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1380. Mo cheithre rainn duit a Dhonnchaidh $
Length: short 4qq
Certainty: 3
Period:
  1. 17th early
Areas:
  1. Munster
Classes:
  1. Didactic
Manuscripts:
  1. TCD 1381 (H.5.9) Toird. O Reilly 1684
  2. BL Egerton 187 Uill. O Loingsigh 1686
  3. Black Book of Clanranald 17th-18th c.
  4. Mayn. M 107 ?Aodh B. MacCruitin 1712
  5. RIA 3 (23/L/17) S.OMurch. na R. 1744-5
Prints:
  1. text Rel.Celt. ii, 144
Motifs:
  1. church’s immunity to be observed
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Tadhg mac Daire (Mayn. M 107, RIA 3)
Poet Surnames:
  1. MacBruaideadha
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Donnchadh
Patron Surnames:
  1. [O Briain d. 1624?]
Meter Vars:
  1. seadhna
Poem:

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Mo cheithre rainn dhuit, a Dhonnchaidh


[A. Macbain and Rev. J. Kennedy (eds), Reliquiae Celticae II (Inverness, 1894), pp. 143-4]


1 No cúig rainn dhuit a Dhonnchaidh

deuna mar adera síad

diogha rainn ni bhfuighir uaimsi

crainn go ttorrthaibh uaisle íad.


2 Brath haignidh abhair beagan

bi go réidh fo rachadh ort

na beir breith re gáol do ghaire

go breithe don taobh eile ort.


3 Na hob síth na seachan cogadh

na creach ceall gion bus beó

na bi do gniomh tenn os tengaidh

na dena feall no gealladh gleó.


4 Bi go mín a ccríochaihh carad

a ccrioch biodhbhadh na bi tais

bi go cáoin re deoraidh Chriost

a leomháin do shiol Chormac chais. No.