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Dinnshenchas of Belach Gabráin
verse beg. Inmain dam in Gabrán glan

  • Middle Irish
  • verse, prose
  • Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn
Texts in prose and verse relating variant versions of dinnshenchas on Belach Gabráin (B. nGabráin, B. Gabrán), perhaps Gowran Pass (Co. Kilkenny) or more probably, according to Edward Gwynn, the pass of that name in Maistiu (Co. Kildare). This pass (belach) is said to derive its name from the hound Gabrán whose heart broke (i.e. it died) from a fatiguing and unsuccessful pursuit of a swine whose name appears exclusively in the genitive, Lurgan (cf. lurga, lurgu ‘shanks’). The swine escaped from it underground in the bog of Allen (móin Almaine). The prose story identifies the hiding place as Loch Lurgan.
First words (verse)
  • Inmain dam in Gabrán glan
Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
Author
Ascribed to: Find Fili mac Rossa RúaidFind Fili mac Rossa Rúaid
legendary poet and king of Leinster; son of Russ Rúad
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Ascr. to Finn File mac Rossa.
Manuscripts
Dinnshenchas Érenn A
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]
p. 196a
Dinnshenchas Érenn C

R B Y Le M (rubbed) S S3 H

R =
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 [s. xiii/xiv (?)]
f. f. 102ra
beg. ‘Belach Gabran canas ro-ainmniged’
Prose (Stokes no. 37: Belach Gabrain)
R =
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 [s. xiii/xiv (?)]
f. 102ra
beg. ‘INmain damh in Gabran’
Separate copies
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 486 4, ff. 23-75 = 1-53 (ink foliation) [s. xiv]
f. 29ra.1ff
Prose version.
Language
  • Middle Irish

  • Middle Irish

Form
verse, prose (primary)

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Dinnshenchas Érenn
Dinnshenchas Érenn
id. 6712

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Subjects

Belach Gabráin [(Co. Kildare)]
Belach Gabráin
County Kildare
See more Móin AlmaineMóin Almaine

No description available

See more Loch Lurgan [in Móin Almaine]Loch Lurgan ... in Móin Almaine

No description available

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Keywords

SwineSwine
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HoundsHounds
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TracksTracks
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BogsBogs
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UndergroundUnderground
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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] [tr.] Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 3, Todd Lecture Series, 10, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1913.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 3: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link>
158–159 [id. 28. ‘Belach Gabran’] direct link direct link direct link
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, “The prose tales in the Rennes dindshenchas”, Revue Celtique 15 (1894): 272–336, 418–484.  

An edition and translation of the prose texts in the Dinnshenchas Érenn as they occur in Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598. Missing texts are supplied from the Book of Lecan version.

TLH – edition (I, pp. 277-336): <link> TLH – translation (I): <link> TLH – edition (II, pp. 418-484): <link> TLH – translation (II): <link> Celtic Digital Initiative: <link> Internet Archive – 272–336: <link> Internet Archive – 272–336: <link> Internet Archive – 418–484: <link> Internet Archive – 418–484: <link>
426–427 [id. 37. ‘Belach Gabrain’] direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 3, Todd Lecture Series, 10, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1913.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 3: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link>
507 [id. 28. ‘Belach Gabran’] direct link
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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September 2012, last updated: September 2023
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