Manuscripts
p. 319a
Heading/rubric: ‘Senchas síl Ébir fó hErinn in so’Incipit: ‘Eber a quo dicitur Hibernia ut alii putant quinque filios habuit’
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p. 327g–
[Déisi genealogies (L-group) ]
Heading/rubric: ‘Genelach na nDési’Incipit: ‘Faelchad. Dunchad. Dub Tire. tri mc Eogain mc Bregduilb’
incl. Bran Find Femin
Sections: (a) headed Duli slontib na nDési, incl. on pp. 327g-328h, poem beg. Bran Find Femin; (b) headed Nunc .h. Rosa; (c) headed Nunc .h. Fhir Gair; (d) headed Nunc .h. Oengusa.
p. 328f–
[Cath Crinna]
Heading/rubric: ‘Clanna Ébir i Lleith Chuind’Incipit: ‘Galenga tair ⁊ tíar. Ciannachta tess ⁊ túaid’
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Senchas síl hÍr
pp. 329e–333p. 329e
[Senchas síl Ír ]
Heading/rubric: ‘Senchas síl hÍr fo hErinn in so sis’Incipit: ‘hír octauus filius Militis qui cum uenissent filii Militis in Hiberniam mortuus est’
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p. 330b–
Heading/rubric: ‘Senchas Dáil Fhiatach’Incipit: ‘Da mc Fhiatach Find rig hErenn’
Incl. 1 q beg. A faile im menmainse (330d); foll. by pedigrees headed Do Cheniul Shuibne (330d-331a), incl. 1 q beg. Cichis Congal Cendfhotá (330b), headed ut cecinit Dub Doid; 1 q beg. Ni thíag isna dirthaige (330b); two lines beg. Ni chel a h-adde for Laga ro bí ríga (331a), headed Unde Cormac h. Cuind cecinit.
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p. 331a
[Do forslointib Úa Echach]
• [Do forslointib Ulad]
Heading/rubric: ‘Do forslaintib .h. nEchach so’
Tract on tributary peoples, with pedigrees of those which preceded the Uí Echach and under the heading De fhorshlontib Ulad co coitchiunn so sís, those which preceded the Ulaid.
p. 331a–
Heading/rubric: ‘Aisneidem di araill’
On the descendants of Conchobar, Fergus and Mog Ruith (mag Fergusa); section headed Dimittans interim Claind Fergusa dicamus Claind Conaill Cernaig (331b); pedigrees of descendants of Conall Cernach and Conchobar mac Nessa; incl. 2 qq beg. Maicne Chonchobuir ind ríg [cf. longer citation in Rawl. B 502, beg. A Fhiachnae ná ráid in gáe], headed Mongan cecinit (331c); and 7 qq beg. Rom-bói lathe rordu rind, headed Conchobor cecinit (331c); pedigrees headed Fergus mc do Roig; .g. Dal Moga Ruith (331ca-cc).
p. 331cc–
Heading/rubric: ‘Is é so senchas coitchenn Clainde Fergus(a)’Incipit: ‘Sé mc Fhergusa .i. Fer Deoda. ⁊ Fer Tlac[h]tga. et Mug Toeth ⁊ Mug Doeth et Mug Doet. ⁊ Uatu ⁊ Eithlend ⁊ Corp Aulaim’
Pedigrees of the descendants of Fergus and the dynasties descending from him: headed .g. Dáil Araide (332aa-ab); .g. .h. nEchach Coba is iatside lethchenel Dáil Araide (332ab-ac); .g. Clainde Aeda (332ac); .g. ríg Ulad (332ad).
p. 332b–
Heading/rubric: ‘Senchas Conmaicne in so sís’Incipit: ‘Coic mc la Causcraid’
Tract on the Conmaicne. First words begin with a large initial C. Incl. pedigrees headed Cenel nEithne; .g. Conmaicne Cuile Tolad (332bb).
p. 332c.1–
Heading/rubric: ‘Na hAirgialla immorro’Incipit: ‘It é ata nessom d'Uib Néill aithli Connacht’
incl. Senchas Airgiall
Tract on the Airgíalla, visually set off from the previous section through a large initial N. It begins with an introductory narrative about the three Collas.
p. 333c–
Incipit: ‘.g. Clainde Conchobuir Corraig’
Airgíalla pedigrees. Incl. 1 q beg. Da mac mathe Colla Uais; 1 q beg. Tri meic mathe la h-Erc; 1 q beg. Echen. Mane. Loegaire; 3qq beg. Secht meic maithe ic Echen.
p. 334a–
Various Airgíalla pedigrees: .g. h. Celicain (334a); .g. h. mBresail Macha; .g. h Niallain (334ab) [cf. 338c]; .g. Clainde Cernaig (334ab); .g. nEchdach (334ab-ac); .g. Fer Fernmaige (334ac); Do Síl Daimini (334b), which only briefly dwells on a descendant of Daimíne but continues with four pedigrees of the Fir Fernmaige through Ruadrí mac Artrach.
Additions
p. 334c–
Pedigrees and notes in col. c and halfway col. d are written in ‘Hand3’ (as designated by Anne O'Sullivan). Incl. quatrain beg. Trí lemend ra ling Gormlaith (334c).
p. 334d.1–
Incipit: ‘Nit ruirig nat coicid Conchobuir mc Nessa naisces o Drobais co Boin’
Another hand, ‘Hand2’ (tentatively described by M. A. O'Brien as a third hand), adds a note (334d.1-7).
Senchas síl Ébir