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 494 ^'^^ Edinburgh Dinnshenchas.

A tochar elir da magh in cl. fri bothar n-air Yher VL\ac M^xXed cohechi is ed a \eacht anasb.

Vnde Mag nDumach d/V//[ur].

Magh nDumach, whence was it named ?

Not hard (to say). A battle was there dehvered (between Eber and Eremon, two sons of Mil) concerning the three ridges which were best in Ireland, to wit, Druim Crecht [Cresach — Z. Clasaigh — K M.] and Druim Bethach in Eremon's portion, and Druim Fingin in Eber's portion. To Eber it seemed petty to have one ridge in the southern half and two in the northern country. And Eremon said that there would be no repartition by him of his share. (So) a battle is fought between them. Eber was routed, and therein fell Eber and Palap, son of Eremon, by Con- mael, son of Cathbad, and mounds were built over the heroes there, whence Magh nDuffiach, "the mounded Plain," and Tendais had been its name originally, ^^'hence is said:

In the battle on Tendais of the habitations, In the plain where Eber fell. There fell together Goisten, Sdtga, and Suirge.^

On a causeway between two plains

to the east of a road,

Eber, son of Mil, certainly This is his grave ....

Also in Lee. 524 b, but, so far as I am aware, nowhere else.

Mag nDumach is perhaps the place called by the Four Masters, A D. 858, Magh Duma, which O'Donovan says is now called Moy, adjoining Charlemont, on the Tyrone side of the Blackwater.

As to Eber and Eremon and their dispute, see the Fotir Masters, A.M. 3501.

Druim Clasaigh is a long hill in Hy-Many, between Lough Ree and the river Suck. Dridm Beathaigh was the name of a ridge across the plain of ALienmagh, near the town of Loughrea, in the county of Galway. Druim Finghin is a ridge extending from near Castle-Lyons in the co. of Cork to the south side of the Bay of Dungarvan.

[77. Cnucha.] — Cnucha, can^ri- rohainmnighedh ?

Ni ansa. Dia tangatar .u. mf/c Dela nxeic Loith cho Eu'nn, Gann 3 Genann 3 Rudraige j Sengann -j Slaine, doratsat .u. righna leo .1. Fuat ben Slaine a quo (sic) nominatur Slw/'h Fuait 3 inisin Fuata, Etar hen Gainn, isi atbath i nEtwr, -) is uaithi

^ These were, according to the Fou7- Masters^ " three distinguished chieftains of the people of Eremon." I cannot translate the following quatrain.