Eithne Táebfada ingen Cathair Mór, {Legendary, Lebor Gabála Érenn}

After Conn's wife Eithne Táebfada, daughter of Cathair Mór, died, another fairy woman, Bé Chuille, was banished by the Tuatha Dé Danann to Ireland.

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According to the saga "The Melody of the House of Buchet",[8] Cormac married Eithne Táebfada, daughter of Cathaír Mór and foster-daughter of Buchet, a wealthy cattle-lord from Leinster whose hospitality was so exploited that he was reduced to poverty. However, in other traditions Eithne is the wife of Cormac's grandfather Conn Cétchathach. Keating[2] says the foster-daughter of Buchet that Cormac married was another Eithne, Eithne Ollamda, daughter of Dúnlaing, king of Leinster. Also according to Keating, Cormac took a second wife, Ciarnait, daughter of the king of the Cruthin, but Eithne, out of jealousy of her beauty, forced her to grind nine measures of grain every day. Cormac freed her from this labour by having a watermill built.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Irish title for a story known in English as ‘The Melodies of Buchet's House’. A part of the Cycle of Kings or Historical Cycle, the story dates from at least as far back as the 10th century and is preserved in five vellum manuscripts, including the Book of Leinster and the Yellow Book of Lecan. Buchet, a hospitable man of Leinster, fosters Eithne (Eithne Tháebfota, though she is called simply Eithne here), the daughter of Cathaír Mór, king of Ireland. Unhappily for Buchet, Cathaír Mór's twelve rapacious sons invite themselves to his house and consume all his larder and most of his livestock, leaving only seven cows and a bull. Cathaír Mór, now a withered old man, says he cannot control his sons, offers no redress, and tells Buchet to go away. He does so, fleeing with his wife, Eithne, and the remaining cattle, seeking out Cormac mac Airt at Kells. Already a powerful figure, Cormac is not yet king because (in a variant from the usual story) Medb Lethderg, Art's widow, has seized the kingship and Show More

From: Esnada Tige Buchet in A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology »