Texts
Cáin Díarmata ‘The law of Díarmait’
- Early Irish
- prose
- Early Irish law texts
An early Irish legal text, now lost, but mentioned briefly in a passage on the ‘extent of the cánai’. Ó Cróinín suggests that the Díarmait in question is Díarmait of Killeshin (Co. Laois).
Author
Ascribed to: Díarmait of KilleshinDíarmait of Killeshin
Díarmait (Diarmuid) of Killeshin, early Irish saint whose church is Glenn Uissen, now Killeshin (Co. Laois). His feast-day is 8 July.
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Díarmait (Diarmuid) of Killeshin, early Irish saint whose church is Glenn Uissen, now Killeshin (Co. Laois). His feast-day is 8 July.
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Language
- Early Irish
Form
prose (primary)
Sources
Secondary sources (select)
Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.
A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).
209 [id. 5.22. ‘Cáin Díarmata’]
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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February 2013, last updated: September 2023
