Girl's name
Muirne
“MWIR-nyeh”
her epithet Muncháem means 'of the beautiful neck'
The story behind the name
Mother of Fionn mac Cumhaill. Her father the druid Tadg refused every suitor because he had foreseen that her marriage would cost him his home, so Cumhall took her without leave and it cost him his life. She sent the child into the mountains to be reared in hiding.
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