NAME Tadg mac Cein
ALTERNATIVE Tadhg
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
TYPE chariot warrior
CULTURE Goidel - Eoganachata
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Munster / Ulster / Cianachta
LANDMARKS Magh mBreg
AGE Iron
DATES AD 2nd-3rd c
BATTLES Crinna
RELATIVES Cian (father); Ailill Olomn (grandfather);
Cormac Cas (uncle)
ENEMIES Ulster
SEE ALSO Ailill Olomn / Cian / Cormac Cas / Cormac mac
Airt
REMARKS Tadg was asked by Cormac mac Airt, the high
chieftain of Ireland, to help him in his battle with
Ulster. Cormac said that he would give him as much land on
the plain of Magh mBreg as he could ride around in his
chariot in one day once the battle was won.
It took 7 battles before Tadg and his warriors finally
defeated Ulster and he could claim his land. Tadg's
intentions were to circle Tara, which would give him the
position as the high chieftain of Ireland, but his wounds
were severe and he passed out. He found that he had only
encircled a strip of land from the Liffey river to
Droniskin in Louth. Tadg named his territory Cianachta
after his father. Cormac had bribed Tadg's charioteer to
exclude Tara from his circumnavigation and when Tadg found
out what had happened, he thought it was only just to kill
his charioteer.
NAME Tadhg mac Nuadat
ALTERNATIVE Tadg
GENDER M
CATEGORY druid
TYPE artificer / blacksmith
CULTURE Goidel - Eoganachta
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Ulster
AGE Iron
DATES AD 2nd-3rd c
RELATIVES Eoghan Mor (father); Beara (mother); Murna and
Tuireann (daughters); Crimmal (son); Fionn
(grandson); Tuireann (granddaughter); Conaire
Coem and Ailill Olomn (brothers)
ENEMIES Fionn
SEE ALSO Ailill Olomn / Beara / Conaire Coem / Conn
Cetcathach / Crimhthan / Crimmal / Cumhal /
Eoghan Mor / Fionn mac Cumhaill / Goll mac Morna
/ Murna / Tuireann
REMARKS Tadhg was the smith who made the swords for the
Clanna Morna. He refused to let his daughters marry
because of a prophecy that he would die at the hands of his
grandson.
When the high chieftain of Ireland, Conn Cetcathach,
appointed Crimhthan to the position of head chieftain of
Leinster, the Fianna became involved in a civil war between
the clans. Tadhg hired Goll to make sure that Cumhal died
in the battle so Goll would be the head chieftain of the
Fianna. After Cumhal was killed in battle, a new prophecy
said that Cumhal's death would be avenged by a son. Every
male child that was born within the next 9 months was put
to the sword.
Unknown to Tadhg, his daughter had been impregnated by
Cumhal just before he died in combat. When his daughter
delivered twins, Tadhg had the male thrown into a loch. The
child later took his revenge.
NAME Tailtiu
ALTERNATIVE Taillne / Tailltine / Tailltiu / Talann / Telta
GENDER F
FESTIVAL Beltainn (Brilliant Fires) / Lughnasadh
(Lugh's Wedding) / Tailteann Games
CATEGORY deity
TYPE earth goddess
CULTURE Firbolg
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Mayo / Meath
TERRITORY Connacht / Ulster
LANDMARKS Magh Mor (Great Plain) / Magh mBreg / Plain of
Towers (Magh Tuireadh) / Coill Cuain
SITES Tailltinn (Teltown) (buried)
CENTERS Raith Rig - Tara
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 16th-15th c
BATTLES 1st battle of Magh Tuireadh (south Moytura)
RELATIVES Eochaid (husband); Eochu Garb (2nd husband);
Lugh (foster-son)
ENEMIES Danann
SEE ALSO Eochaid mac Eirc / Lugh
REMARKS Tailtiu, the earth goddess, was daughter of the
chieftain of Magh Mor (Great Plain). She married Eochaid
mac Eirc, the first head chieftain of Ireland to sit at
Tara. Tailtiu's husband was killed during the war between
the Firbolg and the invading Danann.
After the defeat of her people, she married Eochu
Garb, son of Dui Temen of the Danann. Eochu Garb saw to
the clearing of the forest of Coill Cuain. It was done
with an axe and then planted in clover by the end of 1
year. He also supplied the builders Nas, Ronc and Alestar
who build The Fortress of the Hostages at Tara.
Tailtiu and Eochu became the foster-parents to Lugh.
When she died, Lugh buried her between Navan and Kells in
the county of Meath and the site was called Tailltinn
(Teltown). Eochu Garb was also buried with her after his
death. Lugh held a festival (Tailteann Games) in her honor
at her grave site for 15 days before Lughnasadh and 15 days
after.
It is said that as long as her festival is observed,
there will be milk and grain in every household and good
weather can be expected for the feast.
NAME Taliesin
EPITHET Radiant Brow / Luminous Brow
ALTERNATIVE Taliesin {Tal-yess-in} (Fine Value)
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Samhain (Festival of the Dead)
CATEGORY hero / druid
TYPE astronomer / poet / seer
CULTURE Cymry (tribes that fight side by side)
COUNTRY Wales
REGION Gwynedd {Gwin-eth} / Clwyd {clud}
TERRITORY The Otherworld - Lake Tegid (Llyntegid) /
Morgannwg / Gwynedd
SITES Cauldron's Pool
AGE Ui Néill
DATES AD 6th c
RELATIVES Cerridwen (mother); Morfran (half-brother);
Creirwy (half-sister); Elffin (foster-father)
ENEMIES Maelgwn / Rhun
SEE ALSO Cerridwen / Elffin / Maelgwn / Morfran / Rhun
REMARKS When Taliesin was born, his mother sacrificed
him to the sea and he floated about on the water for 40
years before he was caught in the fishing weir of Gwyddno
Garanhir on a Samhain eve. Luckily for him, he was found
there by Elffin son of Gwyddno, who took him home. Elffin
and his wife were childless and both fell in love with
their find whom they named Taliesin, meaning "radiant brow"
and "fine value".
Taliesin was happy with his foster-parents and became
a powerful figure of wisdom, enchantment and prophecy. He
foretold the loss of the eastern lowlands to foreign
invaders and the survival of the language in Wales. He was
also accredited with the invention of the ogham alphabet in
ancient times before the flood. He once said: "I am
ancient, I am young, I have been dead, I have been alive."
While he was still a young man, Taliesin's step-father
had incurred the wrath of Maelgwn, the head chieftain of
Gwynedd, and was locked into the dungeon. Maelgwn then
sent his charismatic son Rhun to seduce Elffin's wife.
Taliesin tricked Rhun into believing the scully-maid was
his step-mother by dressing her in his step-mother's
clothing and wearing Elffin's ring on her finger. Rhun
tried to seduce the scully-maid, and when this failed he
drugged her, chopped off her ring-finger and took it to his
father Maelgwn.
The head chieftain had Elffin brought into his court
and confronted him with Rhun's proof of his wife's
infidelity. Because of Taliesin's ingenuity, Elffin was
able to prove Maelgwn's story false.
Taliesin was then ordered to appear before the high
chieftain to defend himself to the court druids. Taliesin
recited 3 poems called The Interrogation of the Bards, The
Rebuke of the Bards and The Satire on the Bards. When he
finished the satire, the court druids were struck
temporarily dumb. He then used his sorcery to open the 13
locks on the silver chain that held Elffin.
Having proved the fidelity of his step-mother and the
stupidity of the court bards, Taliesin now persuaded Elffin
to challenge the head chieftain to a horse race. Maelgwn
brought his 24 best race-horses to the racetrack. Taliesin
arrived at the racetrack with 24 burnt yew sticks for
Elffin's rider to carry. He instructed the rider to allow
the head chieftain's horses to get ahead, then catch up to
the last horse, whack it on the rump, then throw the stick
to the ground and ride on to the next until all 24 horses
were marked in this way. Elffin's rider was then to mark
the finishing spot by throwing a cloak to the ground.
The race was carried out as planned and after Elffin's
rider had won, Taliesin took them to the spot where the
cloak lay and had Elffin's servants dig a hole. There they
found a huge cauldron of gold which was Elffin's reward for
saving and adopting Taliesin. The site was forever called
Cauldron's Pool.
NAME Tamon
EPITHET The Stump
GENDER M
CATEGORY filidh
TYPE court fool of Connacht
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Roscommon
TERRITORY Connacht
SITES Ath Tamuin (Ford of a Stump)
CENTERS Raith Cruachain (Rathcroghan)
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Cualnge Cattle Raid (died)
ENEMIES Cu Chulainn
SEE ALSO Ailill / Cu Chulainn
REMARKS Tamon was persuaded by the warriors of Connacht
to disguise himself as Ailill by putting on his diadem and
golden cape. They sent him to the ford where Cu Chulainn
mistook him for Ailill and, using his staff-sling, split
Tamon's head open with a stone. The ford was named Ath
Tamuin (Ford of a Stump).
NAME Taranis
EPITHET He Who Thunders
ALTERNATIVE Daran / Tannus / Taran / Taranis (Thunder) /
Tima / Torann
GENDER M
SYMBOL wheel / spiral / lightning bolt / oak club
CATEGORY deity
TYPE sky god of storms, thunder and lightning
CULTURE Gallic / Belgae - Catuvellauni, Remi and
Suessiones tribes
COUNTRY France / Scotland
REGION Haute-Marne / Outer Hebrides
TERRITORY Gaul / Belgica
SITES Chatelet / Isle of Taransay
AGE Iron
DATES BC 6th c
ACCESSORIES oak club / dogs of Taranis
SEE ALSO Esus / Teutates / Zeus
REMARKS Taranis was a Gaulish god of thunder, often
represented with the wheel of life and carrying lightning
bolts. Sacrifices to him were placed in wooden cages and
burned alive. Taranis was considered to be one of a triad
and should be thought of in relationship with Esus and
Teutates, each associated with a different sacrificial
rite. The triple death of stabbing, burning and drowning
(or strangulation) held considerable significance,
involving 3 of the 4 elements.
A sculpture from Chatelet in the Haute-Marne region of
France depicts Taranis holding a 6-spoked wheel in one hand
and a spiral stick in the other. From BC 6th century the
site area was shared by the Catuvellauni, Remi and
Suessiones of the Belgae culture who may have spread the
name into Britain.
The Isle of Taransay off Harris in the Outer Hebrides
was named after the god Taranis, which may suggest that he
was an older god of the Pictish or Unetice cultures. When
the conquering Celts of Gaul defeated the Etruscans they
adopted Taranis, calling him Tima. Taranis was referred to
as Taran in Britain and Torann in Ireland. Taranis, Esus
and Teutates may be associated with the older Celtic god
Zeus.
ALTERNATIVE Tasciovanus
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / Rix
TYPE chariot warrior / high chieftain
CULTURE Belgae - Catuvellauni tribe
COUNTRY England
REGION Greater London / Bedfordshire / Buckinghamshire
/ Oxfordshire / Gloucestershire / Hertfordshire
/ Suffolk / Essex / Kent / Surrey
TERRITORY Lloegr
CENTERS Wheathampstead
AGE Iron
DATES BC 1st-AD 1st c / BC 20-AD 10 (Rix)
RELATIVES Lludd (father); Cunobel (son); Togodumnos,
Caratacos and Adminius (grandsons); Epaticcos
(brother); Cassubellaunos, Nynniaw and Llevelys
(uncles)
SEE ALSO Adminius / Caratacus / Cassubellaunos /
Cunobel
/ Epaticcos / Llevelys / Lludd / Nynniaw /
Togodumnos
REMARKS Tasciovanos became the high chieftain of a
consortium of tribes when his uncle Cassubellaunos left for
Gaul to fight Caesar. Tasciovanos became a powerful ruler
and enlarged the tribal holdings by conquering territories
within the present-day regions of Surrey and Kent as well
as recapturing the Trinovantes territory of Essex and
Suffolk. When Tasciovanos died around AD 10, his son
Cunobel was appointed to the position of head chieftain.
NAME Tasha
EPITHET Of the White Arms
GENDER F
CATEGORY Rigbean (noble woman)
TYPE daughter of a chieftain
CULTURE Danann
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Offaly / Laois
TERRITORY The Otherworld / Leinster
LANDMARKS Allen Hill
CENTERS Raith Almu (Fort of Almain)
AGE Iron
DATES AD 3rd c
RELATIVES Abarta (father); Fionn (husband)
SEE ALSO Abarta / Conan Maol / Fionn mac Cumhaill
REMARKS Tasha met Fionn mac Cumhaill when he and his
warriors were tricked by her father into coming to their
territory in The Otherworld to help win a battle against an
enemy.
When Fionn and his warriors were about to leave, Fionn
was about to accept the debt as paid, but Conan intervened.
He was angry because he had been tricked into coming and he
had to hold the tail of the horse from one world to the
next. He insisted that Abarta reward the Fianna by sending
with them 13 of the most beautiful women of his territory
on the back of the gray horse, with his daughter Tasha
holding the horse's tail. Abarta agreed, and they were
then transmitted to the Raith Almu where Fionn and Tasha
were married.
NAME Tath
EPITHET Consolidation
ALTERNATIVE Eolas / Eolus
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Beltainn (Brilliant Fires)
CATEGORY druid
TYPE scientist
CULTURE Partholean tribe
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Munster
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 19th c
BATTLES Magh Ibha
ENEMIES Fomorii
SEE ALSO Fis / Fochmare / Partholon
REMARKS Tath, Fochmare and Fis were three druids who
came to Ireland with Partholon and used their talents in
the battle of Magh Ibha against the Fomorians.
GENDER F
FESTIVAL Beltainn (Brilliant Fires) / Imbolic - Festival
of Tara (Feis Tara)
CATEGORY deity
TYPE fertility goddess / wife of Ard Righ Eirinn
CULTURE Goidel (Milesian) - Artabri tribe
COUNTRY Spain / Ireland
REGION Galacia / Meath
TERRITORY Mide
LANDMARKS Magh mBreg
SITES Tea-mhair {Tavvir} Brega (buried)
CENTERS Brigantia (A Corunna) / Raith Rig - Tara
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 15th c
RELATIVES Lugaid mac Itha (father); Fail (mother); Eremon
(husband); Eidenn, Alan, Aine, Caithiar, Caicher
Cernda, Palap and Iriel Faid (sons); Daire
Doimthech (brother); Ith (grandfather); Golamh
(father-in-law); Rifath Scot (ancestor)
SEE ALSO Bile / Bregon / Eremon / Golamh / Iriel Faid /
Ith / Rifath Scot
REMARKS Tea, daughter of Lugaid, son of Ith, son of
Bregon, son of Brath was the 3rd wife of the high chieftain
Eremon and a fertility goddess of the Goidel.
As a bride price she was allowed to choose her burial
site. When Tea died, she was buried in the tumulus Druim
Chain and the site was called Tea-mhair (Wall of Tea). It
became known as Tara and was used as the seat of the high
chieftain of Ireland. Tea became the patroness of the
annual festival held there on Imbolic.
Tea's bloodline ruled Ireland much of the time during
the next 1000 years. Mael-Sechlainn mac Domnaill, the last
high chieftain (Ard Righ Eirinn), was a descendant of hers.
NAME Tegid Voel
ALTERNATIVE Tegid Foel
GENDER M
CATEGORY deity / warrior
TYPE horse warrior
CULTURE Silures tribe
COUNTRY Wales
REGION South Glamorgan / Penllyn
TERRITORY The Otherworld - Lake Tegid (Llyntegid) /
Morgannwg
AGE Post-Roman
DATES AD 6th c
RELATIVES Cerridwen (wife); Creiewy and Morfran (children)
SEE ALSO Cerridwen / Morfran
REMARKS Tegid and his family lived in The Otherworld, a
place of many supernatural objects. Llyntegid was
considered to be a gateway to their territory.
NAME Teithi Hen
EPITHET The Ancient
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
TYPE horse warrior
CULTURE Cymry (tribes that fight side by side)
COUNTRY Wales / England
AGE Post-Roman
DATES AD 6th c
RELATIVES Gwynnan (father)
SEE ALSO Arthur
REMARKS When Teithi Hen's territory sank beneath the
sea, he escaped and sought protection from Arthur. However,
the handle of his knife would not stay fixed and he died
from starvation.
Among other things, the knife was used to eat, to
sustain life. Teithi Hen was the chieftain of his tribe
and had mated with the fertility goddess (sovereignty) of
the land. When his land sank below the sea, his goddess
died with the land and so did he.
NAME Telo
GENDER F
CATEGORY deity
TYPE goddess of health
CULTURE Gallic - Petrocorii tribe
COUNTRY France
REGION Dordogne
TERRITORY Gaul
LANDMARKS Isle river
SITES curative spring at Perigueux
AGE Iron
DATES BC 6th c / BC 52
REMARKS Telo was associated with the curative spring at
Perigueux which was in the territory of the Petrocorii. The
Petrocorii settled the area in BC 6th century and were
still there in BC 52 when they fought the invading Romans.
Telo was sometimes associated with another goddess named
Stanna.
NAME Terentios Varro
GENDER M
CATEGORY vate
TYPE satirist
CULTURE Gallic - Sequani tribe
COUNTRY France
TERRITORY Gaul
LANDMARKS Doubs / Rhône
AGE Iron
DATES BC 1st c / BC 82 (born)
ENEMIES Caesar
REMARKS Terentios was a bard of the Sequani tribe and
wrote satire, elegies and an epic based on a campaign of
Caesar's which had destroyed his tribe.
NAME Tethra
EPITHET Lord of the Joyous Otherworld
GENDER M
CATEGORY deity / hero / warrior / chieftain / mariner
TYPE sea god
CULTURE Fomorii
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Sligo
TERRITORY Connacht
LANDMARKS Plain of Towers (Magh Tuireadh)
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 16th-15th c
BATTLES second battle of Magh Tuireadh (north Moytura)
ACCESSORIES supernatural sword (Orna)
ENEMIES Oghma
SEE ALSO Bress / Oghma
REMARKS While Bress was the head chieftain of the Danann
Tethra, Indech and Balor forced the Danann of Ireland to
pay a tribute.
Tethra had a famous sword named Orna and its magical
ability was that it could relate its own deeds (ogham).
During the second battle of Magh Tuireadh, Tethra was
killed by Oghma who then acquired the sword for himself.
NAME Teutates
EPITHET God by whom my tribe swears (Tongo do Dia
Toinges mo Thuath) / Lord of All (Albiorix)
ALTERNATIVE Teutates (valiant/warlike) / Totates / Touta /
Toutori (God of the Tribe) / Tud / Tutates
GENDER M
SYMBOL holly
CATEGORY deity
TYPE tribal god (arts/trading/travelling/goodfortune)
CULTURE Gallic - Bituriges tribe
COUNTRY France / England / Wales / Ireland / Austria
REGION Styria
TERRITORY Gaul / Pannonia / Lloegr
SITES Seckau
AGE Iron
DATES BC 12th c / BC 4th c
SEE ALSO Esus / Taranis / Zeus
REMARKS As the god of the tribe "Tongu Do Dia Toinges mo
Thuath", Teutates was associated with fertility, law and
justice. Teutates was accredited with the invention of all
arts, success in trading and protection of his people when
they travelled. He was also expected to protect the tribe
from invasion, plagues and blights.
Teutates, Esus and Taranis formed a triad of gods and
each one was associated with a different sacrificial rite.
Sacrifices to Teutates were plunged head first into a vat
of water and drowned, or were suffocated by strangulation.
The triple death of stabbing, burning and drowning (or
strangulation) held great significance, involving 3 of the
4 elements.
The term Teuta, Touta or Tuath (people or tribe) may
be a generic term for the god of the tribe because the
actual name was kept secret and only referred to in public
as "the god by whom my tribe swears".
In Ireland the deity was referred to as Touta, and in
Wales his name was Tud. The conquering Celts of BC 4th
century who followed Segovesus were most likely responsible
for disseminating the veneration of Teutates to Seckau,
Austria during their expedition to Pannonia. The Bituriges
tribe were of the ancient Goidel culture who settled the
area in BC 12th century. Teutates, Esus and Taranis may be
related to the older Celtic god Zeus.
NAME Teutobodunus
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
CULTURE Germano-Celtic - Teutonii tribe
COUNTRY Germany
AGE Iron
DATES BC 1st c
SEE ALSO Claodicos
REMARKS Teutobodunus, a chieftain of the Teutonii tribe,
joined forces with a Cimbri chieftain named Claodicos. They
created havoc in Gaul while their warriors on a campaign
looking for new lands to settle.
Although the Teutoni tribe were of the Germani
culture, Teutobodunus is a Celtic name and the Germani
language by this time had already adopted many Celtic loan
words.
NAME Teutomatos
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / Brenin
TYPE horse warrior / head chieftain
CULTURE Gallic - Nitiobriges
COUNTRY France
TERRITORY Gaul
LANDMARKS Dordogne / Lot
AGE Iron
DATES BC 1st c / BC 52
RELATIVES Ollovico (father)
ENEMIES Rome
SEE ALSO Vercingetorix
REMARKS Teutomatos helped Vercingetorix in his campaign
to rid Gaul of the invading Romans by supplying horse
warriors from his tribe and Aquitanian mercenaries.
Teutomatos suffered a close call when the Romans
penetrated his lines during a suprise attack. He just
managed to escape on a wounded horse.
NAME Teyrnon
EPITHET Lord of the Raging Sea (Teyrnon Twryf Liant) /
Great Leader (Tigernonos) / The Best Man in the
World (Teirnon Twyrvliant)
ALTERNATIVE Teirnon {teer'-nun} / Teirnon Twyrvliant
{Tair-non Turv-lee-ant} / Teyrnon {tayr'-nun}
(Sovereign)
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Beltainn (Brilliant Fires)
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
TYPE horse warrior
CULTURE Silures tribe
COUNTRY Wales
REGION Gwent
TERRITORY Gwent Ys Coed (Gwent Below the Woods)
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
ACCESSORIES supernatural sword
RELATIVES Gwri Golden Hair (foster-son)
SEE ALSO Rhiannon / Pwyll / Pryderi
REMARKS Teyrnon was the chieftain of Gwent Ys Coed
{Gwent uss Coit} and was considered to be The Best Man in
the World. He was of the Silures tribe, a very ancient
people in Wales, and his head chieftain was Pwyll.
Teyrnon had a magnificent mare which foaled every year
on the eve of Beltainn. Teyron had a problem in that every
time the mare gave birth, the foal would always
mysteriously disappear. One Beltainn eve, Teyrnon decided
to hide in the stable and guard the mare. Just as the mare
delivered her foal, Teyrnon heard a horrendously loud noise
and a great claw came through the window to seize the
newborn colt. Teyrnon grabbed his sword and chopped off
the arm.
When Teyrnon turned back to his mare there was a human
baby boy laying beside the foal. Teyrnon and his wife had
no children of their own, so they were exceptionally happy
to adopt this beautiful little boy with golden blond hair.
They decided to name the boy Gwri Golden Hair and he
grew so rapidly that by the time he was 2 years old he
looked six. When Gwri was 3 years old, his foster-mother
gave him a present of the colt which had been born at the
same time as him and then trained.
Not long after, Teyrnon heard of the plight of
Rhiannon, sovereign of his people. He and his wife looked
carefully at Gwri and they realized that the boy had the
features of Rhiannon and Pwyll.
Teyrnon, two of his warriors and Gwri rode to the
fortress of Pwyll where they were met by Rhiannon who was
suffering the indignity of carrying visitors from the
hitching post to the meeting hall. The four nobles refused
to let her carry them to the court of Pwyll, and when
Teyrnon presented Gwri and told the story of his
appearance, the nobles and druids agreed that this was
indeed Pryderi, the son of Rhiannon and Pwyll.
Pwyll offered Teyrnon jewels, horses and dogs as a
reward but Teyrnon, the best man in the world, refused all
gifts, happy just to have been the foster-father of Pwyll's
only son.
NAME Tibatto
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
TYPE freedom fighter
CULTURE Gallic / Aremorican
COUNTRY France
REGION Brittany
TERRITORY Gaul / Aremorica
AGE Iron (late)
DATES AD 5th c / AD 437 (died)
ENEMIES Rome
REMARKS Tibatto was a freedom fighter who tried to keep
Armorica free of the Roman scourge. He was captured in AD
437 and killed. Brittany did however manage to stay
Celtic, free of Romans, Franks and Norse.
NAME Tigernach Tetbannach
ALTERNATIVE Tetbandach
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / Ri Ruirech
TYPE chariot warrior / head chieftain
CULTURE Goidel - Clanna Erainn
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Munster
CENTERS Temair Luachra (Tara of the Rushes)
AGE iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
RELATIVES Daire (father); Sin (brother); Dedad (nephew);
Eremon and Tea (ancestors)
SEE ALSO Conaire Mor / Dedad / Eochaidh Airemh / Eremon /
Eterscel / Tea
REMARKS Tigernach, son of Daire, was a descendant of
Eremon and Tea of the Milesian (Goidel). He was the head
chieftain of the Clanna Erainn and ruled over East Munster
at the time Eochaidh Airemh came to power as the high
chieftain of Ireland. He continued his rule through the
reign of Eterscel Mor and was still occupying the seat when
Conaire Mor became high chieftain of Ireland.
NAME Tigernmas
EPITHET Lord of Death
ALTERNATIVE Tigernmas {teern'-mas} / Tighearnmhas
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Samhain (Night of the Dead)
CATEGORY warrior / Ard Righ Eirinn
TYPE chariot warrior / high chieftain
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Meath
TERRITORY Connacht / Leinster / Mide / Munster / Ulster
LANDMARKS Moyslaught (Magh Slecht) / Magh mBreg
CENTERS Raith Rig - Tara
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 15th-14th c / BC 1442-1365 (Ard Righ - Kings
List)
RELATIVES Follach (father); Enboth (son); Eremon and Tea
(ancestors)
SEE ALSO Cromm Dubh / Conmael / Eber / Eremon / Golamh /
Tea
REMARKS Tigernmas, son of Follach, descendant of Eremon
and Tea, became the 5th Goidel high chieftain of Ireland
when he killed Conmael in revenge for the death of his
father and grandfather. In 3x9 battles he destroyed many
of the progeny of Eber, son of Golamh.
Tigernmas was responsible for the development of
smithing in gold and silver and opened the first gold mine
in Ireland. Iuchadan was Tigernmas's wright who smelted
the gold. Tigernmas had the first horns, silver vessels,
pins, fringes and brooches made. He also introduced the
colors purple, blue and green and started using color
coding on clothing to indicate a person's rank. He
introduced the use of checkered patterns and colored
stripes for clothing.
Tigernmas was known as the Lord of Death because he
introduced the veneration of Crom Cruaich (Cromm Dubh) on
the Plain of Adoration (Moyslaught) into Ireland. One
Samhain eve during a festival, the participants worked
themselves into such a frenzy that he and three quarters of
the worshippers died.
The high chieftain after Tigernmas was Eochu
Edgathach, son of Daire Doimthech, son of Lugaid, son of
Ith.
NAME Tincommius
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / Brenin
TYPE chariot warrior / head chieftain
CULTURE Belgae - Atrebates tribe
COUNTRY England
REGION Hampshire / West Sussex
TERRITORY Lloegr
AGE Iron
DATES BC 1st-AD 1st c / AD 7 (died)
RELATIVES Comm (father); Eppillos and Verica (brothers)
ENEMIES Eppillos
SEE ALSO Comm / Eppillos / Verica
REMARKS Tincommius succeeded his father Comm as the head
chieftain of the tribe but because of his pro-Roman stance
he was killed at the age of 27 by his brother Eppillos.
Eppillos then became the tribe's head chieftain.
NAME Tindell
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior
CULTURE Danann
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Ulster
SITES Slieve Edlicon (Edlicon Mountain)
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 15th c
RELATIVES son of Boclachtnae
ENEMIES Goidel
SEE ALSO Brea / Grici / Gulban Glass / Redg
REMARKS When the Goidel and the Danann divided Ireland,
the Danann left 5 warriors in each of the five provinces to
cause as much trouble as possible for the conquering
Goidel.
In the province of Ulster they left Tindell, Brea,
Redg, Grici and Gulban. Tindell was stationed in the area
of Slieve Edlicon.
NAME Tlachtga
GENDER F
FESTIVAL Samhain (Festival of the Dead)
CATEGORY deity / druid
TYPE goddess of knowledge / scholar
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Meath
TERRITORY West Munster / Mide
SITES Mound of Tlachtga (Hill of Ward)
AGE Iron
DATES AD 1st c
RELATIVES Mug Ruith (father)
ENEMIES sons of Simon Magus
REMARKS Tlachtga was travelling the world in search of
knowledge with her father, the druid Mug Ruith of West
Munster when she was raped by the three sons of Simon Magus
while she was in Palestine. Upon her return to Ireland,
she bore triplets, then died on a hill where she was
buried. The site became known as the Mound of Tlachtga,
now called the Hill of Ward, near Athboy in county Meath.
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
CULTURE Belgae - Catuvellauni tribe
COUNTRY England
REGION Hertfordshire / Buckinghamshire / Surrey / Kent
TERRITORY Lloegr
SITES North Downs
CENTERS Wheathamstead / Verulamium (St Albans)
AGE Iron
DATES AD 1st c / AD 43 (died)
BATTLES Lea Marshes
RELATIVES Tasciovanos (grandfather); Cunobel (father);
Adminius and Caratacus (brothers); Epaticcos
(great-uncle)
ENEMIES Adminius / Rome
SEE ALSO Adminius / Caratacus / Cunobel /
Epaticcos /
Tasciovanos / Verica
REMARKS Cunobel had made his holdings a leader in trade
and when he died, his sons Togodumnos and Caratacus and his
uncle Epaticcos expanded the Catuvellauni territory.
Togodumnos was the chieftain of the Catuvellauni
heartland while his brother was the head chieftain of all
the tribes and dependents. The Roman Claudius, who was in
Gaul at the time, used a complaint from Verica of the
Atrebates as an excuse to invade Britain which was showing
itself to be a wealthy land.
In the spring of AD 43, Claudius sent Aulus Plautius
with 50,000 soldiers. Togodumnos and Caratacus tried to
hold the Romans off in the North Downs but were pushed back
to Lea Marshes, where Togodumnos was killed in the
subsequent battle. Caratacus then pulled his warriors into
Wales where he sought help from the local tribes.
NAME Torna Eices
EPITHET Torna the Learned
GENDER M
CATEGORY filidh
TYPE poet / prophet
CULTURE Goidel - Clanna Erainn
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Meath
TERRITORY Munster / Mide
LANDMARKS Magh mBreg
CENTERS Raith Rig - Tara
AGE Iron
DATES AD 3rd-4th c
BATTLES Dubchommar {Dubh-Cumair}
RELATIVES Niall Noighiallach (foster-son)
ENEMIES Fianna
SEE ALSO Cairbre of the Liffey / Colla / Eochu Muigmedon
/ Fiacha Sreabhtuinne / Mongfhinn / Niall
Noighiallach
REMARKS Torna, a poet of Munster, was resident poet to
Fiacha Sreabhtuinne when Fiacha was the high chieftain of
Ireland. Torna prophesied that Fiacha would be killed in
battle (Dubchommar) by the three Collas but Cairbre's
descendants would rule Ireland forever.
When Torna was an ancient man he found Niall, the son
of the current high chieftain Eochu Muigmedon, on the hill
of Tara where he had been abandoned to die by his step-
mother Mongfhinn. Torna became the boy's foster-father.
NAME Traigtren
EPITHET Strongfoot
ALTERNATIVE Traighthren
GENDER M
CATEGORY messenger
TYPE runner / Red Branch champion
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Armagh
TERRITORY Ulster exile / cause of Connacht
SITES Ath Grenca / Cronech at Forchard
CENTERS Emain Macha (Navan) / Raith Cruachan
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Cualnge Cattle Raid
RELATIVES Traiglethan (father)
ENEMIES Cualnge / Pictland / Ulster
SEE ALSO Cu Chulainn / Laeg / Medbh
REMARKS Medbh sent Traigtren (Strongfoot) son of
Traiglethan (Broadfoot) to summon Cu Chulainn to a parley
at Ath Grenca and request that he should come unarmed as
she would be.
Laeg was suspicious that Medbh's intentions were
dishonorable and convinced Cu Chulainn to carry his sword.
He argued that a warrior was not allowed his honor-price if
he was taken without arms and he would then be answerable
to the coward's law.
Cu Chulainn was lucky to have such a far-seeing
charioteer because on the way to the parley he was attacked
by 14 of Medbh's lackeys, who he killed. The place was
named Cronech at Forchard (Good the Feat of Arms at
Cronech).
NAME Trebuat
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Samhain (Festival of the Dead)
CATEGORY warrior
CULTURE Pictish
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Dublinn
TERRITORY Mide
LANDMARKS Magh Liffey
SITES Da Derga's Hostel
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Ath Cliath
RELATIVES Hua Lonsec (father); Dublonges (son)
ENEMIES Ingcel / sons of Donn Desa
SEE ALSO Conaire Mor / Curnach / Da Derga / Donn Desa /
Dublonges / Ingcel
REMARKS Trebuat, Dublonges and Curnach were 3 exiles
from Pictland who served Conaire. The three warriors were
large men with brown skin and hair of even length. They
wore black hooded cowls that reached to their elbows. All
three men carried huge black swords, black shields and dark
green javelins with thick shafts. Each was wounded in the
battle but lived to boast of killing a raider chieftain.
NAME Trendorm
GENDER M
CATEGORY servant
TYPE spy
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Armagh
TERRITORY Ulster
SITES Red Branch hostel
CENTERS Emain Macha (Navan)
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
ENEMIES Naoise
SEE ALSO Conchobar / Deirdre / Naoise
REMARKS Conchobar asked his servant Trendorm to go to
the Red Branch hostel where Naoise and Deirdre were staying
and ascertain whether Deirdre was still beautiful. When
Trendorm looked through the window, Naoise saw him and
threw a gaming piece at him, striking out on of his eyes.
He told Conchobar her beauty was such that he would gladly
lose the other eye for another look.
NAME Trenfer
EPITHET Strongman (Tren-fher) / The battle soldier
(Cath-miled)
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Samhain (Festival of the Dead)
CATEGORY warrior / guard
TYPE one of the 12 guards of Tara
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Meath / Dublin
TERRITORY Cuilenn / Mide
LANDMARKS Magh mBreg / Magh Liffey
SITES Da Derga's Hostel
CENTERS Raith Rig - Tara
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Ath Cliath
ENEMIES Ingcel / sons of Donn Desa
SEE ALSO Art / Buder / Conaire / Da Derga / Donn Desa /
Ingcel / Lond
REMARKS There were 12 guardsmen of Tara whose duty was
to protect the high chieftain of Ireland. They were
described in threes as the 3 Londs, the 3 Arts, the 3
Buders, and the 3 Trenfers of Cuilenn. They all had blond
hair and wore blue kilts. They were described as handsome,
hardy and well-built.
The 12 guardsmen wore ivory-hilted swords and carried
horse-rods in their right hands. They were the champions
of the high chieftain of Ireland and fought on his behalf.
NAME Triath
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior
CULTURE Danann
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Longford
TERRITORY Ulster
SITES Sidhe Bri Leith
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 16th-15th c
RELATIVES Febal (father); Midhir (foster-father)
SEE ALSO Anghus / Midhir
REMARKS Triath was a foster-son to Midhir at his sidhe
at Bri Leith in county Longford. Triath and Anghus Og were
always competing for the leadership among the boys, and as
an insult Triath reminded Anghus that he did not know who
his parents were.
NAME Tricephalus
ALTERNATIVE Tricephalus (Three Heads)
GENDER M
CATEGORY deity
TYPE tutelary god of the tribe
CULTURE Belgae - Remi tribe
COUNTRY Belgium / France
TERRITORY Gaul / Belgica
SITES La Malmaison
AGE Iron
DATES BC 6th c
REMARKS Tricephalus was a popular deity and so far 32
effigies of him have been found in the northeast of France.
At La Malmaison near Reims, a center of the Remi tribe,
there is a standing stone referring to Tricephalus and the
Roman deities Rosmerta and Mercury.
This was the territory of the Remi tribe who claimed
to have been the first of the La Tène A group to settle in
Belgica.
NAME Triscatail Trenfer
ALTERNATIVE Triscoth
GENDER M
SYMBOL club
FESTIVAL Samhain (Festival of the Dead)
CATEGORY servant
TYPE court strongman to Conchobar (Ri Ruirech)
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Armagh
TERRITORY Ulster
SITES Temair Luachra / Mound of Slane in Mide
CENTERS Emain macha
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Temuir Luachra / Cualnge Cattle Raid / Gairech &
Irgairech
ACCESSORIES great boulder / iron club
ENEMIES Host of Connacht
SEE ALSO Conchobar / Cromm Deroil / MacRoth
REMARKS Triscatail Trenfer accompanied Conchobar on the
drunken ride that led to Temair Luachra where the warriors
of Ulster became involved in a brawl with warriors of
Munster and Connacht.
Cromm Deroil described Triscatail as brawny, stout,
black-browed with white teeth and wearing nothing except a
leather apron that went up to his armpits. He carried no
weapons except his massive arms, each of which were the
size of an ordinary man. He lifted a standing stone and
performed the Apple Feat with it. He could slay 3x9
warriors with just a look. When the warriors of Ulster
were imprisoned in the iron house, Triscatail tried in vain
to break down the door.
When Triscatail arrived at the mound of Slane in Mide
before the Battle of Gairech and Irgairech, MacRoth
described him as a terrible man who carried a boulder in
his hand that he tossed into the air and caught again as if
it were a small stone. He also carried an iron club in the
belt at his waist.
NAME Tristan
ALTERNATIVE Drustan / Trantris / Trystan {Tris'-tun} /
Tristram {Tris'-trum}
GENDER M
CATEGORY hero / warrior / bard
TYPE horse warrior / minstrel
CULTURE Cymry (tribes that fight side by side)
COUNTRY England / Ireland / France
REGION Cornwall
LANDMARKS Forest of Kelyddon (Castle Dore)
AGE Post-Roman
DATES AD 6th c
ACCESSORIES standing stone (Tristan son of Cynfawr)
RELATIVES Cynddilig (father); Blanchefleur (mother);
Eseult (consort); Isolt (wife); March (uncle)
ENEMIES March / Morold
SEE ALSO Arthur / Cynddilig Cyfarwydd / Eseult /
Gwalchmai mab Gwyar / March / Morold
REMARKS Tristan was born posthumously to a mother who
died in childbirth and he grew up at the court of her
brother March who was the head chieftain of Cornwall.
Tristan became a great warrior and champion to his uncle.
Tristan was chosen to fight Morold, the champion and
tax collector to the high chieftain of Ireland, when March
refused to give up any more young warriors for service in
Ireland. Tristan beat Morold but was dying from a
poisonous wound from Morold's sword.
In order to find a cure, Tristan was disguised as a
minstrel named Tantris and sent to the druid physician, a
daughter of the high chieftain of Ireland. While being
cured he fell madly in love with the beautiful and
intelligent maiden and came back to Cornwall raving of her
virtues. March, who was without a wife, thought he would
marry her and charged Tristan to go to Ireland to woo her
for him.
When Tristan arrived in Ireland, he found that a
dragon was ravishing the countryside and the high chieftain
had offered his daughter's hand in marriage to anyone who
could kill him. Tristan immediately challenged the dragon
to battle and killed him, but was poisoned in the process
and lost his memory. A steward who was there saw this as a
golden opportunity and claimed the kill for himself. While
Tristan was being cured by the druid, his memory returned
and he talked of his combat with the dragon. The truth was
then extracted from the steward and Tristan was credited as
the true dragon-slayer.
Tristan claimed Iseult in marriage for his uncle, the
head chieftain of Cornwall, and began the return trip to
Cornwall with his uncle's prize. However, on the way home
Tristan and Iseult mistakenly drank a love potion prepared
by her mother and immediately fell in love. When they
arrived in Cornwall, March and Iseult were married, thus
tying together Ireland and Cornwall.
Tristan and Iseult kept meeting each other secretly
until eventually they were caught by the court dwarf who
told March. Tristan and Iseult had to flee for their lives
and lived throughout the Forest of Kelyddon in Cornwall for
some time until Gwalchmai, a negotiator from Arthur,
intervened and it was decided that Tristan would leave for
Brittany and Iseult would return to her husband.
Tristan sailed for Brittany where he eventually
married another maiden named Isolt of the White Hand. Later
he was wounded in battle and Iseult the druid was sent for
in Cornwall. Isolt the wife of Tristan was very jealous of
Iseult becaude she knew that Tristan still loved her. The
captain of the ship bringing Iseult from Cornwall was told
to fly a white flag if the druid was on board and to fly a
black flag if she was not. When the ship was first seen
from land, a runner brought the message to the wife of
Tristan and she told her husband that the flag was black.
On receiving the news, Tristan lost heart and died.
When the ship arrived it was flying a white flag and Iseult
the druid rushed to the side of her loved one only to find
that he was dead. The thought of going back to live with
the ancient head chieftain when Tristan was dead was too
much for her, so she mixed some poison and drank it. A
vine grew from Tristan's grave which intertwined with the
rosebush that grew from the grave of Iseult.
NAME Trogus Pompeius
GENDER M
CATEGORY vate
TYPE historic poet
CULTURE Gallic - Vocontii tribe
COUNTRY Italy
TERRITORY Cisalpine Gaul
AGE Iron
DATES BC 1st c
REMARKS Trogus Pompeius was a Celtic historian who
described the migration of the Gauls into northern Italy in
BC 396.
NAME Tuachall macNechta
EPITHET The Cunning
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior
TYPE chariot warrior
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Mide
LANDMARKS Boyne / Magh mBreg
CENTERS Dun Necht (fortress of Necht)
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
RELATIVES Necht Scene (mother); Fer Ulli (father); Fandall
and Foill (brothers)
ENEMIES Cu Chulainn / Ulster
SEE ALSO Conchobar / Cu Chulainn / Fandall macNechta /
Fer Ulli / Foill macNechta / Ibar mac
Riangabair
Necht Scene
REMARKS Tuachall had a special talent that he had to be
killed on the first blow or he could not be slain at all.
Because his father had been killed by warriors of Ulster,
Tuachall and his brother took revenge on Ulster and killed
more warriors than they left alive.
One day Tuachall was on the green of Dunn Necht when
Cu Chulainn came by with Ibar, the charioteer of Conchobar.
Tuachall was challenged to combat by Cu Chulainn. Cu
Chulainn used Conchobar's lance Craisech Neme (Venomous
lance) and drove it through Tuachall's shield, into his
heart and out through the ribs of his back. Then he cut
off the head and added it to his prize.
NAME Tuag
EPITHET The Wave of Tuag (Tonn Tuag)
ALTERNATIVE Tuaithe
GENDER M
SYMBOL triskele
CATEGORY deity
TYPE sea god
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Derry
TERRITORY Ulster
SITES mouth of the Bann river
SEE ALSO Cliodna / Rudraidhe
REMARKS Tonn Tuag was one of the 3 great waves of
Ireland along with Tonn Cliodhna and Tonn Rudraige. The
wave of Tuag was in Ulster at the mouth of the Bann river
in present-day county Derry.
NAME Tuan mac Cairill
ALTERNATIVE Tuan mac Carell {Toon mac Car-il} / Cairell /
Cairill
GENDER M
CATEGORY filidh
TYPE shape changer
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Donegal
TERRITORY Ulster
SITES near Finnen's Monastery at Moville
AGE Ui Néill
DATES AD 6th c (AD 507 ca)
RELATIVES Cairell (father); Muiredach Muinderg
(grandfather)
SEE ALSO Cairell / Cessair / Fintan mac Bochra
REMARKS Tuan mac Cairill was born with the memory of all
his previous lives since the time he was Fintan mac Bochra,
a follower of Cessair who arrived in Ireland before the
Irish Deluge. All of Tuan's reincarnations took place in
Ulster and he passed on the history of Ireland from the
time of Cessair to the invasion of the Milesian (Goidel) to
a druid who lived near Tuan's home in present-day county
Donegal.
NAME Tuan mac Starn
GENDER M
SYMBOL stag / boar / eagle / salmon
FESTIVAL Beltainn (Brilliant Fires)
CATEGORY filidh
TYPE shape changer
CULTURE Partholean tribe
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Ulster
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 19th c
RELATIVES Starn (father); Partholon (great-granduncle);
Magog (ancestor)
ENEMIES Fomorii
SEE ALSO Cessair / Ebliu / Fintan mac Bochra / Magog /
Partholon
REMARKS Tuan son of Starn, son of Sera, son of Becsomus,
was the reincarnation of Fintan mac Bochra, a follower of
Cessair. He was the only Partholean to survive the plague
with his memory intact. He lived so long by himself he was
afraid to approach the Nemedian when they arrived in
Ireland.
When Tuan finally died, he was reborn as a stag for
300 years, then as a boar for 100, an eagle for 300, and
last a salmon for 100 years. He was again born as a one-
eyed human and married Ebliu of the Danann.
NAME Tuathal Teachtmhair
EPITHET The Legitimate / The Possessor / The Acceptable
ALTERNATIVE Techt Tar-muir (Coming over-sea) / Techthmhaire
/ Tuathal {Toole} Techtmar
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / Ard Righ Eirinn
TYPE chariot warrior / high chieftain
CULTURE Goidel / Danann / Pictish
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Meath
TERRITORY Connacht / Leinster / Mide / Munster / Ulster
LANDMARKS Magh mBreg
SITES Hill of Cennguba (died)
CENTERS Raith Rig - Tara
AGE Iron
DATES AD 1st-2nd c / AD 75-105 (Ard Righ - King List)
BATTLES Aicill
ACCESSORIES Boramha Tribute (cattle counting)
RELATIVES Eithne Imgel (mother); Fiachu (father); Bane
(wife); Fithir and Dairine (daughters);
Fedilimid (son); Eremon and Tea (ancestors)
ENEMIES Elim / Eochaidh
SEE ALSO Eithne Imgel / Eochaidh mac Echach Doimlein /
Eremon / Fedilimid Rechtmar / Fiachu Finnoilches
/ Mal / Tea
REMARKS Tuathal Teachtmhair, son of Fiachu Finnoilches,
descendant of Eremon and Tea, was guided by his mother
Eithne Imgel. He became the high chieftain of Ireland when
he killed Elim of the Fir Bolg in the battle of Aicill. He
fought 123 battles against his enemies, then reinstated the
province of Mide by taking the sacred site of Uisneach from
Connacht, the mound of Tailtiu from Ulster, the mound of
Tlachtga from Munster and Tara from Leinster.
Tuathal then called the Assembly of Temair. At the
time, Conrach mac Derg was the head chieftain of Connacht;
Fergus, Febal and Eochu mac Conrach were ruling Ulster
jointly; Eochu mac Dairi was the head chieftain of West
Munster and Eogan mac Ailella Erann was over East Munster;
and Eochaidh mac Echach Doimlein of the Fir Domnann was the
head chieftain of Leinster. The assembly agreed that the
provinces would have equal power and that Tuathal's
descendants would have the right to the high chieftain over
anyone else.
Eochaidh, the head chieftain of Leinster, asked for
one of Tuathal's daughters in marriage. Tuathal consented
to this and Fithir was married to Eochaidh, but the people
of Leinster said the other daughter was more beautiful.
Therefore Eochaidh again went to the high chieftain and
told him that his daughter Fithir had died but he would
marry Dairine. Tuathal agreed to this as well, but when
the second daughter arrived at the raith in Leinster she
found her sister Fithir was still very much alive. They
were both so distraught over the injustice that they
committed suicide.
When Tuathal found out about Eochaidh's treachery he
raised an army of 12,000 warriors from Ulster and Connacht.
The head chieftain from Ulster was killed along with many
of his warriors, but Eochaidh could not beat the combined
force and he was killed.
Tuathal then imposed a yearly tax on the people of
Leinster. This obligation took the form of cattle counting
and was known as the Boramha Tribute. The tax included
15,000 cows, 15,000 swine, 15,000 wethers, 15,000 mantles,
silver chains and copper cauldrons. It also included one
huge cauldron that could hold 12 boars and 12 kine for the
raith at Tara, plus 30 red-eared cows with calves of the
same color, halters, tethers of bronze and bosses of gold.
Tuatha married Bane, daughter of Scal, and when she
died she was buried at Cnoc Bane in Airgialla. Tuatha
ruled Ireland as the high chieftain for 30 years until he
fell by treachery to Mal on the hill of Cennguba in Dal
Araide.
NAME Tuidle of Ulster
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Samhain (Festival of the Dead)
CATEGORY servant
TYPE court steward to Conaire (Ard Righ Eirinn)
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Meath / Dublin
TERRITORY Mide
LANDMARKS Magh mBreg / Magh Liffey
SITES Da Derga's Hostel
CENTERS Raith Rig - Tara
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Ath Cliath
ENEMIES Ingcel / sons of Donn Desa
SEE ALSO Conaire / Da Derga / Donn Desa / Ingcel
REMARKS Tuidle, the steward to Conaire the high
chieftain of Ireland, decided where guests sat, what they
ate and where they slept.
Tuidle wore a fleecy mantle and was described as
having his hair in so many spikes that if an apple fell off
a tree onto his head it would be pierced by his hair. He
died during the destruction at Da Derga's Hostel, but he
took 3 raiders with him while trying to protect his high
chieftain.
NAME Tuireann
ALTERNATIVE Tuireann {Teer-enn}
GENDER F
SYMBOL hound
CATEGORY rigbean (noble woman)
CULTURE Danann / Goidel - Eoganachta / Pictish / Fomorii
/ Fianna - Clanna Ui Tarsigh
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Laois / Offaly
TERRITORY Leinster
CENTERS Raith Almu (Fort of Almain)
AGE Iron
DATES AD 3rd c
RELATIVES Murna (mother); Cumhal (father); Fionn
(brother); Ullan (1st husband); Donn (2nd
husband); Diarmaid ua Duibhne (son); Roc
(consort)
SEE ALSO Anghus mac Og / Cumhal / Diarmaid ua Duibhne /
Donn / Fionn mac Cumhaill / Murna / Roc / Ullan
REMARKS While Tuireann was pregnant, her husband Ullan
was having an affair with a female druid. The druid became
jealous of Tuireann and turned her into a hound. While in
the form of a hound, her two sons were born as pups. Her
brother Fionn raised the pups and they became his famous
hunting hounds Bran and Sceolan. When Ullan promised to
leave Tuireann, the druid turned her back into a human.
Tuireann then married Donn and became the mother of
Diarmaid Ua Duibhne. She also gave birth to a child whose
god-father was Roc, the steward of Anghus mac Og. The
child was killed by Donn, her husband, but was changed into
a wild boar with no tail or ears and sent to live on Ben
Bulben and given the same life span as Diarmaid. Diarmaid
was given a geis that he could not hunt wild boar.
NAME Tulchinne
ALTERNATIVE Tualchinne
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Samhain (Festival of the Dead)
CATEGORY warrior / filidh
TYPE chief juggler and conjurer to Conaire (Ard Righ
Eirinn)
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Meath / Dublin
TERRITORY Mide
LANDMARKS Magh mBreg / Magh Liffey
SITES Da Derga's Hostel
CENTERS Raith Rig - Tara
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Ath Cliath
ACCESSORIES 9 swords / 9 silver shields / 9 golden apples
ENEMIES Ingcel / sons of Donn Desa
SEE ALSO Conaire Mor / Da Derga / Donn Desa / Fer
Caille
/ Ingcel
REMARKS Tulchinne was chief juggler and conjurer to
Conaire, the high chieftain of Ireland. He was described
as having a partly-shaved head with white hair. He wore a
speckled colored mantle and rings of gold around his ears.
During the night that Conaire and his party arrived at
the hostel of Da Derga, Tulchinne was juggling his 9
swords, 9 shields and 9 apples when they cried out and fell
to the ground. Tulchinne felt the eye of Ingcel on him. He
started to juggle again and they once more cried out and
fell to the ground. Tulchinne then warned everyone of an
evil presence and suggested that Fer Caille slaughter his
boar and divine who was outside.
NAME Tutor
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior
TYPE revolutionary
CULTURE Belgae - Treviri tribe
COUNTRY France
TERRITORY Gaul
AGE Iron
DATES AD 1st c / AD 68
ENEMIES Rome
SEE ALSO Civilis / Classicus / Sabinus
REMARKS When Nero died in AD 68, chaos reigned
throughout the Roman Empire. The surviving druids of Gaul
called on their people to fight a holy war against Rome.
Tutor, Civilis, Classicus and Sabinus were Gauls who held
positions as officers in the Roman occupational army. Tutor
supported the separation from Rome but when the Remi tribe
called together an assembly of the tribes of Gaul and
convinced them to stay submissive, Tutor disappeared.
This was the end of ancient Gaul, as the new Celtic
leaders adopted the dress, language, religion and way of
life of the Roman colonialists. The Celtic gods, heroes
and warriors disappeared and were replaced with an inferior
breed who were happy to enjoy the luxuries offered in
exchange for wearing the collar of Rome.
NAME Tydain
EPITHET Father of Inspiration or Genius (Tad Awen)
ALTERNATIVE Titain / Titan
GENDER M
CATEGORY ovate
TYPE poet / sage
CULTURE Pictish / Briton
COUNTRY France / England
REGION Brittany / Cornwall
TERRITORY Gaul / Llydaw / Lloegr
LANDMARKS Loire
AGE Iron
DATES BC 6th c / BC 550 ca.
SEE ALSO Prydain
REMARKS Tydain was a Pictish ovate who left his home on
the Loire river in Llydaw (Brittany) and followed Prydain
to Lloegr (England) where they landed at Cornwall. He
introduced order and method into poetry, and order and
privileges for the poets.