Celtic Ireland - Gods and Goddesses

Aine | Goddess of love.

Banbha | One of the trio of goddesses who lent their name to Ireland.

Boann | Goddess of water and fertility; bore Oenghus to the Daghda.

Brigit (Brighid) | Goddess of fertility, healing, and poetry.

Cian | The father of Lugh.

Cliodna | Goddess of beauty and the Otherworld.

Creidhne | God of metalworking; one of the trio of craft-gods of the Tuatha De Danaan.

Daghda | God of the earth; leader of the Tuatha De Danaan.

Danu | Goddess who is a version of the Great Mother; mother of the Tuatha De Danaan.

Dian Cecht | God of crafts and healing.

Donn | God of the dead; the “dark one”.

Eriu | Another of the three goddesses after which Ireland was named.

Fodla | Third of the trinity of goddesses of Ireland.

Goibhniu | God of the smith; one of three craft-gods of the Tuatha De Danaan.

Luchta | God of wrights; one of the triad of craft-gods of the Tuatha De Danaan.

Lugh | God whose name means “shining one”.