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The O’Leary’s One Thousand years Ago

and the origins of the Parish Of Uibh Laoghaire

by Peter O'Leary

Rosscarbery is a pretty little town, nay a City, in West Cork, on the coast and lying between Clonakilty and Ballydehob. It’s population is less than 1000 and there is little by way of Industry or Tourism attractions. It is a City because the See of Ross Diocese has always been there, and consequently it has a Cathedral. The Church of Ireland retains the Cathedral, but has long since joined the Diocese with Cork and Cloyne. The Catholic Church abandoned Rosscarbery as the seat of it’s Bishop which was moved to Skibbereen, and it likewise joined the Diocese of Ross with Cork.

courtmacsherry this is the court or house of mac sherry in irish it is cuirt mac siorraighithe in irish it is cuirt an englishman hartnett took this irish name others say a man named foley irish mic siorraighithe lived there

(from the southern star skibereen)

The interest to our Parish of Uibh Laoghaire in this lovely City of Rosscarbery is that it was the place which 1000 years ago, most of our local families came from. Their dramatic move to Uibh Laoghaire will be described later, but first let us consider life for the O’Learys and their associated families as it was during the First Millenium. AD.

The Tribe who occupied most of Carbery from Kinsale to Bantry, were Erainn people called the Corcu Loigde (see article about The Old Tribes of Munster). Towards the end of the 2nd century AD this Tribe produced a king called Luy Maccon who became High King of Ireland for a period of 30 years ended in 212 AD. His eldest son continued to rule over the Corcu Loigde and his descendants were the O’Driscolls. Luy’s 5th. son, Fothac Canaan, founded a family which became one of the sub-kings under the O’Driscolls, and eventually took the surname of O’Leary. As a Tribe they were known as the Ui Laoghaire long before the introduction of surnames. These Ui Laoghaire were chieftains of the Tuath Ruis or Tuath in Dolaich, which covered an area of about 40 sq. miles around the City of Rosscarbery. Their main Residence was the ringfort of Burgatia, and nearby they founded a Monastery which later became a well known seat of Learning, a University, and a Bishopric. The Diocese of Ross was upheld at the Synods of the 12th.c. and the O’Learys became the Hereditary Wardens of the Monastery and University.

All this comfortable lifestyle was shattered in the 12th century due to the upheavals caused by the arrival of the Anglo-Norman invasion. The powerful Norman Lords swept across the country seeking the best land and seizing it. These included the Desmond FitzGeralds and their supporters who targeted the lands of Limerick County. This caused the families of Collins and O’Donovan to forsake their ancient territories in Limerick and seek their fortunes further South in Carbery, invited there by the O’Mahoneys who at that time were at war with their distant cousins the O’Donoghues.

The final outcome of all these upheavals was that the Collins and O’Donovans moved down to Carbery, the O’Donoghues moved up to Glen Fesk and Killarney, and the O’Learys moved up to Uibh Laoghaire where they have remained ever since. With them came many of their followers including the Twomeys, Cronins and Lynches who had all been natives of South Carbery.

These events, according to John O’Donovan in his History of the O’Donovan Clan, took place in 1196. It certainly must have been about this date and after the Invasion by the Anglo-Normans which started in 1169. It is probably reasonable to accept the 1196 date since we have no other evidence for or against.

The groundwork for this move took place several years earlier. The O’Mahoneys and the O’Donoghues were descended from the same tribe, the Ui Eachach, a branch of the Eoganachta of Cashel. They had come down from Cashel in the 6th century and had divided the territory of North Carbery between them, the Cineal Aodh (O’Mahoneys) taking the Eastern portion around modern Kinelmeaky and Kinelea, with the Cineal Laoghaire (O’Donoghue) holding the Western portion from about Coppeen to Drimoleague.

The territory of the Cineal Laoghaire was known as Uibh Laoghaire. This name was given to the whole of the North West part of Carbery and it included of course our Parish which was later to be known by the same name.

Sometime in the 10th century a sub-king of the Cineal Laoghaire called Srufan gave three Tuatha to his kinsmen in the West when he retired from the World into a Monastery. These three Tuatha were our own Parish which has ever since been internally divided into three parts, ie. the Inchigeelagh area, the Ballingeary area, and the area South of the Mountains, or Coolmountain in Carbery.

The two Clans lived in peace for about 500 years but came to blows after the battle of Clontarf in 1014. They fought a battle at Maghcliath which was won by the O’Mahoneys. The O’Donoghues fought on for many years, but eventually decided to move, gave up their territory of Uibh Laoghaire and moved to Glen Fesk. The O’Mahoneys took over the main part of Uibh Laoghaire, and the Western portion eventually became O’Mahoney an Oir (Western).

The O’Learys from Carbery had meanwhile started to occupy the lands along the River Lee which had been given to them by Srufan. By 1196 the O’Learys had completed their move to the new and much smaller Uibh Laoghaire by the River Lee.

In the 12th. and 13th.c,. the position changed again when the great McCarthy families took over Carbery (McCarthy Reagh) and Muskerry (McCarthy Muskerry). These moves made huge inroads into the O’Mahoney and other territories, but left the O’Learys more or less unscathed in their mountain retreat now called Uibh Laoghaire.

The first Millenium of the Christian era was spent by the our ancestors in Rosscarbery. The second Millenium was spent in Uibh Laoghaire. Our Millenium Celebrations span two Millenia unlike many who are not so fortunate as to know their past History in such detail

214ad 260 julian Egyptian calendar years = 94965 days plus precession of the equinox = 94965 + 3 days torque westwards = 94968 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 94968 – 2 days torque eastwards = 94966 days = 216 julian years

Afterwards the druid and his daughter Muncha went to Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach is its name, 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

When the time came for the child to be born, the druid said, "Daughter, if it is today that you shall bear the child, he shall be a druid; but if he is not born until tomorrow, the child shall be king and his descendants shall be a royal race." Muncha said: "My son shall not be born until tomorrow so that he shall be king. The daughter of Dil's then goes to the River Suir, to Ath Hisil on the Suir. There was a great flagstone in the middle of the ford there - she lay flat on the stone until daybreak on the following day. It is time now, O daughter - said her father, "to bear the child." The wonderful talented youth was then born, in the middle of the flagstone that is Fiacha Muilleathan - father of all the eoghanachta (tribe of Owen). Fiacha the flathead broadstone Noble was the youth then born - Fiacha Fer da Liach i.e., Fiacha the Man of two Sorrows; his father was slain the day after his conception, his mother on the day of his birth.

42. Fiacha Muillethan, whence is it? Easy to say. Munchai daughter of the druid Dil greatgrandson of Crecca, was the mother of Eogan's son. Now Munchai became pregnant by Eogan son of Ailill before he went to the battle of Mag Muccruma. On the night before she brought forth her burden she went into the Suir and sat down on a boulder on the brink of the river. For her father had said to her that she would bear a son, and that if she brought him forth on that night he would be (only) a worthy druid; but if she brought him forth on the morrow he would be a king, and his children and his kindred after him would be kings over Munster's two provinces. Then Munchai answered: "Unless he come through my side, he will not come the proper way (till tomorrow)". The girl said sooth. She remained sitting on the stone for the space of the night till the morrow morning. Then at daybreak the damsel brought forth the boy, and the crown (mullach) of his head broadened (ro-lethnaig) against the stone. Hence Fiacha Muill-lethan 'Broad-crown' clave to him.

43. Fiacha Fer dá liach was (also) said of him. (Why?) Easy to say. Liach means 'tale' or 'sad', that is, sad for the little boy were the two tales that were told him when he was born, to wit, 'Thy father hath been killed to-day, thou little son, in the battle of Mag Mucraime, and thy mother is dead from bringing thee forth'. Therefore Fiacha Fer da líach ('Man of two sorrows') was said of him.

235. Fer Níad mac Damáin, that is, a valiant man, for nia means valiant. Or Fer díad, that is, dé-iath 'two-lands', for he was born at the meeting of two lands, therefore (the name) Fer díad was given him. Even so is said Fer dá chrích 'man of two districts'. Eventually Fiacha Muilleathan, son of Eoghan Mor, assumed the kingship of the two Munsters Tir Duinn (Munster).and during his reign Cormac Ua Cuind, king of Ireland, came (from Tara) with a hosting into Munster, Tir Duinn (Munster).demanding tribute from the two provinces of Munster. Tir Duinn (Munster).

Cormac is credited with three sons, Dáire, Cellach and Cairbre Lifechair, and ten daughters. Two of his daughters, Gráinne and Aillbe, married the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill. In the well-known story "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne", Gráinne was betrothed to Fionn, but instead ran off with a young warrior of the fianna, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne. Diarmuid and Fionn were eventually reconciled, but Fionn later contrived Diarmuid's death during a boar hunt, but was shamed by his son Oisín into making amends to Gráinne. Fionn and Gráinne were married, and Gráinne persuaded her sons not to make war against Fionn.

Cormac's reign is recorded in some detail in the Irish annals.[7] He fought many battles, subduing the Ulaid and Connacht and leading a lengthy campaign against Munster. In the fourteenth year of his reign he is said to have sailed to Britain and made conquests there. In the fifteenth, thirty maidens were slaughtered in Tara by Dúnlaing, king of Leinster, for which Cormac had twelve Leinster princes put to death. In other texts he is said to have been temporarily deposed twice by the Ulaid, and to have once gone missing for four months. He is also said to have compiled the Psalter of Tara, a book containing the chronicles of Irish history, the laws concerning the rents and dues kings were to receive from their subjects, and records of the boundaries of Ireland.

Although he is usually remembered as a wise and just ruler, one story presents him in a less flattering light. Having distributed all the cattle he had received as tribute from the provinces, Cormac found himself without any cattle to provision his own household after a plague struck his herds. A steward persuaded him to treat Munster as two provinces, the southern of which had never paid tax. He sent messengers to demand payment, but Fiachu Muillethan, the king of southern Munster, refused, and Cormac prepared for war. His own druids, who had never advised him badly, foresaw disaster, but he ignored them, preferring to listen to five druids from the sidhe supplied by his fairy lover, Báirinn.

Cormac marched to Munster and made camp on the hill of Druim Dámhgaire (Knocklong, County Limerick). His new druids' magic made the camp impregnable and his warriors unbeatable, dried up all sources of water used by the Munstermen, and nearly drove Fiacha to submission. But Fiacha in desperation turned to the powerful Munster druid Mug Ruith Macraith('son-of-grace'-aka-Magrath) Magrath ------grace mug ruith a legendary gaelic druid Or possibly a druidic title meaning servant of The, wheel (eel) Druid Mogh Ruith, Magus Rotae for aid, and his magic was too strong even for Cormac's fairy druids. He restored the water and conjured up magical hounds who destroyed the fairy druids. His breath created storms and turned men to stone. Cormac was driven out of Munster and compelled to seek terms.

Cormac besieged the Munstermen at Druim Damhaire (Knockloag); this king weilded great power, both by the vastness of his army and the power of his druids. Cormac had British druids weaving their spells against the Munstermen, so that by necromancy they had dried up all the wells and rivers of Munster, Tir Duinn (Munster).so that the people and their lands were in danger of death from the want of water. Then Fiacha Muilleathan sent for Mogh Ruith son of Fergus, the best druid to be found in Ireland.

Macraith('son-of-grace'-aka-Magrath)Magrath ------grace mug ruith a legendary gaelic druid Or possibly a druidic title meaning servant of The, wheel (eel) Druid Mogh Ruith, Magus Rotae

Mogh Ruith then lived in Oilen Dairbhre (Valentia Island) in his old age, blind and decrepit, as he had outlived nineteen kings of Ireland:- from the time of Roth mac Rioghuill (the druid who had trained Mogh Ruith in sorcery) to the time of Cairbre Lifechair son of Cormac mac Airt. Mogh Ruith then came to meet Fiacha Muilleathan and the Munster Tir Duinn (Munster).nobles and they complained about what the druids of Leath Cuinn (Northern half of Ireland) had done to them. he undertook to oppose their magic spells, and he chose the territory of Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) as his reward. Mogh Ruith then overcame the druidery of Cormac and they defeated Cormac's forces routing them from Knockling to Tara with a great massacre. Fiacha Muilleathan the Munster Tir Duinn (Munster). king did not leave Leath Cuind until he got hostages and homage from Cormac mac Airt; as the poet Feidhlime mac Crimithann wrote:- Good was the king Fiacha Muilleathan A great territory the Half over which he ruled He brought hostages from Tara the Strong To Rathfuim to Rath Naoi Though he was great; Cormac Ua Cuinn He bowed to the king of Tir Duinn (Munster).

In the tale His Three Calls to Cormac (IV.11) the Irish King is tempted by the sea-god Manannan mac Lir with treasure, specifically a "shining branch having nine apples of red gold," in exchange for his family. Cormac is led into the Otherworld and taught a harsh lesson by Manannán, but in the end his wife and children are restored to him. Also, Manannán rewards him with a wonderful gold cup which breaks if three lies are spoken over it and is made whole again if three truths are spoken. Cormac used this cup during his kingship to distinguish falsehood from truth. When Cormac died, the cup vanished, just as Manannan had predicted it would.

The 8th-century text The Expulsion of the Déisi describes enmity between Cormac and the group known as the Déisi, descendants of Cormac's great grandfather Fedlimid Rechtmar who had been his retainers. Cormac's son Cellach (or Conn) abducts Forach, the daughter of a Déisi leader. Her uncle Óengus Gaíbúaibthech comes to rescue her, but Cellach refuses to release her. Óengus runs Cellach through with his "dread spear", which has three chains attached to it; these chains wound one of Cormac's advisers and blind Cormac in one eye. Cormac fights seven battles against the Déisi, and expels them from their lands. After a period of wandering, they settled in Munster. Cormac, having lost an eye, moves into the Tech Cletig on the hill of Achall, as it was against the law for a disfigured king to sit in Tara. His duties as king are taken on by his son Cairbre Lifechair.

After ruling for forty years Cormac choked to death on a salmon bone. Some versions blame this on a curse laid by a druid because Cormac had converted to Christianity. Some versions of the Lebor Gabála cabala Érenn synchronise his reign with that of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (161–180). Keating dates his reign to 204–244; the Annals of the Four Masters to 226–266. An entry in the Annals of Ulster dates his death as late as 366. He was succeeded by Eochaid Gonnat.

114. Cairbre Lifechair, (so called) because he loved the Liffey so greatly. Or in Liffey was his mother, even Ethne, daughter of Catháir the Great. Or Cairbre Lifechair, in Liffey of Leinster he was reared. Hence he was called Cairbre Lifechair. Of him saith the poet:

Three sons of children that went not from him
Had Cairbre who loved Liffey,
Fiacha Srabtine of the blessings,
Eochaid and Eochaid Doimlén.

Muintir-Duibhraic of Dun-Braine, Muinter Diubhraic, i.e., the family of O'Diubhraic, now anglicised Durack, without the prefix O'. Dun-Braine, the name of their seat, is now unknown. Are chieftains of Tuath-O'gConghaile, Tuath O'g-Conghaile, i.e., the territory of the Ui-Conghaile. This territory is probably co-extensive with the parish of Ogonnelloe, aliaas Aglish-Sinnell, which preserves its name. Their forts are about the good Borumha; Borumha, now Bealboroo, a fort near Killaloe, in the S.E. of the county of Clare.Locks [of hair] like gold are upon them

143. Conaing Becc-fiada 'of the little tooth', or Becc-ecla 'Little-fear', that is, an hour of dread or fear never visited him. For he was a champion in every combat: whereof the poet said, confirming this:

Conaing son of Congal, a pure rod,
A king that never dreaded anyone:
Hamlets he wasted on every side.
Till Art, son of Lugaid, killed him.

Fionntain survived into the time of fionn mac cumhail becoming the repository of all knowledge of eire and all history along with a magical hawk who was born at the same time as him they meet at the end of their lives and recount their stories to each other due to fionntains ability to shape shift into a salmon and his honorific title as the wise fintan mac bachra is sometimes confused with a similarily named animal figured in gaelic mythology more commonly known and referred to as the salmon of wisdom

Daire Cerbba (or Cerba, Cearba, Cearb) was an Irish dynast of uncertain origins, named in many early and late sources as the grandfather of the semi-mythological Mongfind and Crimthann mac Fidaig, and the most frequently named early ancestor of the historical Uí Liatháin and Uí Fidgenti. mid and west Limerick All of these are historically associated with the province of Munster, but according to the early manuscript Rawlinson B 502, Dáire Cerbba was born in Brega, County Meath, and got his epithet from a location there.[1] This is otherwise unexplained. 291. Dáire Cerba, that is, in Methos Cerba in Bregia he was reared. He may or may not have been a relative of Conall Corc, the founder of the Eóganachta dynasty.

He is often confused or paired with Maine Munchaín, who may be his father or twin brother, depending on the source, or this is an alias and the two people are the same. Both are listed in the surviving genealogies as sons of Ailill Flann Bec, grandfather of Conall Corc, but the arrangement changes from source to source.

O'Keefe's translation of the Book of Munster set forth the relationship of the several generations of this group as follows:

Fiacha Muilleathan had three sons: Oilill Flann Mor, Oilill Flann Mor left no issue 44. Ailill Flann Becc and Ailill Flann Mór, that is Ailill the Little and Ailill the Great. Since flann means 'red' those two sons of Fiacha Muillethan were so named. Deachluath. The latter, Deachluath, is ancestor of the tribe called Uí Fiachach Eile Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, (in north-east of Tipperary – Thurles and Roscrea) and Oilill Flann Beag and 44. Ailill Flann Becc and Ailill Flann Mór, that is Ailill the Little and Ailill the Great. Since flann means 'red' those two sons of Fiacha Muillethan were so named.

Oilill Flann Beag had four sons:

1. Lughaid, ancestor of the Eóganachta (Septs included O'Callaghan, MacCarthy, O'Donoghue, MacGillycuddy, O'Keeffe, O'Moriarity, O'Sullivan, among others.)

2. Fiodach, father of the Crimthann mac Fidaig;

2 Fiodach, to him was son Criomthann Mor mac Fiodhaig (a notorious sea raider in 369 A.D. into Scotland)

CXIII. CRIMITHANN MAC FIDAIG.
Crimthann s. Fidach, sixteen [years], in the kingship of Ireland till he fell at the hands of Moingfhinn, his own sister..

3 Daire Cearba, from whom the Uí Liatháin;

4 Maine Munchaoin, from whom the Uí Fidgenti (Septs included O'Donovan, O'Collins, O'Flannery, Lyons, among others.). mid and west Limerick

Mongfind is simply called the daughter of Daire (Cerbba?), not of Fidach, in the Book of Lismore, and there Daire's father is called Findchad, while Crimthand Mór is not mentioned at all.[3] Thus the alternative exists that they were not originally brother and sister.

Maine Munchaoin and Daire Cearba were noted as twins (being born at one birth), and some manuscripts attribute Maine's offspring as being fathered by Daire due to Maine's inability; as a result, Maine tends to be overlooked as an ancestor, and the Ui Fidgheinte typically list Daire as their progenitor. Rawlinson B502, the primary source manuscript, also sets forth the Ui Fidgheinte as being descended from Daire Cearba.

Daire Cerbba is credited as the ancestor of the Ui Fidgheinte and thus the O'Donovan family, and was referred to in a poem addressed to [Donnell II O'Donovan], chief of Clan Cathail, in as late as the early 17th century, by the bardic poet Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte.[4 Maine Munchaoin, from whom the Uí Fidgenti (Septs included O'Donovan, O'Collins, O'Flannery, Lyons, among others.). mid and west Limerick

Modern descendants of Daire Cerbba include the O'Connells of Derrynane,[5][6] Daniel Charles, Count O'Connell having explicitly declared this to the heralds of Louis XVI of France. Also was Michael Collins, descending from the Ó Coileáin of Uí Chonaill Gabra,[7][8] once the most powerful sept of the Uí Fidgenti.

King of Medón Mairtine

In a strange passage in the notably peculiar Munster epic Forbhais Droma Dámhgháire, Daire Cerbba (Ceirbe) is said to have been king of Medón Mairtine, known to historians as the ancient capital of the Mairtine, a once prominent Érainn people. In fact the passage gives it the alternative names of "... Ardchluain na Féne and Mucfhalach Mac Daire Ceirbe. This Ceirbe was king of Meáin Mairtine. This area is called Emly today..."[9] However it does not specifically state that Dáire belonged to the Mairtine themselves, and perhaps of importance is the fact that this site was historically occupied by the Eóganachta, for whom it was their chief church, namely Emly, which the author of FDD obviously recognizes. The Mairtine themselves belong only to prehistory and legend, but may be in part ancestral to the later Déisi Tuisceart and famous Dál gCais

Eoghan mor father of

Fiacha Muilleathan father of all the eoghanachta (tribe of Owen). said the druid father, to his daughter "to bear the child." The wonderful talented youth was then born, in the middle of the flagstone that is Fiacha Muilleathan - father of all the eoghanachta (tribe of Owen). Fiacha the flathead Noble was the youth then born - Fiacha Fer da Liach i.e., Fiacha the Man of two Sorrows; his father was slain the day after his conception, his mother on the day of his birth. Eventually Fiacha Muilleathan, son of Eoghan Mor, assumed the kingship of the two Munsters Tir Duinn (Munster).had three noble sons,

Oilill Flann Mor and

Oilill Flann Beag and

Deachluath.

The latter, Deachluath, is ancestor of the tribe called Uí Fiachach Eile Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, (in north-east of Tipperary – Thurles and Roscrea and

Oilill Flann Mor left no issue.

The family of Oilill Flann Beag. Oilill Flann Beag had four sons, i.e.,

1. Lughaid, ancestor of all the Eoghanachta; gentle rulers

2. Fiodach, father of Crimthann;

3. Daire Cearba from whom was the Ui Liathain; 3 twin of 4 King of Ui-Liathain,549 549. Ui Liathain. - This tribe derived their name and origin from Eochaidh Liathanach, son of Daire Cearba, ancestor of the Ui-Fidhgeinte. Their territory was nearly coextensive with the present barony of Barrymore, in the county of Cork. See Hibernia Expugnata, lib. ii., c. 8, 19, and Leabhar na gCeart, pp. 73, 74.hero of renown

50. Fedlimith Uillethan, that is, Fedlimith Ua-Liathain, that is in Húi Liathain he was reared. Hence he was named Fedlimith Uillethan. Or Fedlimith Ollethan i.e. huge (oll) and broad (lethan) was he: thence he was named.

51. Fergus Scandal, that is, a quarrel (scandal) was raised about him the night he was born, to know which of them (the bystanders) should foster him.

4. Maine Munchaoin from whom the Ui Fidgeinte; (the O'Donovans and O'Collinses of mid and west Limerick) Maine Munchaoin, from whom the Uí Fidgenti (Septs included O'Donovan, O'Collins, O'Flannery, Lyons, among others.). mid and west Limerick 4 twin of 3 Daire Cerbba is credited as the ancestor of the Ui Fidgheinte and thus the O'Donovan family, and was referred to in a poem addressed to [Donnell II O'Donovan], chief of Clan Cathail, in as late as the early 17th century, by the bardic poet Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte.[4] Maine Munchaoin, from whom the Uí Fidgenti (Septs included O'Donovan, O'Collins, O'Flannery, Lyons, among others.).mid and west limerick 2. Fiodach, to him was son Criomthann Mor mac Fiodhaig from whom is the tribe Clann Crimthann. He was king of Ireland and Britain. It is this Crimthann who took the fortress of Doire Da Broc from the sons of Eochaid Mugmeadhon (of the kings of Tara) ie., from Brian, Fiachra, Oilill and Feargus. Crimthann's sister Muingfionn was mother of those four sons. So that her son, Brian, would get the kingship of Ireland, she plotted to poison her brother, Criomthann; the latter died of that poisonous drink; and Mungfionn herself died as well at Inish Donglais on the Moy (Co. Mayo) - as she tasted the drink in order to induce her brother to drink from it. Crimthann having drunk it came to Sliabh Uidhe on Riogh "The Mountain of the King's Death" (now Cratloe Hill, Co. Clare) and there expired. The four above names sons of Oilill Flann Beag divided Munster between them as follows.

From Comar no dTre in Utsge (Waterford Harbour) to Belach Conglais (Cork Harbour) -1 Luguid ancestor of the eoghanachta and 2 Fiodach father of Criomthann took this half;

from Belach Conglais (Cork Harbour) to Limerick – 3 Daire Cearba and 4 Maine Muncharim to this other half. These latter two 3 Daire and 4 Maine were born at one birth and concerning them (before birth their mother saw this vision: they were back to back in her womb and a black chafer between them. This was interpreted as follows:

The tribe of Mogh Ruith Macraith('son-of-grace'-aka-Magrath)Magrath ------grace mug ruith a legendary gaelic druid Or possibly a druidic title meaning servant of The, wheel (eel) Druid Mogh Ruith, Magus Rotae the druid was the chafer placed between the 3 Ui Liathain daire cearba and the

King of Ui-Liathain,549 549. Ui Liathain. - This tribe derived their name and origin from Eochaidh Liathanach, son of Daire Cearba, ancestor of the Ui-Fidhgeinte. Their territory was nearly coextensive with the present barony of Barrymore, in the county of Cork. See Hibernia Expugnata, lib. ii., c. 8, 19, and Leabhar na gCeart, pp. 73, 74. hero of renown 4 Ui Fidgeinte maine muncharim so that neither could come to the help of the other.

Septs included O'Donovan, O'Collins, O'Flannery, Lyons, among others.). mid and west limerick

1 Lughaid son of Oilill Flann Beag (ancestor of all the Eoghacbhe) had four sons:

1a. Lughaid, from whom were the little sept of Ui Luighdheach Eile Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, (at Bomisoleigh, Co. Tiperrary)

1b. Cathfaidh, from whom were the Ui Cathfhaid Cuile (these were scattered about N.W. Tipperary)

1c. Corclosadh, the third son. The three above had as mother Dail, dau. of Fiacha, son of Niall, King of Eile Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race,

Corca Laoidhe

There are two major O’Flynn clans associated with County Cork, possibly having common roots.

Members of the Milesian aristocracy, the O’Flynns of Munster were a branch of the Corca Laoidhe, a tribe whose “tuath,” or petty kingdom was based in Cork. This segment of the Gaelic elite, claimed their descent from Ithe, an uncle of Laighe, and then to his grandson, Lugaidhe Mac Com, monarch of Ireland from 195 AD to 225 AD.

The O’Flynns of Ardagh Castle were in west Cork, in the barony of West Carberry between Skibbereen and Baltimore. O’Flynns were also chiefs of Ui Baghamna, which covers the baronies of Ibane and Barryroe. They are classed in some histories as a noble chieftain family, ruling a relatively small area with a limited number of subject clans.

A portion of a poem has come down to us:

O’Flynn Arda of the blooming woods,
A tribe of the purest pedigree;
Heir to the lordship is each man,
they are the clan of Ui Baghamna.

Muscraige

The O’Flynns of Muskerry were lords of Muskerrylinn (Muscraidhe UiFloinn)which is the territory between Ballyvourney and Blarney and from the River Dripsey to Ballyvourney. Muscraige was also an independent kingdom, or “tuath,” peopled by an ancient race, of which the O’Flynns were a branch, also claiming the same Milesian background as the O’Flynns Arda.

43 Daire Sirchreachtach J had six sons, namely, 44vi Lughaidh Laidhe, from whom the Corca Laidhe; 44vi lughaidh laidhe K father of 45 maccon L 45 maccon L father of 46 maicniadh M 46 Maicniadh had good sons, namely, 3 good sons . namely 1st First good son 1 Aenghus Gaifailech, from whom descends Ua Eidersceoil (O'Driscoll); The surname O'Driscoll is an anglicised form of the Gaelic Ó hEidirsceóil which has the meaning of "diplomat" or "interpreter." (eidir 'between' + scéal 'story', 'news'). Maicniadh's land. - This was a bardic appellation of Munster

Genealogy of Ua Eiderscoil (O'Driscoll and Driscoll).

34 Breogan father of 35 ith 35 ith father of 36 lughaidh 36 lughaidh father of 37 mal 37 mal father of 38 eadamhoin 38 eadamhoin father of 39 lugh 39 lugh father of 40 maithsin 40 maithsin father of 41 sin 41 sin father of 42 gos 42 gos father of 43 eadamain 43 eadamain father of 44 eireamhon 44 eireamhon father of 45 ethleann 45 ethleann father of 46 lugh 46 lugh father of 47 lachtaine 47 lachtaine father of 48 nuadhat 48 nuadhat father of 49 deargthenedh 49 deargtheneth father of 50 deagha dearg 50 deagha dearg father of 51 deadhmannra 51 deadhmannra father of 52 lithbolg 52 lith bolg father of 53 sithbholg sidebolg 53 sithbholg sidebolg father of 54 firfhuilne 54 firfhuilne father of 55daire sirchreachtrach 55 daire sirchreachrtach father of 56 lughaidh 56 lughaidh father of 57 maccon who flourished in the 3rd century 57 maccon who flourished in the 3rd century father of 58 maicniadh 58 maicniadh father of 59 aenghus 59 aenghus father of 60 nathe 60 nathe father of 61 eiderscel 61 eiderscel father of 62 bran dubh 62 bran dubh father of 63 flannan 63 flannan father of 64 cobdan 64 cobdan father of 65 flannan 65 flannan father of 66 falachtach 66 falachtach father of 67 aenghus 67 aenghus father of 68 dunghus 68 dunghus father of 69 murthuile 69 murthuile father of 70 donnghal 70 donnghal father of 71 nuadhat 71 Nuadhat father of 72 finn 72 Finn father of 73 eiderscel 73 Eiderscel father of 74 fothad 74 fothad father of 75 maccon 75 Maccon father of 76 finn 76 Finn father of 77 fothad 77 Fothad father of 78 donnchad mor 78 Donnchad mor father of 79 maccraith 79 Maccraith father of 80 donnchad mor 80 Donnchadh gud father of 81 finghin 81 Finghin father of 82 maccon 1418ad

1418ad Maccon, son of Finghin, son of Donnchadh Gud, son of Maccraith, son of Donnchadh Mor, son of Fothad, son of Finn, son of Maccon, son of Fothad, son of Eiderscel,son of Finn, son of Nuadhat, son of Donnghal, son of Murthuile, son of Dunghus, son of Aenghus, son of Falachtach, son of Flannan, son of Cobdan, son of Flannan, son of Bran Dubh, son of Eiderscel, son of Nathe, son of Aenghus, son of Maicniadh, son of Maccon (who flourished in the third century), son of Lughaidh, son of Daire Sirchreachrtach, son of Firfhuilne, son of Sithbholg, sidebolg 42 lithbolg son of Deadhmannra, son of Deagha Dearg, son of Deargthenedh, son of Nuadhat, son of Lachtaine, son of Lugh, [son of Ethleann], son of Eireamhon, son of Eadamain, son of Gos, son of Sin, son of Maithsin, son of Lugh, [son of Eadamhoin], son of Mal, son of Lughaidh, son of Ith, son of Breogan.

The first Maccon in this pedigree died in the year 1418. The pedigree is pretty correct up to Maccon, monarch of Ireland, in the third century, but from this period to Ith it is more than forty generations short. The line has been continued by Keating, The Four Masters, Mac Firbisigh, and in a manuscript in the British Museum

Maccon O'Driscoll, d. 1418.

Maccon, d. 1442.

Finghin, d. 1472.

Tadgh, died 1472. Conchobhar, d. 1508.

Finghin, Conchbhar; m. Jane, d. of Conchbhar Finn O'Mathghamhna.

Maccon, Conchbar, Sir Finghin; m. d. to Sir Owen McCarthy Reagh.

Conchbhar Tadhg Finghin Cornelius O'Driscoll, Captain in the Archduke Country; living 1615. He was married to Ellen, d. of Donnell MacSwyne, of Muskerry.

maicniadh father of lughaidh

lughaidh father of maicniadh

maicniadh father of aengus aenghus

OF THE RACE OF AENGUS,

Nuadhad father of finn

Finn father of eiderscel The sons of Finn, son of Nuadhad, were Eiders-cel, Eiderscel, Eiderscel (O'Driscoll), son of Finn, had two sons, namely, Fathadh and Cathra [Cathna]. The race of Cathna, son of Eiderscel (O'Driscoll), was he by whom Teampull-mor Fachtna at Ros-Ailithre was erected (10th century). from whom Ua Eiderscel, and Intogha, from whom Clann-Intogha; and of them are the Clann-Maghnusa. Son to Fathadh, son of Finn was Maccon; son to Maccon was Finn). Finn had two sons, namely, Fathadh and Ciarmhac, from whom the Clann-Ciarmhaic. Fathad had three sons, namely, Donnchadh Mor, from whom the chieftains, Fathadh Og, from whom the Clann-Fathaidh, and Dunlang, from whom the Clann-Dunlaing. Fathad (son of Finn) had another son, namely, Aedh Garbh (slain in the year 1212); it is from him are sprung the people of Bearra, and Ua Eiders-ceoil of Bearra, with their correlatives

To the race of Lughaidh [Luy], lewy mac ithu near the sea, Race of Lughaidh. - These were the O'Driscolls, who, according to the Irish genealogists, descend from lewy Lughaidh Mac Ithu, the uncle of Milesius of Spain. See the Miscellany of the Celtic Society, 1849, pp. 56, 57 Here I pass over the boundary;
It behoves me not to pass these people by,
But to detail the renown of the heroes.
O'h-Eidirsceoil, chief king of the land, Race of Lughaidh. - These were the O'Driscolls, who, according to the Irish genealogists, descend from lewy Lughaidh Mac Ithu, the uncle of Milesius of Spain. See the Miscellany of the Celtic Society, 1849, pp. 56, 57 Of Corca Laighdhe565 I speak, 565. Corca Laighdhe. - This, which was the tribe name of the O'Driscolls, was also applied to their territory, which originally comprised all the south-west part of the present county of Cork, namely, the baronies of Carbery, Beare, and Bantry; their principality, comprising the parishes of Myross Midhros, Glanbarahane [Castlehaven], Tullagh, Creagh, Kilcoe, Aghadown, and Clear, to much narrower limits. See Miscellany of the Celtic Society, p. 48-57 and p. 148.
He assumed possession over the harbour of Clear, Harbour of Clear, i.e., the bay between Cape Clear and Mizen Head, in the south of the county of Cork.
The most tranquil pillar of the kings.

After treating of the race of Lughaigh, The race of Lughaidh, i.e., the O'Driscolls and their correlatives And the proper land of Desmond, Let us leave entirely the land of Ith, The land of Ith, a bardic appellative for the O'Driscoll territory.
Territories of yellow hazel nuts

Maicniadh's land. - This was a bardic appellation of Munster

Namely 2nd second good son maicniadh M father of duach had 3 good sons, namely 2 Duach, from whom Ua Cobhthaigh; These are the Ui-Baghamhna. Ui-Baghamhna, now the barony of Ibawn, in the south of the county of Cork, ibid., p.36
King of the vigorous Tricha medhonach Tricha ched medhonach, i.e., the central cantred. This was the old name of the present barony of Barryroe, in the county of Cork. See O'Brien's Irish Dictionary, in voce COBHTHACH. Dr. O'Brien, who knew this part of Ireland well, speaking of the families of O'Cowhig and O'Floinn Arda, about the middle of the last century, has the following observation which nearly holds good at the present day: "But the melancholy remark which remains to be made is, that, of the two families first mentioned, there is not, to my knowledge, one individual now existing that may be held in the light of a gentleman, having been dispossessed long since of their very ancient and large properties; which, indeed, is the case with many other Irish families, not less illustrious in former times, who are now quite extinct, or reduced to a state of perfect obscurity, for the reason now mentioned." Is O'Cobhthaigh570 of the white stone harbour; 570. O'Cobhthaigh.Dr. O'Brien anglicises this name O'Cowhig, which seems to have been the form of the name in use, in his time, among this sept in the county of Cork; but in other more northern parts of eire, it is anglicised Coffey, without the prefix O'. Dr. Smith, in his "Natural and Civil History of Cork," book ii. c.3, writes of this family: "Almost on every headland of this barony were castles erected by the Irish, seve of which belonged to the sept of O'Cowhig,as Dundeedy, Dunowen, Dunore, Duneen, Dunocowhig, Dunworley, and Dungorley."
Land of Cliodhna,571plain of O'Cobhthaigh, 571. Land of Cliodhna,i.e., bordering on Tonn Cliodhna, a loud surge in the bay of Glandore, much celebrated by Irish poets

Third good son 3rd 47 Fiachra, from whom

Foe in battle to foreigners. Muintir-Bhaire of the fair fort, Muintir-Bhaire, now Muntervary, a peninsula in the barony of West Carbery in the south-west of the county of Cork, extending from Bantry to Sheepshead, and containing the parish of Kilcrohane. See Corca-Laidhe, in the Miscellany of the Celtic Society, p. 5, and Tribes of eire, pp. 11 to 15. Of the race of warlike Fothadh; Warlike Fothadh. - He was the third son of Lughaidh Maccon, king of Ireland, in the second century. See Corca Laidhe, p. 5, note n. of whom was Daniel, son of Fothadh, as the historian said

48 Ua Floinn-Arda P (O'Flynn of Arda, near Skibbereen). The three Fothadhs were three other sons of his, (fiachra namely), Fothad Airctheach and Fothad Cairptheach and Fathadh Canann. (They were joint monarchs of Ireland, 296).

CVII. FOTHAID.
The Fothads, one year, till Fothad Cairptech fell at the hands of Fothad Airgdech. Then Fothad Airgdech fell in Líne, in the battle of Ollarba.

144. A reckoning of twenty-six years
was Coirpre of the Seeking served;
in Gabar, sad though we think it,
great red points quenched him.

145 The Fothads took
a year over Banba full of huts,
Fothad Cairptech fell
by white Fothad Airgdech.

146. The death of Fothad after kin-slaughter,
in the battle of Ollarba, apt for combat;
Fíachu after Fothad--take thou heed--
thirty-seven years.

147. Fíachu got a venomous draught
from Colla in the battle of Dubchomair;
Colla had four years after battle
till Muiredach slew him.

The Lebor Gabála cabala Érenn synchronises Lugaid's reign with that of the Roman emperor Commodus (180–192). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 173–203, that of the Annals of the Four Masters to 195–225. He had two sons, Fothad Cairpthech and Fothad Airgthech, who would later be joint High Kings. Modern descendants of Lugaid mac Con include the O'Driscolls, O'Learys, Coffeys, Hennessys and Flynns of County Cork.[6] The three MicAenchearda of Beara (Bere) (frequently mentioned in Irish romance as warriors) were three other sons of his , and Finnchaemh, daughter of Ronan, was their mother; and the Ceard [artificer], in whose custody they were at first, was of the Ceardraidh of Teamhair; Glas, Gear, and Gubha were their names.

Ui-Fiachrach, — There were several

septs known hy the tribe name of

Ui-Fiachrach. But the sept here

reíerred to was the Ui-Fiachrach of

Ard-sratha (or Ardstraw), desoended

from CoUa Uais (one of the thrce

CoUas, founders of tho principal

families of the Oirghialla), and which

inhabited ancientlj the district ad-

jacent to Ardstraw in the countj of

TjTonc. See 0'Flaherty's Ogygia^

part 3, chap. 76.

^* Ui Fiachrach; i.e. Ui-Fiachrach

of Ard-Sratha [Ardstraw], a tribc

seated in the north-west of tho

present county of Tyrone, along the

River Derg, and near the barony of

Lurg, in the county of Fermanagh.

Fiachra father of gearan

48 Gearan father of 49 conall claen

49 Conall Claen father of 50 macreithe

50 Macreithe father of 51 ailill

51 Ailill father of 52 fearghus

52 Fearghus father of 53 conda cilline

53 Conda cilline father of 54 maicniadh

54 Maicniadh father of 55 dunghalach

Coinchinn, daughter of Cathbhadh, had three sons, namely, Mac-Erc, Aenghus, and Conall Claen. Treana had two sons, namely, Aenghus and Mac-Erc. Conall Claen, son of Gearan, son of Duach, had ten sons, namely, five to the west of Dor,109 West of Dor, i. e. of Cuan-Dor, now Glandore harbour near Skibbereen in the County of Cork and five to the east of Dor. Five of them used to swear for his debts,110 Swear for his debts, i. e. five of them enforced payment, or fulfilment, by their evidence when necessary; ‘tonndais’, they swear for. and five of them used to secure his debts.111 Secure his debts, i. e. five of them took security for the payment of their father's income, and the rendering of his privileges. There are but four names in the text, given as those of the brethren to the east of Dor. The five to the west of Dor, were Eochaidh Liath, Eoghan, Macreithe Ceannfoda, Aedh, Aedhlog. The five to the east of Dor were Mactail, Eochaidh Ceannmairc, Eochaidh Ceannmuscraidhe, Eochaidh Ciarraidhe.

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Silan, the Bishop,112 Silan the Bishop. There are many bishops of this name mentioned in O'Clery's Irish Calendar, as, Sillan, bishop of Gleann-da-clocha at 10th of February; Sillan, bishop of Daimh-inis, A.D. 638; Sillan, bishop, 7th of September; Sillan, bishop of Lismore, 21st of December, but nothing has been discovered to show which of them is here referred to.
son of Failbhe,
son of Laighinn,
son of Fiachra,
son of Sceallan,
son of Erc,
son of Eoghan,
{column 2}
son of Conall Claen,
son of Gearan.
Brainnsce, or Bran,
son of Donnghal,
son of Conra,
son of Sceallan.
Fiachna,

{column 1}
son of Muircheartach,
son of Cuan,
son of Fearghus.
Milchonach,
son of Blathmhac,
son of Loichine,
son of Aedh Caeil Cuisc.
Lughaidh,
son of Ailill,
son of Fearghus.
Cu-allaich,
son of Cuan,
son of Laighinn,
son of Aedh Caimdherc,
son of Carrthach,
{column 2}
Eochaidh,
son of Dunchadh,
son of Ailill,
son of Ronan,
son of Aedh Caimdherc; he had a crooked eye,
son of Carrthach. Dunghalach,
son of Tuathal of Bearra,
son of Aedh Finn,
son of Carrthach,
son of Ailill,
son of Eochaidh Liath,
son of Conall Claen,
son of Gearan.

The mother of Conall was Derde of the Ui Cathbhaidh.113n The Ui-Cathbhaidh, a sept seated in Ormond in the County of Tipperary. The country of this sept is described in the Book of Leacan (fol. 208) as extending from Feart-Moraidh southwards to Sliabh Eibhlinne (the Slieve Phelim mountains.) In the Book of Leinster, fol. 105, the Finn-shruth or river of Nenagh, is described as in the territory of the Ui-Cathbhaidh.

Carrthach had five sons, namely, Aedh Finn, Aedh Caimdherc, Ailill, Suibhne, Conall.

Cu-comael,
son of Macreithe,
son of Connach Cilline.

Connach Cilline had two sons, namely, Maccon and Macreithe.

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Dineartach,
son of Fiachna,
son of Aedh Garbh,
son of Fiachna Fesfoighde,
son of Fiachra Folloirbhe,
son of Eochaidh Cinnmairc,
son of Conall Claen.
{column 2}
Sneadhghal,
son of Cu-duiligh,
son of Crunnmhael,
son of Suibhne,
son of Carrthach,
son of Ailill,
son of Eochaidh [Liath,]
son of Conall Claen.

Gearan had two sons, namely, Conall Claen and Conall Finn.

THE "BOOK OF LECAN."

Compiled in the year 1418, on the history and topography of Corca Laidhe, edited by John O'Donovan, gives interesting information, and we quote excerpts from it as follow:—

GENEALOGY OF CORCA-LAIDHE HERE FIRST.OF THE GENEALOGY OF THE RACE OF AENUS BULGA, AS PROVED BY THE SALTAIR-CHAISIL AND THE BOOK OF THE ISLAND OF INIS-DUINE (AN ISLAND IN THE BAY OF CLONAKILTY).

34 Breogan father of 35 ith 35 Ith father of 36 lughaidh 36 Lughaidh father of 37 eithleann 37 Eithleann father of 38 lugh 38 Lugh father of 39 lugh manrach 39Lugh manrach father 40 deaghmanrach 40 Deaghmanrach father of 41 firuillne 41 firuillne father of 42 Sithbholg sidebolg 42 Lithbholg 42 Sithbholg sidebolg father of 43 daire sirchreachtach 43 Daire sirchreachtach father of 44vi lughaidh laidhe 44vi Lughaidh laidhe father of 45 maccon 45 Maccon father of 46 maicniadh 46 Maicniadh father of 47 duach 47 Duach father of 48 gearan 48 Gearan father of 49 conall claen 49 Conall claen father of 50 macreithe 50 Macreithe father of 51 ailill 51 Ailill son of 52 ferghus 52 Ferghus father of 53 conda cilline 53 Conda cilline father of 54 maicniadh 54 Maicniadh Father of 55 dunghalach

55 Dunghalach, son of 54 Maicniadh, son of 53 Conda Cilline, son of 52 Ferghus, son of 51 Ailill, son of 50 Macreithe, son of 49 Conall Claen, son of 48 Gearan, son of 47 Duach, son of 46 Maicniadh, son of 45 Maccon, son of 44 Lughaidh Laidhe, son of 43 Daire Sirchreachtach, son of 42 Lithbholg, son of 41 Firuillne, son of 40 Deaghmanrach, son of 39 Lugh Manrach, son of 38 Lugh, son of 37 Eithleann, son of 36 Lughaidh, son of 35 Ith, son of 34 Breogan. The people of Bearra are of the race of Aenghus Bulga. Daire Sirchreachtach had six sons, Lughidh, from whom the Corca Laidhe; etc.

GENEALOGY OF UA CONCOHOBHAIR OF CORCA-LAIDHE CUILLE. (MUINTIR-BHAIRE IN THE PARISH OF KILCHROHANE).

Concohobhair, son of Maelan, son of Eochaidh Guneach, son of Binneach Beag, son of Conchobhar, son of Diarmaid, son of Beacan, son Conchobair. Flannan had two sons, namely, Baire and Onchu, and from this Baire comes Muintir Bhaire, a promontory in the parish of Kilchrohane, South-west Cork.

Modern descendants of Lugaid mac Con include the O'Driscolls, O'Learys, Coffeys, Hennessys and Flynns of County Cork.[6]

O'FIoinns of Arda (near Skibbereen), the Hy Baghamhna, O'Cobhthaigh

(O'Coffey and O'Cowig) of Glandore, O'Baire of (Durrus Peninsula, alias)

Muintear Bhaire, and O'Heidirsceoil (Driscol) of Beare.

O'Baire is over this land of the sea; O'Baire. -This name is now obsolete, unless it has been assimilated to the Anglo-Norman name of Barry. This territory belong to the bardic family of O'Daly for several centuries. See Tribes of Ireland, p. 14; and Pacata Hibernia, book iii. Cathaer Mar, the ancestor-deity of the Lagin2 under one of his several names, naturally gets a prominent place in the Laginian pedigree. At Cathaer the Ui Fhailge (Aui Fhoilgi) and the Ui Bairrche are made to join the main stem. the affiliation of the Ui Bairrche to the Lagin is a fabrication Is the plain of Manainn fairer? Plain of Manainn. - This seems to refer to the plain lying round the fort of Dun-Manann, which, however, was the seat of O'Dubhagain in Fear-Maighe or Fermoy, Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) with which, it must be confessed, Muinter Bhaire can bear no comparison in point of fertility, though it may vie with it in picturesque beauty.

THE HEREDITARY PROPRIETORS OF CORCA-LAIDHE.

The country of O'Gillamichil (unknown) extends from 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.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. Teith-na-h-Imghona to Ceann-Mara (the head of Glandore), and from Beann-Sidhain (in the townland of Farranconor, parish of Castlehaven) to Beal-atha-Seamann (not identified--- ???Beal- . an-atha solais (a ford in the river . . Ilen, about a mile westward of the . . town of Skibbereen???). These are his hereditary leaders (petty chiefs or heads of families), namely, O'Duibharda (now Doorty), O'Dunlaing (now Dowling or Doolin), Fathad had three sons, namely, Donnchadh Mor, from whom the chieftains, Fathadh Og, from whom the Clann-Fathaidh, and Dunlang, from whom the Clann-Dunlaing. O'-h-Ogain (now Hogan), Muscraighe Treithirne the mighty Muscraighe Treithirne, also called Muscraighe Breogain and Muscraighe Chuirc. This territory is now comprised in the barony of Clanwilliam, in the south-west of the county of Tipperary. The family name, O'Cuirc, is now anglicised Quirk, without the prefix O'.
Is hereditary to O'Cuirc, as a just man; O'Dubhagain (now Duggan), Cloonties East (128acres) Cluainte Ui Dhubhagain and Cluainte Ui Mhongain- Duggan's and Mongans plains. These were old Corca Laidhe surnames. Is the plain of Manainn fairer? Plain of Manainn. - This seems to refer to the plain lying round the fort of Dun-Manann, which, however, was the seat of O'Dubhagain in Fear-Maighe or Fermoy, Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) with which, it must be confessed, Muinter Bhaire can bear no comparison in point of fertility, though it may vie with it in picturesque beauty. of Dun-Manann, Dun Manann. - This name is now obsolete; it was evidently that of the chief residence of O'Dubhagain, who possessed about the northern half of the territory of Feara Maighe Feine, being seated between O'Keeffe and the Ui-Fidhgeinte Ua Meiceidich (now Mac Keady and Keady), Ua Chiabhain (now Keevan), Ua Cheartaig (obsolete), The three MicAenchearda of Beara (Bere) (frequently mentioned in Irish romance as warriors) were three other sons of his fiachra Ua Buadhaigh (now Buaig), Buadhach, from whom the Ui Buadaigh (O'Bogue); 218. Loegaire Birnn Buadach: we know not at present. Ua Mongain (now Mongan and Mangan), Cloonties East (128acres) Cluainte Ui Dhubhagain and Cluainte Ui Mhongain- Duggan's and Mongans plains. These were old Corca Laidhe surnames. Ua Doirc (now Durk and Dark), Ua Meccon (now Maccen), Ua Aingle (now Ceangail), Ua Mothla (now Mohilly, O'Mothola), Ua Maileadair (obsolete), Ua Adhaimh (now obsolete), Ua Bairr (now Barr) 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. At Cathaer the Ui Fhailge (Aui Fhoilgi) and the Ui Bairrche are made to join the main stem. the affiliation of the Ui Bairrche to the Lagin is a fabrication [Of this territory was the man who, for his means, was the most hospitable and bountiful that ever came, to our knowledge, of this tribe, namely, the representative of Bearchan, i.e., the Great Vicar of O'Gillamichil, who was usually called Open Purse.—Extracted from O'Dubhagain's Book.] The words enclosed in brackets are taken from D. Mac Firbisigh's Genealogical Book, p. 692. Ua Rosna (now obsolete). 1558 thadhg oduinn oduin lord of ui riagain hy regan laois dooregan oregan orosnolis Tuath Ui Chonneid, i.e., the Garrgha—the Garden—(this is still the name of a fertile district in the parish of Myross Midhros) extends from Ceannmara (Glandore harbour) to Lochan-Bhricin (obsolete), and from Midhros (Myross) to Beal-an-atha solais (a ford in the river Ilen, about a mile westward of the town of Skibbereen), O'Conneid (Kennedy and O'Kennedy). Cinneidigh ('uglyhead'-aka-Kennedy). These are his hereditary leaders, viz., O'Muimhnich (Moyny), O'Drochruainnigh (obsolete), O'Fuailchin, Ua Chaingne (now obsolete), and Ua Dubhchonna (now Doheny).

Tuaith Ruis, i.e., Tuath Indolaich, extends from Loch-an-Bhricin (obsolete) to Fiadh Ruis (land or wood of Ross), and from Traigh-long (to the east of Baltimore) to Sidh-na-bhfear-bhfinn (the fairy hill of the fair men, now She Hill). Modern descendants of Lugaid mac Con include the O'Driscolls, O'Learys, Coffeys, Hennessys and Flynns of County Cork.[6] O'Laeghaire (O'Leary) was driven from this region about the period of English Invasion, and he settled in the parish of Inchigelea or Iveleary. These are its hereditary leaders, viz., O'Ruaidhre (now Rory or Rogers), O'Lonain (now Lannin and Lenane), O'Laididh (now Liddy or Laddy), O'Torpa (now Torpy), O'h-Urmoltaich—in the Book of Ballymote O'h-Urmoltaigh, anglicised Tromulty and Hamilton, O'Mirin (Mireen), O'Macdairic (now obsolete), O'Tuaraidhe (obsolete), O'Treana (obsolete), O'h-Uainidhe (now Hooney or Green), and O'Cerdin (Kerkin, Curdin).

Tuath O'n-Aenghusa (extends) from Fearsaid-Ruis to Goilin-nagaethneamhdha (from the passage at the head of Ross Bay beneath the church to probably " Goleen Marsh," in the parish of Aghadown), and from Dun-Deide (now Dundeady in the parish of Rathbarry) to Bealatha-na-leice (mouth of the ford of the flag, unknown). a battle was fought near Macroom, at a place called Bealach Leachta, Modern descendants of Lugaid mac Con include the O'Driscolls, O'Learys, Coffeys, Hennessys and Flynns of County Cork.[6] O'h-Aenghusa (Hennessy) is its hereditary chief. These are his hereditary leaders, viz., Ua Corrbuidhe (Corby), Ua Dubhain (now Downes, Duan, and Dwan), Ua Duinnin (now Dinneen), 1320 cathan oduinnin wrote this pedigree (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 O'Donoghues and about 50 other kindred families - the genealogical content O'Mundain (now Modan; the parish of Ballymodan took its name from this family), O'h-Aidhne (now Hyney), O'Mainchin (Mannin), O'Cuis (Cas and Hussey), O'Cuile (Cooley), B31a4 Cuilen, a quo Ui Chailein; O'Cuile is probably the name now anglicised Quill. 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 tain bo cuailnge cooley mountains O'Dearcain (Derkan), O'h-Iairisnich obsolete), Ua Odhradain (now Horan), O'Grese (obsolete), O'Cuilin (now Cullen), and O'Sinnaich (Shinny or Shine).

Tuath O'Fitcheallaigh extends from Goilin-na-gaithneamha to the Island of Inis-Duine (now Inchy Doney, in the Bay of Clonakilty), and from Dun-Eoghain (now Dunowen in the parish of Ardfield) to Glaisedraigheach. O'Fitcheallaigh (Feehily, Feely, and Field) is its hereditary chief. These are its hereditary leaders: O'Cormaica (Cormick), O'Donnamhain (O'Donovan)—this was a different family from O'Donovan of Ui Cairbre Maine Munchaoin, from whom the Uí Fidgenti (Septs included O'Donovan, O'Collins, O'Flannery, Lyons, among others.). mid and west limerick Aebhdha in the now County of Limerick; Over Ui-Conaill of the field of Gabhra, King of truth of fair lands,The smooth dells of heavy fruit.Mac Innerigh,hero of gems, Mac Innerigh, now Mac Eniry.Over the mellow Corca Muicheat, Corca-Muicheat. This name is still preserved, and is an alias name for Castletown Mac Eniry, in the barony of Upper Conello, in the county of Limerick. Mac Eniry descends from Sedna, the fourth son of Cairbre Aebhdha, ancestor of the Ui Cairbre; and though his territory is now a part of the barony of Upper Connello, it was originally a portion of the territory of the Ui-Cairbre Aebhdha. The Mac Enirys were never driven from this territory, and had considerable estates here up to the period of the Revolution; but they are all at present reduced to poverty and obscurity. A fine host who constantly ramify Like the white blossom of the branching apple tree. The share of the noble Dal Cairbre Ebha, Dal-Cairbre-Ebha, otherwise Ui Cairbre Aebhdha. The territory of this tribe comprised the present barony of Coshma, in the county of Limerick, and the plains extending thence down to the Shannon. O'Dubhchon (obsolete), see doheny above O'h-Iarnain (now Mac Iarran), see ciar O'Nuallain (Nowlan, or Nolan), O'Croinin (Cronin, very numerous), Croinin, from whom the Ui Chroinin family(O'Cronin). O'Sife (unknown), and O'h-Ainbhith (Hanvey and Hanafey).

Tuath O'n-Dunghalaigh extends from the Island of Innis-Duine the Island of Inis-Duine (now Inchy Doney, in the Bay of Clonakilty), to Beal-atha-na-h-Uidhre (the name of a stream dividing the parish of Kilmeen from that of Dunmanway, Windele), and from Greallach-na-gruime (Grillagh, in the parish if Kilnagross) to Acadha (now unknown).

Three other younger sons of Corc:

Deaghaid from whom were the

Ui Muircadhaigh and

Ui Deaghidh. O'Dunghaile (now Donnelly) is its hereditary chief. These are its hereditary leaders, viz., Ua Mailchomadh (obsolete), Ua h-Aedha (O'Hea and Hayes), O hAodha, who bestowed cows, has got O'h-Aodh, now anglicised O'Hea and Hayes, but the O'h-Aodhas of this race are quite obscure.The portion extending eastward from a line running from Enniskean to Crookstown, and then to Donoghmore, was allotted to Aodh and this territory came to be known as Cineal Aodha (modern Kinelea). The portion to the west of this line, and which included what are now known as the parishes of Kinneigh, Fanlobbus, Kilmurry and northward to Donoghmore, came under the rule of Laoghaire, another son of Criomthan’s. I shall not here enter into the question of the seniority of Aodh or Laoghaire. Suffice to say that the division appears to have been carried out in a friendly manner, and that the new sub-divisions worked in harmony for hundreds of years 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

Family of the O'Heas - Burial Place To Be in Timoleague Abbey

“Omnibus” writing in the “Cork Examiner”, says: It was really to the scholarship of a friend that I am indebted for my first knowledge of the O’Heas not a very common Co. Cork name now.

He told me that the Franciscan Abbey of Timoleague was the burial place of the famous South-west Cork clan.

They came originally from the barony of Corklea in Limerick and possessed themselves of Pobble O’Hea in Carbery. One of them a Cistercian monk, John O’Hea, became Bishop of Waterford in 1179.

O'Loingsich (Lynch, Lynchy, or Linshy), B35 Loingsheach, seafarer exile from whom Ui Loingshigh (Lynch). O'Mailtemhin (obsolete), O'Ceallaich (now Kelly), O'Mailguirm (obsolete), O'Muireadhaich, (now Murray), O'Sealbhaich (Shallow and Shelly), and O'Gabhadhain (now Gavan).

O'Cobhthaigh's Territory. This name is now anglicised O'Cowhig and Coffey. The family was seated in the barony of Barryroe. Namely 2nd second good son maicniadh M father of duach had 3 good sons, namely 2 Duach, from whom Ua Cobhthaigh; These are the Ui-Baghamhna. Ui-Baghamhna, now the barony of Ibawn, in the south of the county of Cork, ibid., p.36
King of the vigorous Tricha medhonach Tricha ched medhonach, i.e., the central cantred. This was the old name of the present barony of Barryroe, in the county of Cork. See O'Brien's Irish Dictionary, in voce COBHTHACH. Dr. O'Brien, who knew this part of Ireland well, speaking of the families of O'Cowhig and O'Floinn Arda, about the middle of the last century, has the following observation which nearly holds good at the present day: "But the melancholy remark which remains to be made is, that, of the two families first mentioned, there is not, to my knowledge, one individual now existing that may be held in the light of a gentleman, having been dispossessed long since of their very ancient and large properties; which, indeed, is the case with many other Irish families, not less illustrious in former times, who are now quite extinct, or reduced to a state of perfect obscurity, for the reason now mentioned." Is O'Cobhthaigh570 of the white stone harbour; 570. O'Cobhthaigh.Dr. O'Brien anglicises this name O'Cowhig, which seems to have been the form of the name in use, in his time, among this sept in the county of Cork; but in other more northern parts of eire, it is anglicised Coffey, without the prefix O'. Dr. Smith, in his "Natural and Civil History of Cork," book ii. c.3, writes of this family: "Almost on every headland of this barony were castles erected by the Irish, seve of which belonged to the sept of O'Cowhig,as Dundeedy, Dunowen, Dunore, Duneen, Dunocowhig, Dunworley, and Dungorley."
Land of Cliodhna,571plain of O'Cobhthaigh, 571. Land of Cliodhna,i.e., bordering on Tonn Cliodhna, a loud surge in the bay of Glandore, much celebrated by Irish poets

Tuath-Ui-Duibhdaleithe extends from Beal-atha-na-h-Uidhre to Beal-atha-buidhe, (the name of a stream dividing the parish of Kilmeen from that of Dunmanway, Windele), and from Gort-na-daighche (now Gortnadehy, a townland in the parish of Kilmeen), to Loch-an-tairbh (now Loughatarriff, in the parishes of Kilmeen and Drinagh). O'Dubhdaleithe (obsolete) is its chief. These are its hereditary leaders: Ua Mailcheallaich (obsolete), Ua Duibh-leanna (obsolete), Ua Mailchorma (obsolete), O'Culeannain (now Cullenan), O'Bruaidair (Broder and Broderick), Ua Dunadhaich (now Downey), A journey which is fit for poets, The plain of Luachair, land of produce, Plain of Luachair. - This was the name of the level plain portion of the present barony of Magunihy, in the S.E. of the present oounty of Kerry; but it formed no part of the country of the ancient Ciarraighe. It comprised the territories of O'Keeffe, O'Callaghan, O'Donoghue and MacAuliffe.Belongs to the beautiful O'Dunadhaigh, O'Dunadhaigh, now anglicised Doney and Denny, witout the prefix Tribes of hardy battle,A fair-surfaced moist district and O'Laithimh (Leahy and Lahiff).

3rd century The 8th-century text The Expulsion of the Déisi describes enmity between Cormac and the group known as the Déisi, descendants of Cormac's great grandfather Fedlimid Rechtmar who had been his retainers. Cormac's son Cellach (or Conn) abducts Forach, the daughter of a Déisi leader. Her uncle Óengus Gaíbúaibthech comes to rescue her, but Cellach refuses to release her. Óengus runs Cellach through with his "dread spear", which has three chains attached to it; these chains wound one of Cormac's advisers and blind Cormac in one eye. Cormac fights seven battles against the Déisi, and expels them from their lands. After a period of wandering, they settled in Munster.two fair kings, I no not conceal them, Over the Deisi I assert, obric and phelan Deisi. - This tribe descended from Fiacha Suighdhe, the elder brother of the monarch Conn of the Hundred Battles, and were originally seated in Deisi Teamhrach, the present barony of Deece, to the south of Tara, in Meath; Calatruim - or Caladruim, given to the name Galtrim, in the barony of Lower Deece, co. Meath. 168. Fiacha Suigthi, that is, so-guiti 'easily entreated', for because of his gentleness it was easy to supplicate him; and he was constantly agreeable and always pleasant. but they were expelled from thence in the third century by their relative, king Cormac, grandson of Conn, and after having attempted to obtain a footing in various parts of the south of Ireland, they ultimately settled in Munster, and subdued that part of the country extending from the river Suir to the sea, and from Lismore to Credan Head, the eastern extremity of the present county of Waterford. In the fifth century, Aenghus Mac Nadfaeich, king of Munster, granted them the plain of Magh Feimhin, in the present county of Tipperary; 169. Déissi, that is dí-ḟoissi 'unresting ones', since for long spaces of time they had no resting-place, but were wandering from one stead into another. Or Déissi, that is, duaisi 'gifts', for after they left Mag Breg land was given to them as a woman's dowry, that is, as the bride-price of Ethne the Horrible, daughter of Crimthann, son of Ende Cennselach, who was their fosterling, for 'tis the Déissi that reared her. Oengus, son of Natfraich, king of Munster, 'tis he that gave the Déissi, as the bride-price of Ethne the Horrible, the land on which they are now settled. 170. Ethne Uathach 'horrible', why so called? Easy to say. When the Déissi took the girl to rear her they used to give her the flesh of children (to eat) so that she might the more rapidly grow up (and be married). For it had been determined that they would get land and a settlement as her bride-price. Or, again, she used to cut off the ends of the little-fingers of her own children so that they might be the longer-lived: for at first no children were left to her, (but all died prematurely). For that cause the children felt a great horror for her. Wherefore she is called Ethne the Horrible. but they were driven from thence by the Eoghanachts. See Keating's History of Ireland; and Ogygia, part iii.,c. 69.

who were anciently seated in Magh-Feimhin, now the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the S.E. of the county of Tipperary.

the king's house in Feimhin (South Tipperary plain). Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach is its name, 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 two fair kings, I no not conceal them, Over the Deisi I assert, obric and phelan Are O'Bric, how has exceeded every tribe, O'Bric, now Brick, without the prefix O'. This family originally possessed the southern Desies, comprised in the present county of Waterford, but they had sunk under the O'Faelains or O'Phelans, who were originally seated in the northern Decies, in the present county of Tipperary, some time before the English invasion.1172ad And the fair, wide O'Faelain. O'Faelain, now made Phelan, in the anglicised form of the name, without the prefix O'; and by some, Whelan.

234ad The chronicle of Hippolytus of Rome (c. 234), existing in numerous Latin and Greek copies[9], make another attempt to assign ethnicities to the names in Genesis 10, in some cases similar to those of Josephus, but with many differences, which are:listed in the descendants of shem ham and japhet (2.) Anamim. An unknown people, whose identity was early lost in some other race. 55. Anamim offspring of mizraim there is a reference in an assyrian inscription from sargons ii 234ad Ashkenaz -Sarmatians time to anami a tribe located at cyrene libya 234ad Anamim – Pamphylians 234ad Cainan - "those east of the Sarmatians" (one variant) Hardy divisions of the battalion of Munster, The head of the O Anamchadhas O'Anamchadhas. - This name is obsolete, or changed into some anglicised form not now recognisable. is its rightful chief, A host of thin-edged arms of best nobility

242ad 288 julian Egyptian calendar years = 105192 days plus precession of the equinox = 105192 + 4 days torque westwards = 105196 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 105196 – 2 days torque eastwards = 105194 days = 288 julian years

DESCENDANTS OF HEBER FIONN

AONGHUS TIREACH 290 A.D. "THE WANDERER"

LUGAID MEANN

CONALL EUCLUAT"OF THE FLEET STEEDS"

O’Grady (Dal gCais – Clare)

The following pedigree is from genealogical tracts by O’Hart

90. Conall Eachluath (swift steed) Crowned King of Munster in 336 A.D.
91. Cass, the common ancestor of the Dalcassians.
92. Caisin.
93. Eocha
94. Brennan
95. Finan
96.Foranan
97. Tiobraid
98. Dungal from whom we get Kinel Donghaile, the ancestral lands of the Gradys.
99. Fódalbha
100. Rodgus.
101. Flaithreach.
102. Seachnadhseach .
103. Cormac
104. Collachtach.
105. Conn
106. Conn Óge
107. Art
108. Tresaigh
109. Gráda from whom O’Grady is derived. He lived about 1000 A.D.

CASA MAC TAIL (BEGINNING ~ THE DAL CASSIANS)

164. Mac táil was the fosterling of a wright. Therefore he was called Mac táil 'Son of Adze'. Cass was his original name, but the additional name superseded it. From his inheritance from his grandfather Cormac Cass, son of Ailill Ólomm, (the name) Cass was given him.

44. Cush son of (c)ham the empire the empire of kush to the south of egypt is known from at least 1970bc Chus (Cush): "Ethiopians... even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites". hurarina also happen to be the name of a fruit tree exclusive to Shewa Ethiopia but this name has also been associated by some with the kassites who inhabited the zagros area of mesopotamia the sumerian city of kish (kassmenes)

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.

O'LEIME - BLOD - LUGHAIDH - AONGHUSCEANNATHRACH

DESCENDANTS OF AONGHUS CEANNATHRACH

CONALL - RETHACH - BAIOTLL

COLEMAN

GEMDELACHT

UILIN

ABARTACH

296ad Fiachra, from whom Ua Floinn-Arda (O'Flynn of Arda, near Skibbereen). The three Fothadhs were three other sons of his, namely, Fothad Airctheach and Fothad Cairptheach and Fathadh Canann. (They were joint monarchs of Ireland, 296).

· Male (married & unmarried) sloinne

Ó Floinn

· Female (married)

Uí Fhloinn

· Female (unmarried)

Ní Fhloinn

· House

Uí Fhloinn

· Surname History:

Descendant of flann' (red); the name of several distinct families in different parts of ireland, of which the following are the best known: (1) Ó floinn of siol maolruain, a roscommon family who were chiefs of siol maolruain, a district which embraced the parish of kiltulagh and part of that of kilkeevin, in the west of co. roscommon. another family of the name were erenaghs of the church of st. dachonna, at eas ui fhloinn, a short distance to the west of the town of boyle. (2) Ó floinn of tirawley who were seated in magh heleog, in the parish of crossmolina; a branch of the family were hereditary erenaghs of the church and monastery of st. tighearnan at errew, on lough conn. (3) Ó floinn of ardagh, a branch of the corca laoighdhe, who were anciently chiefs of ui baghamhna, now the barony of ibawn, in the south of co. cork. the head of the family resided at ardagh castle between skibbereen and baltimore. " Ibawne and Barryroe," says Smith, " compose one barony ; the first signifies "the fair territory," as indeed it is, in respect of the adjoining rough country of Carbery ; the other has its name from the Barrys. This barony contains eleven parishes, viz. : A part of Timoleague,

going further east we reach timoleague timoleague has a christian origin and means the house or church of saint mologga Temple-Omalus, Abbey-Mahon, Donaghmore, part of Temple-Macquinlan, Lislee, Rathbarry, Kilkeranmore, Ardfield, Castroventry, and Kilmeen, being 20,314 acres, and 146 ploughlands." — -Smith's "History of Cork," p. 216;

Smith's derivation of the word Ibawne is erroneous. Ibawne is an Angli-cised form of the name Ui Bhaghamhna,and means literally, Baghamhuin's

grandsons or posterity, and means topographically, the territory of

Baghamhuin's posterity. For O'Baghamhna the Taxation of A.D. 1306 has O'Bathumpna ; and the "Book of Ballymote,"a Gaelic MS. of A.D. 1390,

has Hui Badamna, dh and gh being pronounced alike in Gaelic, thus :

■ the Corco Laige Cuil are from MacNiad's four sons, Duach, Eocho,

Aengus and Ceallach. From Eocho are the Hui Badamna," p. 107, 2, 18 ;

and "the Corco Laighe are from MacNiad's four sons, Duach, Eocho,

Aengus, and Ceallach. From Eocho are the Hui Badamna," p. 201, i, 32.

The topographical poem of O'Huidhrin, who died A.D. 1340 mentions

the Hy Baghamhna third among the leading families of the Corca

Laigidhe, the inhabitants of the bishopric of Ross, as they were in or

74 BARRYMORE,

shortly before the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, thus: " O'Heidirs-ceoil (O'Driscoll), of Clear Harbour,King of Corca Laighdhe; the O'FIoinns of Arda(near Skibbereen), the Hy Baghamhna, O'Cobhthaigh

(O'Coffey and O'Cowig) of Glandore, O'Baire of (Durrus Peninsula, alias)

Muintear Bhaire, and O'Heidirsceoil (Driscol) of Beare. In state papers

the name is written O'Bakun, A.D. 1324; O'Baghaun, A.D. 1346; and

O'Bahoun, A.D. 1385.

The territory of the Hy Baghamhna, alias Ibawne, was the eastern

extremity of what was politically the Kingdom of Corca Laighdhe, and

ecclesiastically the bishopric of Ross, in or shortly before A.D. ii6g. In the Ecclesiastical Taxation of Ireland, A.D. 1306, the bishopric of Ross has three deaneries, O'Bathumpna (Ibawne), Corcyghteragh, and Boerri.

O'Bathumpna contained Kilmoloda, Thamologe ( Timoleague), Disertrum,

ahas Disertcrum (Disert, east of Clonakilty) ;Lislithig (Lislee), Dounagh-more, Croghargi(Kilnagross?), Nathrug, and Killy. It also contained

necessarily the Abbey de Fonte Vivo (Abbey Mahon) and probably Rath athbarry) and De Insula(Island), but in the Taxation these three are

grouped with the cathedral church of Ross, Stradballyrossan, Killmacule,

and Narid, alias Nadrid, apart from the three forementioned deaneries.

The barony of "Ibawne and Barryroe" is a misnomer. Barryroe was

never a barony or a half-barony distinct from Ibawne. The name ouglit be Ibawne or Barryroe, for it designated a territory called Ibawne from having been the O'Baghamhna's countiy before the Anglo-Norman in-

vasion, A.D. ii6g, and called Barryroe from having been afterwards Barry-roe's country for five or six hundred years down to the beginning" of thi5 century.

(4) Ó floinn of muskerry, who were lords of an extensive district called muscraidhe ui fhloinn, anglicised muskerrylinn, lying between blarney and ballyvourney, in the barony of muskerry, co. cork. the o'flynns continued to be lords of muskerrylin until about the beginning of the 14th century, when they were dispossessed by the maccarthys of blarney. (5) Ó floinn of ui tuirtre, an account of which is given under Ó loinn, a form the name has assumed as a result of the aspiration of the initial f. all these families are still well represented in their native districts, (Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall )

Descendant of flann' (ruddy); a variant, owing to the aspiration of the initial f, of Ó floinn, the name of a famous ulster family who, from about the middle of the 11th until towards the latter part of the 14th century, were chiefs of ui tuirtre, 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.

288. Ailill Diabulgai, that is, spear (gai) doubled (diabalta); for by him first was made a small spear to be along with a large spear.

259. Fergus Fogae. Fogae was his mother's name: from her he was named. Or Fergus Oiche, that is, Oiche was his mother's name: from her he was named. Or Fergus Fogae 'small spear', for 'tis he that of old invented the small spear beside the great spear.

289. Balar Balcbéimnech 'of the mighty blows', because of the strength of his blows.

290. Cormac Gaileng, that is, gai lang, i.e. a treacherous spear.

291. Dáire Cerba, that is, in Methos Cerba in Bregia he was reared.

292. Eber Glúnḟind 'white-knee', i.e. white marks were on his knees.

293. Eochaid Gunnata, he was a very little man. Or Eochaid Gunnata, i.e. he broke up (ro-gunnataich), for 'tis by him that the Conailli were scattered through Ireland. Or Eochaid Gundḟota, that is, Long-neck, for gund means gullet or neck.

294. Eogan Srém, i.e. there was a string (sreng) in his mouth or in his eye.

295. Failbe Fland, that is, Failbe the Ruddy, for fland means red or ruddy.

296. Fergus Caechán, i.e. Caechán was the name of his fosterer.

297. Muiredach Muillethan: the crown of his head (mullach) was broad (lethari), whence (he was called Muillethan).

298. Suibne Mend 'the mute', that is, (there was) great dumbness in his speech.

a district comprised in the baronies of upper and lower toome, in co. antrim, and are frequently mentioned in the annals. in the year 1177, they defeated john de courcy when he advanced into their territory, and for two centuries longer they continued to maintain their independence. after the year 1368 they disappear from history. the name, according to o'donovan, is sometimes anglicised lindsay, (Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall )

The origin and meaning of the surname Ó Floinn, O'Flynn, Flynn, ... Another family of the name were erenaghs of the church of St. Dachonna, at Eas Ui Fhloinn,

· Sources:Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall An Sloinnteoir Gaeilge agus an tAinmneoir

Other Variations

Ó Loinn

Alternative Language

O Flynn

English

Source:

An Sloinnteoir Gaeilge agus an tAinmneoir

Lindsay Lind Linn Lynn O'Lynn Flinn

English

Source:

Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall

Flynn

English

Source:

Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall

An Sloinnteoir Gaeilge agus an tAinmneoir

O'Flynn

English

Mag Fhloinn = (son of Flann, meaning ruddy, blood or red complexion)

The Website for anyone with the name Mag Fhloinn, McGlynn, McGlyn, McGlinn, McGlin, McGlenn, McGlen, McLynn, McLyn, McLinn, McLin, Maglin, Maglyn and their relatives, around the World.

Most likely came to Ireland at the End of the last ice age, almost 10,000 years ago, from the Basque region on the border of Spain and France. First found in the North West of Ireland (Loughlynn, Roscommon) and affiliated to the Ui Neill and related to Niall of the Nine Hostages, the Clan are later found on the north-west tip of Lough Neagh and gave our name to the Barony, now Townland of Loughinsholin (Loch Inse Ui Fhloinn meaning "lough of O'Lynn's island") and Glynn, Larne, Co. Antrim.

The MagFhloinn (Irish spelling) name is of Irish origin and first appears in written history around 900AD, the second period of Viking raids. It is probably much older but no written records exist.

After treating of the race of Lughaigh,578 578. The race of Lughaidh, i.e., the O'Driscolls and their correlatives
And the proper land of Desmond,
Let us leave entirely the land of Ith,579 579. The land of Ith, a bardic appellative for the O'Driscoll territory.

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314ad 360 julian Egyptian calendar years = 131490 days plus precession of the equinox = 131490 + 5 days torque westwards = 131495 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 131495 – 2 days torque eastwards = 131493 days = 314 julian years

The centuries-old stalemate was broken in the fourth century AD and this is where the O’Flynns of Ulster come in. High King Muiredeach, of the Dal Cuinn, ruling from the Hill of Tara, sent his cousin and rival, Colla Uais, along with his two brothers, off to fight their traditional enemies, the Ulaid of Ulster. It appears that the forebears of the O’Flynns of Ulster were part of the invasion force.

CVIII. FÍACHU SROIPTINE.
Fíachu Sroiptine, thirty-one or thirty-six (years), till he fell at the hands of the Three Collas in the battte of Dubchomair, [in the territory of Ros of Breg].

147. Fíachu got a venomous draught
from Colla in the battle of Dubchomair;
Colla had four years after battle
till Muiredach slew him.

113. Cormac Ulḟota, that is, he had a long (fota) beard (ul). Or Ult-ḟota, that is, 'tis he that drove the Ulaid afar, banishing them over sea for the space of sixteen years. Or Cormac Cúl-ḟota, that is, there was a long (fota) back (cúl) upon him, even as his aforesaid ancestors were before him.

Three sons of children that went not from him
Had Cairbre who loved Liffey,
Fiacha Srabtine of the blessings,
Eochaid and Eochaid Doimlén.

115. Fiacha Sraibtine, that is, a stream (sráib) of fire (tened), which was cast into his ships when he was at sea in the eastern world. Or in Dún Sraibtine in Connaught he was reared. Or, again, showers of fire used to come in his reign. Or Fiacha Roibtine, that is, rough was he. Fiacha Roibtine then i.e. Fiacha the Rough. Or Fiacha Srabtine, that is streams (?) of fire used to break out of the red arrows which they had when they burnt the fortress on the Continent in the east

A sraftine ('helmet') which was anyone's protection
Mider wore around his face:
From this is called the king
Whose name is Fiacha Sraftine.

141. Eochaid Doimlén i.e. Dam-lén, for he suffered (ro-damair) woe (lén) from not attaining any part of Erin. For of Erin Fiacha Sraiftine left him not a single bit to be taken by him. For that Fiacha was senior to Eochaid, and Eochaid was (only) crown-prince of Ireland so long as he lived. Of him the poet said:

Eochaid suffered sorrow in his time,
Without attaining aught of Erin:
The father of the three distant Collas
From whom the tribe of Oriel descended.

Or Eochaid Dom-plén, that is, domus 'house', plena (i.e. of hostages) that is, he had a house full, of hostages to wit. Hence he was named Eochaid Domplén.

The Age of Christ, 322

"Fiacha Sraibhtine, after having been thirty-seven years as king over Ireland, was slain by the Collas, in the battle of Dubhchomar, in Crioch-Rois, in Breagh."

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland

~ by the Four Masters

We begin our story long ago, in the year 322 AD, when we are able to find written records of the activities of three brothers, known as The Three Collas, from whom the MacMahon line is descended.

"Fiachaidh Sraibtine, son of Carbri Lificar, son of Cormac Ul-fada, of the line of Erimhon, held the sovereignty of Ireland for thirty-three years, when he fell by the three Collas, in the battle of Dubh-Comar..."

The three Collas were the sons of Eocaidh Dublein, brother of Fiachaid Sraibtine, both sons of Carbri Lificar. The Collas mother was Oilech (aka Alechia), daughter of Ugari (aka Updar) the King of Alba (Scotland), and wife of Eocaidh. Their names were Carrell, Muredach, and Aedh.

As the story is told, the Collas were with King Fiachaidh, aiding him in battle, when word came of a victory by the King's son, Muredach Tirech, at a battle in Munster. The Collas decided at that point that their best chance to rule all of Ireland lie in killing the old King, before he named his son as heir to the throne. When the Collas made their intentions clear, one story suggests that the Fiachaidh consulted with his druid, Dubhcomer, after whom the battle site was named. (Other sources cite the battle as named after the confluence of the Blackwater and Boyne Rivers) The druid cited the curse of the Fingal and told the King that if he were to slay his nephews then the sovereignty of Ireland would be lost to his line forever. On the other hand, if he were to be slain by the Collas, the curse would prevent them from assuming the sovereignty and pass to his heirs. Thus, the forces of the Collas attacked the forces of the King and the King was slain in this battle.

An ancient bard provides the following testament:

'Of the three Collas have you heard,

Eocaidh's sons of highest fame,

Colla Menn, Colla Da-crioch,

And Colla Uais, the Ard-righ?

Their names, all three, I know full well --

Carrell and Muredach and Aedh;

By these was slain a mighty king,

On yonder fair, well cultured plain.

Carrell was Colla Uais, the king;

Muredach, Colla Da-crioch;

And glorious Aedh was Colla Menn.'

(author unknown, Keating's History of Ireland)

Collas Uais then assumed the sovereignty of Ireland for four years, until the Collas were deposed by Muredach and took refuge at the court of their mother in Scotland. . 148. Muiredach Tirech, ten,
the good son of Fíachu with true judgement;
at Daball by the son of fair Cronn
the grandson of Conn of Codal fell.

The King of Alba is said to have welcomed them and 'provided them military maintenance, by reason of their great valor and hardihood.' They remained for three years after which they returned to Ireland and approached Muredach, then High King of Ireland.

'Have you brought me any news, my cousins?' asked the king. 'We have no sadder news to tell,' said they, 'than the deed which we have ourselves done, namely the killing of thy father by our hands.' 'That news is already known,' said the king; 'but it is of no consequence to you now, except that the misfortune, which has already pursued you, shall not leave you.' (source: Keating)

According to the Irish Annals, "at the end of this year (327) the three Collas came back to Ireland, and went to Muireachach, having been instructed by a druid. And they scolded at him, and expressed evil words, that he might kill them, and that it might be on him the curse of the finghal should alight. As he did not oppose them they tarried with him, and were faithful to him." (source: http://www.ucc.ie/)

In the passage above, Muredach refers to the curse of the Fingal and, knowing full well that he cannot kill the Collas without suffering the curse himself, chooses to forego any retribution for the death of his father. Apparently the Collas stayed with Muredach and became commanders of his army until such time that the king suggested they strike out and establish a territory of their own. The king suggested that they take Ulster from the infamous Ulaid in retribution for a long ago insult to an ancestor.

The Collas then marched into Ulster where they engaged with the armies of the Ulaid. The King of the Ulaid, Fergus Fogha was slain, Emhain-Macha sacked, and the Ulstermen routed. The Irish Annals record for the year 331, "The battle of Achadh Leithdheirg, in Farney, was fought by the three Collas against the Ulstermen, in which fell Fergus, son of Fraechar Foirtiun, the last king of Ulster, who resided at Eamhain. The (Collas) afterwards burned Eamhain (Macha), and the Ulstermen did not dwell therein since. Colla Meann fell in this battle."

And glorious Aedh was Colla Menn.'

"The Collas first went to their kin in Connaught (King Muireadach) and there gathered a great army for the invasion of Ulster. On the plain of Farney in Monaghan they met the Ulstermen under their king, Fergus, and on seven successive days broke battle upon them, finally slaying Fergus and putting the Ultach (Ulstermen) to rout. Of the conquered portion of Ulster, from Louth in the south to Derry in the north, and from Loch Neagh to Loch Erne, the Collas made themselves the new Kingdom of Airghialla (Oriel)." (source: http://www.ireland.org/irl_hist/hist11.htm)

"The Three Collas, who, on the ruins of the old kingdom of Uladh, founded a new kingdom - of Airghialla (Oriel) which was henceforth for nearly a thousand years to play an important part in the history of Northern Ireland." The tribes and ancestors of the Collas are known collectively as the Airghialla.

This incursion culminated in a great battle on the plain of Farney in present-day County Monaghan, in 332 AD. Colla Uais was victorious. As their share of the spoils of that invasion, those ancestors apparantly took over a large territory in southern Armagh, extending from Lough Neagh to the sea, which they and their descendants held for many centuries, becoming the O’Flynns of Ulster.

142. The three Collas, whence are they? Easy to say. They are the colaig, 'the sinful ones', for it was a great sin (col) for them to kill their father's own-brother, even Fiacha Sraftine. In ancient books Coll-ní is said: (yet) it is not right to say Coll-ni at length sed corrupte, but it is right to say the name shortly, that is, na Collai, 'the Collas'.

Colla Uais, that is Cairell: (so colled) for his uaislc, 'nobility'; for he, rather than the other Collas, obtained the kingship of Erin. Or Colla Oss, since he was an oss 'stag' for his swiftness. Or it was a doe (oss banséguinn) that reared him. Or oss-sédguine a deerslayer, was he: wild deer he would have slain, for séd means 'deer'.

Colla Menn (that is, Aed), because Mennait the Pict fostered him. Or it is because he suffered from dumbness, got 'stammering' and menn meaning the same. Hence he was named Colla Menn.

Colla Fo chri (that is, Muredach). Under (fo) Crinenn the wright (i.e. while Crinenn was her husband) he was begotten by Eochaid Domlén on the king of Alba's daughter Ailech. Or, again, fo chrí i.e. under cre, that is, clay wherewith the wright's wife covered him to disguise him. Or Colla Oichre: Oichre being the name of the place in which he was reared. Or Connla Forcraid 'excess', for he is accused (of lying with) the wife of Crínrad the wright of Sláine, ut est in Rathann. Let him who reads sweat

CIX. COLLA UAIS.
Colla Uais, four years till Muiredach Tírech drave him out

CX. MUIREDACH TÍRECH.
Muiredach Tírech, thirty years till he fell at the hands of Cáelbad s. Cronn Badrui above Daball.

116. Muredach Tírech son of Fiuclia Sraiftine, 'tis he was battle-striker in lieu of his father when taking land by force for him. Hence he was Tírthech 'landed'.

344ad 390 julian Egyptian calendar years = 142447.5 days plus precession of the equinox = 142447.5 + 5 days torque westwards = 142452.5 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 142452.5 – 3 days torque eastwards = 142449.5 days = 344 julian years

A.D. 352.—St. Ciaran, Bishop of Saighir and patron Saint of the people of Osraidhe (Ossory), was born in the Island called Cape (Cleire) Clear, a promontory of Corca Laidhe in the County of Cork.—Ann. Innisf.

CXI.-CÁELBAD.
One year had Cáelbad s. Crunn, till he fell at the hands of Eochu Mugmedon.

149. Coelbad a year, fame without sorrow,
Eochu Muigmedon slew him;
eight to Eochu, that is no falsehood,
till death met him in Temair.

117. Eochaid Muigmedon, that is he had the waist (medón) of a slave (mogad), Eochaid Mog-medón, his head and his breast resembled the king's: his middle like the slave, namely Mingadach. Young nobles' legs he had. Or Muin-medón, that is, he had a thick neck, that is, the middle of his neck was thick. For muin means neck or throat

CXII.-EOCHU-MUGMEDON.
Eochu Mugmedon, seven years till he died [of a disease] in Temair.

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

The Uí Dúnlainge, from the Old Irish "grandsons of Dúnlaing", were an Irish dynasty of Leinster kings who traced their descent from Dúnlaing mac Énda Niada.[1] He was said to be a cousin of Énnae Cennsalach, eponymous ancestor of the rival Uí Chennselaig.

Their claims to the kingship of Leinster were unopposed after the death of Áed mac Colggen in the Battle of Ballyshannon 738 (Aug 19). The dynasty then divided into three kindreds which rotated the kingship between 750-1050.[2] This is unusual in early Irish history as it was the equivalent of “keeping three oranges in the air” (the east Ulster kingdom of Ulaid also rotated the kingship between families). Fourteen Uí Muiredaig kings (later to become the O'Toole family) were based at Mullaghmast/Máistín nine Uí Faelain kings (later to become the O'Byrne family) were based at Naas/Nás na Ríogh and ten Uí Dúnchada kings (later the FitzDermots) were based at Lyons Hill/ Líamhain nearest to Dublin city.

The Fitzdermots later gave their names to the placenames Dolphin's Barn and Ballyfermot.[3] The influence of the family helped secure place-myths for prominent Kildare landmarks in the heroic and romantic literature such as the Dindeanchas, Dinnshenchas Érenn as one of the “assemblies and noted places in Ireland”. After the death of the last Kildare-based King of Laighin, Murchad Mac Dunlainge in 1042, the Kingship of Leinster reverted to the Uí Cheinnselaig kindred based in the south east.

Énnae Cennsalach (5th century) was a King of Leinster and founder of the Uí Cheinnselaig sept of the Laigin. He was the grandson of Bressal Bélach (died 436), a previous king.[1]

The chronology of Leinster kings in the 5th century is contradictory. He is counted as a King of Laigin in the Book of Leinster but is not mentioned in the annals.[2]

Keating records wars of the High King Eochaid Mugmedón with Énnae Cennselach. Eochaid was defeated at the Battle of Cruachan Claonta by the Leinsterman.[3]

According to the sagas Aided Néill and Orcuin Néill Noígíallaig, Énnae's son Eochu was the killer of the high king Niall Noígíallach. Orcuin Néill Noígíallaig relates that Eochu killed Niall's chief poet. This led Niall to harry Leinster and exile Eochu. Eochu took refuge with King Erc of Dalriada and later killed Niall on his return from a raid.[4] Aided Néill relates that Niall's son Fergus avenged his father by killing Eochu.[5]

Énnae's son Crimthann mac Énnai (d. 486) also became King of Leinster. Another son Fedelmid was ancestor of the Uí Felmeda branch of the Uí Cheinnselaig.

"Liamuin" is a poem in Dinnsenchas Erann explaining the medieval Irish placelore relating to nine assemblies and noted places in Ireland. The premise is largely dedicated to the etymological legend for Lyons, a hill, former royal inauguration site and former parish situated near the banks of the River Liffey 20 km upstream from the Irish capital Dublin.on the borders between the modern counties of County Kildare and County Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

Background[edit]

The section of Dinnsenchas Érann containing this poem is found in the 12th-century Book of Leinster and was probably composed by Cináed Ua Hartacáin (d975). The legends mixed real and fictional events and people to create place legends for the names of about 300 locations in Ireland. Placenames are explained by reference to legends which are linked to them by means of pseudo-etymological techniques, where sometimes fictitious stories are adduced to explain the existing names, with the result that some of these legends are only to be found in the Dinnshenchas, where they serve their explanatory purpose. The dinnsenchas reflects a mentality in which the land of Ireland is perceived as being completely translated into story: each place has a history which is continuously retold. The dinnshenchas is the storehouse of this knowledge, but the mentality which it expresses is to be found throughout all phases of Irish literature. It was part of the body of knowledge medieval Irish poets were expected to master, and the importance attached to the material is reflected in its presence in many of the major manuscripts.

They are not to be taken literally. For example, Dublin, a name derived from the Irish name Dubh Linn, literally the "black pool" where the Dodder meets the Liffey, is re-imagined through the guise of an elaborate legend about a princess who died at the spot where Dublin was built. Instead it reflects the literary, religious and political hierarchies of the time, a period the North Kildare dynasty, the Uí Dúnchada branch of the Uí Dúnlainge kindred were at their most powerful, and supplied ten kings of Leinster from their base on nearby Lyons Hill between 750–1050. In choosing Cnoch Liamhna for mention as one of the "assemblies and noted places in Ireland," the poem is an indication of the strength of the local ruling family, It also includes a separate place legend for nearby Straffan. Unlike Liamuin, Lumman Tige Srafáin is a work of prose and not part of the metrical dindsenchas.

The real explanation for Lyons is much more mundane, Liamhain is the Irish for elm tree.

The notable places of Leinster wealth of valour do the historians declare them? the notable places, and next the raths, many the causes whence they are named.

Myself will declare the cause whence are named nine of their notable places; till doomsday it shall be a fame unfading, So that no one be left in doubt!

Liamuin, Forcarthain of the sods, Miannach, Trustiu of the broad roads; are notable places known by various designations with their four fair names.

Miannach, Fercarthain of the feasts Liamuin, and white-sided Trustiu were maidens, a precious possession, of the family of the good king of Dubthair.

It was Dubthach of Dubthair fierce of face, king of the Desi of Bregia of the undying bards, (his was all as far as the horse-rearing region of the estuaries,) whose four fair daughters they were.

The month over the bargain that all observe, at the present time it is no novelty, Dubthach was the first to add it, the rule is well known to the Ui Chuinn.

A year's wage (it was a judgment of the wise) from every king to every warrior, only Dubthach would not give it without additional work, that was excessive.

Dubthach was son of Fergna noble and fair son of Muredach son of Sinell son of Bregon the famous for victory, son of Oengus, son of Eogan.

Eogan Brec is still spoken of, the son of well-born Fiachu Suidige, 35] son of noble Fedlimid Rechtmar, son of Tuathal Techtmar great and strong.

That is the pedigree till now of Dubthach good king of the Desi, for my art-prompted tale to set forth among all the noted places of Leinster.

The gentle sons of Acher Cerr from the harbour, sprung of the Erainn of Munster of the cavaliers met their death, it was no mild decease, it blasted their growth all at once.

An injunction of stern force was laid on the fair and lofty four; it was no pleasant tryst in the dark, it was an injunction in virtue of their love,

That they should not wed, in the land of the living, the four beloved sisters, or that they should meet their death; the keeping of the injunction was no easy task for them.

Fomu and renowned Roimper, Fernocht, Ferdub the sagacious; the mention of their names together has gained from us, as was due, a noble stanza.

These youths from the Erainn of our line were darlings of free peoples, the sons of Acher Cerr of the province son of Eochu Find the handless,

Son of Mug Lama the stainless son of fierce Lugaid of the encampments (and of Olldoitech, choice of fair women) son of shapely Cairpre Cromchend.

They came, hard the toil to earn their guerdon, the four thanes, winning a name for valour, at the house of Dubthach of Dubthair.

The four dear daughters of Dubthach four youths they had, for certain; as is the prosperous custom till now, each loved his mate.

Dubthach had gone to a fortunate battle in the mighty province of Leinster, with the four they loved therein the youths remained behind him.

After waiting behind the king, they made off untroubled, despite the hardships of every path, 80] the company who had feigned sickness.

Dubthach slew the comely company, after they had met, side to side: the barrows of their dear sod-built raths remain, for youth and maid alike.

Miannach is followed across every plain to Miannach where she was killed; the woman with martial array is killed, so that her name clave to the hill.

Fercarthain of the feasts is killed; in Forcarthain was she smitten, slow-eyed, long-haired, short-lived, she met destruction at Forcarthain.

Liamuin is slain, perfect of temper, thick-haired, skilful in defence; she met death through her peculiar prowess, wherefore Liamuin is full famous.

Trustiu is slain in Trustiu southward; the gentle woman suffered for her alliance; the hill of Cairn in Bile is called by that maiden's name.

Fomu is slain at Fomain, he thick-haired warrior with fair locks; many a lean host comes frequently over the two fair cheeks of Fomain.

Roimper was pursued across the waters to Glass Rompair; so hot Roimper fell, it is not a sin to tell of it.

Fernocht in Fornocht of the feasts, cruelly was his flesh mangled; the youth met ill treatment among the spears in Fornocht.

Ferdub, fierce of face, of doughty deeds, at the Black Fords of red Maistiu, at the hill, outwearied by bloody forays, his face was found after keen combat.

The famous Luachair of Boirend was the sad mother of the four; the fair woman came to her death among the plains of the strong places.

Fomu, husband of Liamuin, rests with her; the spouses were of like age, the white-handed soldier-pair, alike are the lovers twain.

Fercarthain, lovely was her face, (her love, I reckon him without delay,) through their converse is assured her great love to Roimper.

Fernocht belongs to unwrinkled Miannach: he helped her not by his cruel cunning; the warrior of the proved troops destroyed her, his cunning was no helpful cunning.

Ferdub belongs to white-sided Trustiu, their equal date was lamented; in naming them here not misleading are my pleasant harmonious verses.

These places that I number presently the learned of Erin shall praise; at their ease shall sages name them from their assemblies and their noted places.

Lumman Tige Srafain

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Lumman Tige Srafáin is a poem in Dinnsenchas Erann explaining the place legend of Straffan, a town and parish in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland situated on the banks of the River Liffey 25km upstream from the Irish capital Dublin, a place about which the author of the poem declares “a happy omen: this spur of land is a prosperous choice.”

Background[edit]

They are not to be taken literally. For example Dublin, a name derived from the Irish name Dubh Linn, literally the “black pool” where the Dodder meets the Liffey, is re-imagined through the guise of an elaborate legend about a princess who died at the spot where Dublin was built. Instead it reflects the literary, religious and political hierarchies of the time, a period the North Kildare dynasty, the Uí Dúnchada branch of the Uí Dúnlainge kindred were at their most powerful, and supplied ten kings of Leinster from their base on nearby Lyons Hill between 750-1050. In choosing the nearby Cnoch Liamhna for mention as one of the “assemblies and noted places in Ireland,” the poem is an indication of the political clout of the local ruling family. Unlike Lumman Tige Srafáin, Liamuin is a poem and part of the metrical dindsenchas.

The real explanation for Straffan is much more mundane, Teach Srafain is the Irish for the house or hermit-cell of the local Saint, Srafain.

Lumman Tige Srafáin[edit]

Lumman of Tech Srafain, whence is it so named? Not hard to say.

Lumman is a name for any shield, that is, ‘lion’, for there was no shield without the image of a lion on it, so that the horror and dread thereof might be magnified; for the lion is fierce and cruel, given to battle and fighting; and these images were made by means of spells and magic lore.

Now Corbb mac Cinain had a shield, such that seven of the kings of Ireland dared not face battle or duel with him. There was at that time a warrior who was also a seer and a poet namely Fer Bern mac Regamna, brother of Find mac Regamna, who had to wife Teite daughter of Mac Nia, from whom Oenach Teite has its name.

Currech mac Cathair, Fothad Cananne and Teite wife of Find mac Regamna were children of the same mother, Fainche tré-chichech, daughter of Airmora of Arada Cliach; and Fer Bern and Find mac Regamna were sons of the same father.

So Fer Bern went, taking with him a poem, to demand the shield from Corbb mac Cinain: and the name Corbb gave the shield was Dubgilla. So the shield was given to Fer Bern, and Fer Bern was glad thereat.

This was the time when the battle of Cerna was brewing between Art mac Cuinn and the men of the Islands, with the Picts of Dal Araide.

So, to prove his shield, Fer Bern fares forth from Bres Bre to Cerna in Brega. He made play with it then in the battle, and it bore the dint of thrice fifty blows: and all said that Fer Bern alone was half the battle on the side of Conn that is, of Art mac Cuinn.

He turns back homeward to seek healing, and reached Tech Strafain: and there succumbs to his wounds. His sharp spear in his hand, his shield slung from his neck, his sword and his scabbard of bronze at his belt, he fell, and told his gillie to dig his grave. Tur was the gillie's name.

The grave was dug: his spear at one side of him, his sword on the other, his shield (lumman) across him:

And he said, ‘The name of this spot shall be Lumman till doomsday:

And at the end of three hundred years from tonight two men shall arrive here and shall be buried over me;

And I shall find welcome from God along with them, however great the slaughter I have wrought.’ Hence Lumman of Tech Strafain.

Dubgilla, dark armour of the back Red yew, vanquisher of polished spears I will name it, a thing that filches our colour, to demand a mantle of grey.

God's counsel for my guidance, in whatever hour or season I approach though there be cloaks with Cinan's son, it is not to gather them that I shall seek,

But a mantle I seek that endures not folding, that neither spike of holly nor branch of tree may catch; that guards, as a brooch guards a cloak; a seemly vestment of the beetle's hue.

It is worth a request at the assembly, after play of blades it was not arrogant: it is a cloak that children cannot rend birthright of a warrior in itself:

The wonted vesture of a king's body, that needle or thread runs not through; a martyr's cloak, a frontlet of the temples, a cloak such as has not been cast over seers.

It guards the brain-pan at all times: it hides the rows of scars beneath: though no nap clings to it, the thread-bare shall last as well as the new cloth.

Not feeble has it proved in the tale of encounters, the stuff whereon has fallen no print of weaver's slay: on the outside it has been found not soft with nap, while it was seen bare of warp or woof,

Without beam of loom for broidery, without rods or implements of weaving, without handiwork of true-born dame, without stretching-pin to strain the web.

Shapely Dubgilla shall clear the way, the guardian of my brows, the heaven-appointed diadem; the cloak that Fer Berna demands without molestation

It is not white, nor grey, nor dun; it is not red, nor blue, nor purple; it is no tartan, striped nor checkered; it is no beribboned garment of ease.

It is lodging for the night, a dry couch, a shelter against woful winds, a cover for the breast, a crown of wealth, through all the blind dark night.

Not dark is my song, no riddle: a theme for the host whom I shall seek out is the mark of my hands they were not smooth: I am Fer Berna from Brius.

I and my naked shield, here were we wounded a load of sickness; after deeds done in the conflict of spears Fer Berna shall lie beneath it.

Hither shall come a noble pair, without charm or spell it shall be a lucky track: they shall lie above me a happy omen: this spur of land is a prosperous choice: they shall decay in God's glorious keeping; they shall drive far from me the devils of darkness.

It will be just three hundred years till the Son of the God of Heaven brings me into a form of brightness without darkness: the way that he establishes is not the way of evil spirits.

Lasting is the judgement after it is promulgated: It is a dismal house without a roof: the omen is no protection, it guards not: it is cause of tears and gloom.’

Thou shalt name without blame this land, though thou goest to meet a flood of woe: the thing that frets my spirit brings me to hardness of darkness.

My straight spear, mine by right no host dared affront it: his was the name I won in the fight of Cerna: “our hope, Fer Berna of the black brows.”

Hard, passing hard is the treasure here, even my sword in its sheath of bronze, and the dark shield that was never reproached: the three have made tryst with darkness.

Together did we whelm the front ranks, and make havoc of every host: together likewise do we lie in the grave, we four stout fighters, in darkness and gnashing of teeth.

Have a care, O Tuir cover us all with the clay preserve my lay, when I lie low beetles are sucking my blood in darkness

CXIV. NÍALL NOÍ-GIALLACH.
Níall Noí-giallach, twenty-six [years], till he fell at the hands of Eochu s. Énna Cennselaig at the Sea of Wight.

209. Énda Cennselach, whence is it? Easy to say. A battle was fought between Eochaid Muigmedón and Labraid, son of Bressal Bélach, to wit, the battle of Cruacban Claenta. Therein Eochaid was routed, and his wise man, Cétnathach the poet, was captured. The poet was spared by every one, till Énda came to him. Then Énda thrust his spear through the poet and laughed at him. But the bystanders said: "Foul is the smile that thou smilest after outraging us, O Énda". "This shall be his name", said the wise man, "Énda of the foul (salach) smile (gen)". Hence this agnomen clave to him thenceforward, even Énda Gen salach.

140. Or Eochaid Muin-fethan, that is, there was a circle round his waist like the girdle of a fleshy man, as thick as the man's waist. Hence he was called Eochaid Muin-methain, that is, methain(?) that used to be round his waist because of its size

358 A.D.

124 eochaidh muighmheadoin Son of Muiredach Tireach (122). King of Meath. In the 8th year of his reign died a natural death at Tara leaving issue four sons. By his first wife Mong Fionn: - Mong Fionn was daughter of Fiodhach, and sister of Crimthann, King of Munster, of the Heberian Sept, and successor of Eochaidh in the Monarchy. This Crimthann was poisoned by his sister Mong-Fionn, in hopes that Brian, her eldest son by Eochaidh, would succeed in the Monarchy. To avoid suspicion she herself drank of the same poisoned cup which she presented to her brother; but, notwithstanding that she lost her life by so doing, yet her expectations were not realised, for the said Brian and her other three sons by the said Eochaidh were laid aside (whether out of horror of the mother's inhumanity in poisoning her brother, or otherwise, is not known), I. Brian, from him were descended the Kings, nobility and gentry of Conacht - Tirloch Mór O'Connor, the 121st, and Roderic O'Connor, the 183rd Monarch of Ireland. II. Fiachra's descendants gave their name to Tir-Fiachra ("Tireragh"), co. Sligo, and possessed also parts of co. Mayo. 145. Fiacha Foltṡnáithech, 'Hair-threaden'. Likened to golden thread was the long, full-beautiful hair that was on him; for lengthy and . . . fine was his hair. Wherefore (the names) Fiacha Foltṡnáithech and Foltlcbar 'Long-hair' clave to him. This Fiachra had five sons: - 1. Earc Cuilbhuide; 2. Breasal; 3. Conaire; 4. Feredach (or Dathi);

146. Dathí. Feradach, son of Fiacha, was his first name. And when he obtained the kingship of Erin he went into the world eastward to gain a realm, and he gained the kingship of the west of Europe up to the Alps.

Now at that time there dwelt in the heart of the Alps a righteous man named Fer-ménia. He had a strong, impregnable tower. So Feradach, son of Fiachra, with his army began to destroy Fer-ménia's tower, and they could do nothing to it. The king swore that he would not leave the tower until he had taken it. The hosts began energetically to destroy the tower and to shoot at every one who was therein. Whatsoever the hosts would shoot against the tower, whether stones or weapons, would scarcely reach the ground past the king, when lie caught them in his hands and himself distributed them again to every one. Wherefore all said of him: "Active is the way the king seizes the weapons"! "True indeed", says the druid, "and Dathi 'active' shall be his name from this work". Wherefore (the name) Dathi clave to him thenceforward. But the king died there through his pride and through his injustice to the faithful man. For a flash of lightning came to him from heaven and burnt and killed the king. As the poet said:

He had not taken according to his wish the holy man's building
When a thunderbolt burnt Dathi

Upon becoming the Déisi Muman, one branch then sailed across to Britain in the 4th century, coming to rule Dyfed.

The Ui-Fiachrach historians get up a similar exaggerated account about King Dathe having conquered Britain and Gaul. See Genealogies &c. of Ui-Fiachrach, pp. 19, 183

and 5. Amhalgaidh III. Olioll's descendants settled in Sligo - in Tir Oliolla (or Tirerill). IV. Fergus. And, by his second wife, Carthan Cais Dubh (or Carinna), daughter of the Celtic King of Britain, and the youngest son of Eochaidh, by Carthan Cais Dubh, was preferred to the Monarchy. V. Niall Mór, commonly called "Niall of the Nine Hostages."

150. Thirteen years, pleasant the apex--
it was not long--for Crimthann
he got a venomous draught in his house
from his sister, from the daughter of Nemed.

136. Duach Galach, that is, gal 'warfare' and uch 'alas' had he, that is, the other sons of Brian, son of Eochaid Muigmedón, would make war upon him and cause him to moan when he was a young lad.

137. Enna Emalach son of Brian and Conall Oirinse, and Sen son of Brian, and Erc Derg son of Brian, whence do they bear these additional names?

138. Duach Tenga Umai: because of the melodiousness of his voice he was called Tenga Umai 'Tongue of brass'. To every one it seemed that there was a tongue of brass in his head, for all men thought the sound of strings in a harp no sweeter than the sound of his utterance.

139. Own-brother to Duach was Eochaid Tirmcharna 'Dry -flesh'. This is why he had the name. When he was banished by Duach Tongue-of-brass he ate no bacon, but dry flesh, and drank neither ale nor mead.

118. Níall Nói-gíallach 'nine-hostaged', that is nine (nói) hostages (géill) he had, to wit, five out of Erin and four out of Alba. Thereof the poet said

Eochaid's son, high the dignity,
Níall, modest in every high fame,
Took troops (?) of the kingdoms
Of Erin and Alba.

He had a hostage for every fifth
Throughout the land of lofty Erin:
He brought at will without separation
Four hostages out of Alba. So that it was he who was . .
In crowds (?) of .... champions,
Against the course of the gracious (?) kings
Warlike Niall the Nine-hostaged.

Now Niall went to Letavia and Italy to seek a kingdom: Wherefore he was called 'Nine-hostaged', that is (he had) five hostages of Erin, and a hostage for each of Alba, England, Wales and France etc. This little bit is from the Book of Glendalough.

151. Twenty years over seven,
together, to Niall with his strength;
'tis no falsehood, over the sea of Wight, full of swans
lofty Eochaid of the Feasting slew him.

The name MacAuley, which has many variants including MacAwley, MacAwly, MacGawley, MacCawley, Magawley, MacGauley, MacCauley, Cauley, Cowley and many more, is of three distinct origins in Ireland, two native and one foreign (if you consider Scotland as a foreign country, which many Irish historians do not).

Firstly is the sept known as Mac Amhalghaidh in the native tongue. The name is derived from the personal name Amhalghaidh (anglicised as Auley or Awly) and the particular individual from whom this family descends was himself a descendant of Maine son of Niall Mor, progenitor of the Uí Neill. Uí Néill is a term applied to the septs that descend from Niall Mór, or Niall Naoi-Ghiallach (Niall of the Nine Hostages), thus named from the royal hostages taken from nine countries by him subdued and made tributary - 1. Munster, 2. Leinster, 3. Conacht, 4. Ulster, 5. Britain, 6. the Picts, 7. the Dalriads, 8. the Saxons, and 9. the Morini - a people of France, towards Calais and Picardy. Niall's father was Eochaidh Muigh-Meadhoin [Moyvone], the 124th Monarch of Ireland who in the 8th year of his reign died a natural death at Tara, A.D. 365; leaving four sons. By his first wife Mong Fionn, Brian, Fiachra, Olioll and Fergus. And, by his second wife, Carthan Cais Dubh (or Carinna), daughter of the Celtic King of Britain, Niall Mór. Mong Fionn was daughter of Fiodhach, and sister of Crimthann, King of Munster and successor of Eochaidh in the Monarchy. This Crimthann was poisoned by his sister Mong-Fionn, in hopes that Brian, her eldest son by Eochaidh, would succeed in the Monarchy. To avoid suspicion she herself drank of the same poisoned cup which she presented to her brother; but, notwithstanding that she lost her life by so doing, yet her expectations were not realised, for the said Brian and her other three sons by the said Eochaidh were laid aside (whether out of horror of the mother's inhumanity in poisoning her brother, or otherwise, is not known), and Niall, the youngest son of Eochaidh, by Carthan Cais Dubh, was preferred to the Monarchy.

In Niall's rise to Kingship he had to overcome his wicked stepmother, Mongfhinn, who abandoned him as a baby, naked on a hill. He is raised by a wandering bard, Torna Eices. Sithchenn the Smith fortells he will be High King. Then he comes across an old hag who demands that he and his companions give her a kiss. Only Niall has the courage to do so, and she turns into a beautiful woman named Flaithius (Royalty), the personification of sovranty. She fortells that he will be the greatest of Ireland's High Kings. The Irish Annals of the Four Masters states that "Niall began to reign in 379. He was not only the paramount king of Ireland, but one of the most powerful to ever hold that office, and was therefore one of the few Irish kings able to mobilize great forces for foreign expeditions." Niall went to Scotland in order to strengthen his power and gained alliances with the Scots and Picts, he then marched to Laegria and sent a fleet to Armorica (France) in order to plunder. He established the Dal Riada which was the name for this conglomeration of Irish, Scots and Picts. These raids led to amazing results. Keating in his History of Ireland states that "St. Patrick was brought as a captive to Ireland in the ninth year in the reign of Niall," it was this time when Niall was on his expedition to Scotland and France. An Irish fleet went to the place where Patrick dwelt, then aged 16 years, and as was the custom of the Irish, they brought a large number of hostages with them along with Patrick's two sisters Lupida and Daererca. Niall had pillaged Wales, Scotland, England and France. Keating also states that "Niall having taken many captives returned to Ireland and proceeded to assemble additional forces and sent word to the chief of the Dal Riada, requesting him to follow with all his host to France." Niall set out for the new adventure with Gabhran, the chief of the Del Raida, to plunder France at the river Loire. With this group was Eochaida who had been banished as the King of Leinster and had plans to be the High King of Ireland. While crossing The English Channel Niall was killed by an arrow from Eochaida. Niall had been High King of Ireland for twenty-seven years. He had played a great part in breaking down Roman power in Britain and France between the years of 379 and 406. Keating states that "Wales ceased to be controlled by the central government from 380-400 due to Niall". He died a pagan, but after the dawn of Christianity in Ireland, his descendants were foremost in promoting and endowing the Christian Church in Ireland, and nearly 300 of them were canonized as Saints.

He was twice married: - his first Queen was Inne, the daughter of Luighdheach, who was the relict of Fiachadh; his second Queen was Roigneach, by whom he had Nos. I., II., III., IV., V., VI., and VII., as given below. This Niall Mór succeeded his Uncle Crimthann; and was the 126th Monarch of Ireland. Niall had twelve sons: -

I. Eoghan (who gave his name to Tir Eoghain or Tyrone) ancestor of O Neill
II. Laeghaire (or Leary), the 128th Monarch, in the 4th year of whose reign St. Patrick, the second time, came into Ireland to plant the Christian Faith, A.D. 432
III. Conall Crimthann, ancestor of O'Melaghlin, Kings of Meath
IV. Conall Gulban, ancestor of O'Donnell (princes, lords, and earls of the territory of Tirconnell - Donegal), and of O'Boyle, O'Dogherty, O'Gallagher, etc.
V. Fiacha, from whom the territory from Birr to the Hill of Uisneach in Media Hiberniae (or Meath) is called "Cineal Fiacha," and from him MacGeoghegan, lords of that territory, O'Molloy, O'Donechar, Donaher (or Dooner), etc., derive their pedigree
VI. Main, whose patrimony was all the tract of land from Lochree to Loch Annin, near Mullingar, and from whom are descended Fox (lords of the Muintir Tagan territory), MacAuley, O'Dugan, O'Mulchonry (the princes antiquaries of Ireland), O'Henergy, etc.
VII. Cairbre, ancestor of OFlanagan, of Tua Ratha, "Muintir Cathalan" (or Cahill) etc.
VIII. Fergus (a quo "Cineal Fergusa" or Ferguson), ancestor of O'Hagan, etc.
IX. Enna
X. Aongus or Æneas
XI. Ualdhearg
XII. Fergus Altleathan.

After Niall's death, a number of his sons, led by Eoghan and Conall Gulban, headed north from Tara to rule the northern territories of Ulster. Their descendants became known as the Northern Uí Neill. The Northern Ui Neill divided into three great clans, the Cineal Eoghain. Cineal Conaill and Cineal Cairbre. Meanwhile, the remaining sons ruled their territories in the Kingdom of Meath and became known as the Southern Uí Neill.

The Southern Ui Neill alternated the High-Kingship of Tara with their cousins of the Northern Ui Neill. They established themselves near Tara in the late fifth century, as several of the sons of Niall of the Nine Hostages settled in the east of the territory of Mide (Westmeath and North Offaly) just west of Tara. By the seventh century the Southern Ui Neill were masters of Brega (which included the sacred center at Tara in what is now County Meath) and were also firmly established as masters of the whole of the expansive territory of Mide (Westmeath and North Offaly). This territory stretched across the center of Ireland to the Shannon, and included Uisnech, the important traditional center of the Island, as meeting-place of the traditional "five fifths" of Ireland. The great families of the Southern Uí Neill were Clann Cholmain (O'Melaghlin, later MacLoughlin), Cineal Fiachach descend from Fiacha (MacGeoghegan and O'Molloy), Cineal Laoghaire descend from Laoghaire (O'Quinlan), Fir Teathbha (O'Caharney or Fox, O'Daly, MacAuley, MacCaron and O'Brennan).

The MacAwleys (Mac Amhalghaidh) were, prior to the English conquest of the sixteenth century, lords of a wide territory known as Calry (Calraighe) which in its broadest extent comprised land in the west of County Westmeath and north of County Offaly, but which was centered on Ballyloughloe in Westmeath. This territory was knownn to the English as MacGawley's Country. The Four Masters describe them as "Chiefs of Calry".

Like many of the Irish septs, many of the MacAuleys fled their homeland for Europe. In 1631, Field Marshal Philip Henry Magawly, who was of this family, was given the hereditary title of Count (of the Holy Roman Empire) by Emperor Charles VI. His desendants married into the influential Cerati family and in the nineteenth century, the Chief of the Name was Count Magawley Cerati, son of the Prime Minister of the Empress Maria Louisa. Up till that time they preserved a close connection with their homeland in Co. Westmeath.

The other native sept was called in Irish Mac Amhlaoibh. These are a branch of the MacGuires and belong to Co. Fermanagh, where they have given their name to the barony of Clanawley. If ever one Irish family was inextricably linked with an Irish county, the family is Maguire or MacGuire and the county is Fermanagh. They possessed the entire county, also known as Maguire's Country, from about 1200 A.D. and maintained their independence as Lords of Fermanagh down to the reign of James the First, when their country was confiscated like other parts of Ulster. The Maguires supplied Chiefs or Princes to Fermanagh, from about A.D. 1264, when they supplanted the former Chieftains (O'Daimhin, or Devin). They were inaugurated as Princes of Fermanagh on the summit of Cuilcagh, a magnificent mountain near Swanlinbar, on the borders of Cavan and Fermanagh; and sometimes also at a place called Sciath Gabhra or Lisnasciath, now Lisnaskea. Even after the seventeenth century confiscation, Connor Roe Maguire obtained re-grants of twelve thousand acres of the forfeited lands of his ancestors, and was created Baron of Enniskillen - a title which was also borne by several of his successors. They also spawned several well known branches which became septs in their own right, including MacManus, Caffrey, MacHugh and of course MacAuley or Macawley.

These latter are the descendants of Amhlaobh (a gaelic form of the Norse name Olaf), a son of Donn Carrach Maguire, the first Maguire King of Fermanagh who died in 1302. It is thought that it was this Amhlaobh or Auley and his sons who first crossed the Erne and won south Fermanagh for the Maguires. The name in Fermanagh is mainly spelt MacCawley or MacCauley, but it is also found as Cauley, Cawley, Gawley, Macauley, MacAwley, MacGawley and Magawley. Auley was one of four brothers the others being Flaherty, who continued the Maguire line, Craith, ancestor of McGrath and Gafraidh, ancestor of the Caffreys. Their ancestry is arguably as royal as that of the Uí Neill, their ancestors including Conn Ceadchadhach, or Con of the hundred Battles, whose grandson, Cormac Mac Art was High King of Ireland in the third century. From him the line of descent continues as follows:-

[1] Cormac MacArt King of Tara (226-268 A.D.) (whose ancestry has been traced by the annalists to Eremhon son of Milesius of Spain and progenitor of all the Celts in Ireland)
[2] Cairbre Liffeachar
[3] Echdach Doimlin (Dublin)
[4] de Colla Fo chrich
[5] Rochatha
[6] Dega Duirn
[7] Feicc
[8] Cremthaind Leith (King of Oriel 440-A.D.
[9] Echach (500-A.D.)
[10] Corpri Daim (d. 514)
[11] Cormaic
[12] Aeda
[13] Fergusa
[14] Cormaic
[15] Fechin
[16] Irgalaig
[17] Brian (Clan Lugan)
[18] Cernaig (Clan Lugan)
[19] Uidhir The Progenitor of the Maguire Family (approximately 920-A.D.)
[20] Airgiallaich (approximately 960-A.D.)
[21] Serraich (approximately 1000-A.D.)
[22] Uidhar (approximately 1040-A.D.)
[23] Orgiall (Tealluidhir)
[24] Serraich (approximately 1080-A.D.)
[25] Uidhir (approximately 1120-A.D.)
[26] Ragnaill (approximately 1160-A.D.)
[27] Don Mor(The Elder) Established the Maguire family around the late 1200's.
[28] Giolla Iosa
[29] Domnaill
[30] Donn Carrach Maguire first Prince of Fermanagh 1264-1303

He had four sons
[A] Flaherty second Prince and progenitor of Maguire
[B} Craith progenitor of MacGrath
[C] Gafraidh progenitor of Caffrey
[D] Amhlaobh progenitor of MacAuley

It should be noted that Mac Amhlaoibh is also the name of a quite distinct Munster sept, descended from Amhlaoibh MacCarthy, the anglicized form there being MacAuliffe.

Finally, the Scottish name Macaulay is derived its name in a similar way to the MacAuleys of Ireland. Many of the Irish born Macauleys and MacAuleys, particularly those living in the counties adjacent to Belfast, are descendants of Scottish settlers in Ulster. There are two origins for the name in Scotland.

The MacAulays of Lewis in the Hebrides, a sept of Clan MacLeod, were in Gaelic Mac Amhlaibh (Olaf). These MacAulays are said to be Norse in origin and to descend from Olave the Black, brother of Magnus, last king of Man and the Isles. (The MacLeods themselves descend from Leod, a son of Olave.)

The MacAulays of Ardincaple in Dumbartonshire are a minor branch of the royal Clan Alpin (of which MacGregor is the most senior). They were in Gaelic Mac Amhalghaidh and this obsolete Irish personal name was also pronounced Auley. Gallowglasses were mercenary soldiers, imported by the Irish clan chiefs, mainly in Ulster but also further afield, to aid in the defence of their clan territories. The first recorded arrival of the Galloglass was in 1259. Prince Aedh O'Connor of Connaught, son of King Feidhlim married a princess, daughter of Dubhgall MacRory King of the Hebrides. As part of her dowry she brought with her a force of 160 Galloglasses. They came for the most part from Inse Ghall (The Hebrides) and were Gaelic speaking Scots interbred with Vikings. Because of their Viking blood they earned the name from the words gall (foreign) and óglaigh (a warrior). The Scots themselves were Irish, mainly the Dal Riada from Northern Ireland who had traveled to Western Scotland and Hebrides. A fifteenth century account of them states: "They, the Irish, have one sort of footmen which can be harnessed in mail and basinettes, having every man of them a kind of battle-axe and they be named gallowglasses. These sort of men be those that do not lightly abandon the field, but bear the brunt to the death. These men are commonly wayward by profession than by nature, big of limb, burly of body, well and strongly timbered, chiefly feeding on beef, pork and butter." They earned their reputation the hard way, and were the biggest reason the chiefs Ui Neill slowed the English advance northward from the Pale several hundred years. Many of them got grants of land from the Irish chiefs and went on to found some of the most respected septs of the Ireland. The best known of there are MacSúibhne (MacSweeney), MacDomhnaill (MacDonnell), MacSíothaigh (MacSheehy), MacDubhgaill (MacDougall), MacCaba (MacCabe) and MacRuari (MacRory). Lesser known Galloglass families include MacAulay, MacSorley, MacNeill, MacGreal, MacAnGhearr (Short/ Shortt / McGirr), MacAnGallóglaigh (MacGallogly / English), MacClean(MacAlean / MacLean / MacClane), MacAilín (MacCawell / Campbell / MacCampbell / Allen / MacEllin), MacAlister (MacEllistrum / MacAllister / MacAlistrum), MacAlexander, Agnew (O'Gnimh / O'Gnimha / O'Gnive) and MacPhaidín (MacFadden). A branch of the Dumbartonshire MacAulays came to the Glens of Antrim with the MacDonnells in the early sixteenth century and these are the ancestors of most of the MacAuleys in Co. Antrim. In the mid-nineteenth century MacAuley was the most common name in the barony of Lower Glenarm and was also very common in Carey.

The outstanding figure of the name in Irish history is Catherine MacAuley (1787-1841), foundress of the Order of Mercy.

CXIV. NÍALL NOÍ-GIALLACH.
Níall Noí-giallach, twenty-six [years], till he fell at the hands of Eochu s. Énna Cennselaig at the Sea of .

151. Twenty years over seven,
together, to Niall with his strength;
'tis no falsehood, over the sea of Wight, full of swans
lofty Eochaid of the Feasting slew him.

144. Aergialla, that is, daer gialla 'base hostages', that is, the kindred of Eogan son of Niáll, from the battle of Beithecham they were subjected to a base tribute. Or Aergialla that is, saer-gialla, for they were noble beyond every one else; For the king of Tara has no right to put bond (?) or fetter upon their hostages, though he may on every other hostage in Erin. Whereof the poet said:

Nine hostages to Fodla's king after an expedition
The king of Oriel once granted,
Into the hand of the king of Tara of the troops
Without bond (?) and without fetter.

Airgialla then, that is, ar gialla, 'for hostages', i.e. for hostages to them from the king of Tara and hostages from the king of Tara to them. Thereof said the poet:

Hostages for hostages to the king of Oriel
From the king of Tara through a hero's might.
For their nobleness, for their majesty,
For their hardihood in giving battle.

119. Nía Nói nGrainde 'of the Nine Grainnes', that is, nine hills that are in Corca Tri, and Grainne is the name of each of them; and from them he was named.

120. Domnall Ilchelgach 'many-wiled'.

121. Aed Uar-idnach, that is, cold pangs (uara idna) used to visit him, so that (to be relieved of them) he would have given the world, were it in his power. Or Aed Uaridnach, that is, cold his weapons (idna) to wit, his spears, for he used to make warlike expeditions in winter. Or again, cold fits used to come to him in his sleep, so that he would say: "Wine, ale, a cup, a harp"!

122. Aed Ollán, that is, great (oll) was the full (lán) of the sea, that is, the full spring-tide, when he was born. Or Aed Allán, that is, Alltan, the name of the place in which he was reared. Or Aed Allán, that is, Aed Il-dán, that is, many (ili) arts (dána) were professed by him. Hence the agnomen is said. Aed allan----------

123. Aed Ordnide, that is, Aed Dorndine 'Suckfist'. He used to suck his fist after he had been weaned. Hence he is called Aed Suckfist.

369ad

2 Fiodach father of Criomthann took this half;

from Belach Conglais (Cork Harbour) to Limerick – 81b glaisse bulga glaiss bulgan bolgain territory of ui tairrsig subdivision of ui falige . 2 Fiodach, to him was son Criomthann Mor mac Fiodhaig (a notorious sea raider in 369 A.D. into Scotland) and who took the fortress of Doire Da Broc from his nephews, the sons of Eochaid Mugmeadhon (of the kings of Tara) i.e., from Brian, Fiachra, Oilill and Feargus. Crimthann's sister Mongfind was mother of those four sons. So that her son, Brian, would get the kingship of Ireland, she plotted to poison her brother, Criomthann; the latter died of that poisonous drink; Mungfionn herself died as well at Inish Donglais on the Moy (Co. Mayo) - as she tasted the drink in order to induce her brother to drink from it. Crimthann, having drunk it, came to Sliabh Uidhe on Riogh "The Mountain of the King's Death" (now Cratloe Hill, Co. Clare) and there died.[2]

Ui Mac-Uais, a tribe of the race of Colla Uais, monarch of Ireland in the fourth century, now the barony of Moygoish, in the county of Westmeath. The name of O'Comraidhe is still extant, but for many centuries reduced to obscurity and poverty. In the sixteenth century, it was anglicised Cowry. It is now more usually Corry and Curry, but this form is to be distinguished from O'Corra of Ulster, as well as from O'Comhraidhe of Thomond, and O'Comhraidhe of Corca-Lagihe, in the south of the county of Cork, which are all usually anglicised Curry.

386ad 432 julian Egyptian calendar years = 157788 days plus precession of the equinox = 157788 + 6 days torque westwards = 157794 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 157794 – 3 days torque eastwards = 157791 days = 344 julian years

390ad Jerome, writing ca. 390, provided an 'updated' version of Josephus' identifications in his Hebrew Questions on Genesis. His list is substantially identical to that of Josephus in almost all respects, but with the following notable differences: see shem ham japhet lines

399ad

5. Cartach : Cartach mo^ Finain meic Noe, m«V C^Uain m«V Saiglenn meic Cirb mwV Ambrie meic Imchada .i. Cartach 6idu dalta Ciarain tSaigri 7 mar rig Eoganar-^/a Caisil e', 7 i Coirpri hua Ciarda ata a baili .i. Druim F^rtain, 7 Inis Uachtair ior Loch Silenn' leis b^os,

7 aite Mocuta ^, ut dixit mite :

Ticfa Gartach cugaib, • Ur co ;t-arthrach creidim, b^rthar mac do Carthach (.i. Molua mac Ochae) • nocha marthar et/>. IS e tra in Cartach dalta Ciarain ro foided co R6im la Ciaran dia ailithri ar techt a comdail mnd d6* dia nd^m Molua mac ochae. R^, Ciaran, Cfaran Saigri t^xscopus ep/sco/OTi/m .i. do Dail mBim do, 7 Uar ainm a tiprat, ut Patricius dixit :

Saig Uar, • cwmdaig czXhraig {or a bru, iar trichaid blia^a« buan bann * connciam ann ocus tu. Ciaran credal, comarba saer * sinns^r na oem, nem fo grddh, amra gein [g^rait] ind rig * dian sosa^ sidh Saigir mar. Mac Lugna, l^r ^cnai adbail * mad gaib talmain, tracht nad g6, isin lo i Igthfa brdth * ceinmair (.i. mogenar) each hus c^li d6. Bui Liadaine (.i. mdthaix Ciaxdin) ina cotlad ' ior a d/rgad, rid nad cil, intan soaes a gnuis fri nem • docher retla ina gin. * i n-airth^r Laigen Z. ind iarthar Laig^/i F. « Cassil he R, » Z adds : in Gregfaide i tuaisc^rt Mide aid. * .i. rofaid Ciaran ar comdail ri mnai R.

MAUCH 1-5.] MARTYROLOGY OF ORNGUS. NOTES, 87 NOTES.

5th march. Cartach : Cartach son of Fian, son of . . . son of Cellan, son of Saiglenn (?), son of Cerb, son of Ambri(?),son of Imchad,Cartach, then, a fosterling of Ciaran of Saiger and a son of the king of the Eoganacht of Cashel, and in Cairbre ua Ciarda b his stead, i.e. Druim Fertain, and Inis Uachtair on I>och Silenn is his also,and he is Mochutu's fosterfather,as my-fte said: Cartach will come to you, a man with appearance of belief, a son will be bom to Carthach-loving (i.e. Molua mac ochae)he is not at all magnified. This then is the Cartach, Ciaran's fosterling, who was sent on a pilgrimage to Rome by Ciaran for having forgathered with a woman,of whom he b^at Molua mac ochae.Ciaran : Ciaran of Saiger* episcapus episcoporum. Of Dal Bim was he, and Uar was the name of hb well, as Patrick said : Seek Uar, build a convent on its brink, after thirty lasting, fair years we shall meet there, (I and) thou. Pious Ciaran, a noble coarb, senior of the saints, a jewel in rank, a marvellous birth, champion of the King, to whom great Saiger is an abode (and) peace. Son of Lugna,a sea of vast knowledge, well he takes land — a shore that is not false — on the day on which Doom will spread happy is everyone who shall be his fellow. Liadaine (Ciaran*s mother) was in her sleep on her bed — a saying not wrong —when she turned her face to heaven a star fell into her mouth.*

According to Martyr. Don, he was son of Failbe, sec Reeves* ColumSa 224,

372, 463. » See his pedigree LL. 352^ « As to impregnation by the impact of light, see Conybeare Philo, 242, citing Plutarch de Iside 368D, and Herodotus 3. 28.

S8 F^LIRE OENGUSSO. [mI marta.

Is de ro genair gein n-amra ' Ciaran Saigri sloinnter lat, ocus is de — rdd* cin uaille, * atb^rt Luaigne nim-ba mac. K^, Liadaine ingen Maine Chirr meic Aengwia, do chloinn Lugdach m«c Itha, mdthair Ciarain tSaigri, 7 is ann ro genair i Finntracht G16re is ann ro genair, 7 is aingil in Coimded ro frithailsit iama gein, 7 grada nime rodas-baists^/, ac«j is a Corca Luigde toisech ro creided do Crois

a n-'Erinn arti^j, ar is tncha bliada/r ria Patr<?/V ro gab Ciaran Saighri, ut dicitur. Saig 7rl. Mac genis i TyxXaig Tinn • bid idan a oenta fnnn, m6r manach is mainches mall * dia eis dogeba ConsAL

IS annsin ro tarngair Ciaran Conall 7 FarA/na. Ruis Ailithir, 7 is e

Etei'sceoil, p. 88, contemp.with S.Ciarin of Saiger.

Ciaran ro fagaib dd Etersceoil rigi 7 air^chwj co b/ath, 7 is e fo^acaib

do rf Corca Luigde eneclann rig coic/*// d6 ar creidim croisi oga aitus^

7 ar cill CiaraiVi do chostad occo, 7 is e Ciaran sinnser n6em Erenn

b^os. J^, Cidran mac Luaigni . . . mete Duach meic ConaiW meic Cairbri meic Buain meic Imbuain . . Leithtriuin meic Amalgada meic Loegairi him

b. meic Aengusa Osraigi. J^,

Ba amra t/a intf noem Ciardn Saigri. Batar indili ile lais, ar batar

.X. ndorais (or lias a b6 7 .x. crai gacha dorais . . • 7 batar .x. loig

in gach cnio 7 .x. mbii im gach loeg. Ni ro tomail Ciaran nach n-trnail mbic no mdir dia n-anlann nach dia n-irtora^f sin cein roba b^o, acht a fodail do hochtzxh 7 adailgnechaib in Choimded.* Bdi di^« caeoca ^ch riata la Ciaran fri har 7 fri treba^ in talma/?, acht is dochu dd ro trebsat sin nach duaid siwm oen bairgin de cein ba b^o. Ba si a proinn each n-aidchi .i. boim beg do bairgin eoma 7 usci fir- thibrat do dig lais, 7 da mecon do murrathaig do anlann fair. Croicne laegh n-allo/d xmmorro ba se ^tach no bid imme 7 cuilchi fliuch tairsib sin amuig. Adart cloichi no bid ima cenn intan conXmled, ut dixit Ciaran :

Deich ndoirsi ar buaib* mo buair, • deich cr6i gacha dorais drechruaid, deich loigh gach crai gan crdd, * deich mba mboetha im gach mboethan* Dom chobais do Mac Muire, • gid ingnad lib sin uili, ni decha?// fam d^d anunn * oired friged don anlann.

Caeca s^rrach im chill chain * a Saigir treb^s talmain, dom chubwj, a Chxlst chaingnig, * nl duadwx dib aen bairgin.

Sruban eoma is usqwi glan * bd i sin mo proinn each tan, is e anlann rom-gnatha/^^ • da mecon do murrathaigh. is de asb^rt R^, ^ coimdeg ^.

MARCH s.] MARTYROLOGY OF OENGUS. NOTES, 89^

Thereof was bom the wondrous birth, Ciaran of Saiger,let him be mentioned by thee and thence — a saying without pride — Luaigne declared that he was not his son.

Liadaine, daughter of Maine Cerr, son of Oengus, of the race of Lugaid son of Ith, (was) mother of Ciaran of Saiger, and he was bom in Findtracht Gl^re, and after his birth the angels of the Lord tended him, and ranks of heaven baptized him. And 'tis in Corcu Luigdech first that in Ireland the Cross was believe(J in, for it is thirty years, before Patrick that Ciaran took Saiger, as is said : Seek etc. A son that is bom in Tulach Tenn, pure shall be his union with us :: many a monk and gentle nun after him Conall will take.

Tis then that Ciardn foretold Conall and Fachtna of Ross Ailithir ;, and it is Ciaran that left to Etersceoil kingship and leadership for ever..And 'tis he that left to the king of the Corcu-Luigde a provincial king's- honour-price, because they first had the belief in the Cross, and because Cell Ciarain was disputed (?) by them. And it is Ciaran is also the senior of the Saints of Ireland : Ciaran son of Luaigne . . . son of Dua, son of Conall, son of Cairbre, son of Buan, son of Imbuan, . . . Lethtr^n, son of

Amalgaid, son of Loeguire, Bim b . . . son of Oengus of Ossory.

Wondrous, now, was the holy Ciaran of Saiger. Many cattle he had, for there were ten doors to the shed of his kine and ten stalls for every door, . . . and there were ten calves in every stall, and ten cows with every calf. So long as he was alive Ciaran consumed not any kind,,small or great, of their relish {obsonium) nor of their great produce : but distributed it to the poor and needy of the Lord. Moreover Ciaran had fifty horses broken-in for ploughing and for tilling the earth, but it seems that of what they tilled he ate not a single cake so long as he was- alive. This was his dinner every night, a little bit of barley-bread, and spring-water as drink with it, and two roots of sea-fern (?) as relish for it. Now skins of fawns was the raiment that he wore, and a wet quilt over them outside. A bolster of stone was at his head when he used to sleep. ut dixit Ciaran :

Ten doors on the booley of my kine, ten stalls for every red-faced door,

ten calves for every stall, without torment, ten foolish cows with everv^ little fool (calf). Of my confession to Mary's Son, though all that seems to you strange, never went in under my tooth so much as a fleshworm of the relish. Fifty yoimg horses* in my fair church in Saiger, which till the ground, on my conscience, O pleading Christ ! I never have eaten one cake of them.* A manchet of barley and pure water, that was my dinner every time,this is the relish that I was accustomed to, two roots of sea-fern (?) » lit foals. « i.e. of the produce of what they tilled.

90 F£:LIRE OENGUSSO, [Mf MARTA.

Da crocann loig cinn ar cinn, • cubat fom thaeb, cloch fom chinn, cuilciu fliuch torum coidchi ' gach aenla is gach aen oidchi. Ann mo Saigir-si each tan • gib^ rosfa bid idan, bid comainn da each aen ar leith * co eenn coic trath is a deich, J^, Cairneeh Moel immorro sgribnid Ciarain tSaigri. Is ess/*</e ro sgrib in sgrib^nn n-amrae .i. in Imirce Ciarain coftsi ilg/iesaib aillib examW^, 7 mziaid beos in leborsa i Saigir. Ocus iahxad gach aen I^fes hennachtdLin ar anmain Cairnig Moeil 7 ar m'anmainsi feisin. I^.

6. Coirpri Crom 7 Mael ruain 7 Maeldubh 7 Muadan 7 Odhran 7

lulian o Cill ingen leir Leinin i n-Ui[b] Briuin C\x3\ann in hoc die, K

7. Felieitas et Perpetua apud Cartaginem in Affriea bestiis datae

sunt. R\ Mochelloe 7 Mettan o Thuaim atha, uirgo, 7 Cairitan

Droma lara in hoe die. K

8. Senan Innsi Cathaig. crochais .i. ro eroeh .i. ro cuibrig Senan [in

mb^ist] diarbo ainm Cathar>4 on-ainmnigt^^r Inis Catha/^, 7 is aire ros-

cuibrig, diar romarb an ngobainn diarbo ainm Ndraeh 7 ro toduisc

Senan in gobainn .i. a tabairt a broinn na biastai, 7 rob ecraiti don

gobainn in ^est 7 roba crochaire don peist Senan. R-,

Quaedam bestia quae in hac insola ante Sendn habitabat et ab ea

insola nominatur, ar no chathiged in beist fri sochaide heste, multos

occidebat in regionibus circa insolam. inde Inis Cathaig nominatur, ^d

per Senan ligauit earn catena ferrea secundum historiam, uel uirtute Dei

prohibuit eam, unde dicitur crochais ecrait n-arach .i. ind ecraite robi

dissi in cath ro chroch-som sein i n-aruch .i. i cuimriuch, ut nee malum

ulli faceret. No crochais Senan ecrait Narach .i. quidam faber qui fuit

in ilia regione quique Narach nominatur, quem occidit bestia quae

dicitur Cathach. Ro chroch igitur Senan inti ropo hecraite do Ndraeh

gabaind. Hie sepulcri eius dies memoratur. R^,

Senan mac Gerrcinn 7rl.

Narach goba, gart co ngail * dochuaid in n6ei ior muir :

dar trilis (.i. dar muir) lir derb^ rosaig * inund a n-Inis Cathaigh.

INtan ro siacht leth lenna * dosfarra/V/ beis ind ingr^ma,

innist^r do Sendn de, • is ann ro b6i ic emaigthe.

Teit in cl/-rech co ngairge • co imel na glasfairrge,

cenglais uad in beist imach, • uair rob ecrait di Narach.

Doroich Ndraeh, maitii in gl^o, • ro ba slan, ro ba ogh b^o,

slicht na biasta roba ban,* . m6rt^r in firt do S^«dn. R},

Connadil .i. ic Eas m^ic nEirc i Connacht^S^ .i. Conwdi is e in t-ainm

7 tuc sua^ mater per pietatem additamentum* sillabae dil .i. dil lim no la

D(a. Conx\2i .i. cli nb cleth. C<7nna .i. in t-ainm 7 tug a ii\dthd\x tuilW

silla^^ fris do bdidhe .i. dil lim € .i. G?nnadil. Nb Cb/iainne .i. o Chill CV?«ainne i n-Uib Maine* Connacht .i. i Sogan, 7 ingen mdthai do

Seanan Insi Cathaig. R^,

» sic Z. innund R^. « Idn Z. * suae R^,

^ additamentum A'', adita m^iitum R^. * muine A**.

HARCH d-8.] MARTYROLOGY OF OENGUS. NOTES. 91 Two fawn-hides, head to head, a grave (?) at my side,a stone under my head, a wet quilt over me always, every single day and every single night. There (is) my Saiger every time ! whoever shall reach it will be pure : to everyone apart there will be communion,to the end of five days and ten. Now Caimech the Bald was the scribe of Ciaran of Saiger.Tis he that wrote the wonderful manuscript, namely CiararCs Journey^ with its many various illuminations, and this book still remains in Saiger. And let everyone who shall study it give a blessing on the soul of Caimech the Bald, and on my own soul.

At March 11, the line containing iter (or eter) is found only in

three MSS. {LB, P, and C) and is apparently a comparatively recent substitute for isindflaith uas flaithih, the reading of R^^

Ciarán of Saigir

Saint Ciarán of Saigir

The CoI Church of Seir Kieran
in County Offaly, Ireland

Bishop of Saighir

Born

5th century[1]
Cape Clear Island O'Driscolls

He assumed possession over the harbour of Clear,566 566. Harbour of Clear, i.e., the bay between Cape Clear and Mizen Head, in the south of the county of Cork.
The most tranquil pillar of the kings.

Died

Unknown

Venerated in

Orthodox Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
Certain Protestant churches

Major shrine

5 March

Ossory, Kingdom of Ossory, St. Kieran's College

St. Ciarán's Church (CoI)

Ciarán of Saigir (5th century – c. 530), also known as Ciarán mac Luaigne or Saint Kieran (Welsh: Cieran), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland [2] and is considered the first saint to have been born in Ireland,[3] although the legend that he preceded Saint Patrick is questionable. Ciarán was bishop of Saighir (Seir-Kieran) and remains the patron saint of its successor, the diocese of Ossory. He is identified with the Saint Piran who is venerated in Cornwall, Wales, and Brittany.[4][5][6] His feast day is celebrated on 5 March. He is sometimes called Saint Ciarán the Elder (Latin: Kyaranus or Ciaranus Maior) to distinguish him from the other 6th-century Irish Saint Ciarán, who was abbot of Clonmacnoise. He shares the feast date of March 5th with his mother, St. Liadán, and his disciple and episcopal successor, St. Carthach the Elder.

Various medieval traditions about the saint are recorded in a number of hagiographic works: two Lives in Latin, both of uncertain date, and two Lives in Irish. The shortest Latin Life is preserved in the Codex Salmanticensis, while the longer one is found in the Codex Kilkenniensis. The latter was rendered into Irish and a second Irish Life was produced after the Protestant Reformation. The latter, though the latest of the four, is thought to draw on the oldest traditions when it deals sympathetically with the Osraige.[4] Primarily intended to edify, educate and entertain, it is unclear to what extent they are an accurate representation of events.

Family background and early career

The martyrologies, notably the Félire Óengusso, and medieval Irish genealogies identify Ciarán's father as Lugna (also Laighne), a nobleman of the Dál Birn rulers of Osraige, and his mother as Liadán, of the Corcu Loígde.[4] Before he was conceived Ciarán's mother had a dream that a star fell into her mouth. She related this dream to the druids who were knowledgeable of such things, and they told her that she would bear a son whose fame and virtues would be known as far as the world’s end.[7] Cape Clear Island south west of County Cork is regarded as his birthplace and it is said that a church was built by him on the island. To the race of Lughaidh [Luy], lewy mac ithu near the sea, Race of Lughaidh. - These were the O'Driscolls, who, according to the Irish genealogists, descend from lewy Lughaidh Mac Ithu, the uncle of Milesius of Spain. See the Miscellany of the Celtic Society, 1849, pp. 56, 57 Here I pass over the boundary;
It behoves me not to pass these people by,
But to detail the renown of the heroes.
O'h-Eidirsceoil,564 chief king of the land, 563. Race of Lughaidh. - These were the O'Driscolls, who, according to the Irish genealogists, descend from lewy Lughaidh Mac Ithu, the uncle of Milesius of Spain. See the Miscellany of the Celtic Society, 1849, pp. 56, 57 Of Corca Laighdhe565 I speak, 565. Corca Laighdhe. - This, which was the tribe name of the O'Driscolls, was also applied to their territory, which originally comprised all the south-west part of the present county of Cork, namely, the baronies of Carbery, Beare, and Bantry; their principality, comprising the parishes of Myross Midhros, Glanbarahane [Castlehaven], Tullagh, Creagh, Kilcoe, Aghadown, and Clear, See Miscellany of the Celtic Society, p. 48-57 and p. 148. He assumed possession over the harbour of Clear,566 566. Harbour of Clear, i.e., the bay between Cape Clear and Mizen Head, in the south of the county of Cork. The most tranquil pillar of the kings. Ciarán's biography is full of obscurities. It is commonly said, however, that he left Ireland before the arrival of St Patrick. Already a Christian, and of royal Osraige blood, he had determined to study for the Church; hence, he secured an education at Tours and Rome.[5] Foundation of Saighir By one account Patrick sent Ciarán to precede him and directed him to build a monastery at the site of a well. When Ciarán asked how he should find this well, Patrick gave him a little bell, that would not ring until he reached the well. 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 On his return from Rome, he built himself a little cell in the woods of Upper Ossory. He settled as a hermit at Saighir (alternately called Seir Kieran, or just Seir) near to the Slieve Bloom Mountains, but soon disciples were attracted to him and a large monastery grew up round his cell, which became the chosen burial place for the Kings of Osraige. A tradition shared by all four Lives describes Ciarán as a holy man wearing skins, whose first pupils are animals in the forest.[4] This corresponds to the image of him as a Western John the Baptist, wearing skins and dwelling in the wilderness, seemingly as a forerunner to St. Patrick as John was to Christ. His mother, Liadan, is said to have gone to Saighir with a group of women who devoted their lives to the service of God and the members of her son's community.[8] Ciaran:Ciaran of Saiger* episcapus episcoporum. Of Dal Bim was he,and Uar was the name of hb well, as Patrick said:Seek Uar, build a convent on its brink, after thirty lasting, fair years we shall meet there, Sier Kieran became the chief church of the Osraighe, a center for the preaching of the Gospel and a large industrial community noted for its wealth.[5] It was superseded by the later monastic foundation of St Canice at nearby Aghaboe.[8]

269. Bressal Bó-díbad. During his reign destruction came upon the kine of Erin, so that of those kine none escaped without perishing, save three heifers, to wit, a dairt (a two-year-old heifer) in Cualnge—from her is Glenn Samaisce in Cualnge— the second dairt in Cliu—hence is Imbliuch fir oendairte in Line— and the third dairt in Cliu Mail maic Ugaini.

LXXVII. BRESAL BO-DIBAD.
Bresal Bó-díbad, eleven years in the kingship of Ireland. There came a pestilence npon the cattle of Ireland in his reign, so that there escaped none save a bull and a heifer, in Glenn Samaisce. Bresal fell at the hands of Lugaid Luaigne s. Finnat Már.

Upon becoming the Déisi Muman, one branch then sailed across to Britain in the 4th century, coming to rule Dyfed. Their presence in Britain may have been initially supported by Magnus Maximus, Roman Emperor, as part of a policy of backing Gaelic vassals to be seafaring defenders of the shores of Britain facing the Irish Sea from pirates.[8] Eoin MacNeill has pointed out that they were not the only Irish colony in the area, with the Uí Liatháin also powerful

Pre-Patrician Arrival

Like the saints Ailbe of Emly, Declán of Ardmore and Abbán, Ciarán is credited with a pre-Patrician career in Munster, though the Lives hardly refer to these putative contemporaries. This tradition may reflect interaction with Christians of south Wales before St Patrick came to Ireland. Ciarán is said to have met Patrick in Italy and made allegiance to him. Some writers say that when St. Patrick arrived in Ireland, Ciarán was already a bishop, having been ordained while on the continent. It seems more likely, however, that he was one of the twelve men that Patrick, on his arrival, consecrated as helpers.[9] He became the first bishop of Ossory. There is long-standing academic disagreement in the dating of the life of St. Ciarán of Saighir. Traditional Irish sources (his vitae, the Félire Óengusso, etc.) ascribe his missionary activity as before St. Patrick, but assign no dates to his life. If true, he would have likely been born somewhere near the end of the 4th century and evangelizing in the 5th, and some writers accept this (Plummer, Hogan, Kenny).[10] Modern scholarship tends to view this with skepticism, (Bearing-Gould, Sharpe, O'Riain, Sperber) pushing his life back variously into the 5th and even 6th centuries.[citation needed] Lanigan and Leslie Stephen place him in the 5th century, based on anecdotes that make him a contemporary of Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Brendan of Birr, and Brendan of Clonfert.[11] Lanigan suggests that Ciarán of Saighir was one of Finnian of Clonard's first students, and indicates that he was likely bishop sometime prior to 544.[12] The Irish annals are silent on the matter. Miracles Legends attribute remarkable miracles to Ciarán.[13] One day when Ciarán was still yet a child he made a beginning of his miracles; for in the air right over him a kite came soaring and, swooping down before his face, lifted a little bird that sat upon her nest. Compassion for the little bird took Cieran, and he deemed it an ill thing to see it in such plight; thereupon the kite turned back and in front of him deposited the bird half dead, sore hurt; but Cieran bade it rise and be whole. The bird arose, and went whole upon its nest again.[7]

One such relates how the Lord Justice of Ireland, Risteárd de Tiúit, went to Athlone, with the intention of sending his brothers to Limerick, Waterford, and Wexford, that he himself might reside in Dublin and Athlone (alternately); but it happened, through the miracles of God, St Peter and St Ciarán, that some of the stones of the castle of Athlone fell upon his head, killing him, his priest and a number of his people.[14]

Another story is that he blessed a well so that “it had the taste of wine or honey for everyone who drank it got drunk as well as filled”.[8] Folklore also relates many charming tales of St Ciarán's influence on wild animals. Tales tell of a fox, badger and wolf who worked with Ciarán and his monks to cut wood and build huts for the brothers. One day the fox stole Ciarán's shoes; upon which Ciarán ordered the badger to retrieve them. The badger found the fox, and bound him from head to tail, returning him to his master; the saint ordered the fox to repent for his sin as a monk would, and to return to his tasks as before.[15] Scholia in the Martyrology of Oengus states that he foretold of the sanctity of Conall and Fachtna of Rosscarbery.[16] Ciarán's date of death is uncertain but thought to have been around 530 from natural causes.[citation needed] Legacy The ruins of Ciarán's monastery - which were long the burial place of the Kings of Osraige - still remain to this day. It is speculated that the site is pre-Christian,[citation needed] and, in common with other Irish sanctuaries, a perpetual fire was said to have burnt there.[citation needed] He is also associated with a monastic site near Errill. Another site exists at the island of Cape Clear, which is said to have been his birthplace and the hermitage of his youth. Church ruins and a well exist here of considerable age.[15] Saint Ciarán is venerated in England, Brittany, Wales, and Scotland, on 5 March.[17] St. Kieran's College (est. 1782) is the oldest Roman Catholic secondary school in Ireland, and is named for the saint.[18] He is sometimes listed as one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, although in the Martyrology of Oengus, Ciarán of Saighir is not enumerated as such, and his association with the students of St. Finnian may be a persistent confusion.

Cathaer Mar, the ancestor-deity of the Lagin2 under one of his several names, naturally gets a prominent place in the Laginian pedigree. At Cathaer the Ui Fhailge (Aui Fhoilgi) and the Ui Bairrche are made to join the main stem. the affiliation of the Ui Bairrche to the Lagin is a fabrication, as we shall see; but the kinship of the Ui Failge3 to the Lagin is beyond reasonable doubt. On the other hand, the descent of the Ui Fhailge from Rus Failgech, son of Catharer Mar, is a genealogical fiction. Actually they take their name from Failbe Berraide, who lived in the early sixth century.4 In 510 he won a battle at Fremainn Mide (AU). In the tract on the Borama this battle is credited to Falge Rot mac Cathair (LL 300 a 5, = RC xiii, 54.5); and the same Failge rot, 'son of Cathaer', occupies second place in the list of kings of the Ui Fahailge, LL. 40 c 3. In AI, 10 b 4, he is called Rus Failge.

2. He is senathair lagen uile, 'ancestor of all the Lagin', LL. 313 b 4.

3. In Met. D. iv, 260 they are called in dara cluag Laigen, 'one of the two hosts of the Lagin.'. The sept of Ui Thairsig, whom Mael Mura notes as of non-Goidelic origin, are called Ui Thairsig Ua Failge (Ir. Nennius, 268 and n.). and in a poem quoted by Mac Firbis (Gen. Tracts 81) are reckoned among the Galioin.

1.-LAGIN. DOMNAINN. GALIOIN.

THE Lagin, who have left their name on the province of Leinster, preserved the tradition that Lagin, Domnainn and Galioin were three names for the one people1. We may interpret the tradition as meaning that these were the names of closely related tribes. So we find coiced nGalion or the like used in exactly the same sense as coiced Lagen, 'the province of the Lagin'.2 An unidentified place in the territory of Dal Mesi Corb (in Co. Wicklow) was known as Dun nGalion.3 Similarly the name Domnainn4 is some times applied to the early Lagin in fabulous history, as when Crimthann Sciathbel, who is said to have been made king of the Lagin5 by Eremon, is described as 'of the Domnainn'.6 So Inber Domnann, the Irish name of Tree of strings crann na teud the history of the harp baile atha thid town of the ford of teud Anglicised corruptly malahide bay malahide ford malahide town

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Malahide Bay, Co. Dublin, would appear to preserve the memory of the Donmainn.1
The persistence of the view that Galioin and Domnainn were but other names for the Lagin is especially remarkable because it was in direct conflict with the teaching of the pseudo-historians and the genealogists. According to these, the Galioin and the Domnainn were among the pre-Goidelic invaders of Ireland,2 whereas the Lagin were Goidels, descended from Eremon, son of Mil.3 In the course of time the names Galioin and Domnainn dropped out of use, for names which connoted inferiority of social status could not be expected to retain their popularity, and only the honourable name of Lagin continued in use. In order to account for the obsolescence of the two former names, a convenient legend was invented that the peoples themselves were exterminated.4

1. Compare Galion Ira 7 Domna[i]nd anmand sin do Lagnib, LL 311 a 20 (genealogies of the Lagin), and do gairtis dano 45 Iri hanmannoib, Domna[i]nd, Galeoin, Lagin, O'Mulconry § 781 (and cf. § 779). Similarly,RC xv, 299. Note the use of Domnand (properly genitive) for Domnaind in these texts, owing to the influence of the synonymous Fir Dommann (-nd).

2. e.g. coiced nGaleoin, LU 4079; coiced Galion, LL 116 b 5; cuiged Gailian_ Eriu viii, 12.

3 LL 311 a 27, = Dun nGaileoin, ib, 377 a 45.

ui tairrsich

Ui Tairrsig, Firbolgs of Lein., Bb. 16 b, Lec. 555; ¶ in ?i Failgi, Ll. 378, Nen., Fir. 59, K. 124, Sc. 12 a, Sd. 7 b, Sil. 92, Lis. 210 b, Sas. 6582, Lg. 40, Cf. 76; ¶ Druim Criadh and Glaise Bulgain in it; ¶ of Corcu Oche C?ile Chontuind, Os. iv. 288; ¶ Finn was of ?i T., Cf., Sil.; ¶ of the Galeoin in Lein., v. J. M'Neill's Duanaire Finn, lxxxii.

4. A later form is Domnannaig (compare Cruthin Cruithnig, Brettain Bretnaig). When Mac Neill asserts that, according to 'Irish tradition' (i.e. Lebor Gabala), 'the Dumnones (Fir Domnonn) were aborigines ' (York~ shire Celtic Studies ii, 41), he distorts the facts, as the reader of Chapter iv and the present chapter will readily perceive. In support of this assertion he invents a purely fanciful explanation of their name : ' I interpret Dumnones to mean the dim or deep folk," and this to mean remote and primitive in origin (ibid.).

5. He is ri os gasraid Galian, Met. D. iii, 164; ri Laighen, Todd's Ir. Nennius, 122.

6. Dorat [sc. Eremon] rige coicid Galian do Chrimthan Sciathbel de Domnannchaib LL 15 a 16-17. Inber Domnann, Tree of strings crann na teud the history of the harp baile atha thid town of the ford of teud Anglicised corruptly malahide bay malahide ford malahide town Another fabulous king of Lagin, Eochu Aincherm, is similarly described as do Dommandchaib, Gen. Tracts 148. A, immediately after the death of Feidlimidh, monarch of Ireland, son of the great Tuathal, the kings of Ireland assembled at Tara, and Cathair Mor, king of Leinster, was elected as the new Monarch of Ireland. To support his election, short as his reign was, we find him engaged in many bloody wars. In the 3rd year of his reign, before he led his troops to the fatal battle of Moigh Acha, in Meath, he made his will, believing he would not survive the days encounter. He divided his possessions amongst his 30 sons, in a Will called "The Will of Cathair More" (153 AD). His posterity formed the principal families in Leinster. His will:

1.Ros Failgeach, from who descended the O'Connors (Faley). Given Leinster, 10 shields, swords, cups

2.Daire Barrach, ancestor of O'Gorman. Given Tuath Laighean (Fingal and Dublin). 150 spears, 50 swords, 50 gold rings, 150 cloaks, 7 military standards

3.Bresal Einechglas. 7 ships, 50 shields, 5 swords, 5 chariots and horses, and lands of River Amergin

4.Cetach. Leaves nothing so he won't be separated from his brothers

5.Fergus Luasgan. Leaves nothing but his brothers give him ample possessions

6.Ailill Cethech. Backgammon table and men for lands were of no use to him since he never attended to any study but gaming

7.Aengus Nic. Leaves nothing but his brothers give him ample possessions

8.Eochu Timine. Leaves him only his benediction and calls him a weak man

9.Comthanan (Crimthann), ancestor of Duff, of Leinster. 50 brass balls, with brass maces to play with; 10 backgammon tables, and 2 chess tables Duff see hart pedigree flann ofloinn

10. Curigh, who was slain by Fionn MacCumhal (Finn MacCoole)

He had the following children:

1.Slectaire; had a daughter, Corcraine, who was the mother of Diarmid Ua Duibhne, and of Oscar, son of Oissin

2.Uchdelbh, a daughter, who was wife of Fionn Fothart, a son of Conn of the Hundred Battles.

11. Landabaria, a daughter who was the 3rd wife of the 110th Monarch, Conn Ceadcathach (Conn of the Hundred Battles), who succeeded Cathair Mor in the Monarchy

12. Fiacha Baicheda (the lame), who is described below. Leaves country about Wexford, 50 large vessels of yew, 50 cups, 50 pied horses with brass bits

90. Ros Failgeach: son of Cahir M?r; a quo Hy-Failgeagh ("failgeach:" Irish, abounding with rings), meaning the descendants of this Failgeach, and afterwards the name of the territory itself which they possessed, which has been anglicised Offaley, and which is the origin of the epithet applied to the O'Connors of this territory - namely, the O'Connors "Faley," signifying the O'Connors of Offaley. Ros Failgeach had a brother named Dair?, who was the ancestor of O'Gorman; and a brother Comthanan, who was the ancestor of Duff, of Leinster.

The southern Eile, mild to the poets, The Southern Eile. - This is Eliogarty, i.e., Eile Ui-Fhogartaigh, or O'Fogarty's Ely, a barony in the county of Tipperary. Of the race of the generous Eochaidh Baillderg; Eochaidh Baillderg. - Carntemple or Kilbreckan lies in an area rich in ancient religious buildings.[2] Westropp writes elsewhere, "Less than a mile to the north [of Clare Abbey] the grim stone faces on the ivied church of Doora stare across the swamp. Little over a mile to the east stands the venerable church of Killoe (Killuga in 1302), the cell of some Lingad, perhaps the earlier patron of Killaloe. About a mile from Killoe, the "Cyclopean" foundations, rude earthworks and well of Kilbrecan or Carntemple, mark the monastery, traditionally the earliest in Clare, founded towards the end of the fifth century by Brecan, son of Eocliy Baillderg, one of the earliest evangelisers of Thomond and Aran."[3] He was the son of Caerthann Fionn, king of Thomond, in St. Patrick's time. See Ogygia, Part III., c. 82. According to this, O'Fogarty was not of the Elian race, but of the Dal-Cais of Thomond. 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.

Populous its tribes, and its purple hazels,The land which O'Fogarta has got. O'Fogarta, now anglicised Fogarty, without the prefix O'. This family became extinct, in the senior line, in the last century, and was succeeded by the Lanigans of Castlefogarty.

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