Citations:cathair

Noun: “monastic settlement”

 * c. 800, Broccán’s Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 328, ll. 9–10:
 * Nī bo fri óigthea acher&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;cāinbói fri lobru trúagu: for maig ar·utacht cathir&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;do [ḟ]llaid ron·snāde slúagu.
 * She was not harsh to guests: gentle was she to the wretched sick: on a plain she built a convent: may it protect hosts into the Kingdom!

Noun: “city”

 * (do·adb)adar in taidbsiu hi siu tra do(naib) coic cetaib ro·bói isin chaithir isind aimsir sin
 * this appearance, then, is manifested to the five hundred that was in the city at that time
 * don chathraig glosses
 * arna·beth imresan imm oslucud inna cathrach
 * that there might be no contention about the opening of the city
 * ar a teget imm in cathraich
 * for their density around the city
 * in toimtiu huallach do·rumenair-som as tria airilliud ro·soirad in chathir di lamaib Assar
 * the proud opinion that he thought that it was through his merit that the city had been delivered from the hands of the Assyrians
 * dan·dersaig Dia dia mbrith huan chadraig
 * God stirred him up to carry them from the city
 * is indí ro·mbatar for longais hua[n] chathir
 * in that they were in exile from the city
 * the proud opinion that he thought that it was through his merit that the city had been delivered from the hands of the Assyrians
 * dan·dersaig Dia dia mbrith huan chadraig
 * God stirred him up to carry them from the city
 * is indí ro·mbatar for longais hua[n] chathir
 * in that they were in exile from the city
 * is indí ro·mbatar for longais hua[n] chathir
 * in that they were in exile from the city