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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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
[1] [2] The Tuatha Dé Danann can hide themselves with a féth fíada ('magic mist') [2] and appear to humans only when they wish to. [1] In some tales, such as Baile in Scáil, a king receives affirmation of his legitimacy from one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. [1] In other tales, a king's right to rule is affirmed by an encounter with an ...
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 Battle of Mag Mucrama has been translated by Whitley Stokes ("The Battle of Mag Mucrime", Revue Celtique, 13, 1892), by Standish O'Grady (included in Silva Gaedelica, 2 volumes, 1892) and by M. O'Daly in Cath Maige Mucrama: The Battle of Mag Mucrama (1975). [1]