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 482 The Bodleian Dinnshenchas.

[14. Loch Annind, Loch Uair, Loch Cimmi.] — Loch Annind, cid dia ta ?

Ni ANSA .1.^ Ainnind ;;) Uar ^ Cimme Cethircenn, tn Yc\aic Umhor, do rigaib Fer m[B]olc. Do Gr^ccaib al-lethcinel .1. Gr^cus'^ mac Point j Danaus'' \\\ac Point. LS e da??(? Danaus^ sen Fer niBolc. Rogab ciniudh indala fir fortamlas ar aroile, con na ro leccsit in t-uisr^ sommblasta doib, fodaig is commz/i- 3 is cacht bis hi tirib Gr^c for ind us(r/, ;j adachta fo doire .1. uir do taroidiud {sic!) ior lecca loma co mbetis j-^if/// cubaid'* in donini uire forraib.

Dodechatar iarum riasin cwmachta moir sin dochum'' nErind lor eludh, 3 gnisit barcca doib dia mbolcaib, co tudhchatar co tirib Yjxenn 3 gabsat hie lochaib firuisa'^ib lochdoimnib Hndglanib. Aindinn ic Loch Kxwdiinn a Midi. Uar ic Loch Uair am-Miide 3 Cimmie la Q^nnacta :

Triar brathar, ba buan a ngloir, \.r\ xaaic ardgasta Ugmoir, Ainninn, Uar am-Midhe an;?u, oais Cimme a Conactu.

"Loch Anninn", whence is it?

Not hard (to say). Anninn and Uar, and Cimme Cethircenn, three sons of Umor, of the kings of the Fir Bolg. Of the Greeks was one of their two kindreds, to wit, Grecus, son of Pont, and Danaus, son of Pont. This Danaus was the ancestor of the Fir Bolg. The race of one of these two men prevailed over (that of the) other, so that they did not let them have the well-tasted water, because there is in the lands of the Greeks control and constraint over the water. And they were put under slavery, to wit, to drag mould (in leathern bags) on to bare flagstones, so that there should be seven cubits deep of mould upon them.

So they fled before that tyranny to Ireland, and they built them barques of their bags, and they came to the lands of Ireland and set up at loughs fresh-watered, profound, clear-pooled. Ainninn at Lough Ainninn, in Meath; Uar at Lough Uair, in Meath ; and Cimme, in Connaught.

Three brothers, lasting their glory, Three high-brisk sons of Ugmor, Ainninn, Uar in Meath, to-day. And Cimme in Connaught.

Also in BB. 409 a 34 ; H. 69a ; Lee. 521 b ; and R. 125a i.

As to the flight of the Fir Bolg, cf. Keating, p. 129.

Loch Ai7i}iinn, now Lough Ennell, in Westmeath. Lock Uair, now Lough Owel, in Westmeath. Turgeis {yiidrgils) was drowned in it A.u. 847. Loch Cimme, now Lough Hackett, in the co. Galway.

1 MS. repeats. 2 ^g, Grecas, ^ ms, Tanais. * MS. cumaid.

^ MS. dodochum.