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 The Bodleian Dinnshenckas. 513

[49. Cloenloch.] — Claenloc[h], cid dia ta ? Ni ansa .1. Cloen mac Ingir Cluanae [leg. Cluade?] cetna •cennaige dodeochaid^ a Alpain i nEn>z« co nduisib flatha. Is ann adbath icon- loch ucut,^ j i n-oenbliadain tomaidm Loc[h]a Dacaech ;] Locha da Dall ^ Loc[h]a Faefi 3 Loch n-Ing 3 Loch nGabur j 'Loch nGaind 3 Loch nDuib ^ Loch nDremuin ^ Loch nDuind j Loch Ceraim ^ Loch Camm, et unde Claenloch nomi- natur.

Claen m.acc Ligir Cluana ce,

carptech cnchid cennaige,

CO ndussib flath, fael ros-from,

iss ann atbath, i Cloenloch.

Cloen, son of Ingor of Cluain, the first merchant who went out of Scotland into Ireland with a prince's treasures. There he died, at yonder lough. And in the same year were the out- bursts of Loch Dacaech, etc. Whence Cloenloch is named. Cloen, son of Ingor of Cluain, went A chariot-owner, a crichid (?), a merchant. With prince's treasures, a wolf (?) proved them ; There he died, at Cloenloch."

Also in LL. 169b 15 ; H. 66 b ; Lee. 518 b ; and R. 123 a i.

Three lakes called Claonloch are mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters. This one is perhaps Claonloch SWbhe Fiiaid, A.D. 1009, which is situated near Newtown-Hamilton, in the co. of Armagh. A Cloenloch near Gort in the •CO. Galway is mentioned in Chron. Scot., pp. 45, 369.

[50. Loch Dacaech.] — Loch Dacaech, canass rohainmniged?* Ni ansa. Dacaech ingen Cicuil Gligargluinig, ;j bassi a mat[h]air Fuata, 3 iss^-a^ rucad [e]aturru, oen ingen dall. AtruUai uadib assin-^ purt, co nderg[e]naia aidhidh isind loch ucut. Unde Loch Dacaech nominatur. tJnde poeta dixit : Dacaech ingen Cicuil Cairn griggechgluin^' gran[n]a glassgairb, ro meirb leinai, linib ler,^ noco nderg[e]nai a hoidhedh.

Dacaech, daughter of Cicol Gligargliinech, and her mother was Fuata, and this is what was produced between them (Cicol and Fuata), one blind daughter. She escaped from them out of the port, and killed herself in yonder lake. Hence " Loch Dacaech" is (so) named. Whence said the poet :

Dacaech, daughter of Cicol of Carn,

.... horrible, green-rough.

Until she cau-:ed her (own) death.

1 MS. dodeochaig. ^ MS. ioco;/. ^ MS. inserts und^.


 * MS. rohainmniec^h. ^ MS. issin. " MS. triggeglain. ^ MS. leir.