An Chraobh Airgid

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Mongfind

Mongfhionn · Old Irish Mongfind

Eochaid’s queen, who hated Niall and set his mother to draw the water of Tara.

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Daughter of Fidach, wife of Eochaid Mugmedón and mother of Brian, Ailill, Fiachra and Fergus. Great was her magic, and the men of Ireland feared her. She set Cairenn to drawing the water of Tara so that her child would die in the womb, and when Niall came back grown, she told her sons to quarrel so that he would come between them and be killed. Geoffrey Keating says she gave her own brother, Criomhthann, a poisoned drink, hoping the kingship would pass to her favourite son, Brian, and died of the same drink herself, having taken some of it to urge him to drink.

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In the tales

See also

  • Teamhair The Hill of Tara. Seat of the high kings, and of the stone that cried out.
  • Torna The poet who found the newborn Niall on the green of Tara and fostered him.

Sources

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

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