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 The Bodleian Dinnshenchas. 493

ior aithedh la Midir Bri Leith a hOenuch Oengz/i-a. Robo cara do saidi Sinech Sidi Cruach««. Taraill leiss ara dili dia accallaim. F^rfostait i suidiu. Dorumenair Etain co mba la Midir in sid sin. " \Iti hi] do treb-su inso ?" ol Etain. " Ace son," ol Midir, " is ness[a] sair do turccabail gr<?ne bail mo treibi-se," ol Midhir, " inda inso." " Cm/, ciaso buaid duinne tadall in tsi'da^ sa ?" ol Cro- chen.- "Bidhth'ainm bias f^rsin mag sin, co brath^ .1. Magh Crochan," 3 is de sin fil Raith Maige Crochan .1. do Crochain inailtt Etaine, fodaigh robo crod^rg [in cenn bai fuirri] cona hab- raib uile d.cus a habratchur.'* Unde Mag Cruacha/^.

Crochen Crod^rg, cruthmar, caem,

inailt Etaine conna[i]g,

dia luid la Midir Bri Leith

isi fo[fh]uair na deithi in raith. Cruachu, or Crochen, handmaid of Etain, who eloped with Mider of Bri Leith from Oenach Oengusa. To him Sinech of Sid Cruachan was a friend. She (Etain) went with him because of her fondness for him, to converse with him. They were detained in Sid Cruachan for nine watches. So Etain thought that that sid (fairy-mound) belonged to Mider. " Is this thy dwelling ?" she asked. "Nay," said Mider: "eastward, nearer to sunrise than this, is the place of my dwelling." " What profit, then, have we in visiting this fairy-mound?" says Crochen. "That plain will bear thy name for ever, to wit, 'Mag Cr6chan'." And hence is Raith Maige Cruachan (" the Earthwork of Cruachu's Plain"), from Cruachu, Etain's handmaid, (so called) because her head was blood-red, together with her eyebrows and eyelashes. Hence " Mag Cruachan".

Crochen Crdderg, shapely, beautiful, Etain's handmaid, asked. When she went with Mider of Bri Leith She obtained the earthwork as her deithe (?).

Also in LL. 170a, 43; BB. 384a i; H. 42b; Lee. 484b; where the title is Rath (or Raith) Cruachan, now Rathcroghan, in the co. Roscommon.

Magh Cruachna, in the co. Roscommon, lies between the towns of Roscommon and Elphin, Castlereagh and Strokestown.

As to Mider's elopement with Etdin, see LU. i3ob-i32, and O'Curry, M. and C, ii, 192-194.

[28. Mag Tarbgai.] — Mag Tarbgai canas rohainmni[g]ed ?

Ni ansa .1. do comrac 3 do gleicc na da tarb .1. Findbennaig 3 Duind Chuailnge ia[r] tabairt na tana im Chnoc Tarbgai. Unde Mag Tarbgai.

Findloch .1.'' loch Findbennaigh, do bas ind [Fhjindbennaig on Dund Chuailgne*' isind loch, ^d>;nd[d]e asberar Findloch. Unde poeta dixit :

1 MS. maga. - MS. crothcen. ^ mS. brath. * MS. abrachttur. '^ MS. .1. Findloch. '^ MS. cluailgne.