 He parsed the name as "cat" Gaelic for "battle" or "fight", and "Raeth" and he recalled that there was a place in Scotland called Raith.Nicholson's claim was that this battle was fought in 596 AD to the west of present-day Kirkcaldy.An invading force of Angles landed on the Fife coast near Raith and defeated an alliance of Scots, Britons and Picts under King Áedán mac Gabráin of Dál Riata.