Cúchulainn

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• Ailill has Mac Roth take Cúchulainn an offer of a part of Ai Plain equal to the plain of Murtheimne. At Ai Plain. In Chapter VII: Single Combat.
• Buide mac Báin leads Ailill's men and the bull past Cúchulainn, and Cúchulainn goes to the ford after them. At Ath Buide. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Cúchulainn throws a short spear through Buide's armpit at the ford, and the ford takes its name from him. At Ath Buide. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Cúchulainn calls for someone to be sent out to him at Ath Da Ferta, and every man in the army calls back that his family owes no sacrifice. At Ath Da Ferta. In Chapter X: Combat with Fergus and Others.
• Fergus will not fight his foster-son until he is given wine and begged to go, and then he comes against Cúchulainn with no sword in his scabbard. At Ath Da Ferta. In Chapter X: Combat with Fergus and Others.
• Cúchulainn retreats before Fergus as far as the swamp of Grellach Dollaid on condition that Fergus gives way to him on the day of the great Battle. At Ath Da Ferta. In Chapter X: Combat with Fergus and Others.
• Medb sends twenty-nine men against Cúchulainn in the swamp of Fuiliarnn on the near side of Ferdia's Ford: Gaile Dána, his twenty-seven sons and his sister's son Glas mac Delga. At Ath Firdia. In Chapter X: Combat with Fergus and Others.
• Fiacha mac Fir Febe hacks off all twenty-nine hands when they bear Cúchulainn down till his face meets the ford's gravel, and Cúchulainn and the sons of Ficce kill them all. At Ath Firdia. In Chapter X: Combat with Fergus and Others.
• Cúchulainn and Ferdia fight at the ford for four days, and Ferdia is killed on the fourth by the gae bolga. At Ath Firdia. In Chapter XI: Combat of Ferdia and Cúchulainn.
• Cúchulainn carries Ferdia north across the ford, so that the spoils will lie north of the ford and not west of it with the men of Ireland, and faints beside his head. At Ath Firdia. In Chapter XI: Combat of Ferdia and Cúchulainn.
• The armies leave southward from Ferdia's Ford and Cúchulainn is left lying sick, until Senoll Uathach and the two sons of Ficce carry him away to Conaille. At Ath Firdia. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Cúchulainn lies at Fedan Chollna, where the text says that west of Ferdia's Ford he had killed no one. At Ath Firdia. In Chapter XIV: The Last Battle.
• Fraech goes into the water to fight Cúchulainn, and Cúchulainn holds him under until he drowns. At Ath Fuait. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• Cúchulainn cuts a tree-fork with one stroke of his sword and sticks it in the middle of the stream so that no chariot can pass it on either side. At Ath Gabla. In Chapter III: The Army Encounters Cúchulainn.
• Err and Innel, with their charioteers Foich and Fochlam, come upon him, and he cuts off all four heads and tosses them onto the four points of the fork. At Ath Gabla. In Chapter III: The Army Encounters Cúchulainn.
• Medb sends a warrior out each night to surprise Cúchulainn, and over a week he kills every one of them at the ford. At Ath Grencha. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Cúchulainn chased the pursuers over the ford at Ath Imfóit on the Boann river, and the sods flying from his horses' hooves gave the ford its name. At Ath Imfóit. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Cúchulainn cuts off Lethan's head at the ford and leaves the head with the body. At Ath Lethan. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• After Medb has relieved herself and Cúchulainn has spared her, he watches the men of Ireland all the way westward until they pass Ath Luain, and stops there. At Ath Luain. In Chapter XIV: The Last Battle.
• At Ath Luain Cúchulainn strikes three blows of his sword at the stone hills nearby, so that they are called the Bald-topped Hills, in answer to the three Bald-topped Hills in Meath. At Ath Luain. In Chapter XIV: The Last Battle.
• Lon, Ualu and Diliu, the sons of Gárach, wait at the ford with their three charioteers, Meslir, Meslaech and Meslethan, to attack Cúchulainn. At Ath meic Gárach. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• Cúchulainn kills all six of them at the ford. At Ath meic Gárach. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• Lóch fights Cúchulainn in the ford, and an eel coils about Cúchulainn's feet so that he falls back in the water. At Ath Tarteisc. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Redg, Ailill's satirist, is sent to get Cúchulainn's javelin, and Cúchulainn refuses him. At Ath Tolam Sét. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Cúchulainn throws the javelin and kills Redg, and the ford takes its name from the gift. At Ath Tolam Sét. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Lóch asks Cúchulainn for space, Cúchulainn yields, and Lóch falls forward on his face, and Cúchulainn cuts off his head. At Ath Traigid. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• At Ath Luain, Cúchulainn strikes three blows of his sword at the stone hills nearby, and they are named the Bald-topped Hills in answer to the three in Meath. At Bald-topped Hills. In Chapter XIV: The Last Battle.
• Cúchulainn killed one hundred men at every ford from Ath Scenmenn at Ailbine to the Boann at Breg. At Boann. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• The four provinces of Ireland camp on Murtheimne Plain at Breslech Mór, and Cúchulainn takes his place near them at the gravemound in Lerga. At Breslech Mór. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• Medb sends one hundred of her own followers against Cúchulainn, and he kills them all at the ford of Cét Chuile. At Cét Chuile. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• Cúchulainn then pelts the armies from Delga so that nothing living can pass him southward between Delga and the sea. At Cét Chuile. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• Lethan waits in a rage at the ford on the river Níth in Conaille, and Cúchulainn cuts off his head there. At Conaille. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• Senoll Uathach and the two sons of Ficce carry the wounded Cúchulainn back to Conaille, where they nurse his wounds. At Conaille. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Ailill and Medb make peace with Ulster and Cúchulainn, and the Connachtmen go back to their own country. At Connacht. In Chapter XIV: The Last Battle.
• The Connacht army goes past Cúchulainn and sets up camp in Crích Rois. At Crích Rois. In Chapter X: Combat with Fergus and Others.
• On his leaving, Scáthach foretells Cúchulainn's future and end in a chant that includes the line "Cruachan's heroes you destroy". At Cruachan. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Ailill tells the men to say the wine is the last of what was taken from Cruachan, and to offer Finnabair to anyone who will bring the head of the Warped One. At Cruachan. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Ferdia fears the shame he would bring on himself at Cruachan before Ailill and Medb if he parted from Cúchulainn without a fight. At Cruachan. In Chapter XI: Combat of Ferdia and Cúchulainn.
• Cúchulainn, over Ferdia's body, says that no one fighting for Cruachan will ever get the bargain Ferdia got, and in his lament calls the army that came from cruel Cruachan a huge multitude that has lost between a half and a third. At Cruachan. In Chapter XI: Combat of Ferdia and Cúchulainn.
• Cethern describes the armed woman who came against him first, and Cúchulainn tells him that was Medb of Cruachan. At Cruachan. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Cúchulainn dealt the army great mortal blows at Crúfóit, and blood broke over the place on every side. At Crúfóit. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Ailill, hearing Cúchulainn mocked, orders the army to travel day and night until they reach Cuailnge, since the man will kill two thirds of the army if he goes on like this. At Cuailnge. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• Cúchulainn, at Sliab Cuinciu, shoots two stones at Lochu, mistaking her for Medb, and kills her at Réid Locha in Cuailnge. At Cuailnge. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• Cúchulainn says that from the first day he left Cuailnge to come against Medb she has had carnage and renown from the warriors he has slain. At Cuailnge. In Chapter XI: Combat of Ferdia and Cúchulainn.
• Medb takes a third of her force into Cuib to search for the bull, planning to lay waste the lands of the Ulstermen and the Picts along the Midluachair road as far as Dún Sobairche, and Cúchulainn follows her. At Cuib. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Cúchulainn catches Buide mac Báin with sixty of Ailill's men and the bull among fifteen heifers, and kills Buide with a short spear at the ford now called Ath Buide. At Cuib. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Ailill's satirist Redg demands Cúchulainn's javelin and Cúchulainn throws it through his head, so that the place is called Ath Tolam Sét, the Ford of the Overwhelming Gift; the copper point comes to rest at Umarrith. At Cuib. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Cúchulainn kills Nathcoirpthe, Cruithen, the herdsmen's sons, Marc, Meille, Badb in his tower and Boguine in his marsh, each in a place that carries his name. At Cuib. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Mac Roth sets out for Delga with Ailill and Medb's offer, because Fergus thinks Cúchulainn can be found there. At Delga. In Chapter VII: Single Combat.
• Fergus goes to Delga with the plan of single combats at the ford, followed by Etarcomol, who has been warned not to insult Cúchulainn while he talks. At Delga. In Chapter VII: Single Combat.
• Cúchulainn is playing buanbach with Laeg when the two chariots arrive, and tells Laeg that the great sword at Fergus's thigh is a stick. At Delga. In Chapter VII: Single Combat.
• Etarcomol stays behind staring at Cúchulainn, trades insults with him, and swears to be the first to fight him tomorrow. At Delga. In Chapter VII: Single Combat.
• Fergus makes Medb's followers stop fighting Cúchulainn foul, and Cúchulainn fights single combats until they reach Delga, then pelts them from there so that nothing living dares pass southward between Delga and the sea. At Delga. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• In the second version of the march, Cúchulainn has already killed Cuillius at Ath Cuillne when the army reaches Druim Féne for the night. At Druim Féne. In Chapter VI: From Finnabair Chuailnge to Conaille.
• The Ulstermen quarrel over who should rear the infant Sétanta, and Morann gives judgment at Emain that Conchobor should have him, with Sencha, Blai Briuga, Fergus, Amargin and Conall Cernach to help. At Emain Macha. In How Cúchulainn was Begotten.
• The Ulstermen drink from the vat Ol nguala while the chariot-warriors practise on spearcords, and the women's love for Cúchulainn makes them look for him a wife. At Emain Macha. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Forgall Monach comes to Emain disguised in Gaulish clothes and flatters Cúchulainn into leaving for Alba, hoping he will never come back. At Emain Macha. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Cúchulainn brings Emer to Emain, where Bricriu says she must sleep with Conchobor, and Cúchulainn is sent off for the herds of Sliab Fuait and drives them onto the green. At Emain Macha. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Cúchulainn arrives among the boy-troop, cannot sleep in Emain until Conchobor sets him a bed between two stones, and later hides under Conchobor's bed cushion after beating the boys. At Emain Macha. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Cúchulainn returns to Emain with Nechta Scéne's sons' heads, a stag and a flock of swans, and the women led by Mugain strip their breasts at him until he hides his face. At Emain Macha. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Cúchulainn swells with fury against Nadcranntail as he did when he faced the boy-troop in Emain. At Emain Macha. In Chapter VII: Single Combat.
• A third of the boy-troop, led by Follamain, comes down from Emain Macha carrying hurling-sticks to help Cúchulainn, and is destroyed by the army at Lia Toll. At Emain Macha. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• Ferdia's charioteer calls Cúchulainn the Hound of Emain Macha, and Laeg later tells the fainting Cúchulainn to rise up, slaughter-hound of Emain. At Emain Macha. In Chapter XI: Combat of Ferdia and Cúchulainn.
• Munremur mac Gerrcinn, who had come from Emain Macha to help Cúchulainn, makes a pact with Cúroi and goes back to Emain Macha. At Emain Macha. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Ailill and Medb make peace with Ulster and Cúchulainn, and the men of Ulster go back to Emain Macha full of their triumph. At Emain Macha. In Chapter XIV: The Last Battle.
• Cúchulainn lies nearby at Fedan Chollna, and the landowners there visit him every day and feed him at night. At Fedan Chollna. In Chapter XIV: The Last Battle.
• Ferbaeth, bribed with Finnabair, renounces his friendship with Cúchulainn, who is walking back in a fury when a piece of holly drives through his foot; he throws it at Ferbaeth and kills him. At Focherd. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Some say the throw named Focherd, the Place of the Throw, and others say it was Fiacha mac Fir Febe's remark to Cúchulainn; Fergus chants over Ferbaeth that the place called Fichi shall be called Focherd forever. At Focherd. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Medb fixes a meeting at the hill Ard Aighnech, called Focherd today, and sets a trap there of fourteen of her best followers; Cúchulainn guards himself from fourteen javelins and kills all fourteen. At Focherd. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• Cúchulainn then falls on the army as they settle their camp and kills two named Dagrí, two named Anle and four named Dúngas; later that day he kills Cruaid, Calad and Derothor, who came out against him five at once. At Focherd. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• The army leaves for Fornocht, the Naked Place, and Cúchulainn kills Medb's young hound Baiscne with a sling-stone. At Fornocht. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• Medb sends Gaile Dána, his twenty-seven sons and Glas mac Delga against Cúchulainn in the swamp, and Fergus has to agree to it. At Fuiliarnn. In Chapter X: Combat with Fergus and Others.
• Fiacha mac Fir Febe hacks off their hands, and Cúchulainn and two Ulster warriors kill all twenty-nine of them. At Fuiliarnn. In Chapter X: Combat with Fergus and Others.
• Ferbaeth tells Cúchulainn that he has promised Medb, and Cúchulainn leaves him in a fury. At Glenn Firbaith. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Cúchulainn throws a piece of holly after Ferbaeth, which pierces the back of his head, and Ferbaeth dies in the glen. At Glenn Firbaith. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• On the way back from Forgall's fort with Emer, Cúchulainn killed one hundred men at Glondáth and named it the Ford of the Deed. At Glondáth. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Cúchulainn was given to Amargin and Finnchaem and reared at Imrith Fort on Murtheimne Plain. At Imrith Fort. In How Cúchulainn was Begotten.
• Cúchulainn and his father Sualdam go out as far as Iraird Cuillenn and set up watch for the armies there. At Iraird Cuillenn. In Chapter III: The Army Encounters Cúchulainn.
• Err and Innel find the spancel-hoop Cúchulainn had thrown there, and they give it to Fergus mac Roich, who reads the ogam cut into it. At Iraird Cuillenn. In Chapter III: The Army Encounters Cúchulainn.
• Cúchulainn takes his place near the four provinces at the gravemound in Lerga, and Laeg lights a fire for him at nightfall. At Lerga. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• Cúchulainn sees gold weapons flickering over the heads of the army, shakes his spears and shield and screams, and the Nemain throws the armies into confusion, so that a hundred warriors fall dead of fright. At Lerga. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• A man nobody else can see crosses the camp toward him and says he is Lug mac Ethnenn, his father from the síde, and tells him to sleep three days and three nights while he stands against the armies. At Lerga. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• While Cúchulainn sleeps, Lug cleans each wound and puts healing herbs in it, and the boy-troop of Ulster comes down under Follamain and is wiped out except Follamain. At Lerga. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• Cúchulainn wakes at the gravemound, learns how long he has slept and what the boy-troop did, and Lug refuses to stay and fight beside him because the glory would all go to Cúchulainn. At Lerga. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• Cúchulainn kills Caemdele at the same spot. At Lia Ualonn. In Chapter VI: From Finnabair Chuailnge to Conaille.
• Cúchulainn and Laeg drive to the Gardens of Lug to woo Emer, whom he finds on the green with her foster-sisters, and they speak together in riddles. At Luglochta Logo. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Emer sets the tasks a man must do before he may travel her country, and Cúchulainn agrees to all of them. At Luglochta Logo. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Emer's father Forgall Monach, hearing of it, goes to Emain and gets Cúchulainn sent off to study with Scáthach in the hope he will never come back. At Luglochta Logo. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Before leaving, Cúchulainn crosses Breg Plain to see Emer, and each promises to stay pure until they meet again. At Luglochta Logo. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Forgall promises Emer to Lugaid mac Nois and comes to Temair, and the king comes to Forgall's fort for the wedding, where Emer swears on his life that she loves Cúchulainn and Lugaid turns for home. At Luglochta Logo. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Cúchulainn returns from his training and spends a whole year at Forgall's ramparts without reaching Emer, so strong is the guard around her. At Luglochta Logo. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Cúchulainn drives the sickle-chariot at the fort, slays three hundred and nine men, leaps the three enclosures to the middle of the fort, and strikes down three groups of nine men, leaving Emer's three brothers standing. At Luglochta Logo. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Forgall flees across the rampart, falls, and kills himself, and Cúchulainn takes Emer and her foster-sister with their weight in gold and silver and leaps the triple ramparts again. At Luglochta Logo. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Cúchulainn crossed Breg Plain to see Emer and talk with her before he set sail. At Breg Plain. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• As the armies crossed Breg Plain, Cúchulainn sent men continually to their graves. At Breg Plain. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• Only the people of Breg Plain supplied Cúchulainn with food during his fight with Ferdia, and came to talk to him each night. At Breg Plain. In Chapter XI: Combat of Ferdia and Cúchulainn.
• Ailill leads the army to Mag Muceda, where Cúchulainn has cut down an oak tree across their path and cut an ogam message into it. At Mag Muceda. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• The infant Cúchulainn is given to Amargin and Finnchaem to be reared at Imrith Fort on Murtheimne Plain. At Murtheimne Plain. In How Cúchulainn was Begotten.
• Fergus tells Medb that Cúchulainn was reared by his father and mother in their oaken house on Murtheimne Plain. At Murtheimne Plain. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• After killing Culann's hound the boy promises to rear him a pup, and to guard all Murtheimne Plain in the meantime. At Murtheimne Plain. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Fedelm the prophetess sees a blond man in a looped red tunic, and the vision recalls Cúchulainn of Murtheimne. At Murtheimne Plain. In Chapter II: The Táin Bó Cuailnge Begins.
• Cúchulainn summons the river Cronn to save Murtheimne from the enemy, and the water rears up to the treetops. At Murtheimne Plain. In Chapter VI: From Finnabair Chuailnge to Conaille.
• Ailill offers Cúchulainn a part of Ai Plain equal to the whole plain of Murtheimne, or his native plain back with compensation, if he will take service under Ailill. At Murtheimne Plain. In Chapter VII: Single Combat.
• Cúchulainn turns back from Cuib toward Murtheimne Plain to defend his beloved home. At Murtheimne Plain. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• The four provinces camp on Murtheimne Plain at Breslech Mór, the place of their great carnage, and Cúchulainn kills one hundred and thirty kings there with an uncountable horde of dogs and horses. At Murtheimne Plain. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• Sualdam hears from Ráith Sualdaim, his house on the plain, that his son is being harassed, and rides to Emain to raise the Ulstermen. At Murtheimne Plain. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Lethan waits in a rage at the ford on the river Níth, and Cúchulainn cuts off his head there. At River Níth. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• Cúchulainn calls on the Cronn to fall to in the fight until the warrior's work is done on the mountain-top of Ochaine. At Ochaine. In Chapter VI: From Finnabair Chuailnge to Conaille.
• Cúchulainn kills a hundred men on each of the three nights the army stays near the hill, using his sling from Ochaine. At Ochaine. In Chapter VII: Single Combat.
• Ailill, seeing the army melting away, sends Mac Roth to offer Cúchulainn land, a chariot and bondmaids if he will take service under him. At Ochaine. In Chapter VII: Single Combat.
• Cúchulainn tells Fiacha mac Fir Febe that Nadcranntail may come to meet him between the hill Ochaine and the sea, and waits there through the night. At Ochaine. In Chapter VII: Single Combat.
• Cethern strikes Fingin with his fist and smashes his chariot, and Cúchulainn says it was a wicked blow to give an old man. At Ochtur Lui. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• The name Ochtur Lui comes from Cúchulainn's word 'Luae', meaning the blow or kick. At Ochtur Lui. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Cúchulainn tried three times to cross the Pupils' Bridge to Scáthach's island and failed, until he went into his warp-spasm and leaped across. At Pupils' Bridge. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• At that place Cúchulainn kills Cronn and Caemdele, with a hundred more warriors, including Roan and Roae, the two chroniclers of the Táin, and a hundred and twenty-four kings in all. At River Cronn. In Chapter VI: From Finnabair Chuailnge to Conaille.
• In the second version, Cúchulainn meets the army at a ford on the Cronn and calls on the river above all other waters, and the water rears up to the treetops. At River Cronn. In Chapter VI: From Finnabair Chuailnge to Conaille.
• Cúchulainn throws the spancel-hoop of challenge out into the river, and then lies down by the pillar-stone at the ford to rest. At River Scéne. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Ibor tells the warrior that the boy is asleep, but Cúchulainn wakes and calls for the fight. At River Scéne. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• At the ford Cúchulainn kills Foill, Fannall and Tuachell, the three sons of Nechta Scéne, one after another. At River Scéne. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Cúchulainn takes the three heads back to Emain Macha in his chariot. At River Scéne. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Cúchulainn reached Scáthach's fort on the island, struck the gate with his spear-point and broke through it. At Scáthach's island. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Mac Roth says Conall Cernach and his great company have not come, nor Conchobor's three sons with their troops, nor Cúchulainn, and that his eye travelled from Ferdia's Ford to Slemain Midi and fell on men and horses instead of hills and slopes. At Slemain Midi. In Chapter XIII: The Companies Advance.
• Cúchulainn sees Buide mac Báin coming from Sliab Cuilinn with the bull and fifteen heifers, and goes up to meet him. At Sliab Cuilinn. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
• Cúchulainn swears at Sliab Cuinciu that whenever he catches sight of Medb he will hurl a sling-stone at her head. At Sliab Cuinciu. In Chapter VI: From Finnabair Chuailnge to Conaille.
• From Cuinciu Cúchulainn shoots two stones at Lochu, one of Medb's bondmaids, whom he takes for Medb, and kills her on the plain of Réid Locha in Cuailnge. At Sliab Cuinciu. In Chapter VI: From Finnabair Chuailnge to Conaille.
• Conchobor sends Cúchulainn to bring back all the herds about Sliab Fuait to cool his fever, and he drives swine, wild deer and wild birds in one flock onto the green at Emain. At Sliab Fuait. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• The boy Cúchulainn is told Sliab Fuait blocks the road north to Emain, and sets out to cross it with a toy shield and javelin. At Sliab Fuait. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Cúchulainn meets Conall Cernach on border duty there and sends him back to the fort so that he can keep watch himself. At Sliab Fuait. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Heading for Emain with his spoils after his first fight, Cúchulainn finds a herd of deer at Sliab Fuait and catches one alive, then brings down a flock of swans with stones. At Sliab Fuait. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Emer waits at Cairthenn in the Meadow of the Two Oxen at Sliab Fuait, and Cúchulainn goes there for a night with his wife before the fight with Ferdia. At Sliab Fuait. In Chapter XI: Combat of Ferdia and Cúchulainn.
• Cúchulainn climbs Sliab Mondairn and asks about the white heap of stones on the top, which is called Finncarn, the look-out place. At Sliab Mondairn. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• While Cúchulainn bathes in the rivers of Conaille, the armies pitch camp at Imorach Smiromrach, the Mash of Marrow. At Smirommair. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Fingin, Conchobor's own healer, examines the wounds of Cúchulainn and Cethern after Cúchulainn warns him to watch out for Cethern, who has already killed fifteen healers. At Smirommair. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• The healer asks Cúchulainn for bone-marrow, and he makes a mash of marrow out of the bones of the beasts he can find, which gives Smirommair its name, and Cethern sleeps in it day and night. At Smirommair. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Cúchulainn meets Orlám's charioteer cutting wood-shafts at the burial mark, and he offers to do the trimming himself. At Támlachtai Orláim. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• Cúchulainn kills Orlám, a son of Ailill and Medb, on the hill and sends the charioteer back to the camp with the head on his back. At Támlachtai Orláim. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
• The charioteer named every fort of any size between Temair and Cenannos for Cúchulainn. At Temair. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Cúchulainn kills three druids and their three wives on the near side of the ford of Tír Mór at Methe and Cethe. At Tír Mór. In Chapter IX: The Pact is Broken: The Great Carnage.
• Seven years to the day after Cúchulainn left Aife, the men of Ulster are gathered at Tracht Esi when a boy comes toward them over the ocean in a little boat of bronze with gilt oars. At Tracht Esi. In The Death of Aife's One Son.
• Emer begs Cúchulainn not to kill his own son, and he tells her to be quiet and goes down to meet the boy for the honour of Ulster. At Tracht Esi. In The Death of Aife's One Son.
• The boy climbs onto two standing stones and thrusts Cúchulainn three times between them, his feet sinking into the stone, and the place gets its name from the mark. At Tracht Esi. In The Death of Aife's One Son.
• In the sea Cúchulainn kills the boy with the gae bolga, carries him ashore, and names him as his son before the people of Ulster. At Tracht Esi. In The Death of Aife's One Son.
• The boy salutes each man in turn, saluting his father last, and dies, and no calf in Ulster is let go to its cow for three days and nights. At Tracht Esi. In The Death of Aife's One Son.
• Macha curses the men of Ulster at the fair with the pangs, from which only the young boys, the women and Cúchulainn go free. At Ulster. In The Pangs of Ulster.