Loch

Also known as: Loch Mac Emonis · Family: Connaught · Role: warrior · First appears: The Death of Loch Mac Emonis

In “The Death of Loch Mac Emonis,” Cuchulainn slew Loch’s brother, Long, and Long’s body was brought before him. Loch first refused to fight Cuchulainn until seven days had passed; then, at Ath Darteisc, he fought him at the ford and wounded him severely.

At Ath Traiged, Cuchulainn fought Loch with the gae-bolga, which his charioteer threw to him along the stream. Loch fell, and Cuchulainn cut off his head.

Relationship record

Life events

• Cuchulainn slew Long, whose body was brought before his brother Loch.(The Death of Loch Mac Emonis)
  • With: Cuchulainn Long
  • “He had a brother, Long Mac Emonis himself. The same price was given to him, both maiden and raiment and chariots and land. He goes to meet Cuchulainn. Cuchulainn slays him, and he was brought dead before his brother, Loch.”
• Loch refused to fight Cuchulainn until seven days had passed.(The Death of Loch Mac Emonis)
  • With: Cuchulainn
  • “'I will not make combat against him till the end of seven days from to-day,' said Loch.”
• Loch fought Cuchulainn at the ford and wounded him severely.(The Death of Loch Mac Emonis · 📍 Ath Darteisc)
  • With: Cuchulainn
  • “When the men met then on the ford, and when they began to fight and to strike each other there, and when each of them began to strike the other, the eel threw three folds round Cuchulainn's feet, till he lay on his back athwart the ford. Loch attacked him with the sword, till the ford was blood-red with his blood.”
• Cuchulainn killed Loch with the gae-bolga and cut off his head.(The Death of Loch Mac Emonis · 📍 Ath Traiged)
  • With: Cuchulainn
  • “It is there then that Cuchulainn did to the Morrigan the three things that he had promised her in the Tain Bo Regamna; and he fights Loch in the ford with the gae-bolga, which the charioteer threw him along the stream. He attacked him with it, so that it went into his body's armour, for Loch had a horn-skin in fighting with a man. 'Give way to me,' said Loch. Cuchulainn gave way, so that it was on the other side that Loch fell. Hence is Ath Traiged in Tir Mor. Cuchulainn cut off his head then.”

The Death of Loch Mac Emonis

• siblings with Long “He had a brother, Long Mac Emonis himself.”
• enemies with Cuchulainn “Then Loch came against Cuchulainn, to avenge his brother on him, for it was shown to him that Cuchulainn had a beard.”

Also listed in Connaught — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge. Made with Rho MD.