=H=[Prime], _i.e._ H. 1. 15, pp. 946-957. This is a paper manuscript written by Tadhg Tiorthach O Neachtain in 1745. It is a complete copy, with copious glosses in Modern Irish, the more important of which are printed below on pp. 36-43. At the end O Neachtain has added the following:--'Trí subhailce diadha: creidhemh, dothchus agus grádh. Trí a n-aon: athair, mac, spiorad naomh, da raibh gloir, mola[dh] [et] umhlacht tre bith sior tug ré don bhochtan bocht so. Aniu an 15 do bhealltuine 1745. Tadhg O Nechtuin mac Seain a n-aois ceithre bliadhna déag et trí fithchit roscriob na trithibh [.s]uas.'
These manuscripts have, on the whole, an identical text, though they all occasionally omit a triad or two; and the order of the single triads varies in all of them. They have all been used in constructing a critical text, the most important variants being given in the foot-notes. The order followed is in the main that of the Yellow Book of Lecan.
There are at least three other manuscripts containing copies of the Triads. One of them I discovered in the Stowe collection after the text had been printed off. It is a paper quarto now marked 23. N. 27, containing on fo. 1_a_-7_b_ a copy of the Triads, followed on fo. 7_b_-19_a_ by a glossed copy of the _Tecosca Cormaic_. It was written in 1714 by Domnall (or Daniel) O Duind mac Eimuinn. Its readings agree closely with those of N. In § 237, it alone, of all manuscripts, gives an intelligible reading of a corrupt passage. For _cia fochertar im-muir, cia berthair hi tech fo glass dodeime a tiprait oca mbí_, it reads: _cia focearta im-muir, cia beirthear hi tech fo glass no do theine, dogeibther occan tiprait_, 'though it be thrown into the sea, though it be put into a house under lock, or into fire, it will be found at the well.' In § 121 for _cerdai_ it reads _cerd_; in § 139 it has _rotioc_ and _rotocht_; in § 143 for _grúss_ its reading is _grís_; in §153 it has _aibeuloit_ for _eplet_; in § 217 _tar a n-éisi_ for _dia n-éisi_; in § 218 _lomradh_(twice) for _lobra_ and _indlighidh_ for _i n-indligud_; in § 219 it has the correct reading _éiric_, and for _dithechte_ it reads _ditheacht_; in § 220 it reads _fri aroile_ for _fria céile_; in § 223 after _ile_ it adds _imchiana_; in § 224 it reads _grís brond .i. galar_; in § 229 for _meraichne_ it has _mearaigheacht_; in § 235 it has _mhamus_ for _mám_; in § 236 _Maig Hi_ for _Maig Lii_; and for _co ndeirgenai in dam de_ it reads _co nderna in dam fria_.