Rómit Rígoinmít

[I] The jester of Conchobhar Mac Nessa.

Ronán

[I] King of Leinster and father of Mael Fhothartaig. After his wife Ethné died, Ronán married the daughter of Eochaidh of Dunsverick. She was young and lusted after Ronán’s son. Mael Fhothartaig rejected her advances, and in a jealous rage she persuaded Ronán that he had attempted to rape her. Ronán ordered his son killed, but when he later learned the truth, he died of grief and his wife took poison.

Ron Cerr

[I] A young champion of Brandubh of Leinster. He managed to enter the camp of the High King Aedh, with whom Brandubh was at war, and slew him.

Rosualt

[I] A mighty and fabulous sea monster that was cast ashore on the plain of Murrish under Croagh Phádraig (Co. Mayo). Rosualt is said to have vomited three times in three successive years before its death. By its vomiting it destroyed all the fish and sea creatures, all the birds of the air, and all the men and four-footed creatures on the land.

Round Table, The

According to Malory, there were 150 knights who sat at Arthur’s round table, which had been made by Merlin at Carduel for Arthur’s father, Uthr Bendragon. The first reference does not occur until Wace’s Roman de Brut, but the most complete details of this later addition to the Arthurian saga occur in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur.

Ruadán

[I] A son of Bres, the half-Fomorii ruler of the Dé Danaan, and the goddess Brigid. Ruadán wounded the smith god Goibhniu at the second battle of Magh Tuireadh. He was slain in the combat and his mother, the goddess Brigid, came to the battlefield to bewail her son; this is recorded as the first keening (caoine, “lament”) to be heard in Ireland. There is also a Ruadán of Lorrhaa, also known as Ronán, Rodán, and Ruadhan, one of the “Twelve Apostles of Ireland.” He occurs in the myths for—having sheltered a kinsman accused of murder and being arrested by the High King’s men—cursing the High King (Diarmuid) and Tara, the seat of the High Kings. According to the myths, Tara became desolate from that time onwards.

Ruadh

[I] A son of Rigdonn who voyaged with three ships off the north of Ireland. He was becalmed and so, with his crew weak for want of food and water, he set off to swim in search of assistance. He came on a mysterious island under the sea on which dwelt nine