About the name
- Origin
- Irish
- English version
- Art, Arthur
- Variants
- Árt
- Stronghold region
- All-Ireland
Overview
Borne by Art mac Cuinn, son of Conn of the Hundred Battles and a legendary High King of Ireland; also by Art Óg Ó Néill in the late medieval period.
The story behind Art
Art the Lonely earned his name after his brothers were exiled and slain; he ruled at Tara before dying at Mucruimhe, leaving his son Cormac to be born after his death and reared by a wolf.
Mythology & legend
Art Óenfer was a 2nd-century High King of Ireland in the Cycles of the Kings.
Did you know?
Art mac Cuinn was killed at Mucruimhe but succeeded by his unborn son Cormac, the greatest of the High Kings.
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