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=== Battle of Mag Tuired === Cethlenn is unmentioned in the narrative ''[[Cath Maige Tuired]]'', as she is not listed in the roster of [[Fomorians]] compiled by [[Whitley Stokes (Celtic scholar)|Whitley Stokes]] .{{sfnp|Stokes|1891|p=129}}{{efn|Except she is mentioned by Stokes under Balor's entry.}} But in this Battle of Mag Tuired (The Second Battle of Moytura), Cethlenn hurled a javelin (''gae'') at [[the Dagda]] giving him a mortal wound, as recorded in the''[[Lebor Gabála Érenn]]''.<ref name=lge-para314&366/> It took 120 years before the Dagda died of the wound.<ref>{{harvp|Macalister|1941|p=102}}: "120 years before!"</ref>{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Since the LGE states that Lugh was subsequently in kingship for 40 years, and the Dagda for another 80 years.<ref name=lge-para314&366/>}} The recounting of Cethlenn injuring the Dagda is repeated in the ''[[Annals of the Four Masters]]'',<ref>{{harvp|O'Donovan|1856}}, 23 and note x.</ref> [[Geoffrey Keating|Keating]]'s ''[[Foras Feasa ar Éirinn|History]]'',<ref name=keating/> and [[Roderick O'Flaherty|O'Flaherty]]'s ''Ogygia''.<ref name=oflaherty-ogygia-eng/> Cethlenn presumably fell in battle, or so it has been commented on by [[John O'Mahony]] without clarification of source.<ref>O'Mahoney, translation and notes by, {{harvp|Keating|1857}}, pp. 139–140, note 13.</ref>
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