Eochaid Feidlech was High King of Ireland in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. He deposed the former High King, Fachtna Fáthach, at the Battle of Leitir Ruadh. The office of High King of Ireland (Irish: Ard Rí Érenn) was in origin a pseudohistorial construct of the eighth century that placed a king of all Ireland atop the fragmented pyramid of kingship that actually existed at that time. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Although many of the manuscripts containing texts relating to Irish mythology have failed to survive, and much more material was probably never committed to writing, there is enough remaining to enable the identification of four distinct, if overlapping, cycles: the Mythological Cycle, The Ulster Cycle, the Fenian Cycle and the...

He had three sons, the three Findemna (who tried and failed to depose him at the Battle of Druim Criadh), and three daughters, Medb (who he made queen of Connacht), Eithne and Clothra. In Irish mythology Medb (Medhbh, Maeve) is queen of Connacht during the events of the Ulster Cycle. ... Connaught redirects here. ...

The High Kingship of Ireland was a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century AD, a projection into the distant past of a political entity that did not become reality until the ninth century. ... Eochaid Airem (ploughman) was a legendary High King of Ireland of the 2nd century BC. He succeeded his brother Eochaid Feidlech to the throne. ...