World at War / Conflicts / Celtic Myth
Wars of the Tuatha
Second Battle of Mag Tuired
1870 BC
Sligo
Status: ended
Casualties: Balor; the Fomorian king Bres spared
Lugh of the long arm — son of a Tuatha mother and a Fomorian father — led the Tuatha Dé against the oppressive Fomorians. Balor's eye, raised by four men, withered armies; before it could open fully Lugh loosed a sling-stone that drove the eye out the back of his skull, slaying the Fomorian host arrayed behind him. Cath Maige Tuired.
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Belligerents
- Tuatha Dé Danann under Lugh
- Fomorians under Balor of the Evil Eye
Casualties
Balor; the Fomorian king Bres spared
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