Aichlech mac Dubdrenn

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | Date: 2004

Aichlech mac Dubdrenn, Aichleach mac Dubdrenn. The killer of Fionn mac Cumhaill in battle at Áth Brea on the Boyne River, according to Aided Finn [The Violent Death of Fionn]; see S. H. O'Grady, Silva Gadelica, ii (London, 1892), 96–9. Cf. the better-known death of Fionn at the hands of five warriors in *Cath Gabhra.


© A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004.