An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Ingcél the One-eyed

Ingcél

The one-eyed son of the king of Britain, who led the reavers against Da Derga’s Hostel.

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He met Conaire’s exiled foster-brothers on the sea and made a pact with them: they would reave in his country, and he in theirs. In Britain his father, his mother and his seven brothers, guests that night in the house of the king of his district, were all destroyed by him in one night, and then he came to Ireland for his due. His single eye, in Stokes’s translation, was “wide as an oxhide”, and when he had looked into Da Derga’s Hostel and seen who was there, he would not turn back.

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See also

  • Bruiden Da Derga Da Derga's Hostel, Bohernabreena. The great hostel on the road of Cualu where Conaire Mór died.
  • Mac Cécht Conaire’s champion, who went round the great rivers and lakes of Ireland for a cup of water.

Sources

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

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