LabraidLoingsech, also known as Labraid Lorc, son of Ailill Áine, son of Lóegaire Lorc, was a legendary High King of Ireland of the 6th century BC.
A warrior asked Labraid if he would not save his mother, but she called out from within the house that Labraid should think of his honour first, as she was going to die anyway.
Labraid repented of all the barbers he had put to death and admitted his secret.
Here Craiphtine sent Scoriath's over-protective wife to sleep at a feast so that LabraidLoingsech ("exiled") could shag his daughter Moriath, and though initially pissed off Scoriath eventually cheered up and blessed their union, realising this was a perfect excuse to invade Leinster.
Suibne returned home and was king again in Loingsech's custody, until an old hag put a word wrong and he freaked out again, flying off to compose nature poems.
Thereafter Labraid took the realm of Leinster, and he and Cobthach were at peace, and his seat was at Dind rig.
Howbeit Cobthach was unable to enter the house until Labraid’s mother and his jester went in.
They drag the chain that was out of the door behind them, and cast it on the pillar-stone in front of the house; and the thrice fifty forge-bellows they had around it, with four warriors at each bellows, were blown till the house became hot for the host.
The earliest references to Laigin (Leinster) relate to a people or confederation of dynasties which claimed common ancestry from LabraidLoingsech and his grandfather, Lóegaire Lorc.
The dynasties descended from LabraidLoingsech were the Uí Garrchon, the Uí Máil, the Uí Failge, the Uí Bairrche, the Uí Dúnlainge, and the Uí Chennselaig (preserved in the modern name Kinsella), all of whom held the Kingship of Leinster at one time or another from the 5th century onward.
The Uí Chennselaig eventually were to enjoy a preferential right to the succession by the end of the pre-Norman period, and their descendants, the Clan Kavanagh, continued to struggle against English rule into the early 16th century.
LabraidLoingsech is the common ancestor of all the peoples and dynastic lines of Leinster that held the Kingship there from about the fifth century onwards.
Labraid was the ancestor of the Ui Dega (O'Hay), Ui Cheinnselaig, and the Ui Drona (O'Ryan).
Another similiar narrative is that of the sons of Milesius, who are said to have conquered Ireland and settled on an agreement that whosoever first touched the soil of Ireland should become the ruler over it.
The earliest mention of Tiree on record was in an Irish account of the Picts which states that they landed in Leinster then sailed northwards and landed on "Tiree beyond Islay".
Mentioned in a poem c.200 B.C. In the description of the exploits of LabraidLoingsech, it was said eight towers were destroyed in Tiree, "ort ocht turu Tiri lath", one can only assume that these were the Pictish Brochs which dotted the coastline of the Island; the remnants of some can still be seen today.
Evidence of the Norse occupation of the Island which lasted on and off for approximately 400 years, is evident in many of the Township names of today.1266 saw the Norse invaders leave the Island after the defeat of Haco at Largs, control of the Island then being adopted by MacDonald of the Isles.
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Among the numerous mythical kings placed by the annalists between Eremon and the Christian era we may mention Tigernmas (A.M. 3581), 011am Fodla (A.M. 3922) who established the meeting of Tara, Cimbaeth (c.
305 B.C.) the reputed founder of Emain Macha, Ugaine Mor, LabraidLoingsech, and Eochaid Feidlech, who built Rath Cruachan for his celebrated daughter, Medb queen of Connaught.
During the 1st century of our era we hear of the rising of the aithech-tuatha, i.e.
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‘Well then’, says Cobthach, ‘know ye who is the most hospitable (man) in Erin?’ ‘We know’, says Craiphtine (the Harper), ‘it is LabraidLoingsech, son of Ailill.
I went to him in spring, and he killed his only ox for me.’ Says Ferchertne the Poet: ‘Labraid is the most hospitable man we know.
I went to him in winter, and he killed his only cow for me, and he possessed nothing but her.’
Braen son of Murchad, king of Laigin, was taken prisoner by the foreigners and afterwards put to death.
Sínach ua hUargusa, king of Uí Méith, and Cathal son of Labraid, tributary king of Mide, fell by one another.
Cellach son of Diarmait, king of Osraige, Aed ua Con Fhiachla, king of Tethba, Conchobor son, of Mael Sechnaill, king of Corcu Modruad, and Aicher na Traighthech were killed.
Indeed, we realize that many stories are presented in this work: Cré na Cille employs multiple unreliable narrators - the graveyard residents themselves - to impart the stories of their lives above ground.
LabraidLoingsech features in early Irish literature and, though there are no literary tales involving his fellow Leinster figure, St. Brigit, oral tradition has created a narrative that involves both characters in an inter-relationship essential to their development in the Irish consciousness.
This paper will explore the relationship between the two of them.
There is also the tale of LabraidLoingsech (Labraid the Mariner), forebear of the Leinstermen, in his bid to overthrow Cobhthach Coel.
In one version, Labraid receives help from the Franks, returning to Wexford before he joins battle with Cobthach and beats him, in 307 BC.
Although, as under the second option, very colourful leaders came to us from Hispania and all the kings of Ireland claimed descent from them, we do not have much information on the country itself.
The international folktale involving the king with horse’s ears occurs in manuscript form in Ireland from the Middle Irish period and continues to be published to this day, (An Gúm, 2005).
The traditional protagonist is LabraidLoingsech, an early Irish mythical king of Leinster.
The tale re-appears in Geoffrey Keating’s 17th century text Foras Feasa Éireann, and in the 19th century we find LabraidLoingsech featured in a number of popular magazines and journals such as the Dublin Penny Journal and the Shamrock.
óna láignib tucsat la Labraid Longsech Móen mc Ailella Áine, ut dicitur:
fích trí coíctea cath i m-Muirc mc meicc úa Luirc Labraid.
¶4] Cóic ríg tríchat do Laignib ro fallnatar h-Érind a Temair ótá Labraid Longsech Móen cotici Nad Buidb mc h-Eircc Buadaig do Úib Dega; is h-é rí dédenach ro buí díb ann amal ro-s-ainmnig in prím-file cétna Laidcenn mc Bairceda do Dáil Araide.
