of stout blades

scuitemail like a buffoon

35, 44.

seccaim 1 dry, wither; 37,

nthar of us two 5.
nemdaide heavenly 36, 56.
ner m. a boar; gen. nir 32, 13.
nertaid m. a strengthener
37, 70.
;

seche

sig

a hide

f.

73.

36, 54.

a hawk, metaph. of a hero

f.

36,

63.

sis

nett a nest; 32, 13.

troop, band.

m. a

sen-rechtaid m. an a?icient law-giver.

sernim I declare pass. perf. rosreth.

simen-buide yellow with rushes
32,
;

great; gen. m. uill, f.

orb m. an heir; 32, 18.

uille.

o\\

II.

ordan dignity; 32, 18 34, 34.

ossoc a young deer 35, 45.

slaide

oscar ignorant; 34, 33.

slchtaim

f.

slemon
cat

36, 63.

I prostrate myself;

sleek

16.

32, 3.

sluaigedach bound for a hosting

5.

m. a robber;

slataige

Pangur the name of a

a beating, striking.

33,

28.

snithe a thread.

rthaigthe guaranteed; 32, 13.

rebach sportive 36, 66.
;

ebnach sportive, full of sport

rechta, part, of rigim

ram;

rethe m. a
rig the

lower

I stretch

32, 8.

34, 32

36, 54.

arm

ace.

n. pr.

m. Riordan

rind a point, peak, beak

2.

3. rind

a spear-shaft;

33, 28.

33, 29

the point of a zueapon

5
rind a star; 32, 3. 17.
1

ace.

rind-nem
rot

I scourge

pi.

rindi

70.

36, 63.

sribanach full of streams of people,

32, 8.

stab a stoup, vessel, cup

32, 10.

starga a shield; 34, 32.

stiall-chleth f. a tied or twisted rod

taicet-bennach with

gables; 33,

heaven

36, 66.

m. a road;

35, 45.

Teltown.
taman a stump gen. tamain 32, 15.
Tailtiu

34, 38.

n. starry

35, 46.

32, 10.

3i-

indech pointed

rn a seal

35,

34, 36.

34, 32.
1

sraiglim

crowded;
du. rigid 23

voc. pi. rigthe 32, 15.

Rig-bardn

snim distress; 32, 20.

Sord n. 1. Swords; 37,

f.,

n.

1.

tsc report,

fame

tathir reproach

34, 41.
36, 60.

GLOSSARY
Tech Duind

n.

Calf islands

1.

Cow and
Bay of Kenfnare.

the Bull,

in the

63

trethan (properly gen. sg. of triath)

sea; 3.

triathach lordly

32, 13.

4 = tech n. house.
tendalach fiery
14.
tentech fiery
34,38.
tigernae m. a lord
32, 11.

Tuag

te S 35-

32, 23.

short for Inber Tuaige the

;

34, 39.

tathach tribal; 19.

Tulach Tomair n. 1. the hill on which

Dublin Castle now stands, so called
from Tomair or Tomrair iarla 20.

tinchosc instruction.
tind sick, sore; 32, 17.

tnuth zeal, jealousy

f.,

mouth of the Bann

gen. tnith 32,

tul-gatnach front-withed

35, 40.

II.

tnuthach angry, fierce

tocad m. good fortune

3, 2.

tond-bn -white-waved; 32, 7tor m. rt band, troop

gen.
:

instr. toraib 20.

uag

34. 34-

f. a grave
n. pi. uaga
3
arda cold {zone)
24.
uillech full of corners
35,45.
ur-usa very easy 36, 60.
;

tuir 19;

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