Cessair

Cessair , also Cesair [ 'kʴesirʴ ] was in the Celtic mythology of Ireland after the Lebor Gabála Érenn the leader of the first wave of immigration to Ireland. She is Noah's granddaughter and Bith 's daughter . Together with her father Bith, her husband Fintan mac Bóchra , the ship's helmsman Ladra and 50 women, she set foot on Irish soil on the Dingle Peninsula 40 days before the flood . All but Fintan drowned in the flood. The hill Cul Cessrach on Knockmaa is said to be Cessair's grave.

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Myths and legends from Ireland
• Celtic women

literature

• Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 , p. 497.
• Ingeborg Clarus : Celtic Myths. Man and his otherworld. Walter Verlag 1991, ppb edition Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2000, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-491-69109-5 , p. 69.
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 75.