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 492 The Edinburgh Dinnshenchas.

Cich-maine^ Adhnai vaac Ailella ^ Meadhbha, ar ba Maine Adnai in sechtvcvxA mac do Ai//ll 3 do Meidhbh, ut supra diximz^s. IS e da«<? in Maine sin forruidbigh Feargna mac Finnchoime oc cosnam- churaigh forsin tracht.

No Cichmuine m«c Ai/dla find fuaradar araile iasgaire ic telach^ [al lin ^ a cocholl, coro marbsat isin inb/«r (ucut), Unde \nber C\c/ifnaim.'\

Inber Cichmaini, whence was it named ?

Not hard (to say). Cich-maine Adnoe, son of Ailill and Medb, for Maine Adnoe was the seventh son of AiUll and Medb, as we said above. 'Tis that Maine, then, that Fergna, son of Find- choem, slew (?) while contending for a boat on the strand.

Or Cich-maine, son of Ailill the Fair, certain fishermen found loosing their nets and their hoods.* So they killed him in yon estuary, and hence Inber Cichmaiiii is named.

Also in BB. 405 a ; H. 12 a ; L. 515 a; and R. 120 a 2. From R. the words ire brackets have been taken.

Inber Cichmaini has not, so far as I know, been identified. O'Curry, Manners and Customs, iii, 162, 188, says it is on the east coast of Ulster. Etain was reared there, LU. 129 a 23.

(Egerton 1781, fo. ys''.)

[75. Loch Ce.] — Loch Ce, canz/^ rohainmnigh^^h ?

Ni ansa. Ce .1. drai Nuadhrt/" Airg^/laim \x\eic Eir/^/aigh m«'c Et^rlaim rotaet a cath Maige T?/;-edh iarna guin isin cath co rainic Cam Coirrsl^^hi 3 co rainic in Magh Airni a full in loch, 3 docer Cae ann sin, con'id ica idhnacal ro mehat'dh. in \oc/i. \Jnde Loch

Loch Ce, whence was it named?

Not hard (to say). Ce, the wizard of Nuada Silverhand, entered the battle of Magh Turedh. Having been wounded in the fight, he went to Corrshlebhe, and (then) he went to Magh Airni, where the lake is. And there Ce fell, and at his burial the lake burst forth. Whence is Zoc/i Ce, "Ce's Lake."

Also in H. 66 b ; and Lee. 490. Edited (with a translation) from the latter MS. by Hennessy, in the preface to his Annals of Loch Cc', pp. xxxvi-xxxi.x. The copy in H. 66 b has never been published, and is as follows :

Loch Ce, CdiVias xoainmnigedl

Ni ansa. Antan rofechta cath Muighi Tuiredh eter Fomor- chaib et Toatha D^ Y)anann, rogonadh dno ann drui Nuadat Arccetlaim xx\aic ^chta.\g a fritguin an imair[i]g. Ce a ainm-s/^e. La sodain doriecht roimi sierdes on muigh co torracht Carn

^ MS. ciachmhaine. ^ MS. finnchoinne ochosnam. ^ telach .1. sgaoileadh, O'Clery. * cocholl, borrowed from Lat. ciicuUus.

P. O'Connell has cochall, a net, a fishing net.