post patrician times to the coming of the vikings of the leary tribe

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The Kings after Christianity.]

· CXVI. LOIGUIRI MAC NÉILL.
Here begins of the princes and times of Ireland after the Faith. Loiguiri mac Neill held the kingdom of Ireland 30 years before the coming of Patrick. Ard Macha was founded. Secundinus and Old Patrick rested. Loiguire fell at the side of Cas, etc.

A.D 402.—Ciaran and Deaglan, two Bishops, came from Rome to preach the Gospel in Ireland. Ciaran, after having preached the Gospel in Inis-Cleire and all over Corca-Laidhe, founded a Bishop's See at Saighir, in Ossory, and Deaglan, also another Bishop's See at Ardmor in the Desies.—Ann. Innisf.

DAL gCAIS

From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal,

From the race of Tal The race of Tal, i.e., the people of Corcumruadh, so called from their ancestor Tal, son of Broc, who was the eleventh in descent from 3 corc Modhruadh.

The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais.

CORC

INFERNAN = HEFFERNAN

The name Heffernan is derived from the Irish Gaelic name O Heifearnain, which comes from the given name Ifearnan meaning "demon". Heffernan gives rise to alternatives such as Heffernon and Hefferan

Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Royal Irish Academy

31 b i. Genealogies of D�l gCais (continued); text includes note on the cursing of Cormac Coichin mac Carteind Fhind by St. Odhran and the blessing of Conall Caem mac Eachach Bailldeirg by St. Ruadan of Lothra; genealogies of S�l mBriain, (31va) � Caisin, pedigrees of Cen�l nDunghaile (� Grada), � Duibgind, U� Dobarchon, Clann Eochach, (31vb) Mac Conmara, Cen�l Fearmaic (U� Deadhaighidh), (32a) Sil Feircing, Sil Ferdomhnaigh, Cen�l mBaith, � Cuinn Claindi Hifern�n. Dál gCais Déisi Tuisceart Cinea

l Fearmaic O'Quilty MacBrody O'Dea O'Heffernan O'Quinn Muinter-Iffernain, from Iffernan, son of corc, the 15th fifteenth in descent from Cormac Cas, Uaithne-Cliach, of bright green land, Uaithne-Cliach, now the barony of Owneybeg, in the east of the county of Limerick.
Is the country of O'h-Ifearnain; O'h-Ifearnan. - This name is now anglicised Heffernan, without the prefix O'. The name is rather common in the counties of Limerick and Tipperary.

FELCHADH

COLGAIN

SIODHA

DONNCHADHA

CONN =O'CUINN

MAC QUIN OF THOMOND Dál gCais Déisi Tuisceart Cineal Fearmaic O'Quilty MacBrody O'Dea O'Heffernan O'Quinn The O'Quins derived this tribe name of Muinter-Iffernain, from Iffernan, son of corc, the 15th fifteenth in descent from Cormac Cas, To O'Cuinn of the candid heart O'Cuinn, now anglicised Quin, without the prefix O'. Belongs the extensive Muintir-Ifearnain, Muinter-Ifearnain. - This was the tribe name of the O'Quins, in the county of Clare, whose territory extended around Coradh-Finne, now Corofin, in the barony of Inchiquin, and county of Clare. Inchiquin was the original seat of this family,

432ad It was the Principality of O’Conor Faly, the senior representative of Rossa Failghe (the son of the Monarch Cahir More) who is said to have made an attempt at murdering St. Patrick because he thought that his object was to establish toleration and democratic principles, but he was very much mistaken.

the roman alphabet in a gaelic version

Over the territory of Caisel who will prevail,A house [built] over the relics of Tailgenn. Tailgenn. - This was the name by which St. Patrick was called by the Druids. It is explained circulo tonsus in capite by Colgan, but Asciciput in the Book of Armagh, p. 5, col. 2, p. 49, col. 1, and p. 123, col. 2

· CXVIII. LUGAID.
Lugaid s. Loiguire, twenty-five (years) till he fell in Achad Forcha by a miracle of Patrick. Muiredach s. Eogan died. Battle of Cell Osnad. Patrick bishop of the Irish rested. Cormac the first abbot. Resting of Ibar the bishop.

147. Ailill Molt 'Wether': his mother, Ethne, daughter of Connra, (when she was big with him) felt a longing for the flesh of a wether (molt). And Fial, daughter of Eochaid, the king's consort, afterwards gave him that nickname. Or Ailill Molt i.e. mó a ḟolt 'greater his hair', for the hair on him was more than on his other brothers.

148. Ailill Inbanna 'Womanly': his appearance was like a woman's, for so long as he lived he was beardless.

· CXVII. AILILL MOLT.
Ailill Molt, s. Dathi, twenty years till he fell in the battle of Ocha at the hands of Lugaid s. Loiguire and of Muirchertech s. Erc, of Fergus Cerrbél s. Conall

131. Fergus Cerrbél 'Wry-mouth': cirre, that is, crookedness which was in his mouth (bél). Or Fergus Gerrbél: girra 'shortness' which was in his mouth. Hence the old name clave to him.

· Crimthann, of Fiachra Lonn s. Coelbad, king of Dál Araide, and of Crimthann s. Énna king of Laigin. Eogan mac Néill died. Resting of Benignus, second abbot [sic lege, scil. "of Árd Macha"]. Death of Conall Crimthann s. Niall. Resting of Iarlathe third abbot. Battle of Ocha, in which Ailill Molt fell.

· CXIX. MUIRCHERTACH MAC ERCA.
Muirchertach mac Erca, twenty-four years, till he perished in a vat of wine in Cleitech. Dubthach abbot of A.rd Macha rested. Battle of Druimm Dergaige, wherefore the plain of Mide was taken away from Laigin. Falling asleep of Saint Brigid. Ailill abbot of Ard Macha. Resting of Colman mac Duach. Battle of Eibliu.

273. Tuathal Mael-garb, whence is he (so) called? Easy to say. Cummain, daughter of Dall Brónach, Tuathal's mother, rested his head against a stone, just after she bore him, when she was waiting for a lucky hour for him, and the stone made hollows and lumps in his head, so that he was bald. Hence he is called Tuathal Mael-garb 'Bald-rough'.

· CXX. TUATHAL MÁEL-GARB.
Tuathal Máel-garb, eleven years, till he fell in Grellach Ellti at the hands of Máel Mór s. Airgetan grandson of Mac I. Resting of Ailbe of Imlech. Ailill abbot of Árd Macha. Battle of Sligech, where Eogan Bel fell, the king of Connachta. Fergus and Domnall, two sons of Muirchertach mac Erca, were conquerors. Battle of Tortan against the Laigen, in which Mac Erca s. Ailill Molt fell. Battle of Cloenloch. Nem, the bishop.

· CXXI. DIARMAIT MAC CERBAILL.
Diarmait mac Cerbaill, twenty-one, till he fell at the hands of Aed Dub s. Suibne king of Dál Araide in Ráith Becc in Mag Line. Dui abbot of Ard Macha. Ciaran mac in tSáir. Battle of Cul Conaire in Cera, where Ailill Banda fell. Colum mac Crimthainn. Fiachra abbot of Árd Macha. Battle of Cul Dremne against Diarmait mac Cerbaill.

· CXXII. DOMNALL AND FERGUS.
Domnall and Fergus, the two sons of Mac Erca, one year. The battle of Gabar of Life: Fergus and Domnall were victors. Resting of Brenainn of Birra, in the three hundredth year of his age.

458ad 504 julian Egyptian calendar years = 184086 days plus precession of the equinox = 157788 + 7 days torque westwards = 184093 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 184093 – 3 days torque eastwards = 184090 days = 504 julian years

474ad 520 julian Egyptian calendar years = 189930 days plus precession of the equinox = 189930 + 7 days torque westwards = 189937 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 189937 – 4 days torque eastwards = 189933 days = 520 julian years

484ad All the Alltraighe return Alltraighe. - This sept were seated around the river of Tralee, as we learn from the Latin Lives of St. Brendan, in which it is stated that that saint, who was of the Alltraighe, was born at Littus Ly (Lighe), now Tralee. Saint Brendan of Clonfert (c. 484 – c. 577) (Irish: Naomh Bréanainn; Latin: Brendanus; Icelandic: (heilagur) Brandanus), also referred to as Brendan moccu Altae, called "the Navigator", "the Voyager", "the Anchorite", or "the Bold", is one of the early Irish monastic saints. He is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the "Isle of the Blessed," also called Saint Brendan's Island. The Voyage of Saint Brendan could be called an immram (Irish navigational story). He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.[1] Saint Brendan's feast day is celebrated on 16 May by the Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Orthodox Christians.[2]

Sliabh-ardachaidh524 of the fine land 524. Sliabh Ardachaidh, now the barony of Slievardagh, in the county of Tipperary
Is hereditary to O'Deaghaidh525 as a patrimony; 525. O'Deaghaidh, now anglicised Day, without the prefix O'. This family is to be distinguished from the O'Deaghaidhs, or O'Deas, of Cinel-Fearmaic, in Thomond, who of of the Dalcassian race.

32. dearha-deaghatha-Deag: of these nothing remarkable is mentioned, but that they lived and died kings in Gothia or Getulia. Gothia or Geulia-more recently called Lybia, where Carthage was afterwards built

Trena from whom were the Cuircue, MacLaire from whom were the Ui MhicLaire.

Ui Eachach Mumhan

End of 5th century At the end of the fifth century a king named Eochu (Eochy), breaking away from the royal house of the kings of Munster, founded for himself a kingdom in the present County Cork. This extended roughly from Cork Harbour to the confines of Drimoleague and from the Bandon to the Lee. This territory came to be known as Uibh Eachach from its founder Eochy. Eochy had a son named Criomthan (Griffin), who succeeded him as king of the new territory, but there were only two kings of this newly formed kingdom, for Criomthan’s two sons divided their patrimony.

Fanlobbus Parish (Dunmanway)Posted by Pat McCarthy on 06 July 2011 at 13:22 in Local Interest Fanlobbus Fan Leaba Ois (slope of the fawns bed)The surrounding district was formerly known as Gleann-nacroim_ Gleann Abha Croim (glen of the winding river). The name is no longer in use. The modern town of Dunmanway was founded in the closing years of the 17th century by Sir Richard Cox where he established the woolen and cotten industries, encouraging the groth of flax and the improving of the roads. A century later a descendent of Cox contributed towards the founding of a Catholic church in the town Seeing that here only in West Cork is the prefix Dun retained as an inland name, although quite common in place names along the coast.Mr. Jeremiah O Mahony surmised here was the original Dun-Coba, the unidentified residence of the King of Ui Eachach.

Farnanes (372) Fearnain_-Alder- growing places. At the northside is Farnannes Wood while at the south is Dreenwanish Wood- Doirin na Mainise (little wood of the spears or spear handles) Goulacullin(1429acres Gabhala < Chuilin forked place of the holly. In the centre is Barrboy_Barr Buidhe (yellow sumit) on which are remains of a prehistoric dwelling, beehive shaped and probably thached. Annees (455acres) Eanaige_Marches, fens. Cullenagh (824acres) Cuileannach- Holly place, holly place, holly growth. At the north side of Nowen Hill- Cnoc na n-Abhann (hill of the rivers).The Bandon, Clodagh and Mealagh Rivers have their source here. The Clodagh flows into the Ilen. On this hill also is Leaba Dhiarmuda-Dermod and Grania's bed, while at the north east is Cullenagh Lake fringed on the western side by Derreenlougha Wood-Doirin a' Locha (little wood of the lake). At the east side is a stone alighnment. Derrynacaheragh (427acres) Doire na Cathrach- Oakwood of the stone fort . Portion of the ruin still remians Derragh (787) acres Darach- Place abounding in oaks. At eastside is Derragh Wood. At the north is a ringfort Mallabracka (333acres) Mealla Breaca- Striped or variegated mounds. The southside is termed Beaghagaha Wood covrers almost one third of the townland. Beaghagaha - Beitheach Gatha (birch wood of the spear), used probably fo making spear handles. A nearby slope is called Leaca na Seirsineach- Hillside of the archers. In the townland is the place of Sam Maguires birthplace Irish Patriot who died in 1927 Clontyquirk(277acres) Cluainte Cuirc - Corc's plains This may refer to Corc, grandson of Laoghaire

Cloonties East (128acres) Cluainte Ui Dhubhagain and Cluainte Ui Mhongain- Duggan's and Mongans plains. These were old Corca Laidhe surnames. Maulanimerish (623 acres) Meall an Imris- Mound of strife or contention. It might mean the mound of competition as a large dance platform was on its summit. At the west side is Gloundha- Glean Damh- (glen of the bards Ahakeera(621acres) Achadh Caoireach- Field of the sheep, sheep fold. At west side are remains of a castle of the O' Crowleys, the only O, Crowley castle standing in West Cork. This district was the scene of a fight between the O Learys of Iveleary and the Mc Carthys following a cattle raid by the former. A turnpike was at the crossroads near Ahakeera school. The name ,Pike Cross remains. At the extreme south is Foilmore Faill Mhor (big cliff) A southterrain was discovered in1974 . At the eastside are Geara Bridge and Geara Cross roads Dromerk( 279 acres) Drom Eirc- Erks Ridge This was a n old Corca Laidhe personal name. It might read Drom Arc - Hill of the hunting horns. Here are two ring forts. It is Written Dramceirce in 1659 Census. Ballyhallwick(574 acres) Baile Shebhach was a Cineal Laoighre chieftan and fourth in descent from Laoighr Nedinagh East (426acres) Nead an Fhiaidh- Haunt or lair of the deer. Here at the north side of Fanlobbus graveyard-Fan Leaba Ois(slope of the fawns bed) in which are the ruins of the old parish church. Fanlobbus was in early times the centre of the parish as it holds the remains of a 7th century religious house.

499ad Fionntain fintan mac bachra the wise and the magical hawk they decide to leave the mortal realm together sometime in the 5th century after eire was converted to Christianity

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214. Cú Cerca, whence is it? Easy to say. There was a holy nun of the Húi Loscain Midmine at Noite (?). Cerc was her name. Once upon a time Findchad, son of Faelán, the king of Ossory's son, went to hunt near the nun's church. The dogs then put up a hare. The nun possessed a hound and he killed the hare. Thereupon Findchad's hound killed the nun's. "Alas, O Finnchad, quoth the nun, "thou hast killed my guardian hound, and I will, as his eric, deprive thee of heaven." "Do not take heaven from me", says Finnchad. "I will be thy guardian hound till a year's end, as an eric for thy hound". "I accept", says the men, "and Cú Cerca 'Cerc's Hound' shall be thy name". "I assent", says Findchad. And so it was. 'Tis therefore, then, he was called Cú Cerca.

215. Laignech Fáelad, that is, he was the man that used to shift into fáelad, i.e. wolf-shapes. He and his offspring after him used to go, whenever they pleased, into the shapes of the wolves, and, after the custom of wolves, kill the herds. Wherefore he was called Laignech Fáelad, for he was the first of them to go into a wolf-shape.

216. Beccne Caech, son of Laignech Faelad, i.e. a little (becc) thing (ní), he was a little man. Eochaid was his name at first, and Beccnechach, that is, Becne Caech, afterwards.

217. Ruamann Duach .i. Eochaid was his name at first, and we know not why he was also called Rúamann Duach.

Failge Berraide (flourished 507-514) was a King of the Uí Failge of County Offaly.

His exact identity is not known. As the eponymous ancestor of the Uí Failge he may be associated with Rus Failge, the son of the high king of Ireland, Cathair Mór, said to have lived in the early 2 cd century. This is the ancestor listed in the genealogies, though chronologically impossible The Book of Leinster king list names an early king Failge Rot mac Cathair. The Uí Failge appear to have had an early leadership among the Laigin tribes. This is testified by the early Irish poem Timna Cathaír Máir ("The Testament of Cathair Mór) where Rus Failge is given the succession to his father

Failge appears as the opponent of Fiachu mac Néill of the Ui Neill, founder of the Cenél Fiachach branch.

Failge appears as the opponent of Fiachu mac Néill of the Ui Neill, founder of the Cenél Fiachach branch. whereas the Lagin were Goidels, descended from Eremon, son of Mil.

Tuath Saxan of the fair district, Tuath-Saxon, i.e., the cantred of the Saxons. This is the ancient name of the district containing the paish of Tullylease in the north-west of the county of Cork, of which St. Berichert, a Saxon, is the patron. It is probable that this saint established a Saxon colony here in the eighth century, in the same way as St.Cairnech had established a colony of Britons at Tuilen, near Kells, in Meath.

6th century Corkaguiny- Dingle Peninsula was the homeland of the Corcu Duibhne from the 6th century.

C500 Castledillon founded by St Iollathán of the desert (feast day Feb 2nd). Later twelfth-century genealogies would claim he was Father of St Criotan (feast day May 11th) of Magh Credan, Acadfinnech (on the river Dodder), and Crevagh Cruagh, Co Dublin, the son of Cormac mac Ailello, King of Leinster, 506-515 and brother of Cairbre Dubh (Coirpre mac Cormaic), King of Leinster 546.

506ad the bishop of enos mc nessa died on the 3rd of september on which day his festival is held others say 513ad death

In 507 Fiachu was defeated by Failge at the Battle of Frémainn (Frewin Hill, near Mullingar, County Westmeath) Fiachu had a false prophecy that he would win this battle and desired revenge.

AI508.1

Kl. The battle of Frémann of Mide. Rus Failge was victor. [AU 510, CS 505].

510 failge berraide won battle of fremainn mide frewin hill a few miles northwest of mullingar county westmeath

512 june 29th recorded solar eclipse 512 neapolis new city naples destroyed by a volcano

AI513.1

Kl. The battle of Druim Derga [gained] against Failge.

AI513.2

Fiacha, son of Niall, was victor. Thereupon the plain of Mide was taken from the Laigin

513ad the bishop of enos mac nessa died on the 3rd September on which day his festival is held others say 506ad death

The plain of senne south of present county of antrim connor condeire 3rd September chondinb daire na con oak wood wild dogs and she wolves used to dwell therein mac nisse with thousands from the great condire

In 514 he fiachu of the oneills achieved this revenge by defeating Failge at the Battle of Druim Derg. By this victory the plain of Mide was taken away from the Laigin and Fiachu conquered the territory from Birr to Uisnech in County Westmeath

dinshenchus 1160ad giolla na naomh hua duinn topographical poems of erin 231 56. tethba

tethba daughter of eochu airem ploughman gave to the northern land that she loved her secret name let there be no slighting of her excellence when she came thence with noisiu son of white shouldered nechtan tethba who made populous its houses and her nurse tall eitech eitech daughter of lennglass son of luan parted with lasting beauty of visage her journeys end was eitech the spot where darkness veiled her face their names endure after them the names of the women mighty and strong and we find them to tell their story each chose the land to which she gave her name cenn eitig kinnity ten miles east of birr king county offaly

d.516 Ross Faighe, son of Cathaoir Mor - K. Ui Failge rus failgech rus failge a ring an armband a bracelet aui foilgi ui falgi ui fhailghe ui fhailghe an druim dearg west of granard red ridge Downpatrick down rossa failge slain battle of druim derge 516ad king ui failge the laigen finally lose the midlands of eire to the ui neill

530ad 576 julian Egyptian calendar years = 210384 days plus precession of the equinox = 210384 + 8 days torque westwards = 210392 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 210392 – 4 days torque eastwards = 210388 days = 576 julian years

AI537.1

Kl. Failure of bread ... [AU 536, 539).

91. Nathi: son of Ros Failgeach.

CXV. NATHÍ.
Nathí, twenty-three (years), till he died at Sliab Elpa, after being struck by a flash of lightning. Of the times and deaths of those kings Gilla Cóemáin the poet chanted--

1-151 precedes this

152. Twenty years over three
was submission paid to the strength of Nath-I;
in Sliab Elpa of the Noble Arms
a lightning-stroke slew him.

151-157 after

153. Sixteen and six score kings
before the coming of Patrick truly,
after Slaine of the pleasant valour
all that is the number who took Ireland,

154. Loiguire the wealthy spent
a space of four powerful years,
before the coming of Patrick of the Pens,
it was a streamful time for noble Ireland.

155. Seven divisions, seven score smooth divisions,
and ten with good intention,
this is their fullness which I have
the Roll of the Kings of Ireland,

156. Where Patrick landed,
was in the land of Ulaid of the lofty harbours;
so that the youths of Emain were converted there,
with the beauteous hosts of Ireland.

157. Gilla Caemain without niggardliness,
son of noble Gilla Samthainne,
joy for the hard task (accomplished) is my due
for the reckoning of the High Kings of Ireland

AI547.1

Kl. In this year Cluain Moccu Nóis was founded: that is, Nós, swineherd of the king of Connachta, from whom Cluain Moccu Nóis is named

553.1

Kl. The battle of Cuilen gained by the Corcu Oche through the prayer of Íte. [AU 552.

554ad achadhnacitt a church in Dalriada act santor p223 dalrieda comprehended the north north west and part of the south of the county of antrim c act 55.p192 it was formerly known by the name of achadhcinn or achadhkind and was built by saint Patrick who appointed one of his disciples saint cathub the son of Fergus abbot he died april 6th in the year 554ad we are told in mcgeoghegans annals that at his death this saint was 150 years old now unknown Colgan tr thaumat p182 n 195 mentions the church of achadnacille ecclesia bodie vulgo dicta achada cille as being in the territory of Dalriada it was situated at aughnakeely where there is still a very ancient burial place in the townland of the same name not far from the southern boundary of kilconway the feast of saint cathub bishop the son of Fergus is marked on the 6th april in the martryologies of Tallaght and Donegal Colgan conjectures that he was the same as the priest of cathbad who is mentioned among the disciples of saint Patrick vit tripart part 2 chapter 130 and who gave his name to loch cathbadh in dalaradia see lanigans remarks on this matter ecc hist ii 103 vol v 19

92. Eoghan: his son.

dinshenchus 1160ad giolla na naomh hua duinn topographical poems of erin 283-285-287

80b tulach eogain

tulach eogain in kings county offaly whence its name not hard to say eogan of bruiden da choca was buried there now he was called eogan of the bruiden because it was in bruiden da choca that he was born and bred namely eogan of the bruiden son of nathi son of ross failge son of cathair mor and from him tulach eogain has its name whereof was said here is the grave of eogan of bruiden no grave of a stranger unused to hardship but a man without reproach in his eastern land the grand son of cathair son of fedlimid it was cormac ua cuinn that bred up eogan rechet also reared him dians daughter he it was who gave her a fee the plain that is called mag rechet and it would be from her that it got its appellation in that hill too were buried cathair mor and ross failge and naithi and eogan of the bruiden whereof it was said i have a matter of grief for a burden to lay on the tombs of warriors over the bare grave there is none that can tell aright of the passing of the high kings in death here above their beds i stand with loving dirge and endless lamentation while they suffer sorrow for this world without pleasure or happiness here rest a brave quartet in one place in one abode a hard thing a thing intolerable it is to stand over the beds of the fiery warriors four there were as it is well known that did red deeds of valour proud naithi eogans father eogan naithis son ross giver of gifts and the fourth just cathair there were six sons of generous ross failge to whom leinster gave full obedience men untamed on all battlefields until the death sleep fell upon them oengus the fair fierce oengus the black .. brennainn dalan that flame across the moor eochaid chief of the field and . naithi till the sleep of death maclocc fergus stern cetach currech furudran shining white the two ailills modest pair oengus coelan cona mail these are the ten sons of stern cathair and his six grandsons in one tomb a band of lions undaunted were they here round eogan these are the sons and the grandsons of the high king cathair of the new spear at carmun of the kings where i shall go a mighty matter is there sleep eber son of mil doer of brave deeds funga leth liath of the floating mane on the road between the two plains they lie on the causeway sleeping sound seven men seven score seven hundred seven kingly men with sheen of ivory mac heiris after violation of his compacts lies here heavenly asleep the name of the hill good in all regards under which each prince lies hidden did that lion lugs rival win for himself under it lies eogan sleeping many a warrior has there been many a tomb many a grave many a kindred many a gathering whereof inquiry and ..... makes mention the sleep of the kings is no secret cormac ua cuinn nurtured here assiduously eogan of the hostel his nurses name without question was rechet who slept among kings this eogan rechet it was who nursed him daughter of dian captain of the troops he gave his good nurse a portion with no yoke upon it save the high kings i would asseverate without glib falsehood that eogan the fair of colour gave her an estate bright well liking land was granted her so that it is called smooth mag rechet from the day that her nursling set apart for rechet this level plain it belonged to the woman without a burden respecting the plain till it came her time to sleep

· CXXIII. BAETAN AND EOCHU.
Báetán and Eochu, the two sons of Ninnid; three [years], till Eochu fell at the hands of Cronán s. Tigernach king of Cíannachta of Glenn Gaimin. [Báctán fell at the same] time in Iardoman, at the hands of Colmán Bec s. Dui and of Conall s. Comgall.

· CXXIV. AINMIRE.
Ainmire s. Setna, three years till he fell at the hands Fergus s. Neilline.

· CXXV. BAETAN.------see 561 cxxiv
Baetan mac Ninneda, for one year. Ita of Cluain, the wise, rested. Death of Aed son of Suibne, king of Moenmag.

· CXXVI. AED MAC AINMIRECH.
Aed s. Ainmire, twenty-eight years, till he fell at the hands of Brandub s. Eochu in the battle of Dun Bolg. Derg s. Cairill rested. The great assembly of Druim Ceat. Feidlimid abbot of Ard Macha. Eochu abbot of Ard Macha. Pope Gregorius, David of Cell Muni. Resting of Colum Cille and of Báithín.

· 133. Aed Sláine, why is he so called? Easy to say. Diarmait son of Cerball had a delightful wife, even Mugain daughter of Concrad, son of Duach, from Airgetross. Now that Mugain was barren, and bore no children to the king. Wherefore Diarmait was forsaking the queen.

· Then the queen went to Finnén of Mag Bile and to bishop Aeda son of Brecc, and lamented her barrenness. So the clerics blessed water for her, and she drank a draught thereof, and became pregnant. Of that pregnancy this is what she brought forth, a white lamb. "Woe is me for this!" quoth Mugain, "to conceive a four-footed thing!" "Tis not that which will be there", says Finnén. "This is only a consecration of thy womb, the likeness of the sinless Lamb that was offered up for the human race." The cleric blessed another water for her, and thereby she became pregnant. This is what she conceived: a silvern salmon with fins of gold. "Woe is me for this!" quoth Mugain, "and I am the worse of what the clerics do for me; for this tale will be noised abroad among the men of Ireland." "'Tis not that which will be there," says the cleric; "but thou wilt bear a son, and I will take the salmon with me, and I will make reliquaries thereof, and in its place thou wilt bear a son, and his brothers will increase, and more kings over Erin will descend from him than from the other sons." "I am glad," says Mugain, "provided this be fulfilled." "It will be fulfilled", says the cleric. Finnén and bishop Aeda bless the queen, and bless the offspring which she was to bring forth, and bestow water on the queen, and she drinks a drink thereof, and bathed therein; and thereby the queen became pregnant, and she brings forth a son, and the name 'Aed' was given to 1dm, and he was Aed Sláine, that is, he was healed (ro slánaiged) by the unnatural things which the queen produced before his birth. Wherefore he is called Aed Sláine.

· Good was the son who was born there afterwards, and good were his children and his kindred after him, that is, the men of Bregia.

· Others say that Aed was born on the river named Sláine: whence Aed Sláine was named. Or maybe it is from Aed Sláine himself that the river called Sláine is named.

· CXXVII. COLMAN RIMID AND AED SLAINE.
Colman Rimid and Aed Slaine, four [years], till Aed Slaine fell at the hands of Conall Guthbind s. Suibne; Colman Rimid fell at the hands of Locan Dilmana. Resting of Comgall of Bennchor. Battle of Slemain in which Colman Rimid was victor. Conall Cú ran away. Fintan of Cluain Eidnech. Rest of Cainnech.

· 135. Colmán Rímid was so called, because he used to count by their feet (footmarks?) the number of horses at the assembly of Teltown. For in his time there was no one in Erin that could count as he did. Two own-brothers were Aed Sláne and Colmán Rímid. Four years were they together in the kingship of Erin.

· 244. Aed Gusdan, that is, Aed Gus ('deed') dána ('bold'): for great was that deed of his, killing on a single day the three kings, Aed Sláne, king of Ireland, and Aed Roin, king of Hui Failgi, and Aed the Yellow, king of Tebtha. In ancient Gaelic gus means 'deed'.

AI 561.1

Kl. In which the battle of Cúl Dreimne is what is to be recorded, and in which Ainmire, son of Sétna, and Ainnedid son of Fergus, and Domnall were victors. Diarmait,however, was put to flight; and on this day Cluain Ferta Brénainn was founded at the order of an angel. [AU 558, 560, 561, 564; AU 558].

563 Saint Ros of Downpatrick, April 7

On April 7 we commemorate Saint Ros of Downpatrick. This holy man is linked by kinship in the hagiographical sources to the chieftain Dichu, who gifts a barn to Saint Patrick and becomes one of his first converts. Later hagiologists, however, attempted to identify Ros of Downpatrick with a Saint Ruisen of Inis-Picht, modern Spike Island, County Cork whose feast on this date is first noted in the Martyrology of Tallaght. Canon O'Hanlon himself remarks on the confusion in his account below:

St. Ruisen, of Inis-Picht.

We have an entry of the name, Ruissen, Innse Pich, in the Martyrology of Tallagh, at the 7th of April. The name of this place has been assigned to Muscraige, a territory in Munster and, again, it has been placed, by Colgan, among the Islands of the Picts. However, the denomination is at present supposed to be obsolete. This saint was the same, we are told, as Ross, or Rus, son of Trichem, son of Fica, son of Iomchadh, who belonged to the race of Fiatach Fionn, king of Erinn. If so, he was brother to Dichuo, or Dichu, who was the first to embrace the faith, in the northern parts of Ireland. The story of his life is to be met with, in various Acts of St. Patrick, among whose disciples he is classed. He lived, at a place, called Derluss, a town in the southern part of Ulster; and, afterwards, it was known as Inreathan. It is now called Bright, and there, he seems to have resided. For further particulars related concerning him, the, reader is referred to the Life of St. Patrick, already written. Rus, or Ros, is said to have been of Dundaleithglass, the old name for Downpatrick, which was the ancient seat of the Ulidian Kings, and where they lived in the strong fort, known as Rath-Keltair, quite near the cathedral. A doubt seems to be implied, as to whether the feast of St. Rus, or Ross, belongs to April 7th, or to April 9th; but, the latter figure seems to have been a misprint, for the 29th. The Bollandists ' commemorate Russonus de Insula Pich, on the 7th of April. There seems to me, however, that some confusion, in the attempt to identify St. Ruisen, of Inse Pict, or Inis-Puinc, with St. Ross of Downpatrick, must exist. An ancient Sanctilogy represents this latter person, as having been a brother to Dichu, one of St. Patrick's first converts in Ulidia ; and, therefore, not only must the church of Downpatrick have been erected, at a very early date, but we ought even regard this Rus or Ross as presiding over it, some time in the fifth century. Although the father's name and the place seem different, yet St. Ruisen of Inis Pict may probably be identified with a Russ, or Russen, son to Rodan, Abbot of Innisfreil. A conjecture has been offered, likewise, that this saint was identical with the Ruissin, son to Lappain, mentioned in the Life of St. Molagga. He died, it is said, A.D. 658, the comorban to St. Barr of Cork. And, we are told, moreover, that Marianus O'Gorman, as also the commentator on Aengus, say, this saint's Natalis was celebrated, on the 7th of April. Again, we have an account of St Russeus, or Russenus, the son of Rodan, who was one of St. Columba's companions, when his first missionary expedition to Britain was undertaken, and whose festival has been assigned to the 27th of December, by some Scottish writers ; but, Colgan thinks, it ought rather be referred to the 7th of April, as noted in the Martyrologies of Tallagh, of Donegal, of Marianus O'Gorman and of Maguire. He flourished, A.D. 563, but the date for his death is uncertain. The Martyrology of Donegal, this day records a festival, in honour of Ruisen, of Inis-Picht

93. Cathal (or Cathair): his son.

579ad Bruidge mac Nath Í (died 579) was a king of the Uí Failge, a Laigin people of County Offaly. He was the grandson of Failge Berraide, the eponymous ancestor of the dynasty

He is listed as king in the Book of Leinster king list though incorrectly as Bruidgi mac Cathair. He is also mentioned in a poem in the genealogies about the royal fort at Rathangan, County Kildare The annals record his death in the year 579 and this may have been in warfare with the Ui Neill

94. Maolumha: his son.

584ad Felimy king of desmond

Cinel mBece559 of the land of cattle, 559. Cinel mBece, i.e., the race of Bece, son of Fergus, who ws the son of Felimy, king of Desmond, A.D. 584, and ancestor of O'Mahony.See Battle of Magh-Rath, Geneal. Tab. p. 340, and Payne's Description of Ireland, edited by Dr. Aquilla Smith, p. 23.
Around the Bandain560 of fair woods, 560. Bandain, now the river Bandon in the county of Cork. Bandon (/ˈbæn.dən/; Irish: Droichead na Bandan) is a town in County Cork, Ireland. It lies on the River Bandon between two hills. The name in Irish means Bridge of the Bandon, a reference to the origin of the town as a crossing-point on the river Droichead na Banndan

587ad suibne mac colmain king of uisnech in mide 587-d600ad

Constantfn, March 10, the emperor Constantinus, son of Helena, pp. 46, 128, 184. Another version of the legend of his cure, ZCP. III. 226-7.

March 1 1, of Rathcn,was according to the scholiast (p. 92) son of

Fergus, who died a.d. 820. But the Constantine who became a monk at

Rathen, and succeeded Mochutu in the abbacy, flourished a.d. 588 : see Mart, Don, p. 74, note 2.

595ad Seachd bliadhna roimh 'n bhrath,

Thig muir thar Eirinn ri aon trath,

'S thar Ile ghuirm, ghlais,

Ach snamhaidh I Chaluim chleirich.

"Seven years before the Day of Doom,

The sea shall come over Erin in one watch,

And over blue-green Islay,

But float will Iona of Columba the cleric."

Over the Ui-Cearnaigh,of noble career, Ui-Cearnaigh. - This was the tribe name of the O'Echtigherns, now O'Aherns, and was, as usual, applied to their territory. It comprised the parish of Kilfinaghty and a considerable portion of the district lying between it and the city of Limerick. The name of this territory is still locally preserved in that of the river Ogarney, whoch intersects the little town of Six-Mile-bridge, and unites with the Shannon near Bunratty. This river flows through the middle of the territory of the Ui-Cearnaigh, from near the castle of Enaghofline to that of Rosmanagher, after passing which it forms the boundary between Hy-Cearnaigh and Tradry. It was the ancestor of O'Ahern that granted the island of Inis-Sibtonn, now the King's Island, in the city of Limerick, to St. Munchin, from which it may be inferred that he enjoyed a larger territory than that which remained in the possession of his descendants. Through his father Sétna, Mainchín is alleged to belong to the Dál Cais, given a pedigree linking him to the ancestors of the O'Brien dynasty. His tutor was the Corco Mruad saint Mac Creiche according to the Life of that saint.[1] Mainchín is said to have founded Luimneach when Ferdomnach, king from the Dál Cais, granted him land at Inis Sibtond. Mainchín mac Setnai (fl. late 6th century), also anglicised to Munchin, was allegedly the founder of the church of Luimneach (now Limerick), Ireland, and a saint in Irish tradition, acquiring special eminence as patron of Limerick City.[1] Both his origins and the date of his association with the city are debated.

A major problem with the above is that the Dál Cais themselves are unknown by that name before the 930s and are believed by scholars to be the descendants of a Déisi population which migrated into the region at an uncertain period. Before the Dál Cais the greater region appears to have been dominated for a time by another people entirely, the Uí Fidgenti, mid and west limerick who eventually found themselves much displaced by the Dál Cais in the second half of the 10th century and following, although after having previously overrun many of the Déisi themselves in the very same territories.
Are the O'Echthigherns, of Maicniadh's730 land, 730. Maicniadh's land. - This was a bardic appellation of Munster.
A spirited territory is under the fine youth,
To the bright old stream of Sionainn.

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A.D. 600.—Died Fachtna, first Bishop of Ross-Ailithre, in Corca-Laidhe, which goes by the additional name of O'Laeghaire of Ross, i.e., Corca-Laidhe (1) Laeghaire Ruis.—Ann. Innisf.

600ad Isidore's identifications for Japheth's sons were repeated in the Historia Britonum attributed to Nennius. Isidore's identifications also became the basis for numerous later mediaeval scholars.

602ad 648 julian Egyptian calendar years = 236682 days plus precession of the equinox = 236682 + 9 days torque westwards = 236691 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 236691 – 4 days torque eastwards = 236687 days = 602 julian years + 5 days

604ad 650 julian Egyptian calendar years = 237412.5 days plus precession of the equinox = 237412.5 + 9 days torque westwards = 237421.5 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 237421 – 5 days torque eastwards = 237416.5 days = 650 julian years + 4 days

The was derived from a chieftain named Carbery, but who that Carbery was can only be a matter of conjecture. He is generally supposed to be Cairbe Riada, who was a Munster King in the 21nd century. Personally I incline to the belief that he was Cairbre, the third King of the Cineal Laoghaire, who reigned in the beginning of the 7th century and whose territory extended in the Carbery direction. He was nephew of Floinn from whom Muscraidhe Ui Fhloinn is derived. At any rate it may be definitely stated that Carbery did not get its name from a Limerick tribe, as has been so persistently asserted by uncritical writers and guide book compilers.

Floinn is derived, as I have just said from Floinn second King of the Cineal Laoghaire the tribal name Muskerry being older. There are several places throughout Ireland called Muscraidhe all being derived from a famous man Musc, called Cairbre Musc son of Conaire More, King of Ireland, in the 3rd century. There are in all six Muscraidhe in Ireland. The latter part midhe (ree) means territory of. This Co. Cork division was originally called Muscaighe Mitine.

Corcalee was the country along the south coast from Skibbereen to beyond Kinsale. Later the name came to be applied to a smaller district, roughly corresponding in size to the diocese of Ross. The prefix Corca as distinct from Corcach a swamp mens race offspring and is pretty common in Irish place names, i.e., Corca Duibhne in Kerry. etc., and lee means Lughaidh, son of Ithe, uncle of Milesius, who led the co-called Celtic colony to Ireland about 350 B.C. so that the name implies where the Lughaidh clan settled.

Kinealmehy, a kindred name to Cineala and Cineal Loaghaire and was named after a chieftain named Beic, either one of the line of Cinealea, or cineál Laoghaire, as both tribes had chieftains of this name. This name is now applied to a barony west of Bandon and extending almost to Castletown, Kinneigh, Cineal means race or tribe, and the whole name means the territory of the tribe of Beic or Beice.

Cinealea or Cineal Aogha, generally spelled Kinelea, is now applied to a restricted district near Innishannon, but formerly included a large area and varying dimensions at

different times. There were two sub-divisions, Kinelea Citra and Kinelal Ultra, the Latin additions being of later ecclesiastical origin. The name was derived from Aodh, grandson of Eochy (from whom Ui Eachach) grandson of Eochy, King of Munster who according to some gave Cork its name. I mention this with apologies to the strong element who favour Corcach, a swamp as the proper derivation of our famed city’s name.

The full name Kinelea then means the territory colonised by the tribe of which Aodh was chief.

Cineal Laoghaire:- Aodh above, mentioned had a brother called Laoghaire who gave his name to another territory, hence called Cineal Laoghaire. This name had not survived. Its named inhabitants having migrated to Kerry, where they became later

Domhnall Mor's twelve sons were sprung the various
branches of O'Sullivan, namely:

O'Sullivan-Maol-('the-bald');

Giolla-Mochuda('servant-of-St.-Mochutu-of-Lismore',)The-Genealogy-of-McGillicuddy(Mac-Giolla-Mochuda-servant-of-St.-Mochutu-of-Lismore')carthach -loving carthage

Deochain deacon
Ui-Eachach-Mumhan-Cas-('the curly-haired'), Eochu,from-whom-is-called-the-Ui-Eachach-(Ivagha).
Eochaid (alias Suilleabhan) osullivans not this group

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THE PARISH OF KILMICHAEL is situated in the southern side of the Barony of Muskerry between the Lee and its tributary, the Bride. The name has an ecclesiastical origin and means the Church of Michael, that is, Michael, the Archangel, to whom the original Cill was dedicated. This Church stood in the churchyard that still bears the name Kilmichael.

The feast-day of St. Michael is the 29 September, and this day was in former times held in great veneration by the people of Kilmichael and surrounding parishes. Rounds were performed in the old cemetery, and an air of sanctity marked each year’s anniversary. During late years the commemoration has degenerated to the holding of so-called Sports, and the venue has been transferred to a local cross-roads. Thus, a fine old religious tradition has been perpetuated in a new and less worthy style.

Before Christian times, Kilmichael district bore a different name, but to trace the origin of this older name it is necessary to delve a little into ancient history.

In the early years of the third century circa 210ad a king named Cairbre Musc gave his name to six territories in the province of Munster. Of these only one, Muscraidhe Mitne, or alternatively, Muscraidhe Floinn Lua, has come down to our time as a place name. The agnomen Floinn, genitive of Flann, was added in course of time as it was conquered by a chief called Flann.

In the early years of the third century a king named Cairbre Musc gave his name to six territories in the province of Munster. Of these only one, Muscraidhe Mitne, or alternatively, Muscraidhe Floinn Lua, has come down to our time as a place name. The agnomen Floinn, genitive of Flann, was added in course of time as it was conquered by a chief called Flann. Who was this Flann? As there has been a certain amount of confusion concerning his identity, it may be pertinent here to clarify this hitherto obscure section of Irish history.

At the end of the fifth century a king named Eochu (Eochy), breaking away from the royal house of the kings of Munster, founded for himself a kingdom in the present County Cork. This extended roughly from Cork Harbour to the confines of Drimoleague and from the Bandon to the Lee. This territory came to be known as Uibh Eachach from its founder Eochy. Eochy had a son named Criomthan (Griffin), who succeeded him as king of the new territory, but there were only two kings of this newly formed kingdom, for Criomthan’s two sons divided their patrimony.

The tribal name [McEachain] is still represented in the ancient territory of Dalaraidhe by the place named Ivahagh, in County Down, the Gaelic name of which is Uibb Eachach, pronounced Ivahagh, but now contracted to Ivagh. There are many more places in this area that contain the Gaelic tribal word or name EACH which is record in English as AUGH. However, each case where the word is used in a place name must be judged on its own merits as to meaning, for it would not be quite correct to imply that the word Each has the same significance in all instances for it is governed by its prefix or suffix. Eachain in itself is in reality a tribal designation, which is derived from the middle Gaelic name Eachuinn and anciently Eqo-donno-s, meaning the Horse Lord, or more properly translated, the Lord or Chief of the Horse Tribe; the horse, in Gaelic Each, being the totem of their tribe." The McCaughans of Scotland and Ireland by John Alexander McCaughan of Ballyverdagh

(the Book of Munster now gives a genealogical poem of Cathan O'Duinnin written in 1320, containing 126 stanzas and traces the branching out of the Cineal Laoghaire – the 1d2a1a O'Donoghues and about 50 other kindred families - the genealogical content is given here below)

A Ughoin, B Flann Lua and C Aodh Osraigheach. (donoghues)Aodh-(Hugh

Eile. - This was the name of a tribe, which was, as usual among the ancient Irish, applied to a territory. It was derived from Eile, the seventh in descent from Cian, son of Oiliol Olum, king of Munster, in the third century. It contained the whole of Ely O'Carroll,

523. Eoghanacht of Caisel. - This was the original tribe name of the O'Donoghues, who were anciently seated in Magh-Feimhin, now the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the S.E. of the county of Tipperary. They were driven from this territory shortly after the English Invasion, when they settled in the present barony of Magunihy, in the county of Kerry, to which they gave the name of Eoghanacht Ui Donnchadha, anglicised Onaght-O'Donoghue.

the king's house in Feimhin (South Tipperary plain). Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach517 is its name, 517. Corca-Athrach. - O'Flaherty describes this territory as extending in length from Tiprait-farran, near the abbey of the Holy Cross, called Huachtar-Iamhann, to Dunandreas, and the northern part of Knockgraffan. Ogygia, part iii., c. 81 It is also styled Feimhin,Uniter of the tribe of yellow nuts

A Ughoin, from whom is the sept named Corca Ughoin.

Ughoin had a son, A1Corc.

Corc had five sons:

A1a Longadh, from whom was the O'Longhadh (O'Long) family;

A1b Niall, from whom the O'Neill family;

A1c Dubhthacain, from whom was O'Dubhthacain (O'Duggan);

A1d Feichan, from whom was O'Feichin (O'Feehin) and

A1f Donn, who had no issue.

B Flann Lua or Laoi, son of Laoghaire. He is named for the river Lee and is ancestor of the sept Ui Flainn Lua.

It has been suggested that Flann was an alternative name for Criomthan, father of Aodh and Laoghaire, later mentioned. All this speculation was caused by a preconceived idea that Flann was an ancestor of the Cineal Aodha O’Mahony, whereas he was a member of the Cineal Laoghaire tribe, being son of Laoghaire himself. He is definitely described as Flann Laoi, so that decides once and for all who conquered the territory along the Lee, and gave his name

At this time the parts of County Cork north, west and northwest of Cineal Laoghaire, were occupied by independent tribes. The chiefs of Cineal Laoghaire, anxious to expand their possessions, made war on their neighbouring chiefs, or mayhap it was the neighbouring chief who was the aggressor, but at any rate the sequel was that Flann, son of Laoghaire, conquered the southern part of Muscraidhe Mitne, that is, the part bordering Macroom and along the Lee towards Crookstown.

This new acquisition came to be known as Muscraidhe Fhloinn, from its conqueror, and a part of it, roughly corresponding to the present parish of Kilmichael, got the name of Uibh Flann Luadh or Laoi. Thus the parish of Kilmichael was originally called Uibh Flann Luadh or Ifflanloe, as it is written by English historians.

The word Uibh here means territory, and was a common tribal designation in old times. Compare Uibh Laoghaire, the territory of Laoghaire, a chief of the Cineal Laoghaire of the seventh century.

In passing, I may emphasise the fact that Muscraidhe Ui Fhloinn, as given by some uncritical writers, is an incorrect rendering of the Irish form of the modern name of Muskerry. Since this territory was conquered by Flann nearly four centuries before surnames were introduced, it is obviously improper to introduce the Ui or O, symbol of surnames.

Some writers, relying on this false etymology, go so far as to say that Muskerry was once ruled by a clan, or tribe, called O’Flynn. Among those historians was William F. T. Butler, M.R.I.A.,(of South African fame), who makes this naive statement in his book Gleanings from Irish History. The true fact of the case is that the great O’Flynn clan is a myth, though there may have been a sub sept of the name in the district. The O’Flynns of Cork are descended mainly from a Corcalee chief.

Having now sketched how Kilmichael originated from Uibh Flann Luadh, we can proceed with its history. The two tribes of Cineal Aodha and Cineal Laoghaire lived in peace with one another, and later expanded westward to the sea and northwards to the borders of Kerry. A chief of the Cineal Laoghaire was raised to the kingship of Munster, and a chief of Cineal Aodha was also elected King of Munster. This latter chief was named Maolmuadh, anglicized Molloy. Maolmuadh was opposed by Mahon of the Dalgcais and later by his brother, Brian, known as Brian Boru. In the course of these struggles, a battle was fought near Macroom, at a place called Bealach Leachta, in the year 978. Here Brian was the victor and Maolmuadh retreated from the field of battle back through Bearna Dearg at Sleaveen.

We are told that Maolmuadh (or Malloe) was killed after the battle, being found hiding in an alder hut. Hitherto the place of his death had not been identified. Luckily, research has, I claim, enabled me to locate the scene of Maolmuadh’s last stand.

A pro-Dalcassian chronicler, referring to the death of Maolmuadh, says he was buried on the north side of a hill ‘on which the sun never shines’, this last phrase representing a biased writer’s exaggeration. Where was this alleged hill? I suggest it is that hill on the northside of Moneycuskar, between the latter townland and that known as Mount Music. This part is now called Ballina, but in olden days it was known as Lackmalloe (Leacht Maolmuadh), the burial flag or monument of Maolmuadh.

In those old days when a king or chief was slain, a leacht, or monument, was raised on the spot where he fell. He may have been buried elsewhere, but the stone marked the place of his demise.

I have failed to trace the leacht, but it undoubtedly disappeared in the course of cultivation down the centuries, and may now be broken up or buried under earth. It is gone, as the name Lackmalloe had gone from living memory, till my fortuitous discovery has revived it as an historic place-name

Flann Lua had four sons:

B1 Deice, from whom Muintir Dheice; extinct srafan

B2 Tuathan, from whom Muinter Tuathail;

B3 Donnghal, from whom Muintir Donnghail and

B4 Amhalghaid, from whom Muinter Amhalnghaid. Extinct srafan

B3 Donnghal had five sons:

B31 Laoghaire, from whom the Ui Laoghaire

MacLaire from whom were the Ui MhicLaire.

(O'Leary), who were chiefs of this district.

B32 Donnghal, from whom the Ui Dohnnghaile (O'Donnell);

B34 Mongan, from whom the Ui Changain (Mongon);

B35 Connall, from whom Ui Chonaill (O'Connell) and

B35 Loingsheach, seafarer exile from whom Ui Loingshigh (Lynch).

B31a Rinn Mor son of Laoghaire son of flann lua from whom was the Muintir Rinn

Tuathal ruler of the people son of flann lua had five sons:

B31a1 Ceitin, from whom Ui Cheitin;

B31a2 Meagagan, a quo Ui Mhearagain;

B31a3 Aghnach, a quo Ui Aghnaigh;

B31a4 Cuilen, a quo Ui Chailein; and

B31a5 Cainte. Ceinte had a son:

240. Cáinte 'lampooner', from canis 'hound', for a dog's head is on a lampooner when objurgating. Hence Crithenbél cáinte.

Crithenbél, that is, critherbél i.e. bél 'mouth' of the sparks (crithir), from the virulence and the fieriness of the words from him, for the words of the poem are virulent. Or Cridenbél that is, his heart (cride) in his mouth (bél), i.e. his secret in his lips, for he would not withhold a secret if he heard it. Or Critherbél, that is, mouth (bél) of the sparks (crithir), for he is the first lampooner that put out a royal torch by his tongue.

Crocharan

Ciocharan had three sons:

Eoghan, from whom Ui eoghainghain;

The O'Neills of Ui-Eochain Finn,

Deochain deacon Ui-Eoghain Finn.

- The territory of this tribe was in northern

Deisi, in the present county of Tipperary,

and adjoining Iverk on the west side.

See the Miscellany of the Archaeological

Society, vol. i., p. 205. The O'Neills of

this race, the head of whom was an

esquire in 1753, were afterwards seated

at Mount Neill, in the barony of Iverk,

county Kilkenny.

Agha, from whom Ui Agha; and. . Maothagan, from whom the Muintir

Mhaothagain.

B1 Deice son of Flann Lua, had a son i.e.,B1a Dubhagh, from whom Ui Dubhaigh, but this family and the family of

B4 Amhangaid, son of Flann Lua have become extinct through the curse of St. Srafan of Dromdaleague. Dromdaleague(Drimoleague).

The remains of a family residence, Castle Donovan, survive today outside Drimoleague, County Cork. Believed to have been the seat for the Clann Cathail sept of the O’Donovan clan in the 16th century, most of the 60-foot-tall tower house remain and is undergoing restoration. Castle Donovan was abandoned in the mid-17th century after being attacked by soldiers during the Cromwellian invasion.

The origin of the lake name is unknown, but (Irish: Droim Dhá Liag Loch) means the "Lake of the Ridge of two Stones, or Pillar-Stones".[2] The primary human settlements near Drumaleague Lough is Drumcong village. Drumaleague Lough is bounded by the townlands of Letterfine to the north and east, Drumaleague to the west, and Seltan (McDonald) to the south and east.[4]

133, The following story about Hua Suanaig is taken from LB, 90,

marg. inf. Moel Bresail mac Flaind L^na b6i for fogail. Ocus

oen dia fhoglaib sarugud crossi H^/ Shuanaig 7 a firchomairce hi

Fid Ela im chleir in oesa cerdi. Is de ata Cross na cdinte. Hi

flaith Domnaill mate Murchada in sarugud sin. Dorimart Domnall

m^?c Murchada h/// Chailchin uile. Ocus f^remdid breth 7 ^ric ar

met in tsaraigthe, co ro laad ior cubas Hw/ Shuanaig fessin. IS hf

breth H/// Shuanaig indsin .i. tfr in echta do thuitim i ndflse do

Mochuda 7 do H« Shuanaig .i. Ross Corr, 7 na doine doronsat na

hechta .i. H/// Gille Suanaig 7 YKHi Chemaig 7 Hw/ Chonfn, cen

imp6d doib fri fine co d^ britha brud.

* Mdel-Bresail son of Fland L^na was a-ravaging. And one of his

ravages was the outraging of Hua Suanaig^s Cross and of his

safe-conduct in Fid Ela of the retinue of the artists. Hence is

(the name) *The Cross of the Satirists.' In the lordship of Domnall son of Murchad was that outrage. Domnall son of Murchad Hua Cailcin arrested all (the wrongdoers). And he was unable to award judgment and mulct because of the greatness of the outrage. So it was cast upon the conscience of Hua

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Suanaig himself. This is Hua Suanaig's judgment : to wit, the

land of the murder, namely, Ross Corr, to fall in ownership to

S. Mochutu and to Hua Suanaig, and the persons that com-mitted the murders — />., the Hui Gilli Suanaig, the Hui Cemaig

and the Hiii Conin — to be without return to their sept until the conflagration of Doomsday.'

AI594.1

Kl. Eclipse of the sun in the morning. [AU 591, 592].

The descendants of C Aodh Osraigheach, son of Laoghaire (O'Donohues). Aodh-(Hugh

Aodh Osraigheach son of C1 Laoghaire (a quo clan Laoghaire) had two sons; Aodh-(Hugh

Fíngen mac Áedo Duib (died 618)[1] was a King of Munster from the Eóganacht Chaisil branch of the Eoganachta. He was the great-grandson of Feidlimid mac Óengusa, a previous king.[2] He succeeded Amalgaid mac Éndai as king in 601.

There is some dispute in the sources as to his reign and that of Áed Bennán mac Crimthainn (died 618) of the Loch Lein branch. The Annals of Tigernach give the title King of Munster to both of them but give Fingin's accession after Amalgaid in 601.[3] The Annals of Innisfallen do not give Aed this title but give it to Fingin.[4]

His reign was a prosperous one:[5]

Munster in the time of Fíngen mac Áedo, its store-houses were full, its homesteads were fruitful.

According to the saga Mór of Munster and the Violent Death of Cuanu mac Ailchine he was originally married to a Deisi woman but later married Mór Muman (died 636), the daughter of Áed Bennán. Mór Muman was purported to be the most beautiful and desirable woman in all of Ireland at the time. She later married his successor Cathal mac Áedo (died 627) thereby transferring the kingship to him.[6]

He was very attentive and attractive to women as evident by this passage in the Psalter of Cashel:

Fíngen, the fierce, the active

Reckless, intrepid to the last

Kind and gentle towards women,

Alas! in bonds of love held fast.

His sons by Mór were Sechnussach and Máenach mac Fíngin (died 661) who was a King of Munster.[7] A distant descendant was Feidlimid mac Cremthanin (died 847).

The direct descendants of Fíngen mac Áedo Duib were known as the Cenél Fíngin are the O'Sullivans and MacGillycuddys. The McGillycuddys are a sub-sept of the O'Sullivan clan. (The name McGillycuddy originates from when O'Sullivan Mór sent his trusted son, Mac Giolla, to be educated under the tutelage of Saint Mochuda at Lismore).

C1a Donn Creigheach and C1b Cairbre.

C1b Cairbre's son, ie., C1b1 Clairmeach. Clairmeach had three sons and a daughter;

C1b1a Ceallach and

C1b1b Cuanna and

C1b1c Dunland the three sons and

C1b1d Cruineaca Lanogh, the daughter's name. . C1b1c Dunland succeeded to the kingship after his father. C1b1c Dunland had a son,

C1b1c1 Elathach. Elathach had two sons,

i.e., C1b1c1a Feaghal and C1b1c1b Dunlang.

C1b1c1a Fearghal had a son, Beannt, from whom are the sept of Beanntraighe (Bantry) in Cork. Beannt had four sons:

O'Bece,585 scion of fair land,
Is over Beanntraighe586 of the fair summit,
A host to whom high deeds are truly easy,
Of the race of Fergus of Uladh.587

585. O'Bece. - This name, which would be anglicised Beck, has long since sunk into oblivion.

586. Beanntraighe, now the barony of Bantry, in the county of Cork.

587. Fergus of Uladh, i.e., Fergus Mac Roigh, exiled king of Ulster, in the first century, from which O'Conor Kerry, O'Conor of Corcumroe, O'Loughlin, and many other famlies in Munster are descended.

Aibhneair, from whom came the Tuath Aibhneoir;

Deannan, from whom the Tuath Deannan;

Duilghin, from whom Muinter Duilghin; and

Daire, from whom Muintir Dhaire.

Sealbhach Seabhac('of-the-Hawks'

Magunihy- O'Conghail (O'Connell) ruled as chiefs here. By the 11th century the O'Donaghues forced them towards the west coast, as the O'Donaghues were driven from Cork by the MacCarthys and O'Mahanoys. The Mac Carthaigh (MacCarthy Mor) were centered at Muckross, near Killarney, south of the O'Donaghue territory. The ancient clan names of the O'Donaghue clan were Cinel Laoghaire and Clan tSealbach. The Mac Gillycuddys are also noted here.

son of C1b1 Clairneach, had four sons: Slat, Elathach, MacIodhar, and Cochlan.

The descendants of Slat and Elathach fell into obscurity;

Cochlan, son of Sealbhach, had four sons:

Aodh, from whom is Ui Aodha (O'Hea); Aodh-(Hugh

Cochlan from whom Ui Chochlain (O'Cohalane, O'Coughlan);

Ceanndubh, from whom Ui Cheannduibh (O'Cannifee);

Airchinneach, from whom Ui Airchinnigh;

Maicthrialla, from whom the Ui Mhaicthrialla; and

Maolbhridhde, who died without issue.

Maolodhar son of Sealbach had five sons:

Ealathach, from whom the Mac Ealathaigh family;

Buadhach, from whom the Ui Buadaigh (O'Bogue);

218. Loegaire Birnn Buadach: we know not at present.

Cathalan, from whom Ui Chathalain (Cahalane);

Maoilin, from whom Ui Mhaoilin; and

Croinin, from whom the Ui Chroinin family (O'Cronin).

604ad aed roin mac cathail died king of leinster great great grandfather of fland 697ad d. 604 Aed (Hugh) Roen , son of Rossa Failge- " "Áed Rón mac Cathail (died 604) was a king of the Uí Failge, a Laigin people of County Offaly. He was the grandson of Bruidge mac Nath Í (died 579), a previous king son of ross failge

He is listed as king in the Book of Leinster king list though incorrectly as Aed Róin mac Falge Ruit. He is also mentioned in a poem in the genealogies about the royal fort at Rathangan, County Kildare. His father Cathal mac Bruidgi was also mentioned as king in this poem but is not in the king list or annals.

Áed took the side of the Síl nÁedo Sláine branch versus the Clann Cholmáin in the feud among the southern Ui Neill. As a result he was slain in 604 on the same day as Áed Sláine in the interests of Conall Guthbinn (died 635), king of Uisnech.

128. Conall Guthbind. He is called Guth-bind 'sweet-voiced', because he was an excellent chanter. He was a cleric and priest of Clonard.

129. Conall Grant, that is, Conall the Grey, for grant is usually said of all things grey: as, for instance, cront ṡaile 'phlegm' i.e. grant-seile, grey or blue spittle.

130. Cernach Sotal. For his pride and for the greatness of the spirit in him he was called Sotal 'proud'.

His son Ailill mac Áedo Róin was a king of the Uí Failge. However future kings were to descend from his brother Máel Uma.

604-1540 Stone churches at Ardrass (undated and disputed, but associated with St Patrick in local folklore), Clonaglis (1206), Lyons (c1300), Whitechurch (Ecclesia Alba, named for the Carmelite order, granted 1320, enfifed 1508), and Oughterard (nunnery c608, burned 1094, current ruined church built c1350). Oughterard site is associated with Saints Brigid/Bríga (feast day Jan 21) and Derchairthinn (feast day March

611ad mac laisre that is the son of laisair ware and colgan think that he is the person called terenannus archipontifex hibernise in the life of saint laurence archbishop of canterbury by john of tynmouth saint laurence was made archbishop of canterbury in 611ad his feast is celebrated according to the martyrology of donegal on the 17th september

omolloys country ballincor derrooly newtown rahan demesne meath middle kingdom

Spike Island's Saint : Today is the feast of the 7th century St Mochuda (the form of Carthach-loving) who founded a monastic settlement on Spike Island. Mochuda was born into the Uí Fhirb a branch of the tribe known as the Ciarraighe Luachra. This tribe lived in what is modern day Co. Kerry. As an adult he studies under Carthach-loving of Kiltomey in the parish of Kilcaragh. Cill Charthaigh is Kilcar He left his native home and travelled via Clonfertmolua and Lynally. When he reached Rahan in Co Offaly he re-founded a monastery on the site of the earlier monastery founded by St Camelacus (a contemporary of here by St Patrick). Rahan became a thriving monastic site and the saint’ lives tell of many miracles performed here. He is also record as making many visits to Munster and he is associated with a number of churches in the Cork Harbour area. The Annals of Ulster recount that having cured the Cathal Aodh the King of Munster of lameness, deafness and blindness he was given lands at Oilean Cathail, Ros –Beg (Ballybricken parish Barnahely), He place a religious community in ros beg Ros-Mor and Inis-Pic (Spike Island). and he then built a church on Inis Pic and spent a year here. Upon leaving the Cork Harbour area he left behind three of his disciples Goban a bishop, Srafran a priest and the bishop Domongen and 40 monks.
Mochuda spent most of his life at Rahan. Following his expulsion from Rahan he founded another monastery at Lismore which he is best associated with.

9. The death of forty soldiers

with a great host that was

brighter, to whom the sun arose

with paeans in a black dark

place.

ID. To the angels has been

summoned Constantine the fair

(and) luminous, by whom was

found the angelical shaft, the

tree of the Lord's Cross.

II. They are attendants (?)

of our Lord in the Kingdom

above kingdoms, Libr^n, peren-nial Senan, Constantine king of Rathen.

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disho/^ Beoid, i.e. bh-aed^ i.e. living fire : of Aed Cama in Mag Luirg in Connaught.

Bishop Beo[a]id, son of Olcan, son of Cuman, son of Maidne, son of

Tr^n, son of L^n, son of Lugaid Mac-con.

9. Death of forty soldiers^ etc. i.e. forty soldiers who were cast into a cold lough by Licinius son of ... , son of Constantine*s sister.

And every one was put round about the lough so that they might not come out of it till they were drowned. Tis then that the sun shone to them out of the bottom of the lough.' And since the heathen could do nothing to them, they were taken out of the lough, their legs were broken, and then they were burnt. Quadraginta mtUteSy etc.

Forty soldiers, alas ! in the east were cast into a cold lough :

the sun shines to them, much of glowing heat, in the bottom

of the great lough.

10. Constantxtiy i.e. Constantine, son of Helena, by whom Christ's

cross was found. Constantine, son of Helena, de quo, etc.

11. They are comrades of our God, Or "a prayer on the feast of

Oibl^n's son [leg. grandson], Oengus among princes " (is another reading). i.e. Oengus son of Oingoba, son of Oibldn, of the community of

Cluain Eidnech, 'tis he that composed the Martyrology in Tallaght. Oengus sang :

1 have asked of my king, merciful, mighty, excellent is his heart- story — that Christ may be very indulgent to me so long as I am in the flesh.

ConstantirUy i.e. son of Fergus, successor of Mochutu of Rathen in

Delbna Ethra in Meath, i.e. a king of Britain, who left his realm and

came on his pilgrimage to Rathen in the time of Mochutu. He was

also king of Scotland, and he sold the goodness of the earth for

pilgrimage in order to gain heaven. So he gave himself to manual

labour like any monk a-serving God ; and 'tis he that marked out the

church, i.e. of Rathen, and dug its dyke, and bettered Cepach Cusantin * Constantine's Plot,' to the south of Rathen. Great then was his bellyful, to wit, the dinner of a hundred, 'tis this that satisfied him : so Mochutu's leavings were given to him. Mochutu sained his mouth,

and (then) he used to consume only the same quantity as any (other) monk. And though his bellyful was lessened his strength was not diminished.' Greatly, indeed, did the monks profit by his humility for the strength of a hundred was in him. Now he asked Mochutu to let him go into Scotland, to visit his children and his kindred. Mochutu gave him permission, and (he went and) came again. His share of dinner had been laid up for him so long as he was in the east, and was put on a hide before him, mixed up together, both the clerics' pottage and milk and com, and some of it had turned to worms. So he took his girdle around him and . . . (the share) towards him with his two (?) himds till it was clear to him that he had consumed it all.

> His pedigree LL, 35og. Gengusa episcopi hui Oibleain LL, 357^.

'^ sol ob signum supemae daritatis et consolationis emicuit, Drummond

Missal. Sec the legend, An Old-English Martyrology ^ ed. Herzfeld, pp. 36,

38 : Ass. Mart. H. 20. * Compare Brigit's miracle, Thes.pal, hib. li. 344.

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94 F£:LIRE OENGUSSO, [Mf MARTA,

cl/Hg, do ro malts^m vxcutn co fosa</( ? ) 7 co halainn, ar bdi in frrthaigis

ica {orcovoict na fagbad nf don proinn ce« tomailt. Fon daire duit

uodtfj/a, [ar Mochutu,] arnamarach 7 imb^r do barainn. Cid dia

tucais iorm Xocht (?) do laim i tosach aidchi irair ama/7 dochiiad.*

Nimtainic-si nam d'ecomnart nf nosamlaind fris. Cach ecomnart nam

domizxraid rolaas dim fom chumang. Cach maith romb6i ro buanag«/x.

Luid-si2/m fon daire iarsin 7 nos-reidig^nn. ^.

Fecht eli dosum isin clud oc denam [a] oipn, ro prainnigsed na

cl/rig 7 ro d^nnaided som, Ro lonnaig som di suidiu, co ndocorusiar

Ian na sluaisti uad asin' cludh dond liir^ for ior\€s an tige p/t)indi>

condsi rainic a chuid a mias* chuad gach manaig isin tig. ^.

Teit Mochuta dia saigthin-sium [iarsin]. Is ann ro batar na srotha

allais tairis la dichracht in tsaethair. Dob^rt Mochuta a bois fo dtan, 7

domb^rt fo ^tan fesin. Maith a cl/Hgh, ar Ci/^ntin, b\\us a maili fein

icas cach. Ro loitis, ar Mochuta, mam apairthi sin no ic^ad cid drucht

do ligi cach. R^.

ISin tsechtmain ria n-ecaib do Cw^ntin oc ctlthrad doib ina

n-^clais conaLCca, Mocuta in Satan for cind Cusantin. Cid do[t]fuc

annsin ? for Mochuta. Manach dam indso, for se, ar ita in doman for

a cubi/j. IS d6ig is b^c side, for Moch«/a. IS cutech and cidh*

b^c side, for esii/m. Maith, a cl/rig, tabair do choibsena, for Mochu/a^

Dobiur immorro, a tig^ma, for Cusantiny nad fil don doman form

mo chubwj, ackf imraidim nama comad maith lim in l^c forsa. ngeibisi

do pat^r ci^mad si no beith dar m'aigid. Bid si immorro, for MochufyL^

7 eirgsi, a Satain, isin coirthi fil fri cill andes, 7 ni d^mai irchoid ann

ack/ donti ticfa frisin eclais. J^.

IS e immorro in Cw^antin remraiti fuair cairdi no teora mbliada/r

o Blathm^c 7 o Diarmait .i. 6 da mac Aeda Sl^f/zi, 7 o samad Finden 7

Ciarain 7 Coluim ct7/e, can Mochw/a do innarba a Raithin. IS arin Cwjintin

c//nai sin tucatar cl/rig Leithi Cuinn 7 muinnter clainni Aeda Sldm in

drochimpide iar toidecht &ianaid chairde indara hUadain gan Mochw/a

d'innarba a Raithin. is € in bachk^;^ cJtna, for cach, 7 nisbia failti

don chursa. IS drochimpidi, a 6ga, f^r Cwjantin, ar robamaimi riam

isin maithes i taithisi co ros-renam ar in Coimdid. Robatar secht nduine

for mo cubas, 7 rigan cecha duine, 7 6r 7 airget 7 graige 7 alba bo

gacha duine. Yorachus^a sin uili co ndomfil i mogsaine sund ar scire

in Coimded. Cia dob^rta \axum cairdi form^a 7 for iriti romfoid xohad

fochraic. Ro laied crandchar et/> samad Finnen 7 Ciaran 7 Co\mm

chille, Cia epsr^ udib no xa.%ad la Diarmaid do gabail laime Mochi^/a.

.i. Diarmaid ro cuir^d ar tiis do gabail laime Mochw/a, 7 femid

» dochoid M dochuad berm, (Book of Fermoy). * isin R}. Fir Mhwige (Fermoy)

asin Perm, » dondwn R*. don uir, Ferm, ♦ r^wrainic a chuid

uad a mias R^, r^/zdarainic a chuid do mfas, Ferm, * cidat /?*.

cidh Ferm,

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Then the clerics' leavings were brought to him, and them he consumed steadily (?) and pleasantly, for the majordomo was keeping them so that nothing of the meal was left without being consumed. "Get thee to the oakwood to-morrow and ply thy wrath (on the trees)."

" Why didst thou impose on me to go and receive the Sacrament at the beginning of last night as I went. Never has any unfairness come to me which I would liken to it. Every unfairness that ever befell me I cast from me with all my might. Every good that I had I made lasting (?) " Thereafter he went throughout the oakwood and clears it. Another time he i^as in the dyke, doing his work. The clerics dined, and he was forgotten. Thereat he became angry, and he flung from him

out of the dyke a shovelful of clay upon the skylight of the refectory, so that his ration came to him out of the platter of every monk in the house. Thereafter Mochutu goes to seek him. The streams of sweat were then over him from the vehemence of the toil. Mochutu puts his palm under Constantine's brow and puts it (the palm) under his own brow.

"Well, O cleric,"says Constantine, "'tis the sweat of his own tonsure

that heals every one." "Thou hast injured (thyself)," says Mochutu:

" if thou hadst not said that, even the dew of thy grave would have healed every one."

In the week before Constantine*s death, as they were at mass in

their church, Mochutu saw Satan over Constantine's head. "What

brought thee there?" says Mochutu. "This is a monk of mine," quoth Satan, " for the world is on his conscience." " Probably this

is little," says Mochutu. "It is equal (?) in him, though it be

little." " Well, O cleric," says Mochutu, " deliver thy confession." " I declare, my lord," says Constantine, "that on my conscience there is

nothing of the world, save only that I think I should like the flagstone on which thou repeatest thy paternoster to be over my face (when I am buried)." " It shall be so indeed," says Mochutu. " And get thee, O Satan, into the pillar-stone to the south of the cell, and thou shouldst cause no hurt there save to one who shall resist the Church."

Now this is the Constantine aforesaid who obtained the three years'

respite from Blathmec and Diarmait,the two sons of Aed Slane,

· CXXXII. CELLACH AND CONALL GAEL.
Gellach and Gonall Cáel, s. Máel-Coba, fifteen years. Cellach died a natural death in the Brug of Mac in Óc. Conall Cáel fell at the hands of Diarmait s. Aed Slaine. Fursa rested. A cow brought forth four calves in one day.

· CXXXIII. BLATHMAC AND DIARMAIT.
Blathmac and Diarmait, fifteen years. They died a natural death of the Buide Conaill. Feichín of Fore, Mainchín of Leth Airerán, the sages, rested by the Buide Conaill. The synod of Constantinople.

and from the congregation of Find^n and Ciaran and Colum cille, not to expel Mochutu from Rathen.

134. Diarmait Ruanaid, that is, Diarmait the Red, for ruán is a plant that produces a colour on the face so that it becomes red, wherefore (he that uses it) is called ruanaid. Or Ruanaid, that is, ro-ḟeinnid 'great champion', for he (Diarmait) was heroic when he lived. Again, Diarmait Ruanaid (was so called) because when the sons of Aed Slane banished (Saint) mo-Chuta from Rathen they were asking Diarmait (to go) with them. "I will not go", says Diarmait, "for I will do no evil to mo-Chuta". Then said his brothers to Diarmait: "That is ruanaid i.e. royal (?) O Diarmait!" say they. So therefore, according to this version, he is called Diarmait Ruanaid.

Tis to that same Constantine that the clerics of Leth Cuinn and the household of the children of Aed Slane made the evil petition, after coming to ask a respite the second year not to expel Mochutu from Rathen."He is the same churl," says every one, "and he will not be welcome this time." "Tis an evil petition, O youths," says Constantine, " for we were in the good plight in which ye are, until we gave it up for the Lord. I had seven fortresses in my power (?), and a queen for every fortress, and gold and silver and herds of horses and kine for every fortress. I left all that I might be in

servitude here for love of the Lord. If a respite were granted for me, and for Him who has sent me, there would be a reward." A lot was cast between the congregations of Finnen and Ciaran and Colum cille. " What bishop of you would go with Diarmait to expel Mochutu ? " Diarmait was first .sent to expel Mochutu, and he is unable to do so, wherefore

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a gabail, r^«[id] aire sin ro b^wnaig Mocht^/a DiarmaiV. Dorala

•do muinntir Cltiana, mac Nois. Ro laisit siden for a c^llaid, Dorala

do muintir Cltiana. Cuangwja i Cen^l Ardgail. Ragatsa, for an air-

•cinnech sin, do gabdi/ sl lamha. Teit \aium airchinnech Cluana.

Congusa do gahdil a lama. In geb«^ mo lamsa, for Mochufa, Ni bia

isin tsuide abad, [fris] ol in cl?rech. Nitraibsi[u] nem n6 talaw, for

MochufsL, 7 gurab foss sop 7 cuitbiuda in dala/*^ 7 1 n-airechtaib dogr^

t'airchinnech. Mairg not-gaib 7 lasa ngabar, for secnab Cilli Ached.

BennacA/y for Moch«/a, 7 bid lat ordan do cilli. B^rid ass 6, for foss-

aircinnech Citiana mac Nois, na furgid in bachloA crannbriathrach

isin cill. Nitraibsiu nem no talamy for Mochw/a, 7 uacht 7 gorta [dot

breith 7] do br«M fir th'inaid dogr^. Morliach a ndognfd,* for secnap

Dermaigi. Bid tusa, bus sechnap, 7 bus airchinnech it inad dogr^.

{for Mochuta] Taimgid aniSas* e, for aircinnech D^rmaige. Dig/ad do

samtha fort 7 for fir th'inaid dogr^ 7 g»rab ^en m^r dot munad

ind airecd dogrA 7 do munad do comarbo.

Ro soi didu co muintir Cluana, Iraird, 7 ro escain drem dib, 7 ro

b^;?nach drem aili.

Luid Blathmrt: feisin inund 7 Cronan Derg comarba Ciarain. Cid

dia tuidched, for Mochu/a, Do gabi/7do lamasa, or Blathm^. Ni

rgeba, for Mochw/a. Ni bia isin tsuide abad fris, for se. Gebatsa duno

do lamsa asin tsuidhi'* i tdi, 7 g^t[at neamh 7 talmain fort^ co na bfa

rfgh na righdamhna uait.]* ^.

12. Grigoir Roma .i. do chlannaib Degad d6 7 abb Romae h^,

7 is ^ ro timnastar a chorp i comniir for sruth Tibir 7 unga 6ir for a

ucht .i. unga uaige, co ro faid Dla 6 co Araind, conid de ainmnigter in

tracht for ragaib, 7 co filid a thaisi innti, amai7 ro taimgir F^rr^rtni fill

•Cb«rdi, dicens Geinfid brath 7rl. /^,

Hiia Degad meic Sin • Grigoir Arda mail,

ap Roma lain Letha • a n-Erind atetha,

ar is ina dail.*

[Ar hEriu ard-ailen * i mbia Grigoir g6r]

cenn na nGaidel nglanmass, • sil Gaidil gil gablas,

cid amnas, atb/r. 7rL R^,

13. .i. nouisjmus dies forsmbfin init. R^,

Mochoemoc .i. o Liath Mochoemoc i n-Elib. E},

Mo Coemoc vc\ac Beoain vaeic Mellain meic Nesain m«c Eire meic

Caireda. R, Mo Coem6c .i. mac Beoaeda. Z.

» indognid R^. * induas R^. aniSas Ferm, » asintsuidh R,

* A leaf of R, is lost after git The letters and words in brackets are taken from col. 7 of a tract entitled Indarba Mochuda a Rat thin (* Expulsion of S. Mochutu from Rahen '), of which there is an imperfect copy in the

Book of Fermoy, Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) pp. 40-44. » sic Laud 610, fo. 117* i. acris mad dil R, The whole poem is printed in Celt. Zeitschr. Ill, 37-39.

Digitized by VjOOQIC

MARCH 11-13.] MARTYROLOGY OF OENGUS. NOTES, 97

Mochutu blessed Diarmait. Then came the turn of the community of

Clonmacnois. They went to their cells. Came the turn of the com-munity of Cluain Cuangusa at the end of Ardgal. " I will go," says their erenagh, "to expel him." Then the erenagh of Cluain Con- gussa goes to expel Mochutu. " Wilt thou expel me ? " says Mochutu.

" Thou shalt not be in the abbot's seat," says the cleric. " Thou shalt have neither heaven nor earth," says Mochutu ; "and may thy erenagh always be a servant of wisps and mockery in assemblies and meetings ! "

" Woe to him who takes thee and by whom thou art taken ! " says the

prior of Cell ached. " A blessing," says Mochutu ; "and with thee will be the dignity of thy church." " Take him away," says the sub-erenagh of Clonmacnois : " let not the fellow delay, a wordy log (?) in the church." "May neither heaven nor earth be thine," says Mochutu, " and cold and hunger carry off thy successor always ! " " Tis a great pity what ye do," says the prior of Durrow. " Tis thou (says Mochutu) who will be prior arid erenagh always in thy place." " Drag him down ! " says the erenagh of Durrow. " Hatred of thy congregation upon thee (says Mochutu^ and on thy successor always ! and may a

finger be always needed to teach thee in meeting and to teach thy

successor." Then he turned to the community of Clonard, and cursed a part of them and blessed another part

Blathmec himself went up to him, and Cronan the Red, Ciaran's

successor. " Why have ye come ? " says Mochutu. " To expel thee,"

says Blathmec. " Thou shalt not," says Mochutu. " Thou shalt not

be in the abbot's seat against him (?)" quoth he. "Then I will

expel thee from the seat in which thou art, and I vrill rob thee of heaven and earth, so that neither king nor crown-prince shall be from thee."

12. Gregory of Rome^ i.e. of the Children of Dega was he, and

abbot of Rome. And 'tis he that bequeathed his body in a case on the

river Tiber, with an ounce of gold on its breast, i.e. the ounce of

virginity, and God sent it to Arann, and from it the strand on which it came is named, and therein are his relics, as Fercertne the poet of Cii-r6i prophesied, saying, " Judgment will be bom," etc.

Descendant of Dega, son of Sen, Gregory of Ardmail, abbot of Rome of full Latium, goes into Erin, for it is in his share. For Erin the noble island wherein keen Gregory will be chief of the pure fair G6edil, the race of bright G6edel that branches, though severe, I will say.*

13. .i. nouissimus dies on which is the shrovetide.

My Coem6c i.e. of Liath Mochoem6c in Eli. My Coemdc^ son of Beoan, son of Mellan, son of Nessdn, son of Ere, son of Cairid. My Coem6c, i.e. son of Beo-Aed.

' Sec the prophecy in Celt, Zeitschr. Ill, 37» Tufa brdthair buada. etc.

» There are verses on Mo Chaem6c's fabulous age (404 years) in LL, 353, foot, and 357 left margin.

OENGUS. H.

Cepach Cusantfn, * Constantine's Plot,' p. 92, south of Rathen.

Raithen Rahan rahen region of fircheall territory of meath mochuda or carthach -loving carthage

Saint mochemocs acts duaid mac firbis enters under the head of cull carra senach son of ecin with srafan and senchell and brodigan five bishops and aitecaem and bishop mac cairthin and conlough and brigid in cull carra

Mochuda had in his monastery twelve exceedingly perfect disciples, scil.:— 1 Caoinche Mac Mellain [Mochua Mac Mellain or Cronan], who was the first monk to enter Rahen; 2 Mucoinog [Mochoemog]; the three sons of Nascainn— 3 Goban, 4 Srafan, and . . 5 Laisren; 6 Mulua [Molua]; 7 Lugair; 8 Mochomog Eile; Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, 9 Aodhan Aodh-(Hugh [Aedhan]; 10 Fachtna Coinceann [Fiachna or Fiochrae]; 11 Fionnlog and 12 Mochomog who became a bishop later.

Another time again a king of Munster, Cathal Mac Aodha, Aodh-(Hugh in the region of Cuirche, was a sufferer from a combination of complaints—he was deaf, lame, and blind, and when Mochuda came to see him the king and his friends prayed the saint to cure him. Mochuda therefore prayed for him and made the sign of the cross on his eyes and ears and immediately he was healed of all his maladies—he heard and saw perfectly, and Cathal gave extensive lands to God and Mochuda for ever, scil:— Oilean Cathail and Ros-Beg and mochuda placed a religious community in ros beg to build there a church in honour of god Ros-Mor and Inis-Pic [Spike Island]. Mochuda himself commenced to build a church on Inis-Pic and he remained there a whole year. [On his departure] Mochuda left there—in the monastery of Inis-Pic spike island—to watch over it, in his stead, and to keep it in perfect order—the three disciples whom we have already named (scil:—the three sons of Nascon, i.e. Goban a bishop, 17th march Srafan straphang a priest, and holy Laisren) (neascan) together with the saintly bishop, Dardomaighen [Domangenum-domongen],

(who had conferred orders on them in presence of Mochuda carthach-loving-domhainghin of toomyvara tuaim mhuscraighe parish of aghnameadle barony of upper Ormond county Tipperary according to the genealogists domhainghan was one of the four sons of fionnlugh of the Kerry family of ciarraighe luachra the others being breanainn of clonfert faichleach of cloontuskert and faolan of kiltullagh domhainghin is possibly the subject of an episode in the life of mochuda of Lismore which describes how a bishop of this name ordained some of mochudas disciples at the offaly church midhe of rahan before these settled on spike island in cork harbour domhainghins feastday fell on 29th april)

and forty monks. Thereupon Mochuda returned to Rahen. That island we have mentioned, scil.:—Inis-Pic, is a most holy place in which an exceedingly devout community constantly dwell.

Laisrean of holywood ard mic nasca barony of lower Castlereagh county down laisrean son of nasc is known from two sources the life of mochuda of Lismore carthach-loving and the martyrologies mochudas life brings the saint southwards together with two brothers named goban and srafan to the sea girt church at spike island in the cork harbour parish of templerobin whereas the martyrologies place his commemoration on 25th October at holywood (victae santorum hiber p 2 vols d lummo 1910 ii 182 184 34 39 martrology tallaght 84 martyrology oenghus 218 226 mart g 202 mart d 282 ea 272-3 hdgpi 93) remembered with him in the lists for that day and no doubt identical with him laisre son of colum a variant name of the son of colman who according to the genealogists belonged to the dal naraidhe of north down and south antrim (cgsh 374) a passage of the life of ide brings this laisrean on a visit allegedly from far away to killeedy in limerick in the company of luchtighearn who is said to have been much better known to the local community (vshp ii 127 31) laisreans companion was probably the same luchtighearn as was sent according to the life of mochaomhog of leigh by comhghall of bangor to found a church elsewhere ( ibid 168 10) in view of these associations and despite the disparity in patronymics laisrean son of colman was probably identical with his namesake the son of nasc at holywood

Another sept of o floinn a dull red colour ruddy when applied to persons was at one time famous in ulster they possessed a territory in southern antrim between lough neagh and the sea and were the senior branch of clanna rury of ulidia tracing their descent back to colla uais king of eire 4th century the f of ofloinn was aspirated in modern ulster gaelic with the result that the name became oloinn and the anglicised form olynn in ulaidh

46. Crimthan Sréb 'Stripe'. There were red stripes round his neck when he was born. Or Crimthan Srem, for he was streamy.

47. Aed Flann Cathrach 'Red Aed of the Town', for flann means 'red', and in the town of Dún Iascaig on the Suir was his residence. Or two names were on him, to wit, Aed and Flann.

48. Cú cen máthair 'Hound without mother': to wit, wailing for his mother was he when the mother perished: Cú cen máthair 'motherless Cú', was his name thereafter.

49. Cairbre Crom, son of Crimthann Srem. In Cell Cromglaise ('the Church of the Crooked Stream'), in Mag Femin was he reared: thence was he named.

618ad King of Munster from the Eóganacht Chaisil branch of the Eoganachta. King fingen mac aedo duib d618 his younger brother Cathal mac Áedo Flaind Chathrach of the Glendamnach branch succeeded him in 628.

Cathal mac Áedo Flaind Chathrach (died 627)[1] was a King of Cashel in Munster from the Glendamnach sept of the Eoganachta.

He was the son of Áed Fland Cathrach and grandson of Coirpre Cromm mac Crimthainn (died 577)[2] a previous king of Cashel. He succeeded to the throne on the death of Fíngen mac Áedo Duib in 618.

According to an old saga poem Mór of Munster and the Violent Death of Cuanu mac Ailchine, he married the widow of his predecessor Mór Muman (died 636) who was the daughter of Áed Bennán mac Crimthainn (died 618) of the Loch Lein Eoganachta of West Munster thereby assuring his right to rule at Cashel. After rescuing her sister Ruithchern from the Uí Liatháin who had captured her, the two sisters proceeded to lament the dead king Fíngen mac Áedo Duib and the prosperity of his time for which they were rebuked by Cathal.[3]

Mór marries Ruithcern to Lonán mac Findig who is a close ally of Cathal’s, probably of the Éile. However one day the king bids him rise and show respect to the king of the Déisi. Lonán takes offense at this request and leaves Cashel taking his wife with him planning to stay with his wife’s family, the sons of Áed Bennán, but en route, he is attacked and wounded by Cuanu mac Ailchine of the Fir Maige Féne who abducts Ruithchern.[4] This leads to a war between the sons of Áed Bennán and the sons of Cathal. The warfare led to attacks by both septs on the subject peoples of each other avoiding direct confrontation with each other.[5]

The events of this saga in terms of the feud between the Glendamnach and Loch Lein branches is reflected in some references in the annals to events in the next generation. In 644 was fought the battle of Cenn Con in Munster between Máel Dúin mac Áedo Bennán (died 661), and Aengus Liath (died 644) of Glendamnach (the brother of Cathal) with much slaughter on both sides and Máel Dúin was put to flight.[6] The death of Cuanu mac Cailchín is mentioned in 644.

Cathal had seven sons including Cathal Cú-cen-máthair mac Cathaíl (died 665) a king of Cashel.[7]

So far the face of Sealbhaigh son of Clairineach.

C1b1c1 Elathach, son of c1b1c Dunlang, son of C1b1 Clairneach, had one son C1b1c1b Dunland.

Dunlang had a son, Ainbhleithe.

Anbhleithe had a son, Flaithnia.

Flaithnia had five sons:

Aonghus, from whom the kingship;

Flaitheamh, from whom Ui Flaitheamh . (O'Flahiffe);

Lj and Flann, red ruddy from whom Ui Floinn (O'Flynn);--------a daughter of this line = ui duinn line

oflynn olynn the surname oflynn is derived from the gaelic personal name flann the adjective flann denotes a dull red colour and means ruddy when applied to persons ofloinn is the form of the surname in gaelic it is one of those which arose independently in several parts of the country and as might be expected is widely distributed 41 in the list of most numerous of surnames these are found chiefly in two main areas cork and waterford in the south and on the borders of connaught and ulster in the adjacent counties of roscommon leitrim and cavan two of the oflynn septs originated in county cork of these

oflynn of Ardagh castle between skibbereen and Baltimore dun na sead fort of the jewels was a branch of the corca laoidhe dun na sead or dunashad fort of the jewels a sanctuary for druids and the place name is associated with bealtaine the once mighty corcu loigde former kings of tara and kings of munster

and the

oflynns of muskerry were lords of muskerrylinn muscraidhe ui fhloinn ie the country between ballyvourney and blarney

A fine land which we are not pass over
O'Ceithearnaigh, the smooth-skinned, obtained;
Ui-Floinn584 of Lua, about their far extending Laoi,
Scions of fresh aspect, like their fathers.

Definition of scion1 :a detached living portion of a plant (such as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft 2 a :descendant, child; especially :a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family

584. Ui-Floinn of Lua, i.e., the territory of Muscraighe Ui-Fhloinn, or Muskerrylin, which contains fifteen parishes, and is correctly described as around the far extending Lee and Lua, now Lough Lua, in the barony of Muskerry, through which the river Lee flows. See Leabhar na g-Ceart, p. 44.

Of the race of Conaire the hero
Let us speak, of the chiefs of Muscraighe,600
A most whose seat is the fine land,
The land of Mairtine601 of Munster.

Muscraighe Mitine602 the great
O'Floinn obtained, just is his battle-host;
A valiant array who obtain sway,
O'Maolfabhaill is over it.

602. Muscraighe-Mitine, otherwise called Muscraighe Ui-Fhloinn. This was the ancient name of the barony of West Muskerry, in the county of Cork. The family of O'Maoilfabhaill of this race is now unknown. It is quite clear that our author is here compiling his enumeration of chiefs and territories from written authoritesd, and not from the famlies existing in his time. See note 583, supra, on the territory of O'Floinn of Lua, which is evidently the one here referred to, but belonging to a different epoch. Neither of these families were dominant here in our author's time.

The territory of O'Donnagain, certainly
Is the great Muscraighe of Three Plains,605
With the host of the flock-abounding Iarann,606 606. Iarann. - This was evidently the name of a river, but it is now obsolete.
Host of the sunnyland of vowed deeds.

605. Muscraighe of the Three Plains. - This territory was granted by king John to William de Barry, under the name of Muskerry Donegan. The family of O'Donegan is still extant in this territory, but reduced to poverty and obscurity. Dr. James Donegan, the author of the Greek-English Dictionary, who was a native of Charleville, was of them. "The church of Fiort Seithe, which is placed by the Calendars of Marianus, and the Four Masters (Sept. 6), in Muscraighe-tri-maighe, is now known by the name of Ardskeagh, which is a small parish in tht part of the barony of Fermoy Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) bordering on the barony of Orrery and Kilmore. In the ancient taxations of the diocese of Cloyne we find a rural deanery, called Muscry-donnegan, containing the parishes now comprehended in the barony of Orrery and Kilmore, with small adjacent portions of Duhallow and Fermoy. Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) Among the churhces in this deanery, Orwery [i.e., Orbraidhe, or Orrery] and Fersketh [i.e., Feart Skeithe, called Ardskagh, in 1615, now Ardskeagh] are two. Thus the identity of Muscraighe-tri-maighe and the barony of Orrey is proved to a demonstration and O'Brien's statement on the subject (Irish Dict., voc. Muscraighe) fully established." - Note communicated by Dr. Reeves.

The Corcu Loígde were the rulers of Munster, and likely of territories beyond the province, until the early 7th century AD, when their ancient alliance with the Kingdom of Osraige fell apart as the Eóganachta rose to power. Many peoples formerly subject to the Corcu Loígde then transferred their allegiance to the Eóganachta, most notably the influential Múscraige, an Érainn people related only very distantly to the Corcu Loígde. The Múscraige became the chief facilitators for the Eóganachta in their rise to power. Uí Néill interference has also been suggested as a major factor, motivated by a desire to see no more Kings of Tara from the Corcu Loígde.

they were pushed thence by the mccarthys and moved to a more easterly location

As a further sign of the depreciating influence and declining strength of the various Eoghanachta Septs, *105.Dub "da Bairenn" mac Donnell / Domhnaill became the Eoghanacht Raithlind 36th King of Cashel / Munster, who was a son of *104.Donnell whose previous male line had never produced a Munster King since *89,Conall "Corc" the 1st King of Cashel / Munster (Chaisil) himself. 104. Donnell was a son of another *103.Dub "da Bairenn, a son of *102.Angus / Oengus, a son of *101.Flaithnia, a son of *100.Anilte, a son of *99.Dunlaing, or (Eladach who died in 828 AD) a son of 98.Eladach, (or Fergal King of Des Muman who died in 779 AD) one of the 2 sons of *97.Selbach, a son of *96.Coirpe "Clarenach," a son of *95.Coirpre "Riastrain," a son of *94.Aed "Osraige," one of 2 sons of *93.Loegaire (Eoghanacht Ui Laegaire), one of the 2 sons of *92.Criffan / Crimthann, the son of *91.Eochy / Echu,(Ui Echach Muman), the son of *90.Mac Cass (Des Muma) Southern Munster, one of the 7 sons of *89.Conall "Corc" the 1st King of Cashel / Munster (Chaisil). Due to the very long period of the lack of no actual Eoghanacht Kings in his genealogy it is somewhat confused and cannot be considered definite at this stage. (The writing was by now well and truly on the wall for the Eoghanachta Dynasties.)

AI619.4

A great earthquake in Gaul. [AU 618

AI624.1

Kl. Repose of Mac Laisre, bishop of Ard Macha. [AU 623].

AI626.2

Eclipse of the sun. [AU 625].

· For 628, The battle of Ath Goan, in Iarthar Liffe, by Faelan, son of Colman; by Conall, son of Suibhne, chief of Meath; and by Failge, or Failbhe Flann, King of Munster, wherein was slain Crimhthann, son of Aedh, son of Seanach, King of Leinster, with many others along with him.

628ad King of Munster from the Eóganacht Chaisil branch of the Eoganachta. King fingen mac aedo duib d618 his younger brother Cathal mac Áedo Flaind Chathrach of the Glendamnach branch succeeded him in 628.

In 629 he fought the Battle of Carn Feradaig (Cahernarry, County Limerick) versus Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin (d.663) of the Ui Fiachrach Aidhne of Connachta.[3] Faílbe won the battle and Guaire was put to flight and his ally Conall mac Máele Dúib of the Uí Maine and many Connaught nobles were slain. Guaire ruled at the height of Ui Fiachrach power in south Connaught and sought to recover the lost Connaught territories in Thomond.[4] Byrne believes that the true expansion of the Deisi into County Clare dates from this battle.

· For 632, The battle of Ath Abla, in which Dicuill, son of Fergus Tuile, fell by the Munster host.

632ad mohammed Jerusalem

· For 633/37, Failbhe Flann of Feimen, King of Munster, died

Over Cinel-Aedha of the warm land Cinel-Aedha, C Aodh Osraigheach. (donoghues) Aodh-(Hugh i.e., the race of Aedh (father of Failbhe Flann, king of Munster, A.D. 636), now the barony of Kinelea, in the county of Cork

Kl. Expulsion of Mo-Chutu from Raithen. [AU 636].

The other important event of his reign was the Battle of Áth Goan in the western Liffey plain fought in 636.[6] In this battle Faílbe intervened in the Leinster kingship. He gave his support to Fáelán mac Colmáin (died 666) of the Uí Dúnlainge versus Crimthann mac Áedo of the Uí Máil who was king of Leinster. Failbe and Fáelán were allied with Conall Guthbinn mac Suibni (died 637) of Mide. They were victorious and Crimthann was slain. A Munster tract claims that Faílbe paid the tribute of the Laigin to the Ui Neill but Byrne dismisses this as later Munster propaganda to claim Leth Moga (the southern half of Ireland).[7]

Family and descendants

Faílbe's descendants were known as the Clann Faílbe sept of the Cashail branch, later known as the MacCarthy dynasty, rulers of the Kingdom of Desmond, as well as the principalities of Carbery, Muskerry, and Duhallow.

637 may 14th death saint mo chuda mac finaill abbot of rahan and Lismore celebrate 15th may

AI638.1

Kl. Expulsion of Mo-Chutu from Raithen. [AU 636].

AI638.2

Les Mór was founded.

Annal 639.

Faílbe Flann mac Áedo Duib (died 639) [1] was a King of Munster from the Eóganacht Chaisil branch of the Eoganachta. He succeeded Cathal mac Áedo Flaind Chathrach of the Glendamnach branch in 628. He was the younger brother of a previous king Fíngen mac Áedo Duib (d. 618).[2] His sobriquet Flann meant "blood-red".

Family and descendants

His son Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind (died 678) was also a King of Munster.

AI641.1

Kl. Repose {of Dagan, and} of Mo-Laise of Leithglenn, {i.e. moccu Nechti}, and of Saint Sinell, and of Cúán, son of Amalgaid, and of Gobán, son of Nasca.

AI642.1

Kl. The burning and slaying of Mael Dúin in Inis Caín Dega. [AU 641].

AI645.1

Kl. The battle of Cenn Con between Mael Dúin, son of Aed Bennán, and Aengus Liath from Áine. Much slaughter on both sides. [AU 640, 643].

Cathal Cú-cen-máthair mac Cathaíl (died 665), often knowns Cú-cen-máthair, was an Irish King of Munster from around 661 until his death. He was a son of Cathal mac Áedo Flaind Chathrach (died c. 628) and belonged to the Glendamnach sept of the Eóganachta dynasty. The name Cú-cen-máthair means the "motherless hound".

Cú-cen-máthair succeeded Máenach mac Fíngin of the Eóganacht Chaisil, the Cashel branch of the kindred. A surviving poem attributed to Luccrech moccu Chérai contains a list of his ancestors back to Adam.

Cú-cen-máthair died in 665 of a plague which killed many others as recorded in the Irish annals. The king lists have him followed as King of Munster by Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind of the Eóganacht Chaisil. Cú-cen-máthair left at least two sons, Finguine mac Cathail (died 696) and Ailill mac Cathail (died 701), both of whom are listed as Kings of Munster in the annals. *****Conghal, from whom Ui Chonghaile (Connelly); and

Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind (died 678) [1] was a King of Munster from the Eóganacht Chaisil branch of the Eoganachta. He was the son of Faílbe Flann mac Áedo Duib (d.639),[2] a previous king. He succeeded Cathal Cú-cen-máthair mac Cathail as king in 665. The annals mention no details of his reign. His known son was named Nad Froích.

He is also a prominent character in the Sister Fidelma mystery series written by Peter Tremayne.

++++++Ceallachan, from whom Ui Ceallachan (O'Callaghan).

Ceallachan('frequenter-of-chapels'-or-older-as-'bright headed'),from-whom Ui Ceallachan(O'Callaghan).

Is there also O'Callaghans Murchadh, son of Donnchadh, grandson of Ceallachan
Caiseil(' Ceallachan of the Castle'),

Srafan of coolcor cuil chorra parish and barony of granard county Longford this saint is said to have been the subject along with many others to brighid of Kildare (corpus genelogioriums hiberniae ed p orian Dublin 1985 670-64 lgen 753.30) the church assigned to him appears to also to have been claimed by Armagh as early as the seventh century to judge by tireachan who attributed to Patrick the founding of several churches in the Longford Westmeath area including one at coolcor (patrick texts book of Armagh ed c bielor sch10 dublin 1979 136 16.5.0 ) tireachan also had occasion to mention some of brighids associates in this area including her uncle mac caorthainn and her mentor mac caille (Patrick texts book of armagh 136 16.1 3 ) srafan may have been patron of a church much closer to brighid at straffan teach srafain srafans church in north Kildare and in this capacity he found mention in a poem on the church of ceall chorbain another name for the church of naas (metrical dindshenchus 5 volumes ed e j gwynn tls 7-12 1906-35 repr dublin 1991 iv 340 seanchas 221) the saint is probably the same as the srafan who is said to have brought his sisters son a laighnibh out of leinster to the cork church of dromdaleague drimoleague drimoleave parish east division of the barony of west carbery county of cork 7 miles south west by south of dunmanway on the river ilen where he married locally and became a ceann cinidh ancestor of a family (an leabhar muimhneach maraon le suim aguisini ed t o donchadha imc Dublin 1940 176 184 530-1) a holy well and road were named after him at dromdaleague according to local tradition (journal of the cork historical and archaeological society 1892 25 100-1 archive inventory of county cork 5 volumes comp d power e byrne u egan s lane and m sleeman dublin 1992-2009 282-3) a saint of the name was also commemorated at a church named cluain mor on 23 may (the martyrology of Tallaght ed r I best and h j Lawlor hbs 68 london 1931 451 martyrology felim hui Gorman ed w stokes hbs 9 london 1895 page 102 martyrology of Donegal calendar of irish saints page 136 ed j h todd and w reeves iacs dublin 1864) all in a dictionary of irish saints Padraig oriain four courts press

Nala, from whom UI Nala (Whooley);

Donn, from whom Ui Duinn (O'Dunne);

622 ui duinn descendant from cathaoir mor st b622 ui duirdrend subject to the king of cashel ha772.

Ailghean, a quo Ui Ailghean (Allen o h-ailin );

little rock harmony noble off spring and

Cathan, from whom some of the Ui Cathain (Keane) families.

i do declare the above ailghean son of srufan sister of the line of the dal riada kings and also a laighnibh (possibly of the heremons of the Milesian kings) who married a daughter of flionn a descendant of heber the eldest son of mil of the Milesian kings has now created a ceann cinnidh ancestor of a family which is tripartite

not once a chief-tain one race of royal kingly bloodline of ulad the sister of srafan of the race of colla uais monarch of eire of dal riada line of chief-tain kings where the mournes sweep down to the sea also chief-tain lord of the kingdom of the isles of orkneys Hebrides shetlands of scotae beag and isle of man isle of jersey and Skellig Michael and lambay and Irelands eye and dalkey and rockabill islands and iceland the east coast of Greenland and the eastern coast of the united states of America down to mexico bay and of nova scotia in newfoundland

There was a chief-tain, a dal-riada chief-tain
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
There was none bolder, with good broad shoulders,
He fought in many a fray and fought and won
He's seen the glory, he's told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
But now he's sighing his heart is crying
To leave these green hills of scotae beag.

Chorus:
Because these green hills are not highland hills
Or the Islands hills their not my lands hills,
As fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of eires home.

2. And now this chieftain, this dal-raida chief-tain,
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
Sees leaves are falling, and death is calling
And he will fade away, on that dark land
He called his piper, his trusty piper
And bade him sound away, a pibroch sad to play
Upon a hillside but dal-raida hillside
Not on these green hills of scotae mor
Chorus:

Because these green hills are not highland hills
Or the Islands hills their not my lands hills,
As fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of eire home.

3. And now this chief-tain this dal-riada chief-tain
Who wanders far no more, and soldiers far no more
Now on a hillside, a dal-raida hillside
You'll see a piper play this chief-tain home
He's seen the glory, he's told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
But he will cease now, he is at peace now
Far from these green hills of scotae beag
Chorus:

Because these green hills are not highland hills
Or the Islands hills their not my lands hills,
As fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of eire home.

The pipes the pipes are calling from glen to glen and down the mountain side

not twice two chief-tain races of royal kingly bloodlines of munster Tir Duinn (Munster).the eldest son heber of mil of the line of the heberian Milesian kings the river ilen an aighlinn it rises at mullaghmesha mountain and flows into the irish sea five main tributaries saivnose coarliss achrinduff glounaphuca and clodagh

The Banks Of My Own Lovely Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, Lee

How oft do my thoughts in their fancy take flight
To the home of my childhood away,
To the days when each patriot's vision seem’d bright
Ere I dreamed that those joys should decay.

When my heart was as light as the wild winds that blow
Down the Mardyke through each elm tree,
Where I sported and play’d, 'neath each green leafy shade
On the banks of my own lovely Lee.

And then in the springtime of laughter and song
Can I ever forget the sweet hours?
With the friends of my youth as we rambled along
'Mongst the green mossy banks and wild flowers.

Then too, when the evening sun sinking to rest
Sheds its golden light over the sea
The maid with her lover the wild daisies pressed
On the banks of my own lovely Lee
The maid with her lover the wild daisies pressed
On the banks of my own lovely llen of skibereen an aighlenn

'Tis a beautiful land this dear isle of song
It’s gems shed their light to the world
And her faithful sons bore thro' ages of wrong,
The standard St. Patrick chief-tain unfurled.

Oh! would I were there with the friends I love best
And my fond bosom's partner with me
We'd roam thy banks over, and when weary we'd rest
By thy waters, my own lovely Lee,
We'd roam thy banks over, and when weary we'd rest
By thy waters, my own lovely aighlenn of skibereen,

Oh what joys should be mine ‘ere this life should decline
To seek shells on thy sea-girdled shore.
While the steel-feathered eagle, oft splashing the brine
Brings longing for freedom once more.

Oh all that on earth I wish for or crave
Is that my last crimson drop be for thee,
To moisten the grass of my forefathers' chief-tain grave
On the banks of my own lovely Lee
To moisten the grass of my forefathers' chief-tain grave
On the banks of my own lovely Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, llen of skibereen and I will come and kneel and say an ave there for eiree double chief-tain

Not once not twice but triple

but triad three chief-tain races of royal kingly bloodlines of leinster the youngest son heremon of mil of the line of the heremonian Milesian kings of scotae mor

we are of heber we are of heremon we are of dal riada uladh we are of the fail we are of banba Banbha / learned fothla and eiru we are of eire of twice 500,000,000 years scotae mor and scotae beag

1,2,3 the royal chief-tain lines of scotae mor and scotae beag the kingdom of the isles of the Orkneys shetlands and Hebrides of isle of man jersey rockabilly lambay Irelands eye dalkey Skellig Michael Iceland and Greenland and nova scotia and east coast of America from new York to the gulf of mexico

Emers farewell erins apple blossom the minstrel boy

French reverdie form hauntingly beautiful Irish minstrelsy The confession of devorgilla oh shrive me father castle hyde Aislean an oigfear the young mans dream aisling an oigfhir Harper Rory dall ocahan lament blind rory Derry aire miss Honoria galwey oh shrive me father gold rush roe valley jane ross of Limavady don derriere The history of 'Danny Boy' seems to be littered with blind musicians. A book by Jim Hunter entitled The Blind Fiddler of Myroe, published in 1997, tells of one Jimmy McCurry who lived between 1830 and 1910, a famous blind musician and composer who frequently played his fiddle at the Limavady market just outside the Burns and Lairds Shipping Line Office.

Living opposite the shipping office was one Jane Ross, who would later become famous as the lady who annotated the music of the 'county derry Air' from 'an itinerant fiddler6 in 1851'. Oral evidence suggests that McCurry was this fiddler. The story, as told by Wallace McCurry, a descendant of Jimmy, was that one day Ross heard Jimmy McCurry rendering a beautiful melody which was unfamiliar to her. Ross was acquainted with Dr George Petrie from Dublin, whose life revolved around the study and collection of ancient airs of Ireland, and felt that the tune would make a good addition to his collection. She requested that the blind fiddler repeat his performance so that she could make a note of the music, and later passed on the tune to Petrie. Four years later, Petrie published a volume entitled The Ancient Music of Ireland7, and in it he included the melody supplied by Ross, which he listed as a 'song' under the category 'Anonymous Airs'8.

Old gaelic air An ancient gaelic chief-tain is bidding farewell to his son somhairle bui mac domhnaill sorley boy

Oh Don-ny boy oh doire oak boy o father oflynn

Oh eily dear

oh Don-ny boy oh doire oak boy o father oflynn

the ullean pipes the highland pipes are call-ing from glen to glen and down the moun-tain side

(in the very early days of eire og in order to call an army together the

bagpiper went through the fields and valleys playing as he went the young men fell in behind him and marched off to war

the sum-mers gone and all the ro-ses fall-ing

its you (i) its you (i) must go and I (you) your chief-tain must bide but come ye back when summer is in the mea-dow or when the val-----leys hushed or white with snow and ill be here in sunshine or in sha-dow oh Dan-ny boy (eile Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, dear) oh Dan-ny boy (eile Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, dear) I love you so but when ye come and all the flow-rs are dy-ing and I am dead as dead I well may be yell come to find the place where I am ly-ing and kneel and say an a-ve there for me and I shall hear though soft you thread a-bove me and all my grave will warm-er sweet-er be for you will bend and tell me that you love me and I shall sleep in peace until you come to me a triple gaelic chief-tain

There are, however, Irish words set to the tune Air from County Derry. These were composed by Osborn Ó hAimheirgin, who I'm told was an Irish language enthusiast who taught at Trinity College and wrote these lyrics in the 1890s.

Maidin i mBéarra

Is é mo chaoi gan mise maidin aerach,
Amuigh i mBéarra i m' sheasamh ar an dtrá,
Is guth na n-éan 'o m' tharraing thar na sléibhte cois na farraige,
Go Céim an Aitinn mar a mbíonn mo ghrá.
Is obann aoibhinn aiteasach do léimfinn,
Do rífinn saor ó ana-bhroid an tláis,
Do thabharfainn droim le scamallaibh an tsaoil seo,
Dá bhfaighinn mo léirdhóthain d'amharc ar mo chaoimhshearc bán.

Is é mo dhíth bheith ceangailte go faonlag,
Is neart mo chléibh dá thachtadh anseo sa tsráid,
An fhad tá réim na habhann agus gaoth glan na farraige
Ag glaoch is ar gairm ar an gcroí seo i m' lár.
Is milis briomhar leathanbhog an t-aer ann,
Is gile ón ngréin go fairsing ar an mbán,
Is ochón, a ríbhean bhanúil na gcraobhfholt,
Gan sinne araon i measc an aitinn mar do bhímis tráth!

Emer's Farewell

O might a maid confess her secret longing

To one who dearly loves but may not speak!

Alas! I had not hidden to thy wronging

A bleeding heart beneath a smiling cheek;

I had not stemmed my bitter tears from starting,

And thou hadst learned my bosom's dear distress,

And half the pain, the cruel pain of parting,

Had passed, Cuchullain, chief-tain in thy fond caress.

But go! Connacta's hostile trumpets call thee,

Thy chariot mount and ride the ridge of war,

And prove whatever feat of arms befall thee,

The hope and pride of Emer of Lismore;

Ah, then return, my chief-tain, girt with glory,

To knit my virgin heart so near to thine,

That all who seek thy name in Erin's chief-tains story

Shall find its loving letters linked with mine.

Tune: "county derry Air" (Danny Boy)

From "Songs of Old Ireland" the words by

Alfred Perceval Graves the music arranged by C Villiers

Stanford (Boosey & Co, London and New York, 1882)

WOULD GOD I WERE THE TENDER APPLE BLOSSOM
(Words by Katharine Tynan Hinkson [b 1861])
Air from county derry, in Petrie collection

Would God I were the tender apple blossom,
That floats and falls from off the twisted bough
To lie and faint within your silken bosom,
Within your silken bosom as that does now
Or would I were a little burnished apple,
For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold
While sun and shade your robe of lawn will dapple,
Your robe of lawn and your hair's spun gold

Yea, would to God I were among the roses,
That lean to kiss you as you float between
While on the lowest branch a bud uncloses,
A bud uncloses to yon Queen
Nay, since you will not love, would I were growing,
A happy daisy in the garden path
That so your silver foot might press me going,
Might press me going even unto death!

his four sons

nala whooley

donn ui duinn -our chieftain triple royal azure blue blood line

ailghean of ui ailghean allen and

Cathan of ui Cathan keane are

the first 1st second 2nd third 3rd fourth 4th

descendants of this triple royal chief-tain bloodline of the derbfinne tri noid a gloir tri noid a gloir tri noid a gloir mullach abu

95. Foranan: his son.

96. Congal: his son. 5th in line of the tripartite dalriadhe heber and heremon royal bloodlines of the bold chief-tains

97. Diomusach: ("diomusach:" Irish, proud, haughty, arrogant): son of Congall; a quo O'Diomasaighe (Dempsey). 6th in line of the tripartite dalriadhe heber and heremon royal bloodlines of the bold chief-tains

1. Barony Upper philipstown in the king co cantred clan maollughra odempsey country viscount clanmaliere what country is faster against incursions clann malura over every tribe noble the doings (step) of their septs their land a smooth plain protection of the harbour (7) he must allude to some small harbour cuan on the barrow a land hereditary to odempsey delicious the land as heard afar (as old)

640ad ardcall is sadly misled by a similarity of name when he confounds lough laoigh with lough neagh lough laoigh was the old gaelic name for the modern Belfast lough and was sometimes also called lough bannchor and bay of knockfergus the felire of jengus sufficiently identifies the name when it places the church of kilroot on the banks of lough laoigh see reeves loc cit p272 the site of ardmacnasca was not on the antrim coast of lough laoigh but on the opposite coast in the county of down where holywood Hollywood now stands the martyrology of Donegal on the 25th of October gives the feast of saint laisren son of nasc of ard mic nasga on the brink of lough laoigh in ulster the church or monastery took its name from its founder saint laisrean who was called mac nasca to distinguish him from the other saints of the same name he was one of those to whom the letter on the paschal controversy was addressed from rome in the year 640 usher sylloge epp epist ix we will again speak of ard mic nasca at holywood in county down

650ad County of antrim achadkdubthuigh in magh li a small territory near the river bann

Saint goar or guar the son of colman who was surnamed the big was abbot of this ancient monastery in the seventh century and is still the patron saint of it the festival day is held on the 22nd January this place is now unknown the name of saint giiaire mor appears in the martyr of Donegal on the 22nd January guaire mor of achadh dubhtaigh on the brink of the lower banna he is of the race of colla uais monarch of Ireland the genealogy of saint guaire mor is thus given by oclery guaire mor the son of colman the son of fuachtaighe the son of Fergus the son of laoghaire the son of Fiachra tort

172. Fiacha Tort 'cake', that is, Fiacha the Cakey, for tort means 'cake', and of old he was the first by whom a cake was shapen.

173. Fiacha Tuirtri, the same man. Tis he that fastened throughout Erin the tortgdbáil (cake-taking?) of Conaille Muirthemne.

171. Art Cerb, that is, Art the maimed or lacerated, for cerb means laceration, and he was lacerated. Hence was (the name) Art Cerb. the son of colla uais ardmacnasca on lough laoigh ??? m laisrean the son of neasca and abbot of hy was founder and abbot of this abbey he died the 25th October about the year 650ad and is patron of the place

To distinguish him from another

Saint goar the son of lasrenn and named the little guaire beg of achadh dubhthaigh in mag li magh li on the banks of the banna on the west side between lough neagh and the sea he is of the race of colla uais monarch of Ireland saint guaire beg belonged to the same family being son of laisren the son of Fergus etc (the son of laoghaire the son of Fiachra tort the son of colla uais the feast of saint guaire beg is marked the 9th january

The leabhar breac states that the two guaires are commemorated in magh lii folio 4 and we learn from odonovan hy fiachrach p312 that the territory of lee belonged to the king of dalaraidhe and was situated on the west side of the river bann

662ad mac laisre bishop and abbot of ard macha ad662 I think it is he that is of the race of eoghan son of niall or it may be he is of the race of corbmac cas son of oilioll glum

664 synod of Whitby

666 234 + 432 =666

674ad 720 julian Egyptian calendar years = 262980 days plus precession of the equinox = 262980 + 10 days torque westwards = 262990 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 262990 – 5 days torque eastwards = 262985 days = 674 julian years + 5 days torque westwards

690ad the cow tribute of Leinster, which had been remitted by Finachta, monarch of Ireland, in the seventh century. Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 690, p. 299, note x

697-711ad ******************************Fland Dá Chongal or Flann Ua Congaile (flourished late 7th century) was a king of the Uí Failge, a Laigin people of County Offaly.

Fland is not mentioned in the annals of Ireland but appears in king lists and genealogies. The king lists in the Book of Leinster place his reign before Cillíne mac Forannáin (died 652), however the death obits of his sons would place his reign later. He was most likely a contemporary of Cellach Cualann (died 715), king of Leinster and the predecessor of Forbassach Ua Congaile (died 714). Forbasach ruled for three years according to the Book of Leinster and Fland for fourteen years which gives a possible reign of 697-711 for Fland.

Fland was the great great grandson of a brother of Áed Róin mac Cathail (died 604), a previous king. Fland had twelve children by at least three different wives:

by Érenach, daughter of Murchad Midi (died 715) of Uisnech: Mugrón mac Flainn (died 782), King of Uí Failge; Cináed mac Flainn (died 770), King of Uí Failge; Cummascach mac Flainn (died 757), King of Uí Failge; Flaithbertach
by a daughter of a certain Fland Léna: Tomaltach, Indrechtach, Írgalach, Cathassach
by a woman of the Uí Dúnlainge branch of the Laigin: Cairpre, Flaithnia mac Flainn (died 755), a King of Uí Failge, Cellach (died 770), Máel Fuataich
other sons included Ailill Corrach mac Flainn (died 741), King of Uí Failge; Óengus

Four of Fland's sons were slain at the Battle of Áth Senaig in 738 when the men of Leinster were crushed by the high king Áed Allán. fland's descendants were known as the Uí Flaind.

98. Flann Da Congall: 8th his son; had an elder brother named Aeneas 9th , who was ancestor of O'Connor Faley. 10th

8th 9th 10th in line of the tripartite dalriadhe heber and heremon royal bloodlines of the bold chief-tains of eire

oconnor hero of the plain (ofaly is the levellest plain in all Ireland) around the green hill of cruachan (1.) Or over the green hill of cruachan oconnor is lord of the vast plain of ofalia and the hill of cruchan the hill of cruachan is the most remarkable feature of ofalia it gives the title of marquis to the family of moore 432ad principality of oconnor faly the senior represenatative of rossa failghe who is said to have made an attempt at murdering saint Patrick Over the territory of Caisel who will prevail,A house [built] over the relics of Tailgenn.520 520. Tailgenn. - This was the name by which St. Patrick was called by the Druids. It is explained circulo tonsus in capite by Colgan, but Asciciput in the Book of Armagh, p. 5, col. 2, p. 49, col. 1, and p. 123, col. 2

693ad St. Srafan srafain sraffan saint strofan of cluan mor ely ocarroll . Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll or lagenia leinster rathvilly county of Carlow straffan 1171 trachstraphli the wise man from Leinster brought with him to Dromdaleague ridge of the two stones his sister's son, Ailghean.

Ailghean noble offspring he married a daughter of Flann son of Flaithnia and they had four sons:

693ad According to the Four Masters Saint Straffan of Srafan is mentioned in the masterpieces of Gorman and Donegal. He is named Srafan of Clonmore whose feast is celebrated on the 23rd May and was one of the Leinster clerics who accompanied St. Moliney, founder of St.Mullins in Co. Carlow.june 17th patron day mo ling leap luachra tairchell In 693 St. Srafan resided about 5 miles from Straffan. St. Srafan is regarded as having been buried at Kill

Finguine mac Cathail Con-cen-máthair (died 696)[1] was a King of Munster from the Glendamnach branch of the Eoganachta. He was the son of Cathal Cú-cen-máthair mac Cathaíl (d. 665).[2] He succeeded Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind in 678.

During his reign the law text Cáin Fuithirbe was enacted at Mag Fuithirbe on the borders of Cork and Kerry in 683. Representatives of the major tribes of Munster are mentioned in the tract.

Finguine's known son was Cathal mac Finguine (d. 742) a powerful King of Munster.

He is a recurring character in Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma mysteries.

Eterscél mac Máele Umai (d. 721)[1] was a king of Munster from the Eóganacht Áine branch of the Eóganachta. He was the grandson of Cúán mac Amalgado (d. 641), a previous king.[2]

There is confusion in the sources between his reign and that of Ailill mac Cathail Con-cen-máthair (d. 701). Both are mentioned as kings in Senchas Fagbála Caisil ("The Story of the Finding of Cashel"),[3] but only Etarscel is mentioned in the Laud Synchronisms and the Book of Leinster. However, Aillil's reign is attested in the annals. Also in the list of signatories to the signing of Adomnán's Law of the Innocents at Birr, County Offaly in 697; Eterscel is named king of Munster.[4]

According to a genealogical tract Etarscel had a brother Uisneach who was heir apparent to the Munster throne until slain by his brother through envy and hatred and then Etarscel assumed the kingship of Munster[5]

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He abdicated around 702 [6] after ruling for 6 years.[7] His son Cathussach mac Eterscélai was a later king of Munster in 742.

Eight century Tuath Saxan607 of the fair district, 607. Tuath-Saxon, i.e., the cantred of the Saxons. This is the ancient name of the district containing the paish of Tullylease in the north-west of the county of Cork, of which St. Berichert, a Saxon, is the patron. It is probable that this saint established a Saxon colony here in the eighth century, in the same way as St.Cairnech had established a colony of Britons at Tuilen, near Kells, in Meath.

C700 Teach Srafán founded by St Srafán (feast day May 23). Srafán said to be buried at Kill

Ailill mac Cathail Con-cen-máthair (died 701)[1] was a King of Munster from the Glendamnach branch of the Eoganachta. He was the son of Cathal Cú-cen-máthair mac Cathaíl (d. 665) and brother of his predecessor Finguine mac Cathail Con-cen-máthair (d. 696).[2]

Though mentioned in the annals as king[3] and in the saga Senchas Fagbála Caisil "The Story of the Finding of Cashel",[4] he is omitted from lists in the Laud Synchronisms and the Book of Leinster.[5] Also in the list of signatories to the signing of Adomnan's Law of the Innocents at Birr in 697; he is only mentioned as king of Mag Feimin while Eterscél mac Máele Umai (d. 721) is named king of Munster.

Ailil had three sons: Fogantach, Aonghus and Dubhda but none of his descendants were kings.

719-1244ad annals of inis cloghran in lough ribh co Longford

Cathal mac Finguine – Cathal mac Finguine was an Irish King of Munster or Cashel, and effectively High King of Ireland as well. He belonged to the Eóganacht Glendamnach sept of the dominant Eóganachta kin-group whose members dominated Munster from the 7th century to the 10th and his father, uncle, grandfather, and great-grandfather had also been kings of Cashel, so too were his son and grandson. The most expansionist historical Eóganacht king before him was Faílbe Flann mac Áedo Duib, the kingship of Cashel, argued in early Munster sources, e. g. For the century and a quarter until Cathals death, the kingship of Cashel was dominated by the Eóganacht Chaisil, the lands of the Glendamnach lay to the south-west of Cashel, in the middle valley of the Blackwater. Cathals father, Finguine mac Cathail Con-cen-máthair, uncle, Ailill mac Cathail, grandfather, Cathal Cú-cen-máthair, Cathals immediate predecessor was probably Cormac mac Ailello of the Caisil sept, who was killed in battle against the Déisi in 713. Eterscél mac Máele Umai, who had been king and did not die until 721, had probably abdicated much earlier,

while the Uí Néill and Eóganachta were the most important kingships in Ireland, the kings of Leinster and the kings of Connacht were significant forces.

Leinster, once a larger region, the northern parts of which had been conquered by the Uí Néill, was the target of expansionist Uí Néill kings. The contest for control of Leinster would play a part in Cathals reign. The kings of Connacht claimed a kinship with the Uí Néill. The earliest record concerning Cathal, although it does not explicitly name him, is in 715 when Murchad mac Brain Mut of the Uí Dúnlainge, the first event to mention

721ad Cathal is in 721 when he and Murchad mac Brain attacked the lands of the southern Uí Néill. The Annals of Ulster report, he wasting of Mag Breg by Cathal son of Finnguine, later that year, Fergal mac Máele Dúin retaliated, not against Cathal and Munster, but against Murchad and Leinster.

The Annals of Ulster report, An invasion of the Laigin by Fergal, and the cattletribute was imposed and that Fergal attacked Leinster in retaliation for the raid on Brega may mean that Cathal was, as Irwin notes, the junior partner.

722ad December 11th Fergal led an Uí Néill army south into Leinster again in 722 and this defeat was record in the Cath Almaine, a poem about the battle of Allen, fought on 11 December 722, the feast of Saint Finnian of Clonard. Fergal son of Mael Duin raided Leinster in order to injure Cathal son of Findguine, so Cathal son of Findguine wasted the whole of Magh Bregh, until they made peace and truce. They heard of Cathals grudge against them, so this was the counsel they framed, with the Uí Néill kings no great threat during the reigns of Fogartach, Cináed and Flaithbertach, Cathal sought to extend his authority over Leinster. The Cath Almaine claims that the dispute arose because Fergal mac Máele Dúin had been killed in defiance of the truce he had made with Cathal.

722ad leabhar mor ui chinneidigh were descended from fergal mac maile duin who died ad722

730-739 Aedh Allen, s of Ferghal, s of Mael Duin, was K Ireland

In 733 Cathal raided the lands of the Southern Uí Néill, Cathal had more success against the neighbouring Clann Cholmáin Bicc, ruled by Fallomon mac Con Congalt, whom he defeated at the Hill of Ward.

734ad 780 julian Egyptian calendar years = 284895 days plus precession of the equinox = 284895 + 10 days torque westwards = 284905 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 284895 – 6 days torque eastwards = 284889 days = 780 julian years + 4 days torque westwards

In 734 Cathal inflicted a defeat on the Leinstermen at Bealach Ele, i

n 737, Áed Allán met with Cathal at Terryglass, probably neutral ground outwith the control of either king

730-739 Aedh Allen, s of Ferghal, s of Mael Duin, was K Ireland

Ailill Corrach mac Flainn (died 741)

746ad 792 julian Egyptian calendar years = 289278 days plus precession of the equinox = 289278 + 11 days torque westwards = 289289 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 289289 – 6 days torque eastwards = 289283 days = 792 julian years + 5 days torque westwards

· A.D. 746.—Flann Fortre, chief of Corca-Laidhe, died.—Ann. of the Four Masters.

· A.D. 770.—Cuchoingealta, lord of Corca-Laidhe, died.—Ann. of the Four Masters.

· 751ad flann lord of ui falighe

Flaithnia mac Flainn (died 755)
Cummascach mac Flainn (died 757)

· CXXVIII. AED ÚAIRIDNACH. See 561
Aed Úairidnach eight years, till he died. Or Gregorius here. Senach, abbot of Ard Macha. Death of Brandub s. Eochu. Aedán s. Gabran died.

· CXXIX. MÁEl-COBA.
Máel-Coba, three years till he fell in the battle of Sliab Toad at the hand of Suibne Mend. 298. Suibne Mend 'the mute', that is, (there was) great dumbness in his speech. The battle of Odba where Conall Laeg Breg fell. Oengus mac Colman was the victotr (sic lege).

· CXXX. SUIBNE MEND.
Suibne Mend, sixteen (sic) years, till he fell at the hands of Congal Caech s. Seanlan in Traig Brena. Mac Laisre abbot of Ard Macha. Comgan of Glenn da Locha. Aed Bennain. Ronan s. Tuathal. The battle of Both by Suibne Mend against Domnall s. Aed. The battle of Dim Cethirn. Death of Eochu Buide.

· CXXXI. DOMNALL MAC AEDA.
Domnall s. Aed, thirty years; he died a natural death. The battle of Mag Roth and of Sailten, wrought in one day; one of them against Eogan, the other against the Ulaid. Mochutu of Raithin rested. Molaise of Lethglenn rested.

· CXXXIV. SECHNASACH.
Sechnasach s. Blathmac, six years, till he fell at the hands of Dub Dúin king of Coirpre. Fáelán s. Colmán king of Laigen. Voyage of Columbanus the bishop, with relics of saints, to Inis Bó Finne.

· CXXXV. CENN FAELAD.
Cenn Faelad s. CrundMáel, four years, till he fell at the hands of Finnachta Fledach in the battle of Aircheltra. The first burning of Ard Macha.

· CXXXVI. FINNACHTA FLEDACH.
Finnachta Fledach, twenty years, till he fell at the hands of Aed s. Dluthach in Grellach Dollaith. Burning of the kings in Dún Chethirn. Adamnanus led the captives to Ireland. Remission of the Borama. The moon was turned to blood as a portent.

· CXXXVII. LOINGSECH.
Loingsech s. Oengus, eight years, till he fell at the hands of Cellach of Loch Cimme in the battle of the Weir. Moling of Luachra. A very great famine for three years in Ireland, so that man would eat man.

· CXXXVIII. CONGAL CIND MAGAIR.
Congal of Cend Magair, nine years, till he died of a sudden stroke. Cú Chuarain king of Ulaid and of the Cruithne [died].

· CXXXIX. FERGAL.
Fergal s. Máel-Dúin, seventeen years, till he fell in the battle of Almu at the hands of Murchad s. Bran. Inrechtach s. Muirdedach king of Connachta [died].

· CXL. FOGARTACH.
Fogartach s. Níall, one year, till he fell in the battle of Cenn Delgen at the hands of Cinaed s. Irgalach.

· CXLI. CINAED.
Cinaed s. Irgalach, four years, till he fell in the battle of Druim Corcain at the hands of Flaithbertach s. Loingsech. Domnall s. Cellach, king of Connachta, died. Death of Murchad s. Bran.

· CXLII. FLAITHBERTACH.
Faithbertach s. Loingsech, seven years, till he died in Ard Macha. Suibne abbot of Ard Macha died.

· CXLIII. AED ALLAN.----------------
Aed Allan s. Fergal, nine years, till he fell in the battle of Sered Mag at the hands of Domnall s. Muiredach. The battle of Uchbath, in which Bran Bee s. Muiredach and Aed Mend fell.

· CXLIV. DOMNALL MAC MURCHADA.
Domnall mac Murchada, twenty years, till he died. Ships were seen in the air. Resting of Fidmuine. Cú Chuimne rested.

· CXLV. NIALL FROSSACH.
Níall Frossach s. Fergal, seven years, till he died in Í, on pilgrimage. Three showers in his reign, a shower of white silver, a shower of honey, and a shower of wheat. Fer Dá Chrích abbot of Ard Macha (died).

Donchad Midi 766-792 AD

Donchad Mide m Domnall Midi 766-792

Donchad Mide m Domnall Mide m Murchad Midi m Doiarmait Dian m Airmetach Caech m Congal Guthbinn m Suibne m Colmain Mar m Diarmait m Cerbaill M Fergus Cerbal m Cenel Cremthainne m Nial became 33 Hi King of the Christain Era.

DonnchadMidi had fought the Battle of Dun m Bile and won it in 764 before he was King.

At that time Niall Frossach of Cenel Eogain was Hi King of all Ireland.

As king
Donchad marched against Leinster where he camped at the old Battle Ground strong fort Ailinn near Killcullen Kildare where he made a campaign burning and plundering and devistating the provence for a week after which Laigen submitted.

In 767 thunder and lightning frightened all the men of Ireland and they were ordered to make a fast and prayer to protect them from this force of nature and pestilance.

In 770 Donchad attached Leinster to establish his right to the kingship in sucession to Niall Frossach.

In 770 Doncha [Donchad] mustered his army and marched into Munster where he devistated the province and killed many of the inhabitants.

They submitted to him and gave him spoils.

Donnchad had difference with Munster in establishing a comody between the Law of Patrick being promulgated by Armagh and the law of Iona and Columba as being promted by Iona as it developed between the southern and northern O Neils .
The Cannon Law as intergected into the Fenchas by Patrick under Loegaire continued to interject in Irish life on which the Church laws were incorporated by edict of the hi Kings as well as the Bishops upon the Fenchus of Old.
The Cainai or Cain .

Where Aed Allan had promulgated the law of Patrick [the Cain] along with Cathal m Finnguin of Munster over the territory of all Ireland, Donnchad Midi promulgated the Law of Columba or Iona or the Law of Adomnan which were earlier than the Cain.

Where Domnall Midi at Terryglas
Monastery had upheld the cain of Patrick his son Donchad Mide by 772 had proclaimed the Iona Columba law the one to follow.

In this same year 770 the Ui Maine were defeated in their home territory by the Ui Brian at the battle of Achad-liag [field of stone] near the river Suck Athlone barony ,Rosscommon County.

In 771 the Irish infighting continued with out King Duncha.

Battles being fought between septs of Dal A Raide in Antrim at Sliab Mis and another between Eochaid m Fiachna and Tomaltach m Innreachtach[ the law house].

A battle fought in Ivegh [Down] at Ath Duna in Armagh between Ui Eachdach Coba and Airteara or Oriers of Armagh.

Donchad himself engaged in battle with the heirs of Ui Breasil Beira where that lord Feargal m Eladach was killed.

In 772 the Battles like entertainment continued within Irish clanns.

Odra Teamrach near Tara Skren Meath

Batle of Cala Truim in Meath

Leinster invaded Brega again.

Donchad Midi had a war with Congalach.
Killdare burned on 4 July.
Very little food.

A great bloody flux beset the cattle of Ireland in those years with many other deseases.

This Desease was known as a Morrain or Moylegabh.

Clonmacnoise burned for the third time in 773.

The war continued between Doinchad and Congalach at Brega Midi until Congalach m Conaing the Brega chief fell along with Cuana m Eigneach, Dunchad m Ailene2 of Mugdorna and Diarmaid m Clotha at Forcalaid in West Meath which was fought on a Sunday.

In 774 Donnchad [Donnogh] Mide took a host to north and he brought hostages from Donell m Hugh Lord of Ailech. [Doimnall m Aoda].

A battle fought in Kildare betwen Fortuatha at Imal Glendalough and the king who burned Cilldara monastary of St Brigid.

2 other monastary churches were burned in Leinster:

Claun mor Maellig where there was a holy well the Tober Mogue and the church of Cill Degle.

The battle of Cuireach at Kildare was fought in September 777 on a Tuesday between Ruadrach m Faelan and Bran Mureadach.
Victory to Ruadrui.

In 778 the battle of Rye river was fought by Brega over Leinster.
The river Righe [Rye] divides Meath from Leinster.

124. Niall Frassach ('Showery'). At his birth fell three showers: a shower of silver on Othan Mór: a shower of wheat on Othan Becc, and a shower of blood on Glenn Laigen. Hence Niall Frassach is said.

Donnchad finally subdued the Ui Neilll of Brega-sil Aed Slane after the death of Niall Frossach.

CXLVI. DONNCHAD MAC DOMNAILL.
Donnchad mac Domnaill, twenty-five years, till he fell at the hands of Aed mac Néill in the battle of Druim Ríg. Dub da Leithe abbot of Ard Macha (died).

CXLVII. AED OIRDNIDE.
Aed Oirdnide, twenty-seven years, till he fell at Áth Dá Ferta at the hands of Máel-Canaig. Battle of Druim Ríg. Connmach, Torbach, Toictheeh, Nuadu, abbots of Ard Macha, rested. The moon was turned to blood. Muirges mac Tomaltaig king of Connachta.

CXLVIII. CONCHOBOR.
Conchobor s. Donnchad, twenty-four years, till he died. The battle of Leth in Chaim against Niall Caille. Eogan Mainistreeh abbot of Ard Macha. Drowning of Thorkill in Loch Uair by Máel-Sechlainn s. Máel-Ruanaid.

[CXLIX. NÍALL CAILLE.--missing from L.]

125. Niall Caille, whence is he so called? Easy to say. One day Niall Caille went with a great horse-host towards the river named Caille. There was then a great spate in the river. A young lad of the king's household went ahead to sound the river, and the river at once drowned him. The king told every one to go and succour the lad, but he got naught from any. So the king himself, still on his horse, went to succour him. But when the forefeet of the horse struck the river-bank, they broke it, and the river swept the king away and drowned him. Now that had been foretold to him, his drowning in the Caille. Hence 'Niall of the Caille' is said; and some one sang:

Curse on thee, thou cruel Caille,
Thou stream like mist over a mountain!
Thou hast pressed a flood from every side
On Niall's heroic, bright-pure face.

CL. MÁEL-SECHLAINN MAC MÁEIL-RÚANAID.
Máel-Sechlainn mac Máeil-Rúanaid, sixteen years, till he died. Resting of Feidlimid king of Caiseal; that Feidlimid was king of Ireland, although with opposition (sic lege). Battle of Farach, fought by Máel-Sechlainn against the Foreigners, where six hundred fell. Olchobur king of Caiseal rested. Forannán and Diarmait, two abbots of Ard Macha, rested.

CLI. AED FINNLIATH.
Aed Finnliath, eighteen years, till he died at Druim in Asclaind. Battle of Cell ui nDaigri won by Aed mac Néill. Showers of blood were poured so that it was found in gouts of gore. Fethgna abbot of Ard Macha.

CLII. FLANN.
Flann s. Máel-Sechlainn, twenty-seven years, till he died. By him the hostages of Ireland were allowed to go back, but he took them again by force. Ainmere and Máel-Coba, abbots of Ard Macha, rested. The Battle of Belach Mugna, won by the Laigin against the Men of Mumu, in which Cormac mac Cuillenáin fell. Two suns were seen to run together in one day. Cerball mac Muiricáin, king of Laigin, rested.

CLIII. NÍALL GLÚNDUB.
Níall Glúndub, three years, till he fell in the battle of Áth Cliath. Conchobor ua Máeil-Sechlainn king of Mide.

CLIV. DONNCHAD MAC FLAIND.
Donnchadh mac Flainn, twenty-five years, till he died. A battle won by Muirchertach mac Néill, where fell Albdon s. Gothfraid, king of the Foreigners. Máel-Brigte mac Tornáin, Ioseph, and Máel-Patraic, three abbots, rested.

CLV. CONGALACH.
Congalach mac Máeil-Mithig, ten years, till he fell at the hands of the Foreigners of Áth Cliath in Tech Giugraind. The battle of Muine Brocáin won by Congalach against the Foreigners, where seven thousand fell. Two fiery columns appeared, a week before Samain, which illuminated the whole world.

CLVI. DOMNALL.
Domnall ua Néill, twenty-five years, till he died in Ard Macha. Muiredach abbot of Ard Macha, Conchobor mac Taidg king of Connacht, died. A battle between Brian and Máel-Muad. Mide was desert for five years till Máel-Sechlainn took it.

CLVII. MÁEL-SECHLAINN.
Máel-Sechlainn mac Domnaill, twenty-three years. The battle of Temair, won by Máel-Sechlainn against the Foreigners. A siege of three days and three nights by him against the Foreigners, so that he took the hostages of Ireland by force from them. Then, after that, Máel-Sechlainn published the noble proclamation : Let every one, said he, of the Gáedil, who is in the land of the Foreigners in bondage and affliction, come thence to his own land. Dub Dá Leithe, successor of Patrick, (died).

CLVIII. BRÍAN.
Brían mac Ceneidig, twelve years, till he fell at the hands of the Laigin and of the Foreigners of Áth Cliath, in Cluain Tarb. The battle of Glenn Máma won by Brían and Máel-Sechlainn against the Foreigners. The battle of Cráeb Tulcha between Llaid and Cenél Eogain, where the kings of both sides fell, namely Áed and Eochaid.

CLVII bis. MÁEL-SECHLAINN restored.
Máel-Sechlainn son of Domnall again in the kingship of Ireland, till he died on Cró-Inis of Loch Aindind. Twenty-five battles broke before Máel-Sechlainn. The comet appeared for a fortniglit. Máel-Maire successor of Patrick. Findláech mac Rúaidrí, king of Alba. A battle won by Ugaire son of Ailill against Sitric son of Amlef. A shower of wheat.

CLIX. "KINGS WITH OPPOSITION."
A joint rule over Ireland for a space of forty-two years. Cuan hua Lothchain. Corcran the priest. A great snow. Amalgaid successor of Patrick. The battle of Sliab Crott. Niall Mac Eochada. Niall mac Máel-Sechlainn. Diarmait mac Mail-na-mBo was king with opposition. This is the definition of a "King with Opposition ", given in the Roll of the Kings. If the king be of Leth Cuinn, and have the whole of Leth Cuinn and one province of Leth Moga in addition, he is called "King with Opposition". But if he be of Leth Moga, he is not called "King of Ireland", until all Leth Moga, and Temair with its families, and one of the two provinces of Leth Cuinn are with them. Mac Máil-na-mBo was king of Ireland in this manner, for he had all Leth Moga, Connachta, Fir Mide, Ulaid, and Airgialla. By him was Mac Braein sent over sea.

Tairdeibach ua Briain, twelve years. Dubda Lethi successor of Patrick. Donnchad mac Briain went to Eome. The battle of the Saxons. A harvest of nuts. The battle of Odba. The battle of Moin Cruinneóce. Toirdelbach died a natural death.

Muirchertach ua Briain. twenty years, till he died of a heavy sickness. The battle of Crinach won by the son of Domnall Remar and the Foreigners of Áth Cliath against the Men of Mide. Donnchad son of Domnall Remar was killed. A battle between the descendant of Eogan and the Ulaid, where the kings of both sides were slain. Máel-Ísu successor of Patrick. Blinding of Rúaidrí ua Conchoboir. A mutual battle within Uí Ceinnselaig, in which Énna Banach(?) fell. Donnchad mac Muiredaig was conqueror. Máel-Coluim mac Donnchada king of Alba. The battle of Fidnach. The plague of heat. The terror of St John's Day. The battle of Mag Coba. Magnus king of Lochlann was slain in Ulaid. The Synod of Ráith Bresail. A battle between Donnchad mac Muiredaig and Clann Domnaill; it broke against Clann Domnaill. The battle of Áth Cliath broke afterwards against the Laigin, in which Donnchad mac Muiredaig and Conchobor ua Conchoboir were slain.

A joint kingship over Ireland for a space of thirty-six years; but Tairdeibaeh mac Rúaidrí ui Conchobor was king of Ireland with opposition. Énna s. Domnall s. Muiredach king of Laigen rested. A battle between Ua Mathgamhna and Mac Duinnsléibhe. Cellach successor of Patrick. The Battle of Lecc Uatha was broken against Diarmait son of Muiredach. The battle of Cúil Coll was broken for Diarmait at the end of a fortnight against the Men of Mumu, the Osraighe, and the Gaill of Port Lairge. Máel-Ísu ua Ainmere, chief elder of Ireland, rested. Cormac mac Carthaig, high-king of Mumu, was slain. The battle of Moin Mór broke with the Laigin and Connachta against Toirdelbach ua Bríain. Diarmait mac Domnaill mac Muiredaig, and Toirdelbach na Conchoboir, were victors. The Synod of Cenannas, where Iohannes the Cardinal was president; that noble Synod was held in the year 1152.

Muircertach mac Néill, fourteen years, till he fell at the hands of Ui Briuin and the Airgialla. Domnall ua Londgain, archbishop of Mumu, rested. Synod at Bri meic Taidg. Battle of Áth Firdiad, which broke before Muirchertach mac Néill against the Connachta and Ui Briuin.

Rúaidrí mac Toirdelbaig ui Conchoboir. Diarmait mac Domnaill meic Muiredaig was sent [expelled] over sea. The Saxons came into Ireland and Ireland was ravaged by them. Gilla-Mac-Liac, successor of Patrick. The Saxons came into Ireland; Ireland was ravaged by them. Diarmait mac Muiredaig died. Diannait mac Cormaic was slain by Saxons. Domnall ua Briain, king of North Mumu, rested; Conchobor of Moenmag, son of Rúaidrí was slain. Death of that Rúaidrí on his pilgrimage in Cunga.

SOURCE
"The Roll of the Kings" Lebor Gabála Érenn. original text edited and translated by R A Stewart Macalister, D. Litt. Part V: Irish Texts Society, Volume 44, London 1956. ISBN 1-870166-44-2.

126. Conall Err Breg that is, champion of Bregia. Or Conall Err Brecc 'speckled tail', that is, when he was young there was a speckled wing (sleeve? collar?) in his mantle. Hence the agnomen clave to him.

132. Finachta Fledach: from the abundence of the preparations of banquets (fleda) in his reign, and he himself was feastful and fond of giving banquets.

He was opposed by Aed Slaines decendants of Brega who had been fighting amongst themselves.

Duncha brought his Leinster army north.

These Brega were ruled by old Niall m Conaill Graint {Grant or Grainne] at Cala Truim a Royal Seat.
He met with no resistance from Grant.

129. Conall Grant, that is, Conall the Grey, for grant is usually said of all things grey: as, for instance, cront ṡaile 'phlegm' i.e. grant-seile, grey or blue spittle.

Congalach m Conaig defeated and killed that summer by Duncha.

Battle between the tribes continued in various locals to which King Donchad did not participate.

Probably he felt letting them kill each other was good politics.

In 783 Ard Macha and Magh Eo were burned by lightning in August.
Lighting and wind and thunder all over Erinn.

Cluain Bronaig monastery was distrubed later called Clon Broney.

The battele of Fort Dumachid was fought in Antrim within the Dal Raidne.

In 779 a meeting of Donchad Midi with Fiachna m Aed Roin king of Ulster at the Island of the Kings of East Brega resulted in an agreement whereby Donchad would not invade by sea and Fiachna by land.

In Galway [tech duinn] the Battle of Can Connall was had between Tadh King of Connact and the Ui Fiachrach who were defeated.
These were the decendants of both sons of Mugmedoin by the wife Mongfind two sons Fiachna and Briuin.

780 the 15th year of Doncha he chose Tara Hill for a synod of the ONeill and Leinster clanns which was called the Tenro Oppida at which Dublitter the monk Presided.
He was a frind of St Maol Ruain of the near Celi De at Finglas .

This oppida which is latin for altogether or exedingly was successful.

A peace conference and a peace treaty was conducted and obtained.

In 783 Ard Macha and Magh Eo were burned by lightning in August.
Lighting and wind and thunder all over Erinn.

Cluain Bronaig monastery was distrubed later called Clon Broney.

The battele of Fort Dumaachid was fought in Antrim within the Dal Raidne.

In those days the Abotts of the various monastaries-like the swiss guard- maintained their own malitia forces who fought each other.

Tibraid King of Connact fought the battle of Muaid or the war beteen Mayo and Sligo where Tibraide m Tadg rounted his enemies and than had a victory over Munster as well.

Tibraide m Tadg dies in 781 but it does not say in a battle.

It is often the propensity of old men to resort to battle in Irish history recalling their rise to power as hot blooded youths.

Donchad pg 2

Donnchad Mide mic Murchad engaged in a battle with Aed Slaines descendants at the Battle of Aith Liacc Finn at Bally League near Lanesborough on the Shannon at Rosscommon or it may have been a parish of Meath.

Many had gathered against Donnchad at this battle including the Cianachta and some men from Donegals Ciel Boghane indicating an alliance of western chiefs against the King.

The Eachach of Iveagh in Down continued the internicine fued with the Connaill of Muirtheimne which involved the death of chiefs as far away as Osraige.

The battlers of Erinn had good comunication and logistics between each other planning and executing their forays and alliances.

Probably implimented by marriage of the daughters of each other all of whom are lost to history.

If the rcord of the lost daughers of Erinn could be discovered a great deal of enlightenment could be gained upholding the value of 'vital statistics' records.

In 784 Eogain and Connail again fought at the battle of Claidige routing Donnal og Conaill.

This was fought at the River Finn south of Lifford Castle.

Donchad Midi had a meeting with Ulaid King Fiachna at Inis n Rig off Brega.
Ulaids king arrived by sea but could not step ashore into Donchads territory.
And the Hi King could not board Fiachna boat as this would have been going into his house, a formal gesture of submission.

This meeting without results was called the Conference of Kings Island.

The Bacall Isa, the Crosier of St Patrick was profained by Donchada m Donnall Abott of Corcaige of Raith Airtir [the eastern fort] near Tailtui now Oristown.

Clonard Monastery was burned on Easter Night.

A battle was held in Connact at Druim Guis between themselves.

In 785 in Donnchad Midi's 20th year the battle of Aith Rois[ford of the Wood {ross or Rois meaning wood}]was gained by Ui Ailella of Tirerrill Sligo over the Luignigh of Leyny.

In 787 a battle was held at Ercan in Aintrim between Cenel Connail and Eogain routing Donnall M Aed Muindeg of Cross Maglen which is now in South Armagh?

In 788 Aed Allan m
Fergal of Fochla [the north] son of Mael Duin died].

Derry was burned in March noted by an eclipse of the moon in that month and year.
Doire Calgaicc was the name of this plain in Irish later called Derry by the English.
Doire maning an oak wood.

The Church continued its mission to Conard promulgating the law of Ciaran the Saint of Clonmacnoise.

This preching was spurned by that abbot who was of the race of Fiachrach son of Eathach Moigmeadoin father of Nial Noigiallach.

In 789 a hosting was made by Donchad Midi to protect Leinster from Munstermen.

Bran Ardchenn m Muiredach requested Dunchad's aid againt the Munstermen.

This is the Bran married to Eithne sister of Donchad killed with her at the Currahgh in Kildare.
These were burned a Cell cuile Duma a Leix.

In 795 Raithlin Island then called Reachainn was plundered by the Danes called the gentiles or gentib who were pagan.

The shrines were broken and these plundered.

The
Danes were those who had been recorded in the Saxon Cronicles in 793 as having invaded England and gained a foothold there devistating the Britsh ilse.

'All the islands of Britane were wasted and most troubled by the Danes'
was written in the Annals of Ulster.

Another battle occured in Leinster when Bran Airdcheann [high headed] and his wife Eithne the ingen of Donall Mide and therefor sister of Donchada Mide were both killed by Finnsneacta Ceathairdheic son of Ceallah.
The killing took place at Cill Crule The church of the Angels in Wicklow.

Or as another entry has it in Liex.

The kings son Con Cetadach was killed this year at Crich n Olan in Meath by Flann m Congalach at a Feis made by Oleain where Conn was served a poison beer and he was beheaded by Flann.

In the 26th year of Donnchad Mide there were no major battles but the following year 792 AD after a reign of 27 years in which the King avoided all but the most necessary violence Donchad Midi m Domnall Midi M m Murthad Midi of the house of Colmain Mar of Conal Creamthaine died in penance at age 64 years.

He was born by these figures in 728 Ad.

A quatrain was composed:
'Dunchad of Freamann
Dreaded prince, famed king of Ireland of the hundred greens
There is no mornfull loss
as he did not quiet his fair.'

His brother Innrechtan also died this year.

Althought he himself had remained aloff of battle for these years he had not interfered or stopped the many local and disruptive fueds betwen his subjjects and for this his reign was not mourned.

He had sons Concobar the 35th king and Mael Runaid both sons who died in 833 and 843 respectively.

Mael Runaid being the father of the great and famous King Mael Sechnaill I ,the 38th Hi King.

A fairly regular alteration was now in place at the death of this King of the southern O Neill.

He was suceeded by Clann Eogains Aed Oirdnide m Niall Frossach of the north Ui Neill styled king of Aileach.

Cináed mac Flainn (died 770)

770-819 Mael Duin, s of Aedh Allen, s of Mael Duin, was K Ailech

· 777ad mugroin son of flann lord of ui failghe For 779, Maelduin, son of Aenghus, lord of Cinel Laeghaire.

Mugrón mac Flainn (died 782).782 mugron mac flainn ui failge king 770-782ad slain beside Kildare monastery battle of Curragh third son of fland da chongal and erenach daughter of murchad midi of uisnech

· 782ad mugroin son of flann lord of ui failghe was slain in battle of cuirreach by the side of cill dara slain beside Kildare monastery

[Donn Cuan s. Ceinneidigh had six sons;
Conaing, from whom are Muintir Chonaing,
Riacan, from whom are Ui Riacain, riacain was the ancestor of the ui riacain sept hy regan

· 100. Riaghan ("riagh:" Irish, to gibbit): son of Cineth; a quo O'Riaghain, anglicised O'Regan - one of "The Four guardian Tribes of Tara."meath middle kingdom Ricain a son of the ui falige overking cinaed a grandson of mugron died 782ad Riacain was a son of the ui failge over king cinaed and a grandson of mugron slain in 782

· 100. Riaghan ("riagh:" Irish, to gibbit-t shaped structure gallows): son of Cineth; a quo O'Riaghain, anglicised O'Regan - one of "The Four Tribes of Tara."

· meath middle kingdom

· 782 Ricain a son of the ui falige overking cinaed a grandson of mugron died 782ad

· 12th in line of the tripartite dalriadhe heber and heremon royal bloodlines Longargan, from whom are Ui Longarain (they were sons of the same parents), Ceinneidigh, from whom are Ui Cheinneidigh, clann cinaeda Ceileachair, from whom are Ui Cheleachair s. Donn Cuan, and Conghalach (he left no seed)

Domnall mac Flaíthnia (died 783) AU785, Mael Dúin son of Fergus, king of Loch Gabor.

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