Editing Conn of the Hundred Battles (section)

===Family===
Conn had two sons, [[Connla the Ruddy|Connla]] and [[Art mac Cuinn|Art]]. Connla fell in love with a fairy woman from [[Mag Mell]], and went with her to her otherworld home in her crystal boat, leaving Art alone. After that Art was known as ''Óenfer'' – the "lone" or "solitary".<ref>[http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/connla.html "The Adventures of Connla the Fair"], Cross & Slover 1936, pp. 488–490</ref> Connla's tale is told in the ''[[Echtra Condla]]''.

After Conn's wife [[Eithne Tháebfhota]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095745694|title="Eithne Tháebfhota on Oxford Index"|website=Oxfordindex.oup.com|access-date=3 December 2021|archive-date=15 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115083609/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095745694|url-status=dead}}</ref> daughter of Cathair Mór, died, another fairy woman, [[Bé Chuille]], was banished by the [[Tuatha Dé Danann]] to Ireland. She had fallen in love with Art from a distance and sought him out in her [[currach]], but when she met Conn and learned he was without a wife, agreed to marry him instead, on the condition that Art be banished from Tara for a year. The men of Ireland thought this unjust, and Ireland was barren during that year. The druids discovered that this was Bé Chuille's fault, and declared that the famine could be ended by the sacrifice of the son of a sinless couple in front of Tara. Conn went in search of this boy in Bé Chuille's currach. He landed on a strange island of apple trees. The queen of the island had a young son, the result of her only sexual union. Conn told her that Ireland would be saved if the boy bathed in the water of Ireland, and she agreed. He took him back to Ireland, but when the druids demanded his death, he, Art and Fionn mac Cumhaill swore to protect him. Just then, a woman driving a cow carrying two bags approached, and the cow was sacrificed instead of the boy. The bags were opened: one contained a bird with one leg, the other a bird with twelve legs. The two birds fought, and the one-legged bird won. The woman said the twelve-legged bird represented the druids, and the one-legged bird the boy, and revealed herself as his mother. She told Conn that the famine would end if he would put Bé Chuille away, but he refused. Bé Chuille was later banished from Tara as the result of a series of challenges she and Art made each other over a game of ''[[fidchell]]''.<ref>[http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/art.html "The Adventures of Art son of Conn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022085531/http://maryjones.us/ctexts/art.html |date=22 October 2007 }}, Cross & Slover 1936, pp. 491–502</ref>