Texts

Turim tigi Temrach ‘The enumeration of the house of Tara’
verse beg. Domun duthain (a lainde)

Middle Irish
verse
Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, dinnshenchas

Dinnshenchas of Temair.

Title

Turim tigi Temrach

‘The enumeration of the house of Tara’

Temair IV in Gwynn's edition.

First words (verse)

Domun duthain (a lainde)

(Book of Leinster)

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Book of Leinster version

Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Author

Ascribed to: Cormac filiCormac fili

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more Cináed ua hArtacáin

Cináed úa hArtacáin

(d. 975)

Middle Irish poet.

The poem is attributed to Cormac fili in the Book of Leinster; to Cináed ua hArtacáin in the Book of Ballymote.

Manuscripts

Copy independent from the Dinnshenchas Érenn

L =

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

pp. 28a–28b

rubric: ‘Turim Tigi Temrach .i. in tech mór milib amus’

Ascr. to Cormac fili.

[Rawl.] =

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 I, (a) ff. 101-122, (b) ff. 1-36, (c) ff. 45-52 [s. xv/xvi]

f. 36va.1–36vb.26

beg. ‘Domun duthain a loinde’

Poem (24 qq) in a later hand. Anonymous. This copy was overlooked by Gwynn.

As part of Dinnshenchas Érenn C, mostly ascribed to Cináed úa hArtacáin and found together with Temair, toga na tulach (Temair III).

R =

Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 [s. xiii/xiv (?)]

B =

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]

f. 352a ff

Y =

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 11, cols. 401-436 [s. xv]

H =

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1322 (H 3. 3) [s. xvi]

S =

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]

S₂ =

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 2 (1222) [s. xvi (?)]

Anon.

S₃ =

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iii 1 (742) [s. xvii]

V =

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 13 (1068) [s. xvii]

H₂ =

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289 (H 1. 15) = The Psalter of Tara [1745]

Lebor gabála Érenn (Ó Cléirigh)

G =

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 32 (617) [s. xvii]

Language

Middle Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 28

Textual relationships

Related: Dindgnai TemrachDindgnai TemrachDinnshenchas of Temair (prose)Dinnshenchas of Temair (prose)Dinnshenchas of Temair IDinnshenchas of Temair IPoem on the former names and legendary associations of the Hill of Tara. Versions are extant in recensions of LGÉ as well as the Dinnshenchas Érenn.Temair IITemair II

Dinnshenchas of Temair.

Dinnshenchas of Temair IIIDinnshenchas of Temair IIIDinnshenchas of TemairDinnshenchas of Temair VDinnshenchas of Temair VPoem on the dinnshenchas of Temair (Tara), consisting mostly of a long list of placenames.

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
...
Dinnshenchas Érenn
Dinnshenchas Érenn

id. 6712

dinnshenchasIrish narrative literature, onomastic lore and learning, topographical literature
dinnshenchas

id. 32607

Subjects

Temair

Temair ... Tara

County Meath

No short description available

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 1, Todd Lecture Series, 8, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1903.

For corrigenda and addenda, see Vol. 5 (1935): 125-126; and Meyer, Kuno, “Erschienene Schriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908).

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link> : View in Mirador

28–37 [id. 4. ‘Temair IV’] Critical edition. direct link direct link direct link

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. OʼBrien, and Anne OʼSullivan [eds.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.

CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>

Vol. 1, 112–115 Diplomatic edition of the text in LL. direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Crowe, John O'Beirne [ed. and tr.], “The dind-senchus of Eriu”, The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 4th series, 2:1 — 1872 (1874): 139–190.

Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

170–177

[ed.] [tr.] Petrie, George, and John OʼDonovan [collaborator], “On the history and antiquities of Tara Hill”, Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 18 (1839): 25–232.

Internet Archive: <link>

188–193 Edited from H.

Secondary sources (select)

Downey, Clodagh, “Dindṡenchas and the tech midchúarta”, Ériu 60 (2010): 1–35.

The banqueting hall (tech midchúarta) of Tara is vividly described in a variety of medieval Irish sources. This paper examines descriptions of the physical layout and social regulation of the banqueting hall in some of these sources with a view to retrieving how their authors understood its form and function, and assesses evidence associating the banqueting hall with the cursus monument in Tara known today as Tech Midchúarta.

Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 1, Todd Lecture Series, 8, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1903.

For corrigenda and addenda, see Vol. 5 (1935): 125-126; and Meyer, Kuno, “Erschienene Schriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908).