Cín Dromma Snechtai

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Cín Dromma Snechtai, also known as Leabhar Dromma Snechtai.

A now long-lost early Irish codex, it was believed to have been written between c. AD 700 - 750. Apparently "named from the place of its origin or preservation, namely Druim(m) Snechta (Drumsnat, County Monaghan), where a monastery had been founded in the sixth century."[1]

Rudolf Thurneysen made a convincing reconstruction of its contents in 1912-13; his chief sources were Egerton 88, Royal Irish Academy 23 N10,[clarify] which contains excerpts noted as originating from Cín Dromma Snechtai, which he lists as:

  • Immran Brain ("the voyage of Bran")
  • Compert Con Culainn ("the conception of Cúchulainn")
  • Compert Mongán ("the conception of Mongán")

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  1. ^ Thomás Ó Concheanainn (Winter 1988). "A Connacht Medieval Literary Heritage: Texts derived from Cín Dromma Snechtai through Lebor na hUidre", Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, 16, p. 3.

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