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 484 The Bodleimi Din7ishenchas.

fuilged nobidh Fera hie baccad. In trath nobidh Yerz ic baccad Femmen diOno ic ivA'ged^ ;j foceardad cectar de a mbacc 3 a sluasait inna himputh^ techta dar in mag hir-Rae n-Urchuir dia- lailiu. Unde [Mag] Femin j [Mag] Feara.

Femen, Fera, fir fatha, do sil delbglan Deat[h]a, is eat doslectsat nammaig, Fera, Yoxnen a fidhbaidh.-

Mag Femin, whence is it ? Not hard. Femen, whence was it named? Not hard. Femen, then, and Fera, two brothers, to wit, two sons of Moagab, son of Dachar of the clan of Brath, son of Death. One billhook and one shovel of iron between the two. When Femen was shovelling, Fera was hacking. When Fera was shovelling, Femen was hacking. And each of them used to fling his billhook and his shovel in his proper turn to the other over the plain into Rae Urchuir (' Field of a cast'). Hence " Mag Femin", and " Mag Fera".

Femen, Fera, truth of knowledge. Of the pure-formed seed of Death : It is they that cleared the two plains, Fera, Femen, of wood.

Also in LL. 168 b 28 ; BB. 373 by; H. 27 a ; Lee. 470 a ; and R. 104 a 2. Magh Femin, that part of the present county of Tipperary which belongs to the diocese of Lismore. Topogr. Poems, Ixi.

[17. Sliab Mis.] — Sliab Mis, cidh dia da?

Ni ansa .1. .1. Mis ingean Mairedha, siur Eachd-r//^ mo/c Maireda roan do eiss a himirge dia luid* la Congancness mac nDedad.^ IS ed ddino forba ;j atharda f^rsa^ rir a fine j a aiccme, iorsm sliab ut. Unde Sliab Miss dicitur :

Miandais Miss co mbruachaib [bla,] mgeji morglicc Muireda, dels a himirce gan geiss lasin coemgein C^ngancneiss.

Mis, daughter of Mairid, sister of Eochaid, son of Mairid, stayed with Congancness, son of Deda, after the flitting of her folk. And the heritage and patrimony, for which she gave up her family and her kin, is on yon mountain. Hence "Sliab Mis" is said.

Mairid's very cunning daughter.

Mis, with margins of land, remained (?)

1 MS. himpuch. 2 mS. fidhbaigh. 3 ^S. eathac^ * MS, olaid, " MS, ndega^, « MS. forsra.