An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Donn son of Míl

Donn mac Míled

The eldest son of Míl, who said he owed Ireland to no one, and did not live to enjoy it.

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At Uisneach he cut across Ériu’s welcome: whatever they won, he said, they would owe to their own strength. She told him that neither he nor his children would live to enjoy the island. When the druids’ wind fell before Amairgen’s invocation, Donn boasted that he would put everyone in Ireland to the sword, and the storm rose again. His ship was driven away from the fleet, and he drowned off the west of Munster with everyone aboard, at a place that is called after him, Tech Duinn, the House of Donn. Rolleston calls him Eber Donn.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Song of Amairgen A poet sets his right foot on Ireland and sings that he is the wind on the sea. Three queens of the old gods meet him, and each asks for the island’s name.

See also

  • The sons of Míl The last invaders in the Book of Invasions: the Gaels.
  • Teach Duinn The Bull Rock, off Dursey. The House of Donn: a rock at the western edge, named for a drowned son of Míl.
  • 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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