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Cath Maige Tuired (modern spelling: Cath Maighe Tuireadh; transl. "The Battle of Magh Tuireadh") is the name of two saga texts of the Mythological Cycle of Irish mythology. It refers to two separate battles in Connacht: the first in the territory of Conmhaícne Cúile Tuireadh near Cong, County Mayo, [1] the second near Lough Arrow in County Sligo.
He led the Fomorians in the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh but lost. He was found unprotected on the battlefield by Lugh and pleaded for his life. Lugh spared him because he promised to teach the Tuatha Dé agriculture. In a contradictory account from the dindsenchas Bres' death is described at the hands of Lugh. Lugh made 300 wooden cows, and ...
3304 AM – First Battle of Magh Tuireadh [2] 3330 AM – Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh [2] 76 AD (Anno Domini) – Battle at the hill of Achall (Túathal Techtmar defeats Elim mac Conrach) [3] [4] 195 AD – Battle of Maigh Mucruimhe [5] 226 AD – Crinna, in Brega [5] 283 AD – Cath Gabhra (the Battle of Gowra) [6]
Cian shapeshifts into a pig to disguise himself, but the brothers shapeshift into dogs and hound him. They kill him, dismember his body and try to cover up their crime. In recompense, Lugh makes them quest all around the known world fetching magical weapons, which Lugh plans to use at the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh. They succeed in ...
He was one of the Fomor who took part in the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh. During the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh, Elatha watched over his son the Dagda's magic harp, Uaithne, sometimes called Dur-da-Bla, "the Oak of Two Blossoms," and sometimes Coir-cethar-chuin, "the Four-Angled Music." He is said to have a sense of humor and a sense of ...
The Tuatha Dé Danann then fought the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh against the Fomorians. Nuada was killed by the Fomorian king Balor's poisonous eye, but Balor was killed by Lugh, champion of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who then took over as king.
Lebor Gabála Érenn—The Book of Invasions; Cath Maige Tuireadh—The (second) Battle of Magh Tuireadh; Oidheadh Chlainne Tuireann—The Death of the Children of Tuireann; Altram Tige Dá Medar ed. and trans. Maighréad ni C. Dobs. Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie vol. 18 (1929–30). The Fosterage of the House of the Two Milk-Pails.
The Morrígan also appears in the Cath Maige Tuired ("The Battle of Magh Tuireadh"). [35] On Samhain, she keeps a tryst with the Dagda before the battle against the Fomorians. When he meets her, she is washing herself, standing with one foot on either side of the river Unius, near Riverstown, Co. Sligo. In some sources, she is believed to have ...