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Caithréim Cellaig (also Beatha Cheallaig) ‘The martial career of Cellach’

  • Late Middle Irish, Early Modern Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings
Manuscripts
Language
  • Late Middle Irish Early Modern Irish
Provenance
Origin: Clúain Moccu Nóis
Clúain Moccu Nóis ... Clonmacnoise
County Offaly
See more Máire Herbert (1997) has argued for a milieu centred on Clonmacnoise as the place of composition and suggested a date between the 11th and early 12th century.
Textual relationships
Related: Dinnshenchas of Ard na RiagDinnshenchas of Ard na RiagDinnshenchas of Ard na Riag, which has been identified as the former village of Castle Hill near Ardnaree (Co. Mayo) by the river Moy. It offers a brief version of a tale found in Caithréim Cellaig.

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Cellach of KillalaCellach of Killala
(supp. fl. 6th/7th century)
Cellach mac Éogain, a bishop of Cell Alaid (Killala, Co. Mayo) who is portrayed in the story of Caithréim Cellaig.
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Sources

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.] Mulchrone, Kathleen [ed.], Caithréim Cellaig, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 24, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1971.  
The edition includes a reprint from 1933.
Based on YBL and Leabhar Breac.
[ed.] Mulchrone, Kathleen [Caitilín Ní Mhaolchróin, ed.], Caithréim Cellaig, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 4, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1933.  
comments: Cf. Mulchrone (1971), which reprints the present edition from YBL and additionally offers the text from Leabhar Breac.
National Library of Scotland – scanned copy with notes by Angus Matheson: <link>
Based on YBL.
[ed.] OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Silva Gadelica (I–XXXI): a collection of tales in Irish, vol. 1: Irish text, London: Williams & Norgate, 1892.
Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link> CELT – various: <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>
49–65
[tr.] OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Silva Gadelica (I–XXXI): a collection of tales in Irish, vol. 2: translation and notes, London: Williams & Norgate, 1892.
Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
50–69; 554ff (notes and corrections);
[ed.] Dottin, Georges, Manuel d’irlandais moyen, 2 vols, vol. 2, Paris, 1913.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
134–141 [id. 30. ‘La meurtre de saint Cellach de Killala’]

Part of the text from LB, beg. Fecht n-aen ann...

Secondary sources (select)

Herbert, Máire, “Caithréim Cellaig: some literary and historical considerations”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 49–50 (1997): 320–333.
Ó Concheanainn, Tomás, “Córas briathartha Betha Chellaig”, Éigse 10 (1961–1963): 49–64.
Ó Concheanainn, Tomás, “Nótái ar an Idirthéacs i mBeatha Cheallaig”, Éigse 11 (1964–1966): 35–38.
Ó Concheanainn, Tomás, “Dáta Leagain LB de Bheatha Cheallaigh”, Éigse 11 (1964–1966): 189–195.
Dillon, Myles, “The verbal system of Caithréim Cellaig”, Revue des Études Indo-européennes 1 (1938): 45–60.
Gallica: <link>
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Contributors
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October 2010, last updated: July 2023
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