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Dinnshenchas of Medraige

verse beg. Medraige mac Dorcain Maill

• Middle Irish
• prose, verse
• Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn

Prose and verse dinnshenchas of Medraige, which gives an account of the battle of Mag Mucrama.

First words (verse)

• Medraige mac Dorcain Maill

Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.

• Dinnshenchas Érenn C
• prose and verse.

Manuscripts

Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Lc =

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

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S =

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 2 (1222) [s. xvi (?)]

View manuscript in Mirador

S₃ =

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iii 1 (742) [s. xvii]

H =

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1322 (H 3. 3) [s. xvi]

Language

• Middle Irish

Form

prose, verse (primary)

Textual relationships

Related: Cath Maige MucramaCath Maige Mucrama

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Dinnshenchas Érenn
Dinnshenchas Érenn

id. 6712

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Subjects

Lugaid Mac ConLugaid Mac Con
Mac Con
Often simply Mac Con, a legendary high-king of Ireland from a people based in Munster; said to have defeated Éogan Mór and Art mac Cuinn in the battle of Mucrama after a return from exile following the battle of Cenn Abrat.
See more Medraige [eponym of Medraige]Medraige ... eponym of Medraige
eponym of Medraige (Maree, Co. Galway) in prose and verse items of dinnshenchas on that place. These brief accounts relate that he was part of Mac Con’s household (muinter) on an expedition from ‘an island to the west of Spain’ to Ireland (i.e. on Mac Con’s return from exile, before the battle of Mag Mucrama); his father is variously named Dorcan Mall and Torcar (or Torchar) and called a son of Tromdae son of Calatrom.
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Medraige [Maree]

Medraige ... Maree (Meáraí, Meadhraighe)

County Galway

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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] [tr.] Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 3, Todd Lecture Series, 10, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1913.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 3: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link>

318–323 [id. 58. ‘Medraige’] Poem. direct link direct link direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, “The prose tales in the Rennes dindshenchas”, Revue Celtique 16 (1895): 31–83, 135–167, 269–312, 468.

TLH – edition (III, 31-83): <link> TLH – translation (III): <link> TLH – edition (IV, pp. 135-167): <link> TLH – translation (IV): <link> Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

135–136 [id. 131. ‘Medraide’] Prose from the Book of Lecan. direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 3, Todd Lecture Series, 10, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1913.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 3: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link>

536 [id. 58. ‘Medraige’] direct link

web page identifiers

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October 2012, last updated: June 2023