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 480 The Edinburgh Dinnshenchas.

Fothad Airg[th]each, glan a gluais, ro thuil ann co?idi athluais, fri re nai mis, monor ngle, ir\ fogor circi Boirche.

Ard Fothaid, whence is it ?

Not hard (to say). Fothad slept there till the end of nine months at the sound of Boirche's hen, when he was on his adven- ture. Whence is Ard Fothaid, " Fothad's Height."

Fothad Airgthech, clear his movement, Slept there with his great speed. For nine months' space, brilliant deed, At the sound of Boirche's hen.

Also in BB. 399 a 32 ; H. 58 a ; Lee. 506 b ; and Rennes 116 a 2, where the "nine months" is reduced to "three fortnights". See, too, Silva Gadelica, ii, 531.

Ard Fothaid. This seems the same as the Ard Fothadh of the Four Masters, A.D. 639, "the name of a fort on a hill near Ballymagrorty .... in the co. of Donegal" (?). See also Reeves, Vita Columbae, p. 38, note. It is spelt Ard Fothaid in the Tripartite Life, Rolls ed., p. 148, and Ardd Fothid in the Book of Armagh, fo. 18 b 2.

Fothad Airgthech, a son of Mac-con, was slain in battle A.D. 285. There is a story about the identification of his tomb in LU. 133 b, which is printed and translated in Petrie's Round Towers, pp. 107, 108. The allusion to Boirche's hen is to me obscure.

[61. Ard Macha.] — Ard Macha, cid dia ta? Ni a?isa.

Macha ben Nemidh vaeio. Agnomain atbath ann, ^ ba he in dara magh deg roslecht la Nemhead, 3 do breatha dia mhnai go mbeith a ainm uasa, 3 is i adrhownairc i n-aislinge foda reimhe a \&cht ina ndernad do ulc im Thain bho Cuailngi ina cotludh tarfas di uile ann rocesad do ulc and do dz-oibhelaib ^ do midhrennaib, go ro- mhuidh a cndhe inti. UnaV Ard Macha.

No Macha ingen yEdha Ruaidh m^/c Baduirnn, is le rotoirneadh Eo-[fo. 5^ i]-muin^ Macha, ^ is and roadnacht dia ros-marbh Rer/ztaid- Rigd^rg, is dia gubhu rognidh senach Macha. \^nde Macha xaagh.

Ailit^r, Macha da«(? bean Cruind \\\eic Agnomhain doriacht ann do comrith ann ri heocho C^iwchobair, ar atbifrt a fear ba luathe a bean inaid na heocho. Amlaidh da«t?bai in bean sin, inbhadach, go ro chuindigh cairde go ro th^ed abru, ;] ni tugadh di, ;] dogni in comhrith iarum •] ba luaithiamh si, ■^ o roshiacht cend in chede bmd mac ■] ingin. Fir 3 Fial a n-anmann, ^ dXherX. go mbeidis Ulaidh fo cheas-' oitedh in gach uair dos-figead eigin, cojixd. de bai in cheas ior Ultu fri re nomaide'* o re C^iwchobhair go "^aith Mail mi?/c Roc- raide, ~^^ adb^rar ba si Grian Banchz/r^ ingean Midhir Bn \.eith, 3

1 M.S. iwui. - MS. rosumarl) rechtaig. ^ M.S. inserts ~y. * MS. xx^e.