The great son of the sea god Llyr, Manannan is also sea-lord, and is equipped with a great number of weapons and armor. When in battle he has a magical chain mail and breast-plate to protect him, which no weapon can pierce, and he wears a helmet decorated with 2 magical jewels that shine as bright as the sun. He carries 2 spears that are yellow shaft and a red javelin, and he has 3 swords, the Retaliator, which never fails to kill the enemy, and two others called great fury and little fury.
Manannan�s wives name was Fand, said to be the most beautiful woman of the Tuatha De Danann, who he inexplicable abandons, but returns to after her love affair with CuChulainn. He has a son, Ilbhreach, not to much is documented on Ilbhreach, except his home in Barrow, or Sidh, called Sidh Eas Aedha Ruaidh, in Donegal, and that he is a candidate of knight-ship of the Tuatha De Danann, in which many sons of the Tuatha De Danann were.
The family of the Tuatha owe allot to Manannan since he feeds them from his magical herd of pigs which renews itself as soon as any are taken for food. This is where Manannan prepares the �Feast of Age� this is where the gods acquire the ever renewing qualities of the pigs, and then they never grow old, Immortality at its finest.
Manannan bestows a mantle of invisibility upon the Tuatha hiding them from their enemies and from mortals. Manannan has a magical mantle of his own in which he has for himself, and this one has the property that if it is shaken between 2 people, they will never meet again.
It is said that Manannan was known to loan his stead and his breastplate to Lugh for a foray into Fomor territory. This way when Lugh is armed, and on the fastest stead, he rides into the territory of the Fomor and slaughters.
When the Milesians attacked Ireland, it was said that Manannan shuck his magical mantle at the invaders, he stirs up a storm, tossing the ships helplessly on the waves and sinking many of the. The storm sends many of the Milesians to their death and those that did survive found their way to the landing of the mouth of the river Boyne.
The Tuatha though were defeated by these humans.
Manannan is like many of his Kinsman to depart Ireland. Just to make a new home in the Summer Isles. On one of his many trips back home to Ireland, Manannan comes across Bran the Blessed, the son of Llyr and Febal, he tells Bran all about the Isles and soon Bran will locate there as well, the Isles were branded as the Celtic paradise.
The exact burial is unknown for Manannan, but it is said that unlike many of his Kinsman, he was not slain in battle.
