An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Créde

Créidhe · Old Irish Créde

The woman of the síd at Loch Cuire who married Cael, and died of grief beside him.

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Daughter of Cairbre Whiteskin, king of Ciarraige Luachra, she lived in a síd at Loch Cuire in the west, and would take no man who could not make her a poem on her house and all its treasures. Cael sang her one that his nurse had given him, and she married him, and at the battle of Ventry she fed the sick and wounded of the Fianna on new milk. When Cael was drowned she lay down beside him, made her lament, and died of grief, and Caílte raised the stone over the two of them. Lady Gregory (1904) calls her Credhe.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Colloquy of the Ancients The last two of the Fianna part in tears. One goes into a hill to his mother; the other finds Patrick blessing Fionn’s old fort, and tells him the story of every hill.

See also

  • Caílte mac Rónáin The swift runner of the Fianna, who outlived them and told their stories to St Patrick.
  • Ceann Trá Ventry. The white strand where the Fianna fought the foreigners, and Cael was drowned.

Sources

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

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