The n in Cúalnge is silent; it's a marker of sounds being dropped because it's in the genitive form.
Bó = equals cattle; cognate with Greek and Sanskrit, and Modern English Bovine.
Táin is usually translated as "raid," with the title being The Cattle Raid of Cooley. It's really "drive"; The Cattle Drive of Cooley. People go with raid because the drive is an instance of good old fashioned cattle-rustling, specifically, of rustling a particular bull.
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