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In sun and showers a queen in gold waits with her white-robed druids and women on Slieve Mish as spearmen climb to her, a stone fort above, a rainbow over Tralee Bay.

Mumu · Munster

Sliabh Mis

The Slieve Mish Mountains · Co. Kerry

The mountains where the sons of Míl met Banba, the first of the three queens.

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 long ridge of mountains running west from Tralee along the Dingle peninsula; its highest top, Baurtregaum, is 851 metres. Keating says the sons of Míl met Banba here “with her women and her druids”, and that three days after their second landing they fought the Tuatha Dé here: Scota, the wife of Míl, fell, and was buried on the north side of the glen, beside the sea. On the shoulder of Caherconree, one of its peaks, stands an Iron Age stone fort remembered as the fort of Cú Roí.

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.
  • Bricriu’s Feast Bricriu of the Poison Tongue throws a feast, promises the champion’s portion to three heroes at once, and sits at his window to watch.

See also

  • Banba The first of the three queens who asked that Ireland bear her name.
  • Cú Roí mac Dáiri A king of Munster and a master of disguise, the last judge of the champions of Ulster.
  • 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.