105. Three live ones that put away dead things: a deer shedding its horn, a wood shedding its leaves, cattle shedding their coat.[69]
106. Three places of Ireland to make you start: Tulach na n-Escop,[70] Achad Deo,[71] Duma mBuirig.
[70] A hill near Kildare. See Thesaurus Palæo-hibernicus ii.. p. 335.
[71] At Tara. See Todd's _Irish Nennius_, p. 200.
107. Three wonders of Ireland: the grave of the dwarf,[72] the grave of Trawohelly,[73] an echo near.[74]
[72] Somewhere in the west (i n-iarthar Erenn, Fél., p. clvii).
[73] See Todd's _Irish Nennius_, p. 199, and Zeitschrift für Celt. Phil, v., p. 23.
[74] Nothing is known to me about this wonder.
108. Three oratories of Ireland: the oratory of Birr, the oratory of Clonenagh, the oratory of Leighlin.
109. Three maidens that bring hatred upon misfortune: talking, laziness, insincerity.
110. Three maidens that bring love to good fortune: silence, diligence, sincerity.
111. Three silences that are better than speech: silence during instruction, silence during music, silence during preaching.
112. Three speeches that are better than silence: inciting a king to battle, spreading knowledge (?),[75] praise after reward.[76]
[75] _Sreth immais_, which I have tentatively translated by 'spreading knowledge,' is used as a technical term in poetry for connecting all the words of a verse-line by alliteration, as e.g. _slatt_, _sacc_, _socc_, _simend_, _saland_. See Ir. Texte iii., p. 30.
[76] _Cf._ LL. 344_a_: Carpre asks Cormac what are the sweetest things he has heard, and Cormac answers: 'A shout of triumph after victory, praise after reward, the invitation of a fair woman to her pillow.'
113. Three impossible demands: go! though you cannot go, bring what you have not got, do what you cannot do.
114. Three idiots that are in a bad guest-house: the chronic cough of an old hag, a brainless tartar of a girl, a hobgoblin of a gillie.
115. The three chief sins: avarice, gluttony, lust.
116. Tréde neimthigedar crossán: rige óile, rige théighe, rige bronn.
117. Tréde neimthigedar círmaire: coimrith fri coin hi[c] cosnum chnáma, adarc reithi do dírgud dia anáil cen tenid, dichetal for ochtraig co rathochra a mbí ina íchtur for a úachtar do cho[.n]gna [et] cnámaib [et] adarcaib.