Duach the Dark

Role: husband of Taillte · First appears: The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3

Life events

• Duach the Dark called the men of Ireland to cut down the wood of Cuan, and they cleared it within a month.(The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3 · 📍 wood of Cuan)
  • “So he called to the men of Ireland to cut down the wood with their wide-bladed knives and bill-hooks and hatchets, and within a month the whole wood was cut down.”

The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3

• married with Taillte “And before her death she bade her husband Duach the Dark, he that built the Fort of the Hostages in Teamhair, to clear away the wood of Cuan”

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