Texts
Dinnshenchas of Temair IV
Incoming data
Dinnshenchas of Temair.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1
rubric: Cinaeth Ua Hartacan hui Cormaic cecinit. Do suidigud Tighi Cormaic incipit: Domhan duthain a laindi Poem only (18 qq). Ends with cenn fo eitte and Doman duthain a laindi.
85(144)rb-va.23
Text
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/11
Turim tigi Temrach ‘The enumeration of the House of Tara’
col. 403
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
rubric: Turim Tigi Temrach .i. in tech mór milib amus Ascr. to Cormac fili.
pp. 28a–28b
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
rubric: Turim Tigi Temrach .i. in tech mór milib amus / Cormac fili cecinit. incipit: Domun duthain a lainde Dindsenchas of Tara, here attributed to Cormac fili
p. 28a.52–
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/I (ff. 101-122, 1-36, 45-52)
Poem in another hand beginning Domun duthain a loinde. Rubbed.
f. 36v
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/I (ff. 101-122, 1-36, 45-52)
incipit: Domun duthain a loinde Poem (24 qq) in a later hand. Anonymous. This copy was overlooked by Gwynn.
f. 36va.1-36vb.26
MS
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598/ff. 90-125
incipit: Domon duthain a loinde Poem.
f. 92ra–
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.
[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).
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link> : View in Mirador
67–74 [id. 4. ‘Temair IV’] direct link
