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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.
In Cath Maige Tuired, Bríd is the wife of Bres and bears him a son, Ruadán. His name is cognate to several words in Indo-European languages that mean "red, rust", etc. [11] The story says she began the custom of keening, a combination of wailing and singing, while mourning the death of Ruadán. [3]
Cath Muige Tuired Cunga: The [First] Battle of Mag Tuired of Cong Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired Ceithri cathracha i r-robadar Tuatha De Danand: Four Jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann: De Gabáil in t-Sída: The Taking of the Fairy Mound remscél to Táin Bó Cúailnge [11] Echtra Nera[i] The Adventures of Nera]
the introduction, interpolated from Lebor Gabála, of Cath Maige Tuired ("The Second Battle of Mag Tuired"), here CMT, [1] and "The Four Jewels", a later, short text in the Yellow Book of Lecan, consisting of a prose introduction and a poem. In the 17th century, Geoffrey Keating drew on a version of the former for his Foras Feasa ar Éirinn. [2]
Úaithne figures as the name of Dagda's harper captured by the Fomorians according to the narrative Cath Maige Tuired ("Second Battle of Mag Tuired"). [4] [5] [a] After this battle, Dagda discovered his harp hanging on a wall, in a feasting-house wherein Bres and his father Elathan were also.
Ernmas is an Irish mother goddess, mentioned in Lebor Gabála Érenn and "Cath Maige Tuired" as one of the Tuatha Dé Danann.Her daughters include the trinity of eponymous Irish goddesses Ériu, Banba and Fódla, the trinity of war goddesses the Badb, Macha and Mórrígan, and also a trinity of sons, Glonn, Gnim, and Coscar.
Cethlenn is unmentioned in the narrative Cath Maige Tuired, as she is not listed in the roster of Fomorians compiled by Whitley Stokes. [13] [b]But in this Battle of Mag Tuired (The Second Battle of Moytura), Cethlenn hurled a javelin (gae) at the Dagda giving him a mortal wound, as recorded in theLebor Gabála Érenn. [14]
Next, the Tuatha Dé Danann, who are usually supposed to have been the gods of the Goidelic Irish, defeated the Fir Bolg in the first Battle of Mag Tuired and took possession of Ireland. Because their king, Nuada Airgetlám , had lost an arm in the battle and was no longer physically whole, their first king in Ireland was the half-Fomorian Bres .