Clíodhna
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Illustration of Clíodhna in R.D. Joyce's Ballads of Irish Chivalry (1872) In Irish mythology, Clíodhna (Clídna, Clionadh, Clíodna, Clíona, transliterated to Cleena in English) is a Queen of the Banshees of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Clíodna of Carrigcleena is the potent banshee that rules as queen over the sióga (fairies) of South Munster, or Desmond.
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- Associated families and legends
- Cleena's Wave
- The Voyage of Teigue, Son of Cian
- The legend of O'Keeffe, the Druid and his two daughters
- The legend of Ellen O'Brien and Fiz-Gerald
- The legend of John Fitzjames and Isabel Butler
- The Blarney Stone
- John O'Donovan
- Carrigcleena
- Origins
- In other media
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|upright|Illustration of Clíodhna in R.D. Joyce's Ballads of Irish Chivalry (1872) In Irish mythology, Clíodhna (Clídna, Clionadh, Clíodna, Clíona, transliterated to Cleena in English) is a Queen of the Banshees of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Clíodna of Carrigcleena is the potent banshee that rules as queen over the sióga (fairies) of South Munster, or Desmond.
In some Irish myths, Clíodhna is a goddess of love and beauty, and the patron of County Cork. She is said to have three brightly coloured birds who eat apples from an otherworldly tree and whose sweet song heals sickness.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clíodhna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.