Conchobor

Appears in

• Cormac Connlongas stops Fergus from striking Conchobor, and Fergus levels the three bald-topped hills of Meath with three strokes. At Bald-topped Hills. In Chapter XIV: The Last Battle.
• The men of Ulster chase a flock of birds across Sliab Fuait, Edmonn and Breg Plain, and reach Brug on the Boann as night overtakes them. At Brug. In How Cúchulainn was Begotten.
• It snows heavily and Conchobor has the chariots unyoked, while Conall and Bricriu search and find a solitary, newly built house where a couple make them welcome. At Brug. In How Cúchulainn was Begotten.
• The people of Ulster say the father might have been Conchobor himself, in his drunkenness, on the night she stayed with him at Brug. At Brug. In How Cúchulainn was Begotten.
• The sons of Uisliu are cut down on the green at Emain by Eogan mac Durthacht, and Fergus afterwards burns Emain. At Emain Macha. In Exile of the Sons of Uisliu.
• A flock of birds ruins the plain around Emain and Conchobor, Deichtine and the Ulster warriors chase them away in nine chariots. At Emain Macha. In How Cúchulainn was Begotten.
• The Ulstermen quarrel over who should rear the infant Sétanta, and Morann gives judgment at Emain that Conchobor should have him, with Sencha, Blai Briuga, Fergus, Amargin and Conall Cernach to help. At Emain Macha. In How Cúchulainn was Begotten.
• The Ulstermen drink from the vat Ol nguala while the chariot-warriors practise on spearcords, and the women's love for Cúchulainn makes them look for him a wife. At Emain Macha. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Forgall Monach comes to Emain disguised in Gaulish clothes and flatters Cúchulainn into leaving for Alba, hoping he will never come back. At Emain Macha. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Cúchulainn brings Emer to Emain, where Bricriu says she must sleep with Conchobor, and Cúchulainn is sent off for the herds of Sliab Fuait and drives them onto the green. At Emain Macha. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Fergus tells Medb's court that three times fifty boys are always playing in Emain and that Conchobor spends a third of his day watching them. At Emain Macha. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Cúchulainn arrives among the boy-troop, cannot sleep in Emain until Conchobor sets him a bed between two stones, and later hides under Conchobor's bed cushion after beating the boys. At Emain Macha. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Cúchulainn returns to Emain with Nechta Scéne's sons' heads, a stag and a flock of swans, and the women led by Mugain strip their breasts at him until he hides his face. At Emain Macha. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.
• Medb says Conchobor is suffering his pangs in Emain with the rest of the Ulster warriors, as her messengers have told her. At Emain Macha. In Chapter II: The Táin Bó Cuailnge Begins.
• Sualdam runs to Emain and cries three times over the Ulstermen, from the slope of the enclosure, beside the fort and on the Mound of the Hostages, then falls on his shield and his head is cut off. At Emain Macha. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Conchobor wakens, Finnchad Fer Benn summons the chieftains, and they gather around Emain and march south to Iraird Cuilenn. At Emain Macha. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Celtchar chants to Conchobor that the battle breaks out at Gáirech and Irgairech, though some say Cúscraid chanted it in the eastern camp the night before. At Gáirech and Irgairech. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Conchobor's army marches from Emain to Iraird Cuillenn, where the chieftains wait for his sons before they go on. At Iraird Cuillenn. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• A troop of three thousand tears off its clothes and digs a mound of sods for its leader to sit on; Fergus names the leader as Conchobor, with Sencha facing him and Cúscraid at his father's hand. At Slemain Midi. In Chapter XIII: The Companies Advance.
• Mac Roth says Conall Cernach and his great company have not come, nor Conchobor's three sons with their troops, nor Cúchulainn, and that his eye travelled from Ferdia's Ford to Slemain Midi and fell on men and horses instead of hills and slopes. At Slemain Midi. In Chapter XIII: The Companies Advance.
• Conchobor, Deichtine, Conall, Laegaire and Bricriu chase a flock of enchanted birds across Sliab Fuait, Edmonn and Breg Plain. At Sliab Fuait. In How Cúchulainn was Begotten.
• Conchobor sends Cúchulainn to bring back all the herds about Sliab Fuait to cool his fever, and he drives swine, wild deer and wild birds in one flock onto the green at Emain. At Sliab Fuait. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
• Fingin, Conchobor's own healer, examines the wounds of Cúchulainn and Cethern after Cúchulainn warns him to watch out for Cethern, who has already killed fifteen healers. At Smirommair. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Conchobor tells his son Finnchad Fer Benn to summon the Ulster chieftains, among them Ailill son of Amargin from Tailtiu. At Tailtiu. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Conchobor's sons went with thirty others to Temair to fetch Erc, son of Coirpre Niafer, and Fedelm Noichride. At Temair. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
• Fergus says the men of Temair are gathered about Erc, son of Coirpre Niafer and Conchobor's daughter. At Temair. In Chapter XIII: The Companies Advance.
• The boy stuns the sea birds with his sling and lets them go, then brings them down a second time with his voice, and Conchobor says someone must go out and not let him ashore. At Tracht Esi. In The Death of Aife's One Son.
• Fergus parts with the kingship of Ulster, which the men of Ulster agree to let stay sold, and Conchobor becomes high king of the province. At Ulster. In How Conchobor was Begotten, and how he took the Kingship of Ulster.
• Sualdam cries out at Emain that men are murdered, women stolen and cattle plundered, and Conchobor says he will bring back every cow to its byre and every woman and child home. At Ulster. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.