An Chraobh Airgid
On a grey, misty morning a spear and a gold-spiralled round shield lean on a stone cairn above the Liffey valley, ravens perched in the grass and wheeling overhead.

Mide · Meath

Cnucha

Castleknock · Co. Dublin

Where Fionn’s father fell.

Open it on the full site There it is marked on the map of the five fifths, where the road of a tale can be traced.

Here Cumhall son of Trénmór fought Urgriu of the Luagni and the sons of Morna for the leadership of the Fianna, and fell. Goll mac Morna, who lost an eye in the same battle, carried off his head. The place is Castleknock, west of Dublin city. Its Irish name, Caisleán Cnucha, keeps the old name.

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.
  • Fionn and the Burning of Tara For twenty-three years a man of the sídhe has played Tara to sleep at Samhain and burned it. Then a boy of ten, an outlaw, offers to keep it till morning.

See also

  • Cumhall Fionn’s father, who fought for the leadership of the Fianna and died for it at Cnucha.
  • Goll mac Morna The one-eyed warrior who killed Fionn’s father.
  • Liath Luachra The Grey One of Luachair: the warrior woman who helped rear Fionn.
  • Muirne Fionn’s mother: “Muirne of the fair neck”.

Sources

Each tale above lists the sources it is retold from. Every source the site draws on is listed on the full site.