An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Eochaid mac Eirc

Eochaid mac Eirc

The king of the Fir Bolg when the Tuatha Dé Danann came, who dreamed of black birds.

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High king of Ireland at Tara when the Tuatha Dé Danann came. Keating says that in his time there was no rain and no foul weather, and no year without its fruit, and that good laws were made. He dreamed of black birds coming out of the ocean, and of one of his own people cutting a wing from the noblest of them. In the first battle of Mag Tuired a burning thirst came on him, and the wizards of the Tuatha Dé hid every river in Ireland from him, until he fell fighting on the strand of Eothail.

In the tales

  • The Coming of the Tuatha Dé Danann They burned their ships on the shore, and for three days a druid’s mist hid them. Then they sent word to the people who held Ireland: half the land, or a battle.

See also

  • The Fir Bolg The people who held Ireland when the Tuatha Dé Danann came.
  • Mag Tuired Cunga Moytura, by Cong. The plain by Cong where the Tuatha Dé fought the Fir Bolg.
  • Sliabh an Iarainn Slieve Anierin. The Iron Mountain, where the Tuatha Dé stood when their mist lifted.
  • Teamhair The Hill of Tara. Seat of the high kings, and of the stone that cried out.
  • Tuatha Dé Danann The old gods of Ireland.

Sources

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

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