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C
The third letter of the modern English alphabet and of the ancient Roman one, originally corresponding to Greek gamma, Semitic gimel.
Connla's Well
A source of inspiration and knowledge in early Irish mythology, some what comparable to the well of Mimir in Norse tradition. The location of the well changes from text to text, and the identity of ...
Dian Cecht
As the Irish god of medicine, Dian Cecht supplied Nuada, king of the Tuatha Dé Danaan, with a silver arm after the first battle of Magh Tuired. Dian Cecht's son ...
Donn Ua Duibne
Father of the Fenian hero Diarmait Ua Duibne, whose vengeance causes his son to be pursued by a magical boar. Diarmait's mother, Cochrann (also Cróchnat), has committed adultery with a shepherd, ...
fairy tree
Almost all kinds of tree found in the Celtic countries have been thought to have special powers or to serve as the abode of the fairies, especially the magical trio of oak, ash, and thorn. Next in ...
Fianna
In Gaelic Ireland a warrior band (see kern), and more specifically, in Irish mythology, the group that followed the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool). Fianna Éireann was a nationalist youth ...
Finnéces
[Ir. finn, fair; éices, seer, scholar, sage, poet].Druid or seer who unwittingly helped Fionn mac Cumhaill gain the power of divination. Finnéces lives for seven years along the banks of the Boyne, ...
hazel Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
Any of c.15 bushes or small trees of the genus Corylus, native to temperate regions of Europe, Asia
hazel Quick reference
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
[OE hæsel].
Both the wood and the edible nuts of this bush or small tree (genus Corylus) have
knowledge
Knowledge is power proverbial saying, late 16th century; originally from the English lawyer and courtier Francis Bacon (1561–1626), and echoing the biblical ‘a man of knowledge increaseth strength ...
Mac Cuill
[Ir., son of hazel].A king/warrior of the Tuatha Dé Danann, best remembered as the first of the three brothers who kill the hero Lug Lámfhota, along with Mac Cécht (1) and Mac Gréine, in revenge for ...
Nechtan I
1 Neachtan [cf. L. Neptune]. This husband of Boand was the only person, other than his three cupbearers, who could visit Connla's Well, over which the nine hazel trees dropped their nuts. When Boand ...
tree
A large, perennial, woody plant that usually has one main trunk, a number of branches, and a crown of foliage.
Well of Segais
Fabulous well or spring, thought to be the common source of both the Boyne and the Shannon rivers, and a source also for supernatural knowledge. Like Connla's Well, which it resembles and may be ...
