Conand (mythology)

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In Irish mythology Conand (a.k.a. Conann and Conaing[1]) was a leader of the Fomorians who lived in a tower on Tory Island. He oppressed the followers of Nemed, demanding a huge tribute of their produce and children. Eventually Nemed's people rose up and killed him, destroying his tower. After his death, Morc, another Fomorian massacred Nemed's surviving followers.[2]

Conand's Tower

According to the

Samain at the plain called Mag Cetne. The oppressed attacked from the sea with a host of 30,000 headed by three champions, grandsons and great-grandsons of Nemed, and overcame Conand and his host of 30,000 at Conand's Tower (later called Torinis Cetne).[3] Morc [4] subsequently arrived with a fleet of sixty ships to retake the tower from the people of Nemed, and mutual annihilation ensued, forcing the Nemedian folk into diaspora out of Ireland.[5]

The tale was embellished by

R. A. S. Macalister states Ó Cléirigh invented this seemingly out of thin air, and it would be a futile exercise to second guess what source he may have plagiarized.[6]

Localization

It had almost become conventional wisdom to identify the location of this Conand's tower at

Erne River as Geoffrey Keating indicated.[7] Morris consequently proposed a small island off the coast, called Derinish, corrupted from Tor-Inis.[8] Macalister commends the effort, while noting that such a treatise can hardly hope to carry conclusive proof.[9]

Explanatory notes

References

Citations
  1. ISBN 9780198609674
    . Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  2. ^ de Jubainville, Henry Arbois (1903). The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology. Hodges and Figgis. p. 64.
  3. ^ Macalister (1941) LGE, ¶242–243 pp. 122–125.
  4. ^ Macalister (1941) LGE, ¶242–243 pp. 122–125.
  5. ^ Macalister (1941) LGE, ¶244 pp. 124–125.
  6. ^ Macalister (1941), p. 117.
  7. ^ Morris (1927), p. 51, note 9
  8. ^ Morris (1927), pp. 52–53.
  9. ^ Macalister (1941), p. 118: "comes as near to carrying conviction as such a paper well can do".
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