Cermait’s Family Tree

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Family

• Mac Cecht(child),Mac Cuill(child),Mac Greine(child)

  Cermait fathered three sons — Mac Cuill, Mac Cécht, and Mac Gréine — who became the last three kings of the Tuatha Dé Danann, each taking one of the three sovereignty goddesses of Ireland as his wife.

• The Dagda(parent)

  Cermait Honey-Mouth is a son of the Dagda, one of the lesser-known children of the great god of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Slain by

• Lugh

  Lugh slew Cermait for sleeping with his wife, a killing that would be avenged by Cermait's three sons Mac Cuill, Mac Cécht, and Mac Gréine, who drowned Lugh at Loch Lugborta.

Member of

• Tuatha Dé Danann

  The Tuatha Dé Danann descended through the sky in a dark cloud upon Ireland, bringing with them the arts of sorcery, druidry, and every craft — a divine race who conquered the Fir Bolg and ruled until the coming of the Milesians.