Cath Almaine

Online sources

Manuscript sources and printed editions
See cath almaine in MsOmit 2017
See cath almaine in CODECS
See Background details and bibliographic information at CELT

Digital Image of Manuscript
This saga appears in the manuscript MS 1318 (Yellow Book Of Lecan), in Trinity College Dublin, starting on col. 939, column 1, line 8, beginning Bai cocad mor iter Chathal mac Findgune ocus Fergal mac Maili duin fri re fota. A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen.

This saga appears in the manuscript MS 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), in the Royal Irish Academy, starting on p. 128, column 2, line 1, beginning Boi cocad mor etir Cathal mac F(ind)guine ri Leithe Moda. The end of the saga is missing. A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen.

This saga appears in the manuscript MS D iv 2, in the Royal Irish Academy, starting on fol. 87 r, column 1, line 1. The beginning of the saga is missing. The beginning here is: Da mbeith nech doberad cath (See the first line of the third quatrain in Section 6). A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen.

Medieval Irish text and English translation
Whitley Stokes (ed. & tr.), The Battle of Allen, Revue Celtique, 24, 1903, pp. 44-67, 446.
Digital Edition at Archive.com (pp. 44-67); (p. 446 (458))

Medieval Irish text
Pádraig Ó Riain (ed.), Cath Almaine, (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978), pp. 1-31.
Digital Edition at CELT
(This contains separate editions of the versions in the Yellow Book of Lecan, Book of Fermoy and Bibliothèque Royale 5301–20)

Medieval Irish text and English translation
John O’Donovan (ed. & tr.), Annals of Ireland: Three Fragments, (Dublin: The Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1860), pp. 32-51.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 32-51 (46-64))

J. N. Radner (ed. & tr.), Fragmentary Annals of Ireland, (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978), pp. 66-80.
Irish text at CELT: Annal FA 178, 722 Kl; English translation at CELT: Annal FA 178, 722 Kl

Medieval Irish text and English translation (partial)
Eugene O’Curry and W. K. O’Sullivan, On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Vol. 2, (London: Williams and Norgate, 1873), pp. 389-391.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 389-391)

Eugene O’Curry and W. K. O’Sullivan, On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Vol. 3, (London: Williams and Norgate, 1873), pp. 309-313.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 309-313)