Yellow Book of Lecan

Yellow Book of Lecan, an Irish compilation of sixteen manuscripts, bound together by Edward Lhuyd, compiled, in part, by Giolla Íosa Mac Fhir Bhisigh in about 1392 at Leacán (Lackan, Co. Sligo). The manuscript is preserved in TCD.

One of the great medieval Irish manuscripts, including the complete version of Tochmarc Étaíne [The Wooing of Étaín], Aided Óenfhir Aífe [The Tragic Death of Aífe's Only Son], Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin [The Story of Cano mac Gartnáin], Togail Bruidne Da Derga [The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel], and a version of Orgain Denna Ríg [The Destruction of Dind Ríg], as well as a version of Táin Bó Cuailnge [Cattle Raid of Cooley]. Although the Yellow Book was compiled at Lecán (now Lacken), near Inishcrone, Co. Sligo, c.1390, narratives within the collection can be dated centuries earlier from internal evidence; Aided Óenfhir Aífe, for example, appears to be 9th-century. See The Yellow Book of Lecan, ed. Robert Atkinson (Dublin, 1896). A selection of poems from the manuscript appears in The Yellow Book of Lecan, ed. Lambert McKenna for the Irish Texts Society (Dublin, 1939–40).