G 323

Tales (fragments)

19th cent. Paper 17 × 14 cms. 52 pp., modern pencil pagination. Scribe: Nioclás O hAodh `ón gCaithir' [Co. Limerick], 1811 (p. 3). This manuscript and G 322 above would appear to have originally formed parts of a single volume.

Bound in rexine by the National Library. `MS no. 4 (...) 1811', p. 1 inner margin. Occasional letters cut away in outer and lower margins due to marginal cropping; several leaves misplaces at time of binding. For record of accession see G 322 above.

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1 [Bás an Mhacaoimh Mhóir.] Acephalous. Beg. here cláracha ar an mhuir ┐ nior bhiongna é óir gach caraig dá mbuailtighe uirthe do bhíoch fithche céad meachainnt innte. Ciodh trácht do ráinig plannc don loinng fúgham. Breaks off (p. 52) an tan tángadar na gaibhne ... ┐ dfíafruíghisa diobh de ghuith mhórsholus ghlan ar mhithid leo nídh ar bith do thabhairt dam fein. Adúbhradar [...]. The fragment of this tale is contained on pp. 1-2, 15-24, [...], 29-38, 51-2.

3 [Bruidhean Chaorthuinn.] End fragment. Beg. here aniarbhartach ┐ troidchur tulganach tinneasnach eatartha. Ends ro imighdar as sin go nAlmhain ... gur leighisadh a lucht otharuis ┐ lanchreachta do bhí aca ann. `Ionnus gurab é sin Bruighean Chaorthuinn le Nioclás O hAodh ón gCaithir an seachtmhadh la deag do September aois an Tighearna 1811 and eleven. / Foircheann.'

4 Teoruígheacht Dhíarmuid uí Dhuíbjne ┐ Ghráine inghean Cormuic mhic Airt mhic Cuinn Chéadchathaicc. Beg. Lá dár éirge Fionn mac Cumhaill a nAlmhain leathanmór Laighean do shuig ar an bhfaithche amuith. Breaks off (p. 50) tarla craoiseach Chéin dí ┐ do chuir cruadhshnuídhim = ed. Ní Shéaghdha, Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne, ITS xlviii (1967), line 1058. The tale is contained here on pp. 4-14, 25-6, [...], 27-8, 39-50.