There is a single complete copy of Recholl Breth, contained in Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1433 alongside six other texts from the middle third of the Senchas Már.
Liam Breatnach registered doubt as to whether the initial word was to be interpreted as recholl ("shroud") or rocholl ("destruction, violation").
[1]: 174–175 Recently, Eska has argued the title "Shroud of judgements" is appropriate, given that the text deals with many cases in which a legal fault is not immediately obvious.
She takes the mixed style of presentation (triad, tetrads, heptads, and un-numbered sections) as evidence the text was compiled from other sources along this theme.
[1]: 181–182 In this capacity, Eska compares it to Gúbretha Caratniad and Anfuigell, two other early Irish legal texts also concerned with exceptional or unusual cases.