An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Connla

Conla Rua · Old Irish Condla Rúad

The son of Conn of the Hundred Battles, called away by a woman only he could see.

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Son of Conn of the Hundred Battles. On the hill of Uisneach a woman of the aos sí came for him, and no one but Connla could see her. Conn’s druid, Corann, sang her voice away, but she threw Connla an apple that fed him for a month and never grew less, and when she came back for him he leapt into her boat of crystal and was never seen again. The Irish calls him Condla Rúad, Connla the Red. The Annals of Clonmacnoise, Joseph Jacobs noted, speak of a Conly, eldest son of Conn.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Adventure of Connla A woman only Connla can see calls him to a land without death, and throws him an apple that feeds him for a month and never grows smaller.

See also

  • Corann The druid of Conn of the Hundred Battles, who sang against a voice from the other world.
  • Uisneach The Hill of Uisneach. The navel of Ireland, where the five fifths meet.

Sources

Medieval manuscript. Written down by Irish scholars between the eighth and seventeenth centuries.

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