Conn Cétchathach (pronounced [kon͈ ˈkʲeːdxaθəx]), or Conn of the Hundred Battles, son of Fedlimid Rechtmar, was a legendary High King of Ireland who is claimed to be the ancestor of the Connachta, and through his descendant Niall Noígiallach, the Uí Néill dynasties, which dominated Ireland in the early Middle Ages.
A magical mist arises, and a horseman approaches who throws three spears towards Conn, then asks him and the druid to follow him to his house, which stands on a plain by a golden tree.
First they see a silver vat, bound with gold hoops, full of red ale, and a golden cup and serving spoon.
[8] Conn had a long reign – twenty, twenty-five, thirty-five or even fifty years according to different versions of the Lebor Gabála, spending much of it at war with Mug Nuadat, king of Munster.
Nine years later, Mug Nuadat, who had married the daughter of the king of Spain, landed with an army near Bantry Bay and forced Conaire and Mac Niad to submit to his overlordship.
After fifteen years of peace, Mug Nuadat broke the treaty and declared war, along with the kings of Ulster and Leinster.
He then marched south to Mag Leana and destroyed Mug Nuadat's army in a surprise night attack on his camp.
He learned that every year at Samhain, the monster Aillen would put everyone at Tara to sleep with his music, and burn down the palace with his fiery breath.
Connla fell in love with a fairy woman from Mag Mell, and went with her to her otherworld home in her crystal boat, leaving Art alone.
After Conn's wife Eithne Tháebfhota,[14] daughter of Cathair Mór, died, another fairy woman, Bé Chuille, was banished by the Tuatha Dé Danann to Ireland.
The druids discovered that this was Bé Chuille's fault, and declared that the famine could be ended by the sacrifice of the son of a sinless couple in front of Tara.
[15] Conn was eventually killed by Tipraite Tírech, king of the Ulaid, on Tuesday 20 October according to Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh in his 'Ogygia: seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia' (1685).
Keating[26] and the Great Book of Lecan[27] says Tipraite sent fifty warriors dressed as women from Emain Macha to kill him at Tara.