Conaire Mór

Conaire Mór [' konar ʴ e mo ː r] ( " Conaire the Great") is the name of an Irish high king of Tara ( Temair ). He is in some stories in the Ulster Cycle of Celtic mythology, one of the main characters.

Mythology

Conaire Mór is the son of the powerful magic Mes Buachalla, wife of the Irish king Etarscél. In one version of his conception Etarscél is himself the father of Conaire Mor's, in another Mes Buachalla was pregnant before her marriage by a stranger in bird shape. He is a direct descendant of Étaín about her daughter, also called Étaín, the wife of Cormac mac Airt, the king of Ulster, and their daughter is Mes Buachalla.

He has to be allowed the gessi ( taboos ), do not hunt birds because of its mythical birth, never spend the ninth night beyond Tara to stay in any house, the hearth fire in the night lights to the outside and into which one could see inside and to the house of a redheads may precede him no three reds.

In the legend Togail Bruidne Since Derga ( " The destruction of the hall since Dergas " ) he comes ultimately to death because he one of his gessi injured against the witch Cailb and also violates the order of the FIR flathemon ( " the justice of the King").