Cooley and Dundalk Bay
Dundalk Bay, the Cooley peninsula and south Armagh, the closest view of the northern fighting. Same places, same coordinates, closer view.
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Places on this map
Major places
- Ath Da Ferta The Ford of the Two Grave Mounds, where Aengus held the army back with flagstones, where Cúchulainn made Fergus yield, and where the Brown Bull set his brow.
- Cuailnge The Ulster district where the Brown Bull lives and where the war is fought, in the peninsula south of Carlingford Lough.
- Delga The fort in Murtheimne where Cúchulainn is found by Mac Roth, Fergus and Etarcomol, and from which he keeps the army off the road south.
- Finnabair Chuailnge The rath in Cuailnge where the army gathers its plunder and from which it splits up to look for the Brown Bull.
- Focherd The hill in Cronech where the army camped, where Ferbaeth died by a thrown spear, and where Cúchulainn killed the fourteen men of Medb's trap.
- Murtheimne Plain The plain that is Cúchulainn's home ground, where he guards the herds and where the four provinces camp and are cut down.
- Ochaine A hill in Cuailnge near the sea, from which Cúchulainn slings stones at Medb's camp and where he agrees to meet Nadcranntail.
- River Cronn A river in Cuailnge that rises against Medb's army, drowns Ualu, and is called up by Cúchulainn to hold the enemy back.
- Sliab Fuait The mountain on Ulster's southern border, watched by a different Ulster warrior each day, and the road the Connacht army's scouts take north.
Minor places
- Ath Carpat The ford before Ath Lethan, named the Ford of Chariots after so many chariots were shattered there.
- Ath Lethan A ford on the Níth where Cúchulainn killed Lethan, and which the text names after his death.
- Bélat Ailiuin A pass over the Flurry River at Ravensdale, on the armies' road from Cuailnge to Conaille.
- Bernas Bó Cuailnge A gap over the summit at the source of the Cronn, cut through the earth by Medb's army.
- Conaille A district where Lethan was killed at the ford of the Níth, and where the wounded Cúchulainn was taken to be nursed.
- Dubchoire A recess in Glenn Gat, called the Black Cauldron, where the herdsman said the bull had gone.
- Glenn Dáilimda A valley in Cuailnge where the army spent a night after crossing Bernas Bó Cuailnge.
- Glenn Gatlach A glen also called Glenn Gat, the Valley of Osiers, where the bull was caught in osier shackles.
- Liasa Liac A night camp between Cuailnge and Conaille, named for the calf shelters the armies built there.
- Muid Loga A place on the armies' route to Finnabair, where Aengus son of Aenlám Gaibe turned the army aside.
- River Níth A river in Conaille, with the ford where Cúchulainn killed Lethan.
- Sliab Cuilinn A mountain where the Brown Bull hid with his heifers, and where Buide mac Báin brought him out again.
- Sliab Cuinciu A mountain where Cúchulainn swore to hurl a sling-stone at Medb, and where he killed Lochu by mistake.