Lairgnen

Role: king of Connacht · First appears: The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5

Life events

Deoch threatened not to stay another night with Lairgnen unless he brought her the birds.(The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5)
- With: Deoch
- “And she gave her word she would not stop another night with him unless he would bring them to her.”
Deoch left, but returned home after Lairgnen's messengers caught up with her at Cill Dun.(The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5 · 📍 Cill Dun)
- With: Deoch
- “And she set out from the house there and then. And Lairgnen sent messengers after her to bring her back, and they did not overtake her till she was at Cill Dun. She went back home with them then”
Mochaomhog refused Lairgnen's request to give him the birds.(The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5)
- With: Mochaomhog
- “There was great anger on Lairgnen then, and he went himself to the place Mochaomhog was, and he asked was it true he had refused him the birds. ‘It is true indeed,’ said he.”
When Lairgnen seized the swans, their bird skins fell away and revealed three old men and a withered old woman.(The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5)
- With: Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir)
- “But no sooner had he laid his hand on them than their bird skins fell off, and what was in their place was three lean, withered old men and a thin withered old woman, without blood or flesh.”

parent: Colman “Now the king of Connacht at that time was Lairgnen, son of Colman, son of Cobthach, and Deoch, daughter of Finghin, was his wife.”
married with Deoch “Now the king of Connacht at that time was Lairgnen, son of Colman, son of Cobthach, and Deoch, daughter of Finghin, was his wife.”

Extracted from the original text of Gods and Fighting Men. Made with Rho MD.