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Tríath moccu Chreccai See: Díl maccu Chrecga

Former Benedictine monastery located outside the walls of the city, founded perhaps c.700; destroyed by viking attacks in 882 but re-established in Carolingian times and reformed from Gorze in the 10th century.

Tragic hero of the Tristan and Iseult (W. Trystan ac Esyllt) legend.
  • d. 29 October 2020
Tuán son of Cairell; an ancient figure of Irish legendary history, who is said to have witnessed, in the shapes of various animals, the course of Irish history since the Flood; said to have survived into the time of Patrick, when he resumed a human appearance.
A common Irish designation for a group of supernatural or magical figures in Irish history, broadly equivalent to the áes síde. In the pseudo-historical tradition represented by Lebor gabála Érenn and other texts, they are presented and arguably, to some extent euhemerised as the pre-Christian people that conquered Ireland from the Fir Bolg and were later overcome by the sons of Míl (the Gaels).

Túathal Máelgarb See: Túathal Máelgarb mac Cormaic

  • fl. 1480—1526
Welsh poet

Tudwal See: Tugdual

  • supp. fl. c.6th century
  • Tréguier, Tréguier cathedral
Tugdual or Tudwal (or Tual), a Brittonic saint, patron saint of the episcopal see of Tréguier.

Tuibear (Risteard) See: Richard Tipper

Tuir Glesta, son of the King of Lochlann
  • Tráig Tuirbe
Legendary craftsman, father of Gobbán Saer and eponym of Tráig Tuirbe (identified as Turvey in north Co. Dublin)