Conn of the Hundred Battles

Also known as: Conn · Role: king · First appears: The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Hidden House of Lugh

At Teamhair, the stone screamed beneath Conn of the Hundred Battles’s feet, and a Druid explained that its cries foretold how many kings of Conn’s race would follow him. Conn met Lugh, who identified himself as Lugh of the Long Hand, son of Ethlinn; Lugh also welcomed Conn to his house. There, Art of the Three Shouts, Conn’s son, was named among the kings to come after him.

One day on the Hill of Uisnach, Conn was with his son Connla of the Red Hair when a woman invited Connla to leave for Magh Mell. Connla leapt into her shining boat and sailed away across the sea. Cormac, Conn’s grandson and King of Teamhair, also went to Manannan’s country.

Relationship record

Life events

• The stone screamed beneath Conn's feet, and the Druid later foretold it signified kings of Conn's race.(The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Hidden House of Lugh · 📍 Teamhair)
  • “And on this day he chanced to stand upon a stone that was in the rath, and the stone screamed under his feet, that it was heard all over Teamhair and as far as Bregia.”
• Conn learned that the stone's screams foretold the number of kings of his race who would follow him.(The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Hidden House of Lugh · 📍 Teamhair)
  • “And when the stone screamed under your feet,” he said, “the number of the screams it gave was a foretelling of the number of kings of your race that would come after you.”
• Conn met Lugh, who identified himself as Lugh of the Long Hand, son of Ethlinn.(The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Hidden House of Lugh)
  • With: Lugh
  • “And the master of the house told them the young woman was the Kingship of Ireland for ever. ‘And as for myself,’ he said, ‘I am Lugh of the Long Hand, son of Ethlinn.’”
• Connla of the Red Hair receives the woman's invitation to leave for Magh Mell.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Connla · 📍 Hill of Uisnach)
  • With: Connla of the Red Hair
  • “It chanced one day he was with his father Conn, King of Teamhair, on the Hill of Uisnach, and he saw a woman having wonderful clothing coming towards him.”
• Connla of the Red Hair leaves his people in the shining boat and sails away across the sea with the woman.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Connla)
  • With: Connla of the Red Hair
  • “And when the woman had ended her song, Connla made a leap from his people into the shining boat, and they saw him sailing away from them far off and as if in a mist, as far as their eyes could see.”

The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Hidden House of Lugh

• child: Art of the Three Shouts “And after that he bade her to pour out the ale for Art of the Three Shouts, the son of Conn; and after that he went through the names of all the kings of Ireland that would come after Conn, and he told what would be the length of their lifetime.”
• patron: Lugh “The rider stopped casting his spears on that, and he came to them and bade Conn welcome, and asked him to come to his house.”

The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Three Calls to Cormac · Part 1

• younger kin: Cormac “And another that went to Manannan's country was Cormac, grandson of Conn, King of Teamhair, and this is the way it happened.”

The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Connla

• child: Connla of the Red Hair “It chanced one day he was with his father Conn, King of Teamhair, on the Hill of Uisnach, and he saw a woman having wonderful clothing coming towards him.”

The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3

• child: Connla of the Red Hair “‘I am son to Conn of the Hundred Battles,’ he said.”

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