An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Fiacha mac Congha

Fiacha mac Congha

Cumhall’s trusted man, whose spear kept the boy Fionn awake at Tara.

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In the Acallam na Senórach he had been a trusted man of Cumhall, and he was in the household of Conn of the Hundred Battles when the boy Fionn came to the Feast of Tara. For a third of whatever Fionn’s right hand should win, and a place among his three closest counsellors, he gave him a spear that never made a false cast, with thirty rivets of Arabian gold in its socket, and told him to put its point to his forehead against the music of Aillén. Long afterwards, in the sí at Ess Ruaid, the same spear was put into the hand of Caílte. Lady Gregory calls him Fiacha son of Conga, and James Stephens Fiacuil mac Cona.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • Fionn and the Burning of Tara For twenty-three years a man of the sídhe has played Tara to sleep at Samhain and burned it. Then a boy of ten, an outlaw, offers to keep it till morning.

See also

Sources

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

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