6. I enumerate eighteen Trichas In the country of Meath of ample wealth. And thirty Trichas more In the country of Connaght yellow-haired. 7. I enumerate fifteen Trichas, And twenty Trichas; without falsehood This I say to you—a saying bold— In the great province of Ulster. 8. Eleven Trichas in Leinster, And twenty of teaming wealth, From Inbher Duibhlinne hither Unto the road of the Boroimhe. 9. Ten Trichas in Munster, And threescore in full accordance, In the two proud provinces (N. and S. Munster), In the great extensive Munster. 10. I enumerate four Tricha-ceds, And ninescore (184 in all), it is no falsehood, Without the deficiency to any Tricha of them, Of one Baile or half a Baile. 11. Twenty Bailes, too, and five hundred And five thousand (5520 in all), it is no falsehood Since I have taken to divide them, Is the number of Bailes in Erinn. 12. Two score acres three times, Is the land of the Seisrigh; The land of three Seisrighs, therefore, Is the quarter of a Bailebiataigh. 13. To twelve Seisrighs in full, The Bailebiataigh alone is equal; As I am Finntan, a man of sense, The tenth generation from Adam. 14. The history of Erinn in memory, As it is in all the books, Finntan, the truly intelligent, hath. Of him is asked how many. The _Seisrigh_ or ploughgate, which represents the sown land, is here stated to contain 120 acres and twelve ploughgates, with as much pasture land as sustained 300 cows, or four herds of seventy-five each formed the _Bailebiatagh_. Thirty _Bailebiataghs_ constituted a _Tricha-ced_, which would thus contain 43,200 acres; and as, according to the poem, there were 184 _Tricha-ceds_ in Ireland, this represents about one-half of the acreage of the whole country, assuming that the ancient and modern acre was the same in extent. The other half would thus represent the waste lands, which were turned to no profitable account.