Texts

Cnucha Cnoc os cionn Life‘Cnucha, a hill over/above the Life (Liffey)’

Late Middle Irish
Cycles of the Kings

Irish poem which has come down as a shorter version (6 st.) in Dinnshenchas Érenn dealing with the origin of the place-name Cnucha. A considerably longer one (64 st.) is attributed to Caílte in Agallamh bheag. Here the first 7 stanzas contain much overlap with the shorter version but then continues at some length with the kings of Ireland, with Finn and with Caílte’s present.

Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan [s. xvⁱⁿ]
f. 525a context: Dinnshenchas of Cnucha II
6 st.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]
f. 81v context: Dinnshenchas of Cnucha II
6 st.
Cork, University College, Book of Lismore = Book of Lismore (Leabhar Leasa Móir) [s. xv]
f. 199ra–199vb context: Acallam bec
Prose story and poem (64 st).
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 6 (478) [1868]
  ff. 199ar–v context: Acallam bec
  Copy from the Book of Lismore.
Context: Foras feasa ar Éirinn
First line cited by Keating (II: ).
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 39 (83) [s. xix¹]
p. 185
Poem, without prose context, attributed to Caílte.

Language

Late Middle Irish
late Middle Irish

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings

id. 80

Subjects

Túathal TechtmarTúathal Techtmar
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See more Finn mac CumaillFinn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
Fionn mac Cumhaill, Find úa Báiscni
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)
Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían
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CnuchaCnucha

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