Texts

De shíl Chonairi Móir ‘Concerning the progeny of Conaire Mór’

prose
Cycles of the Kings, Ulster Cycle

First words (prose)

De thuidecht Muscraige de Muig Breg Gnathal dolluid .i. mac Conruith meic Rodai meic Mafede meic Maforothe meic Oengusa Musc meic Carpri meic Conaire Moir meic Meise-buachalla meic Etersceoil Moir

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1298 1-238 [s. xiv ?]

cols 90–93

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]

ff. 80ra–80va pp. 139a–140a (facsimile)

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvⁱⁿ]

ff. 103ra–103vb

⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Lucius Gwynn, ‘De shíl Chonairi Móir’, Ériu 6 (1912): 132; Johan Corthals, Manuscript sources to Old and Middle Irish tales (MsOmit) (2010).

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

Cf. Togail bruidne Da Derga and De maccaib Conaire

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings

id. 80

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle

id. 1797

Subjects

Cycle of Conaire MórCycles of the Kings
Cycle of Conaire Mór

id. 49693

Conaire Mór

Conaire Mór

legendary high-king of Ireland; son of Eterscél (Mór) and Mess Búachalla; tragic protagonist of Togail bruidne Da Derga

See more Gnáthal mac ConruithGnáthal mac Conruith

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Sources

Notes

^1.

Lucius Gwynn, ‘De shíl Chonairi Móir’, Ériu 6 (1912): 132; Johan Corthals, Manuscript sources to Old and Middle Irish tales (MsOmit) (2010).

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Gwynn, Lucius [ed. and tr.], “De shíl Chonairi Móir”, Ériu 6 (1912): 130–143.

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Based primarily on TCD 1298 (H 2. 7), with variants from BB and the Book of Lecan.

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October 2010, last updated: January 2024