Texts

Cá lín trícha i nÉrinn áin

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Poem on the trícha cét (or triúcha) and subdivisions of Ireland

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2569-2572

incipit: Ca lin triucha an Erend áin

f. 59v–f. 60

Text

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2569-2572

incipit: Ca lin triucha an Erend áin

ff. 59v–60

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1

incipit: Ca lin triuca i nEirind

f. 115va

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289

incipit: Ca lion tríochat in Éirinn

p. 654

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/3 (pp. 15-58)

Described by O'Curry as "less accurate".

p. 45 (line 14ff)

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/3 (pp. 15-58)

Poem on the trícha cét (subdivisions) of Ireland.

p. 45.14

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1408

incipit: Cá lín triucha a n-Éirinn áin Modern copy by Eugene O'Curry. 11 qq.

p. 146

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1419

incipit: Ga líon triucha a neirin áin 14 qq.

p. 13

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.] [tr.] MacCotter, Paul, Medieval Ireland: territorial, political and economic divisions, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008.

[ed.] [tr.] OʼCurry, Eugene [ed. and tr.], Cath Mhuighe Léana or The Battle of Magh Leana, together with Tochmarc Moméra or the Courtship of Moméra, Publications of the Celtic Society, 4, Dublin: Celtic Society, 1855.

Internet Archive: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: View in Mirador

106–109 note 1 At the end of his edition, O'Curry refers to two copies: one in a manuscript that is in his possession and a less accurate copy in H 3. 18. Apparently, the edition was made from the former and perhaps the second copy.

Secondary sources (select)

MacCotter, Paul, Medieval Ireland: territorial, political and economic divisions, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008.

Hogan, James, “The tricha cét and related land-measures”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 38 C (1929): 148–235.

169–174

Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “Hogan and early medieval Ireland”, in: Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.), James Hogan: revolutionary, historian and political scientist, 1, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 89–115.

95ff