An Chraobh Airgid
On a grey, misty morning spearmen with round shields climb a heathery track towards a tall queen in a madder-red cloak, alone on a ridge below cloud-capped hills.

Mumu · Munster

Sliabh Eibhlinne

The Slieve Felim Mountains · Co. Limerick and Co. Tipperary

The hills where Fódla met the sons of Míl.

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.

A range of rounded hills of heather and bog on the border of Limerick and Tipperary; the highest, Cullaun, is 460 metres. The Irish name means the mountain of Ébliu, a goddess of old; in the early modern period it was confused with the name Féilim, which gave Slieve Felim. Here, Keating says, the sons of Míl met Fódla, the second of the three queens, and Amairgen asked her her name.

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.
  • Fódla The second of the three queens who asked that Ireland bear her name.
  • The sons of Míl The last invaders in the Book of Invasions: the Gaels.

Sources

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