An Chraobh Airgid

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The sons of Cermait

Mac Cuill · Mac Cécht · Mac Gréine

The three kings of the Tuatha Dé who ruled Ireland when the sons of Míl came.

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Three brothers, grandsons of the Dagda through his son Cermait Honey-Mouth. Lady Gregory gives their names as Mac Cuill, Son of the Hazel, Mac Cecht, Son of the Plough, and Mac Greine, Son of the Sun; Keating calls them Eathur, Ceathur and Teathur, and says they held the kingship a year each in turn. Their queens were Banba, Fódla and Ériu. They killed Íth for praising their island, and at Tailtiu they fell: Mac Gréine by the hand of Amairgen, Mac Cuill by Éber and Mac Cécht by Érimón. Not the Mac Cécht of Da Derga’s Hostel, who is another man.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Song of Amairgen A poet sets his right foot on Ireland and sings that he is the wind on the sea. Three queens of the old gods meet him, and each asks for the island’s name.

See also

  • Amairgen The poet of the sons of Míl.
  • Tailtin Teltown. Where the sons of Míl beat the Tuatha Dé, and the old gods lost Ireland.

Sources

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

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