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 480 The Bodleian Dinnshenchas.

Whence the poet said :

Blod, son of Cii, son of Cass Clothmi'n, Killed the cowherd of fair Bregmael, The smith of Cuirche M6r, son of Snithe : He set up at Ross Tire ind Air.^

Or it is Blod, son of Breogan, that died there ; and from him the mountain of Bladma was named.

Also in LL. 159 b 17 ; BB. 357 b 23 ; H. 17 a ; and R. 94 b 2.

Sliah Bladma, anglicised Slieve Bloom, in King's county, Keating, 457; "on the frontiers of the King's and Queen's Counties", O'Don. Topogr. Poems, Iviii. Here rise the three rivers, Siuir, Nore, and Barrow.

Ross Tire ind Air, "the Wood of the Land of the Slaughter". Blodh mac Brcogain, spelt Bladh in Keating, p. 175

[12. Mag Raigni.] — Magh Raig;>// cid dia ta ? Ni ansa .1. Raigne romanach DODECHAidh 2? tirib Roman, ^ ruam 3 bacc fri aiss, iar tuaslugadh in murgabail im^ Thorinis nglain hi tirib Franc, fn tri la. Adagastar opair n-aile samlaid do tabairt fair. Roteich iarum c6 toracht co himlech xaaic Echonn. [i2b i] Robo druim fidhbaide uile essen, co ro selaigh Roigne he dia bacc 3 dia ramaind. Unde Mag Roigne.

Ese roselaigh* in magh

[Roigne] ro nirt, Romanach,

dia luid a^ Torinis tair

{or elud, {or imgabail.

Raigne, the Roman, went from the lands of the Romans, with a spade and a billhook on his shoulder, after letting out, in three days, the inlet round Tours the Pure, in the lands of France. He feared that another work like it would be imposed upon him. So he fled till he came to Imliuch m^/c Echonn. That was (then) all a wooded ridge, so Roigne cut it down with his billhook and his spade. Hence " Mag Roigne" (Raigne's Plain).

It is he who cleared the plain,

Roigne the Mighty, the Roman,

When he went eastward from Tours,

Fleeing away, avoiding.

Also in LL. 159 b 28 ; BB. 373 a 25 ; H. 26 b ; Lee. 482 b ; and R. 104 a. Magk Raigni is a plain in the barony of Kells, co. Kilkenny. See Four Masters, A.D. 859, note t, and the Calendar of Oengiis, note at Sep. 17. Imliuch male Echonn, not identified.

[13. Tethba.] — Tethbfa cidh dia ta ?

Ni afisa.^ Teathfa ingen ^chac/f Aireaman'^ roscar mac

1 " The Wood of the Land of the .Slaughter." 2 ^S. dodech-

aigh hi. "^ MS. in. * ms. ese?? roselaidh. ^ ms. hi.

^ MS. repeats this and the five preceding words. "MS. eathW;,
 * marg. sup. 710 (?), Teathba ingen Ugaine,