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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 Bres' parents were Prince Elatha of the Fomorians and Eri of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Alternately in The Fate of the Children of Turenn, Bres' father is Balor of the Evil Eye. [2] He grew so quickly that by the age of seven he was the size of a 14-year-old.
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]
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]
Before the Second Battle of Mag Tuired the Dagda builds a fortress for Bres called Dún Brese and is also forced by the Fomorian kings Elatha, Indech, and Tethra to build raths. [22] In the lead up to the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, when Lugh asks Dagda what power he will wield over the Fomorian host, he responds that he "will take the side of ...
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]
A figure called Tethra is named as presiding over both races. [ 2 ] The conflict between the Tuath Dé and Fomorians has been likened to other Indo-European myths of a war between gods: between Æsir and Vanir in Norse mythology , between Olympians and Titans in Greek mythology , and between Devas and Asuras in Vedic mythology .
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 ...