The Bodleian Dinnshenchas. 475
ann. Tarlaicc erchur iarum Gaible don gnnni sin a Beluch Fu[a]laiscaig corragaib^ foss, ^ co forbairt in chaill ass ior each leth ; conidh de sin ata Fidh nGaiblie innossa.
Noo, do;?^, 6nd- abaind dianidh ainm Gobul fil i rind da cluana .1. Cluai/^ Sasta ~\ Cluana Moir, ■] tiruirthes tria Fidh nOaible, ut ipse Berchanz/jr d/^v/t :
IS inmain in Gobul-sa, is uaidi [a] ainmnigud ior leith ind feda-sa,^ a rad ni ro : in gem-sa charmocail, i n-ucht na cluana-sa, tall^ sluagh mor fo. et quod est uerius.
Gabol, son of Ethamdan, son of Eces, stole the faggot which Ange, daughter of the Dagda, had gathered to make a tub there- out. For the tub which the Dagda had made would not cease from dripping while the sea was in flood, (though) not a drop came out of it during the ebb. Then Gaible made a cast of that faggot from Belach Fualascaig till it settled, and the wood grew out of it on every side. Hence Fid nGaibli is now (its name).
Or, then, from the river named Gobul, which is at the point of two <:/^m//^i' ('lawns'), to wit, Cluain Sasta and Cluain Mor. And it runs (?) through Fid nGaibU. As Berchan himself said :
Dear is this Gobul :
From it is the appellation
On the half of this wood :
To say so is not overmuch.
This gem of carbuncle,
In the breast of this lawn,
Carried off" a great, good host. And this is truer.
Also in LL. 159 a 50 ; BB. 357 b 33 ; R. 95 a ; H. 17 a.
Fid nGaibli, anglicised Feeguile, the name of a wood in Leinster, in which S. Berchan erected the church of Clonsasta, situated in the parish of Cloonsast, barony of Coolestown and King's County. O'Don. , Topogr. Poems, p. 11 ; Book of Rights, 214, note o.
The Dagda Mor, son of Ethliu (LL. 266b 38), was one of the leaders of the Tuatha D6 Danann. See Revue Celtique, xii, 125, and Keating, pp. 141, 143.
.\s to S. Berchan of Clonsast, see O'Curry, Lectures, pp. 353, 409, 412.
[7. MiDE.] — Mide, mac si[d]e Brata ma/c Deatha. Is air ba Midi a ainm, fodaig is e roata tenidh i n-Erind i tossach ria tascar clainde Nemid, co ro leath fo Erind uile, ^ co raba secht xvioXiadna for lassad, conidh on tenidh sin rohadnadh each primteni [^] each
1 MS. corrabaib. "' MS. onda. ^ ]\is. fiadasa. < MS. talla.
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