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THE EDINBURGH DINNSHENCHAS.

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AMONG the little-known Gaelic manuscripts preserved in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, M. Henri Gaidoz^[1] discovered five leaves of a vellum copy of the Dinnshenchas, written (I should say) at the end of the fifteenth century, and now marked XVI Kilbride. For a loan of these leaves I am indebted to the kindness of the Curators and the Librarian, Mr. J. T. Clark. Like all the other copies of this curious collection of topographical legends, XVI Kilbride is imperfect ; but, so far as it goes, it agrees closely, both in contents and arrangement, with the Oxford Dinnshenchas published in Folk-Lore, vol. iii, pp. 469-515. The articles still remaining in the Edinburgh copy are as follows :

fo. I^a The Introduction, and part of Cuan O'Lochan's poem, Temair, Taillti, tír n-oenaig, etc., both now almost wholly illegible.

I^b I. End of Cuan O'Lochan's poem — Teamhair — Magh mBreagh.

I^b 2. Laighin, incomplete. Here a leaf is lost.

2^a I. Nine quatrains of Eochu Eolach's poem on Loch Garman, of which there is a complete copy in the Book of Leinster, p. 196 — Fidh nGaible.

2^a 2. Midhe— Ethne.

2^b I. Brí Léith — Tond Clidhna.

2^b 2. Slíabh Bladma.

3^a I. Magh Roigne — Tebtha [leg. Tethba] — Loch n-Ainnind.

1. See the Revue Celtique, vi, 113.