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 5o6 TJie Bodleian Dinnshcnchas.

A swift wave of the flood drowned her, The wife of the son of Labraid Lessbrecc.

Or this is truer : Aed the Red, son of Badurn of Ulster, was drowned there while swimming the cataract. Hence it was named Ess Ruaid ("Ruad's Cataract").

Also in LL. 165 a 4 ; BB. 391 b 25 ; H. 50 a ; Lee. 498 b.

Ess Ruaid, the salmon-leap at Ballyshannon, co. Donegal, is now anglicised Assaroe.

[43. Cnogba.] — Cnogba, canas rohainmni[g]ed ? Ni ansa .1. Einglic ingen Elcmaire rocar Aeng;/.y mac ind Occ ^ nis-raichesstar. Do teclamsat cluichi n-ann^ etir Cleiteach ~] Sid in Broga. Dothathaighdis aes an 3 sithchairedha Y.xenn don cluichi sin each aidhche samna ;j a cuit mesraigthe- leo [.i. cno]. Dolodar atuaid tH m«/c Deircc xn^icc Eathamain a Sid Findabrach cor-ruccsat ingen nElccmaire hi fuadaig timchell na maccraidi cen fiss doib. Intan rofetatar rorethsat 'na diaid^ co ruicci in dind dianid ainm Cnogba. Doronsat guba moir and, ^ si fess fos-railangair, a cnuassach. Unde Cnogb[a] .1. cno-guba ,1. do guba doronsat immon cnuassach ut. Unde est QviOgba.

Ue ata Cnog/^a na cuan

conid oirrdairc la each sluag,

do guba iar mbuain"' cno fo gle

deis vagine Elccmrt/>e.

Englic, daughter of Elcmaire, loved Oengus mac ind Oc, and •she had not seen him. They held a meeting for games there between Cletech and Sid in Broga. The Bright Folk and fairy- hosts of Ireland used to visit that game every Halloween, having a moderate share of food, to wit, a nut. From the north went three sons of Derc, son of Ethaman, out of Sid Findabrach, and they eloped with Elcmaire's daughter, (going) round the young folk without their knowledge. When they knew it, they ran after her as far as the hill named Cnogba. Great lamenta- tion they made there, and this is the feast that supported them, their gathering. Hence "Cnogba", that is, cno-guba "nut-lamen- tation", from the lamentation they made at yon gathering.

Hence is Cnogba of the troops.

So that every host deems it famous.

From the lamentation after reaping nuts ....

Following Elcmaire's daughter.

Also in H. 65.

Cnogba, " corruptly Cnodhbha, now anglicised Knowth. The territory so called appears to have been comprised in the barony of Upper Slane, in East Meath. The name is now applied to a very ancient mound in the parish of Monk-newtown." Topogr. Poems, p. iv, No. 18. Cletech, a house "situated near Stackallan Bridge, on the south side of the Boyne," Four Masters, A.D. 266, note 0.

Aes dn, " bright folk", i.e., I suppose, "light elves", Ljds-alfar.

i MS. nan. ^ MS. mesraid. ^ ^3. diaig. " MS. muin.