A Middle Irish commentary on the Auraicept na n-éces and some of its companion material. McLaughlin has suggested that “the author was working with an annotated copy of that text”. The text opens with a list of the judges and authors of Ireland and a prologue. Much of the commentary is structured using didactic formulae (e.g. ceist ... ní hansa, and similar).
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An early Irish historical compilation, now lost, which is referred to thirteen times in the Annals of Ulster in various entries between the years 467 and 629 (i.e. 467, 468, 471, 475, 482, 490, 545, 553, 599, 601, 603, 611, 629). Mc Carthy suggests that this work was completed in c. 1022 and written by Cuán úa Lothcháin (d. 1024).
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Two Early Irish quatrains found in the Book of Leinster, which are concerned with prehistoric female slaves in Ireland: the first on Mugdorn (Mugdorn ingen Moga Duib / de chuiciud Ulad ardmuir / cétben ra meil bróin mbind. / ria mnáib) and the second on Nabal (Nabal in ben fiad cach slóg / ba cumal la Partholon / Nabal tuc na seotu ille. / Nabal tuc na hindile.).
List of names for plains that are said to exist beneath the lakes of Ireland.
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Versified genealogy (6 couplets) of Óengus Crobderg, chief of the ‘Éoganacht of Gabra’, i.e. Uí Chonaill Gabra branch of Uí Fhidgenti. It belongs to a group of genealogical poems that are attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara.
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Middle Irish saga on the career and conquests of Alexander the Great, based on an account in Orosius’ Historiae adversus paganos, Alexander’s letter to Aristotle about India and the correspondences known as the Collatio cum Dindimo.
Early Irish genealogical poem (8qq) on the sons of Carbad mac Cais meic Fachtna Fáthaig.
