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Not at all sem, in fact this is the very same conclussion Blake and Lloyd came to. To quote their book again:
"The name 'Catraeth' breaks down into two elements: 'cat' and 'traeth'. Sir John Rhys points out that 'cat' is cognate with 'cad', which means 'battle', and 'traeth' is still in modern usage, meaning 'shore' or 'beach'. Therefore 'Catreath' simply means the 'Battle Shore. However, Catterick in Yorshire is 50 miles inland!
J. Gwenogfryn Evans draws our attention to 'the lands of Catraeth' in North Wales within a 12th-century poem by Elidir Sais: 'Gallas dreis ar direw catraeth' (able to take force the land of Catraeth). These lands were captured by Rodri ap Owain Gwynedd (d. 1195), who never left Wales yet waged many battles against his half-brother Dafydd on both the Menai Starits near Anglesey and the River Conwy. All the available evidence suggests that the lands of Catraeth lie somewhere along the North wales coast, possibly on an estuary. This is further confirmed be reference in The Gododdin to the battle taking place at Mordei, which menas that it took place near the sea ('mor' is Welsh for 'sea'."
You can take or leave their findings but they're food for thought.
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