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Mac Cécht

Mac Cécht

Conaire’s champion, who went round the great rivers and lakes of Ireland for a cup of water.

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Son of Snaide Teichid, and the battle-soldier of Conaire Mór. He went ahead to strike the king’s fire at Da Derga’s Hostel, and when Ingcél saw him asleep there, his knees looked like two bare hills and his eyes like two lakes by a mountain; at the telling of it the reavers fled over three ridges. When a thirst was put on the king, he broke out with the king’s golden cup and went round the rivers and lakes of Ireland in one night, and only Uarán Garad on Mag Aí could not hide from him. He came back to find two men cutting off the king’s head, killed them both, and poured the water into the head, and the head praised him.

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

Sources

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

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