An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Liath Luachra

Liath Luachra

The Grey One of Luachair: the warrior woman who helped rear Fionn.

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With the druid Bodhmall she reared the boy Fionn in secret in Sliabh Bladhma, and when he was older he ran down deer for the two of them. Strangely, Macgnímartha Finn gives the same name to a man: the Grey One of Luachair who struck Cumhall first at Cnucha, and whom Fionn killed years afterwards.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn A druid and a warrior woman hide a hunted boy in the woods. Years later a poet on the Boyne gives him a salmon to cook, and tells him not to taste it.

See also

  • Bodhmall The druid woman who reared Fionn in the forest.
  • Cnucha Castleknock. Where Fionn’s father fell.
  • Cumhall Fionn’s father, who fought for the leadership of the Fianna and died for it at Cnucha.
  • Muirne Fionn’s mother: “Muirne of the fair neck”.
  • Sliabh Bladhma The Slieve Bloom Mountains. The forest where Fionn was reared in secret.

Sources

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

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