Texts
Dindgnai Temrach
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Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1
incipit: Da dingnaib na Teamhrach and seo Prose text. Marginalia: single line (top left) and a paragraph in the right margin.
84(143)rb-vb
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/11
Prose introduction beginning at § 26 of Stokes’ edition in RC 15: 282. The previous leaf appears to have been lost.
col. 401
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/11
context: Dinnshenchas Érenn C Beginning at § 26 of Stokes’ edition in RC 15: 282. The previous leaf appears to have been lost.
col. 401
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
rubric: Dindgnai Temrach in so sís incipit: Nemnach .i. firthipra fil ocon tsíd i n-airthiurdesciurt na Temrach ... Prose dindshenchas
p. 30a–
Text
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598/ff. 90-125
context: Dinnshenchas Érenn C rubric: Dindgnai Temrach inso sís
ff. 90va–91ra
MS
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598/ff. 90-125
incipit: Nemnach Prose.
f. 90va–
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.
- LL text
[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: 120–123. Diplomatic edition of the LL text. direct link
- Dinnshenchas Érenn C text
[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>
280–289 §§ 5-42
[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>
136–142 direct link
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.
