beautiful women. He spent nine nights with them and one of them bore him a son. A second Ruadh may well be the same character as the first. He too was on a voyage when his ship was stopped by three goddesses who took him to the seabed, where he slept with them. They told him that they would collectively bear him a son and entreated him to return to them when his voyage was done. When he did not return, they pursued him and cut off his son’s head, throwing it after him.

Rudraidhe

[I] One of the sons of Partholón who is acclaimed as founder of the royal house of Ulster. The men of Ulster became known as the Clan Rudraidhe or, sometimes, Rudricans.