# Eithne Tháebfhota

Eithne Tháebfhota ("of the Long Side") was one of the daughters of the king Cathaír Mór. According to the Irish mythology, she was described as the queen of two kings of different generations.

## Queen of Ireland

In most Old Irish writing, she is the wife of Conn Cétchathach. Her marriage was thought beneficial to the kingdom; until her death the fields gave three harvests a year, showing that she was a form of the goddess of Sovereignty.

## Esnada Tige Buchet

In The Melodies of Buchet's House, Eithne was in fosterage to Buchet when her numerous brothers came and stole his cattleherds. Buchet forced to leave his house, with his wife and Eithne. They lived in a small hut, at the forest of Kells, when she met her future husband, Cormac mac Airt, Conn's grandson. She spends a night with him, to conceive Cairbre Lifechair.

## Echtrae Cormaic

In The Adventure of Cormac, she also appears to be Cormac's wife.

## Family tree

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tuathal Techtmar | Tuathal Techtmar | Tuathal Techtmar | Tuathal Techtmar | Tuathal Techtmar | Tuathal Techtmar |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fedlimid Rechtmar | Fedlimid Rechtmar | Fedlimid Rechtmar | Fedlimid Rechtmar | Fedlimid Rechtmar | Fedlimid Rechtmar | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cathair Mór | Cathair Mór | Cathair Mór | Cathair Mór | Cathair Mór | Cathair Mór |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conn Cétchathach | Conn Cétchathach | Conn Cétchathach | Conn Cétchathach | Conn Cétchathach | Conn Cétchathach | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eithne Tháebfhota | Eithne Tháebfhota | Eithne Tháebfhota | Eithne Tháebfhota | Eithne Tháebfhota | Eithne Tháebfhota | | | | | |
| Medb Lethderg | Medb Lethderg | Medb Lethderg | Medb Lethderg | Medb Lethderg | Medb Lethderg | Art mac Cuinn | Art mac Cuinn | Art mac Cuinn | Art mac Cuinn | Art mac Cuinn | Art mac Cuinn | Achtan | Achtan | Achtan | Achtan | Achtan | Achtan | Connla | Connla | Connla | Connla | Connla | Connla | | | Macnia mac Lugdach | Macnia mac Lugdach | Macnia mac Lugdach | Macnia mac Lugdach | Macnia mac Lugdach | Macnia mac Lugdach | Sadb | Sadb | Sadb | Sadb | Sadb | Sadb | | | Ailill Aulom | Ailill Aulom | Ailill Aulom | Ailill Aulom | Ailill Aulom | Ailill Aulom | Saruit | Saruit | Saruit | Saruit | Saruit | Saruit | | | Conaire Cóem | Conaire Cóem | Conaire Cóem | Conaire Cóem | Conaire Cóem | Conaire Cóem |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cormac mac Airt | Cormac mac Airt | Cormac mac Airt | Cormac mac Airt | Cormac mac Airt | Cormac mac Airt | Lugaid mac Con | Lugaid mac Con | Lugaid mac Con | Lugaid mac Con | Lugaid mac Con | Lugaid mac Con | Éogan Mór | Éogan Mór | Éogan Mór | Éogan Mór | Éogan Mór | Éogan Mór |
| Connachta | Connachta | Connachta | Connachta | Connachta | Connachta | Uí Néill | Uí Néill | Uí Néill | Uí Néill | Uí Néill | Uí Néill | * | * | * | * | * | * | Uí Maine | Uí Maine | Uí Maine | Uí Maine | Uí Maine | Uí Maine | | | Airgíalla | Airgíalla | Airgíalla | Airgíalla | Airgíalla | Airgíalla | | | | | Connacht Elanesse | Connacht Elanesse | Connacht Elanesse | Connacht Elanesse | Connacht Elanesse | Connacht Elanesse | | | | | | | | | * | * | * | * | * | * | | |

## Sources

Extrait of "Eithne Tháebfhota on Oxford Index" Archived 15 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine