The North-East
Armagh, Louth and Cooley, where most of the raid is fought. 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.
- Ath Firdia Ferdia's Ford, where Cúchulainn killed his foster-brother Ferdia and where the armies left him lying sick.
- Ath Gabla A ford on the army's route into Ulster, where Cúchulainn jammed a tree-fork in the stream and hung four heads on it.
- Brug The place on the river Boann where the Ulstermen are snowed in, find a house that is gone by morning, and where Lug claims he slept with Deichtine.
- 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.
- Emain Macha Conchobor's fort and the seat of Ulster, named the Twins of Macha, where the boy-troop plays, the Craebruad stands, and the Ulstermen rise from their pangs to march.
- 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.
- Slemain Midi The hill and smooth plain where the Ulster companies gather and Mac Roth counts them for Ailill, Medb and Fergus.
- 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.
- Smirommair The Bath of Marrow in Crích Rois, where the armies camped and Cúchulainn made a mash of bone-marrow to heal Cethern.
- Tailtiu The place the armies move on to after Smirommair, where Ulster's charioteers die and, in one version, Amargin and Cúroi throw stones.
- Ulster The northern province, ruled by Conchobor from Emain Macha, whose men lie helpless under the pangs while the raiders cross it.
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.
- Boann The river Boyne, which Kinsella's notes call the Boann.
- Breg Plain The plain that Cúchulainn crosses several times, which a charioteer names Breg Plain.
- Conaille A district where Lethan was killed at the ford of the Níth, and where the wounded Cúchulainn was taken to be nursed.
- Cúil Sibrille The place where the army spent a night in a great snow, also called Cenannos.
- Dubchoire A recess in Glenn Gat, called the Black Cauldron, where the herdsman said the bull had gone.
- Dún Lethglaise The fort of Celtchar mac Uthidir in the north.
- 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.
- Iraird Cuillenn The place where Cúchulainn left a spancel-hoop challenge for the army, and where Finnbennach later bellowed.
- 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.
- Temair The royal seat of Coirpre Niafer, which Kinsella's note calls present-day Tara.