Map of the Táin

Off the map

Places with no known position, and places outside Ireland.

• Ath Buide A ford where Cúchulainn killed Buide mac Báin with a short spear.
• Ath Feidli A ford where Ilech comes against the army in a decrepit chariot, and Dóchae mac Mágach kills him that night.
• Ath Fuait Also spelled: Ath Froich, Síd Froich A ford where Cúchulainn drowned Fraech mac Fidaig, and which took its name Ath Froich from him.
• Ath Grencha A ford where Cúchulainn killed the warriors Medb sent against him, one each night for a week.
• Ath Imfóit A ford on the Boann where Cúchulainn chased the pursuers and the sods flew from his horses' hooves.
• Ath meic Gárach A ford named for the three sons of Gárach, who died there with their three charioteers.
• Ath Tarteisc A ford where Lóch fought Cúchulainn, named from a poet's words about the trampling across the water.
• Ath Tolam Sét Also spelled: the Ford of the Overwhelming Gift A ford where Cúchulainn killed Redg with a javelin after Redg asked for the gift of it.
• Ath Traigid Also spelled: the Ford of Yielding A ford in Tír Mór where Lóch fell and Cúchulainn cut off his head.
• Bald-topped Hills Stone hills at Ath Luain, struck by Cúchulainn in answer to the three bald-topped hills of Meath that Fergus levelled.
• Bernas Bó Ulad A gap over the mountain, cut for the cattle when Fergus took his half of the armies that way.
• Breslech Mór Also spelled: the place of their great carnage A camp on Murtheimne Plain where the four provinces of Ireland settled, named for their great carnage.
• Cét Chuile Also spelled: the Ford of One Hundred, the Crime of One Hundred A ford where Cúchulainn killed one hundred of Medb's own followers, sent to kill him.
• Crích Rois A territory where the Connacht army camps, and where Cethern is healed and fights at Smirommair and Lia Toll.
• Crúfóit Also spelled: Rae Ban, Sod of Blood A plain called Rae Ban, the White Plain, until the fighting there made it Sod of Blood.
• Cuib The district where Medb hunts for the bull, Cúchulainn picks off her men, and the Brown Bull tears up the ground on his way home.
• Druim Féne A ridge in Conaille where the armies stopped for the night on the way from Cuailnge.
• Druim Tairb Also spelled: the Ridge of the Bull The Ridge of the Bull, where the Brown Bull falls dead between Ulster and Uí Echach.
• Etan Tairb Also spelled: the Bull's Brow The Bull's Brow, a place in Murtheimne Plain where the Brown Bull sets his brow against the hill at Ath Da Ferta.
• Fair of Macha The fair in Ulster where Macha raced the king's chariot and cursed the men of Ulster.
• Fedan Chollna A place where Cúchulainn lies nearby near the end of the fighting, fed each night by the landowners there.
• Fid Dúin A great forest, the forest fortress, that the army went through to avoid a challenge.
• Fornocht Also spelled: Druim Baiscne, the Naked Place The Naked Place, which the army left for, and where Cúchulainn killed Medb's young hound Baiscne.
• Fuiliarnn Also spelled: Bloodiron A swamp on the near side of Ferdia's Ford, where Cúchulainn killed Gaile Dána, his sons and Glas mac Delga.
• Glenn Domain A glen where Ailill's sons keep watch, and where seven hundred men die in a mutual slaughter.
• Glenn Firbaith Also spelled: Ferbaeth's Glen A glen where Cúchulainn killed Ferbaeth with a spear of holly.
• Glondáth Also spelled: Ford of the Deed The ford where Cúchulainn killed one hundred men and named it the Ford of the Deed.
• Imrith Fort The fort on Murtheimne Plain where the boy who became Cúchulainn was reared.
• Lerga The gravemound where Cúchulainn sleeps for three days and three nights while Lug stands against the armies.
• Lia Toll Also spelled: the Pierced Standing-Stone A standing stone in Crích Rois where the Ulster boy-troop fell and where Cethern pierced a pillar-stone.
• Lia Ualonn Also spelled: Ualu's Flagstone The grave and flagstone of Ualu, who drowned trying to cross the river Cronn.
• Luglochta Logo Also spelled: the Gardens of Lug, Forgall's fort The Gardens of Lug, Forgall Monach's guarded fort and Emer's home, which Cúchulainn takes by storm to carry her off.
• Mag Clochair Also spelled: the Stony Plain The Stony Plain, filled with stones when Cúroi mac Dáiri and Munremur mac Gerrcinn throw stones at each other over the armies.
• Mag Muceda Also spelled: the Pigkeeper's Plain, Belach nAne, the Pass where they Drove The Pigkeeper's Plain, where Cúchulainn laid an oak across the road and the army lost thirty chariots.
• Midluachair road Also spelled: Midluachair A road used by the armies in the raid, along which Medb planned to raid north as far as Dún Sobairche.
• Móin Coltna Also spelled: Coltain A moor where the army killed a herd of eight score wild deer.
• Ochtur Lui A place in Crích Rois, named for Cúchulainn's word Luae, the blow or kick, after Cethern strikes Fingin.
• Pupils' Bridge The bridge to Scáthach's island, which throws back anyone not trained in arms.
• River Colptha Also spelled: Colptha A river on the armies' road to Finnabair, which carried off a hundred of their charioteers.
• River Scéne Also spelled: the mouth of the river Scéne A river whose mouth held the fort of the sons of Nechta Scéne, and whose ford was the scene of Cúchulainn's first fight.
• Roi Arad Also spelled: the Battlefield of the Charioteer The Battlefield of the Charioteer, near Tailtiu, where a charioteer and his company fell in the attack on the armies.
• Scáthach's island The island in Alba where Scáthach keeps her fort and trains Cúchulainn.
• Síd ar Femen Also spelled: Bodb's síd The síd on Femen Plain that belongs to Bodb, king of the Munster síd.
• Slechta Also spelled: the Hewn Place The Hewn Place, where the armies cut down a forest so their chariots could pass.
• Sliab Mondairn Also spelled: Finncarn A mountain where Cúchulainn asked the names of the country below, and where the look-out cairn Finncarn stands.
• Támlachtai Orláim Also spelled: Orlám's Burial Mark, Dísert Lochait Orlám's Burial Mark, a hill near the sanctuary Dísert Lochait, where Cúchulainn killed Orlám, a son of Ailill and Medb.
• Tarbga Also spelled: Roi Dedonn, the place of bull-grief or bull-strife A hill on Ai Plain, once called Roi Dedonn, where the Brown Bull meets Finnbennach and Bricriu is trampled to death.
• Temair Chuailnge A standing stone in Cuailnge, where the Morrígan perched in bird shape and spoke to the Brown Bull.
• Tír Mór Also spelled: Tír Mór Tairtesc, the mainland of Tarteisc, Ford of Tír Mór The mainland of Tarteisc, named with Ath Tarteisc, and the ford where Cúchulainn killed three druids.
• Tracht Esi Also spelled: Tráig Esi, the Strand of the Mark The strand where the men of Ulster gather and Cúchulainn kills his own son, named the Strand of the Mark for the footprints the boy leaves in the stones.
• Trego Plain A plain where the army broke its march to eat, and where Dubthach is said to have chanted a verse about the war.

Major places

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  Ath Da Ferta Also spelled: Ford of the Two Grave Mounds 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.
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  Ath Firdia Also spelled: Ferdia's Ford, Ath Ferdia, Áth Fhir Diad Ferdia's Ford, where Cúchulainn killed his foster-brother Ferdia and where the armies left him lying sick.
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  Ath Gabla Also spelled: the Ford of the Forked Branch A ford on the army's route into Ulster, where Cúchulainn jammed a tree-fork in the stream and hung four heads on it.
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  Ath Luain Also spelled: the Ford of the Loins A ford in the west that Cúchulainn watches the beaten army cross, and that the Brown Bull names with Finnbennach's loins.
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  Brug Also spelled: Brug na Bóinne 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.
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  Connacht The western province, ruled by Ailill and Medb from Cruachan, which raises the army for the raid and takes its beating home.
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  Cruachan Also spelled: Cruachan Ai, Cruachan Aí The fort and stronghold of Connacht, home of Medb and Ailill, where the Táin army gathers and where the Brown Bull of Cuailnge is sent at the end.
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  Cuailnge Cuailnge Also spelled: Cooley The Ulster district where the Brown Bull lives and where the war is fought, in the peninsula south of Carlingford Lough.
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  Delga Also spelled: Dún Cinn Coros, Dún Dealgan 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.
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  Emain Macha Also spelled: Emain 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.
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  Finnabair Chuailnge Also spelled: Finnabair in Cuailnge, Finnabair, the High Rath The rath in Cuailnge where the army gathers its plunder and from which it splits up to look for the Brown Bull.
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  Focherd Also spelled: Ard Aighnech, the Place of the Throw, Cronech, Cronech Murtheimne 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.
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  Gáirech and Irgairech Also spelled: Gáirech The field where the armies of Ireland and Ulster meet in the last battle of the Táin.
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  Murtheimne Plain Also spelled: Mag Murtheimne, Murtheimne, Muirtheimne The plain that is Cúchulainn's home ground, where he guards the herds and where the four provinces camp and are cut down.
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  Ochaine Also spelled: Mount Ochaine, Trumpet Hill A hill in Cuailnge near the sea, from which Cúchulainn slings stones at Medb's camp and where he agrees to meet Nadcranntail.
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  River Cronn Also spelled: Cronn A river in Cuailnge that rises against Medb's army, drowns Ualu, and is called up by Cúchulainn to hold the enemy back.
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  Slemain Midi The hill and smooth plain where the Ulster companies gather and Mac Roth counts them for Ailill, Medb and Fergus.
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  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.
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  Smirommair Also spelled: the Bath of Marrow, Imorach Smiromrach, the Mash of Marrow The Bath of Marrow in Crích Rois, where the armies camped and Cúchulainn made a mash of bone-marrow to heal Cethern.
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  Tailtiu The place the armies move on to after Smirommair, where Ulster's charioteers die and, in one version, Amargin and Cúroi throw stones.
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  Ulster Also spelled: Ulaid The northern province, ruled by Conchobor from Emain Macha, whose men lie helpless under the pangs while the raiders cross it.

Minor places

• Ai Plain Also spelled: Plain of Ai, Mag Aí The plain that Medb and Ailill offer to the champions and the bulls fight on.
• Ath Carpat Also spelled: Ford of Chariots 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 Also spelled: Bélat Aliuin 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 Also spelled: the Boyne The river Boyne, which Kinsella's notes call the Boann.
• Breg Plain Also spelled: Mag mBreg, Breg 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 Also spelled: Cenannos The place where the army spent a night in a great snow, also called Cenannos.
• Cúil Silinne Also spelled: Carrcin Lake The first camp on the march from Cruachan, by Carrcin Lake.
• Dubchoire Also spelled: the Black Cauldron A recess in Glenn Gat, called the Black Cauldron, where the herdsman said the bull had gone.
• Dún Lethglaise Also spelled: Lethglas The fort of Celtchar mac Uthidir in the north.
• Dún Sobairche A place in Dál Riada where Medb took fifty women from Finnmór during her raid.
• Femen Plain Also spelled: Femen The plain where Bodb's síd stands, where the pig-keepers spent a year as birds of prey.
• Glenn Dáilimda A valley in Cuailnge where the army spent a night after crossing Bernas Bó Cuailnge.
• Glenn Gatlach Also spelled: Glenn Gatlaig, Glenn Gat, the Valley of Osiers A glen also called Glenn Gat, the Valley of Osiers, where the bull was caught in osier shackles.
• Gránaird A camp in North Tethba where the army spends a night.
• Iraird Cuillenn Also spelled: Iraird Cuilenn The place where Cúchulainn left a spancel-hoop challenge for the army, and where Finnbennach later bellowed.
• Leinster The eastern province ruled by Finn, who Ailill calls his brother.
• Liasa Liac A night camp between Cuailnge and Conaille, named for the calf shelters the armies built there.
• Muid Loga Also spelled: Lugmod, Lochmach A place on the armies' route to Finnabair, where Aengus son of Aenlám Gaibe turned the army aside.
• Munster The southern province, whose seven kings bring troops to the Connacht army.
• River Níth Also spelled: Níth A river in Conaille, with the ford where Cúchulainn killed Lethan.
• Sinann Also spelled: the Shannon The river that the army crosses on the march south-east from Cruachan.
• Sliab Cuilinn A mountain where the Brown Bull hid with his heifers, and where Buide mac Báin brought him out again.
• Sliab Cuinciu Also spelled: Cuinciu A mountain where Cúchulainn swore to hurl a sling-stone at Medb, and where he killed Lochu by mistake.
• Temair Also spelled: Tara The royal seat of Coirpre Niafer, which Kinsella's note calls present-day Tara.
• Tethba Also spelled: North Tethba, South Tethba A territory on the army's march, divided into North and South Tethba.
• Uisnech A hill named in a verse that Laegaire Buadach chants before the last battle.