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Aided Cheltchair maic Uthechair

Background information

Related poem online: Fianna batar i n-Emain
Whitley Stokes (ed. & tr.), “On the deaths of some Irish heroes,” Revue Celtique, 23, 1902, pp. 303-348.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 303-348)
The death of Celtchar mac Uthechair and  (See Section 12), q. 15, p. 309, p. 320, p. 325, pp. 335-336
“Celtchar’s own Dóelchú” (See Section 11), q. 15, p. 320, p. 325

Sidelights on the Táin age and other studies (Dobbs)
pp. 30-39 (38-47) Celtchair mac Uthechair (See Section 1)
pp. 24-29 (32-37) Conganchnes mac Dedad (See Section 8)

Fled Bricrend (Henderson)
p. 35, §28 Brig Brethach, wife of Celtchar (See Section 1)
p. 35, §28 Niab, daughter of Celtchar (See Section 9)

The death-tales of the Ulster heroes (Meyer)
p. 27, note a “Semuine: a tribal territory of the Déssi, so called from Semon mac Oenguso maic Celtchair maic Uithechair.” (See Section 6)

Scéla Mucce Meic Da Thó (Chadwick)
p. 19 (31), §7 Celtchar boasts of killing Conganchnes and cutting off his head (See Section 9)
p. 16 (28), §1 Mac Da Thó’s hound Ailbe (See Section 11)

Togail Bruidne Dá Derga (Stokes)
p. 169, §67 A cairn was raised, viz. a stone was placed by every man that came there (See Section 9)
p. 301, §129 Description of the properties of the lúin of Cealtchar (See Section 12)

Mesca Ulad (Hennessy)
pp. 37-39 (60-62) Description of the properties of the lúin of Cealtchar (See Section 12)

List of Historic Tales in the Book of Leinster includes:
Aided Celtcair (The Tragical Death of Celtchair), p. 588 (624)
Aided Blai Briugad (The Tragical Death of Bla Briugad), p. 588 (624)

R = The Rennes Dindshenchas (Stokes), Revue Celtique, 15-16, 1894-1895
M = The Metrical Dindshenchas (Gwynn)
B = The Bodleian Dinnshenchas (Stokes), Folklore, 3, 1892
S = Silva Gadelica (O’Grady), Volume 2
M: Luchdond in Alend (See Section 10), Volume 2, p. 81, q. 6, pp. 107-108
R: Laigin §9 (See Section 11), Part 1, pp. 299-301, (‘Laigin’)
M: Lagin I (See Section 11), Volume 2, p. 51, p. 102
M: Lagin II (See Section 11), Volume 2, p. 53, p. 102
B: Laigin §3 (See Section 11), pp. 471-473, (‘Laigin’)
S: Laigin (See Section 11), p. 500 (535)
R: Daolcú in Sliab Callann §101 (See Section 11), Part 3, pp. 53-54, (‘Sliab Callann’)
M: Daolcú in Sliab Callann (See Section 11), Volume 4, pp. 171-173, p. 421

Cóir Anmann: Fitness of Names (Stokes), Irische Texte, Ser. III.2
Laigin §174 (See Section 11), pp. 363-365, p. 419
Mac da thó (in Connachta §76) (See Section 11), p. 325, p. 414
Muma §1 (See Section 3), p. 289, p. 412
Ulaid §245 (See Section 1), pp. 387-389, p. 422

Wikipedia
Book of Leinster
Ulster Cycle
Blaí Briugu
Celtchar
Conchobar mac Nessa; Kings of Ulster
Conganchnes mac Dedad
Cú Chulainn
Downpatrick
Fidchell
Lúin of Celtchar

Voices from the Dawn
Mound of Down

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