About Second Battle of Mag Tuired →
Balor of the Evil Eye terrorized the field at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, his lifted lid annihilating ranks of the Tuatha Dé Danann until Lugh's sling-stone punched through the eye and turned its death-gaze back upon the Fomorians.
Brigid's son Ruadán was slain at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired after attempting to assassinate Goibniu, and her grief-cry over his body became the first keening ever heard in Ireland.
Dian Cécht stood at the Well of Sláine during the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, plunging the wounded into its waters to heal them and return them to the fight, until the Fomorians buried the well under stones.
Goibniu forged spears at his anvil during the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, each weapon needing only three blows to complete, and every spear he made struck true and never missed its mark.
Lugh led the Tuatha Dé Danann to victory at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, commanding the gods' war effort and personally slaying Balor to end Fomorian tyranny over Ireland.
Nuada Airgetlám fell at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, slain by the terrible gaze of Balor's evil eye before Lugh could reach the Fomorian champion.
Ogma fought at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired and in single combat captured Orna, the sword of the Fomorian king Tethra, which thereafter spoke aloud recounting all its deeds whenever drawn from the scabbard.
Before the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, the Fomorians forced the Dagda to gorge on a vast pit of porridge until his belly dragged the ground, yet he rose and fought with his great club, felling Fomorians by the score.
The Morrígan prophesied the Tuatha Dé Danann's victory before the Second Battle of Mag Tuired and after the slaughter sang a poem of triumph over the land, then foretold the world's end in a vision of decay.
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