Cath Maige Rath (second recension) ‘The battle of Mag Rath’
- Late Middle Irish, Early Modern Irish
- prose
- Cycles of the Kings
- Late Middle Irish Early Modern Irish
- Myles Dillon (Éigse 7: 201) suggests that the longer recension is “in late Middle Irish, perhaps of the late thirteenth or even of the fourteenth century” and that “the verse is probably earlier than the prose”.
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