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 The Bodleian Dinnshenchas. 499

Is annsin adbert Cornnan Cossdub mac Reodoirchi iarsin togail : Is ní ní dia tiagat fir. Amail atbert :

Mac Reo doirchi datta 1

hua Curnain cruaid cennfatta,2

rogni cliabu, cian rocloss,

hi nDruim Cliab di[a] mboi ar tuross.3

Druim Cliab, Curnan Blackfoot's boatframes (cléib curaig) were made there when he went to destroy Dún Barc on Annle, son of Loa Longhand, and he was a year and a half at them. Then said Curnan Blackfoot, son of Reo-doirche ("Dark-streak"), "Somewhat is the thing to which men go." As said (the poet) :

The son of Reo-doirche the pleasant, The grandson of Curnan the hard, long-headed, Made wicker-frames, long has it been heard, At Druim Cliab when he was on an expedition.

Also in LL. 165 a 20 ; BB. 392 a 30 ; H. 51 a ; and Lec. 497 b.

The number of boats (according 10 BB. ) was 150; the destruction of Dun Bare lasted a year and a half, and comprised Ainnle with his queens.

Druim Cliab, now Drumcliff, in the barony of Carbury and co. of Sligo. See Ihs Fo7/r Masters, A.D. 871, 1187.

[35. Nemthenn.] — Neimethenn canas rohainmni[g]ed ?

Ni ansa. Neim thenn doratda ann do ceithri vi\accB.ih fichet Ferg7/sa. Leithd^/rg la Drecuinn"* ingin Calcmail, co nderbladar de a n-aenu[a]ir uile. Conid desin asb^^-ar Nem[the]ann. Unde dicitur in Capturis^ Hiberniae :

Ceathrar a.r_fic/iif, ni go, da fer deg sin coba d6, se cethrair sin, calma in cuing, rodosmarbtha la Drecuinn.^

Strong ijemi) poison {neim) was given there by Drecu, daughter of Calcmael, to Fergus Red-side's four-and-twenty sons, so that the whole of them died at the same hour. So that therefore it is called Nemthenn. Hence is said in the Conquests of Ireland :

Four-and-twenty persons, not false,

Twice twelve men (is) that.

Six tetrads, that, brave the yoke,

Were killed by Drecu.

Also in LL. 165 a 29 ; BB. 392 b 9 ; H. 51 a ; Lee. 491 b; and R. 115 a i.

Nemthenn, now Nephin, a mountain in the co. Mayo.

The CapturcB Hibernice (" Gabdla H6renn") should be added to O'Curry's lis of lost books, Lectures, pp. 20, 21. It doubtless corresponded in substance with the O'Clerys' compilation called Leabhar Gabhdla.

1 MS. diatta. « jyi^ cennfotta. ^ ms. turuss. * MS. drecain.
 * MS. caputuris. ''MS. dorodosmarbtha la dregaind.