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O'Boyle Donegal
The O'Boyle (Ó Baoighill) were a family of the Uí Néill tribe of the Northern Gaels. The Northern O'Neill were a great tribal dynasty of the North Gaels. The O'Boyles were one of the principal families of the Cenél Conaill within the Uí Néill tribe and originally Chiefs of the Three Tuaths in the northwest of Tír Chonaill (County Donegal). When these lands passed to The MacSweeneys (Mac Suibhne), the O'Boyle became chiefs of Tír Ainmhireach, later to be known as Críoch Bhaoigheallach, or O'Boyles country, now the Barony of Boylagh. This timeline traces the O'Boyle clan back to Úgaine Mór. Ugainy Mór (Úgaine Mór) King 499-459 BC (Foster-son of Prince Eochaidh Buadhach & Macha Mong Ruad) ¦ ¦ ¦ Laeghaire Lorc Colethach Caol-bhreagh (Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uí Néill
The Uí Néill (Irish pronunciation: ; meaning "descendants of Niall") are Irish dynasties who claim descent from Niall Noígíallach (Niall of the Nine Hostages), a historical King of Tara who died c. 405. They are generally divided into the Northern and Southern Uí Néill.Downham, 2018, pp. 93-7. Branches The founders of the Uí Néill branches are the alleged sons of Niall Noigiallach, seven in all: The Northern Uí Néill branch: * Conall Gulban, ancestor of the Cenél Conaill dynasty, * Eógan, ancestor of the Cenél nEógain dynasty. The Southern Uí Néill branch: * Éndae, ancestor of the Cenél nÉndai, * Coirpre, ancestor of the Cenél Coirpri dynasty, * Lóegaire, ancestor of the Cenél Lóegaire dynasty, * Conall Cremthainne, ancestor of the Clann Cholmáin and Síl nÁedo Sláine, * Fiachu, ancestor of the Cenél Fiachach. All these men were in their lifetime known as members of Connachta dynasty, or as "the sons of Niall." The term Uí Néill did not, by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cenél Conaill
Cenél is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Cenél Conaill, the name of the "kindred" or descendants of Conall Gulban, son of Niall Noígiallach defined by oral and recorded history *Cenél nEógain (in English, Cenel Eogan) is the name of the "kindred" or descendants of Eógan mac Néill, son of Niall Noígiallach who founded the kingdom of Tír Eógain in the 5th century *Kin groups forming part of Dal Riata, most of which, after a varied evolution eventually became the Scottish region of Argyll **Cenél nÓengusa, a kin group who ruled the island of Islay, and perhaps nearby Colonsay. After spending 4 centuries as part of Norway, and another 4 as part of the quasi-independent Lordship of the Isles, this region became Scottish in the late 15th century. ** Cenél nGabráin, the "kindred" of Gabrán, who ruled Kintyre, Knapdale (at that time including the lands between Loch Awe and Loch Fyne - Craignish, Ardscotnish, Glassary, and Glenary), the island of Arran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Donegal
County Donegal ( ; ga, Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconnell (), after the historic territory of the same name, on which it was based. Donegal County Council is the local council and Lifford the county town. The population was 166,321 at the 2022 census. Name County Donegal is named after the town of Donegal () in the south of the county. It has also been known by the alternative name County Tyrconnell, Tirconnell or Tirconaill (, meaning 'Land of Conall'). The latter was its official name between 1922 and 1927. This is in reference to the kingdom of Tír Chonaill and the earldom that succeeded it, which the county was based on. History County Donegal was the home of the once-mighty Clann Dálaigh, whose best-known branch was the Clann Ó Domhnaill, better known in English as the O'Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boylagh
Boylagh ( ga, Baollaigh) is a historic barony in County Donegal in Ireland. Patrick Weston Joyce said the name ''Boylagh'' comes from the territory of the O'Boyles. It was created along with Banagh when the former barony of Boylagh and Banagh was split in 1791 by an Act of the Parliament of Ireland.1791 (31 Geo. 3) c. 48 "An Act for the Division of Certain Baronies of Great Extent in the Counties of Donegal and Meath" Boylagh is bordered by the baronies of Kilmacrenan to the north east, Rapboe South to the east, and Banagh to the south; to the north and west is the Atlantic Ocean. Civil parishes The barony contains the following civil parishes: *Inishkeel (also partly in barony of Banagh) * Killybegs Lower (also partly in barony of Banagh) *Lettermacaward * Templecrone Towns and villages Settlements in the barony include Annagary, Burtonport, Doochary, Dungloe, Glenties, Kilrean, Lettermacaward, Portnoo, and Rinnafarset. Other features include the island of Arra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Úgaine Mór
Úgaine Mór, son of Eochu Buadach, son of Dui Ladrach, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, the 66th High King of Ireland. Biography He was the foster-son of Cimbáeth and Macha#Macha Mong Ruad, Macha Mong Ruad and he took power by killing his predecessor (and his foster-mother's killer) Rechtaid Rígderg. The ''Lebor Gabála Érenn'' says that, as well as Ireland, he ruled "Alba to the Sea of Wight" – i.e. the whole of the island of Great Britain, Britain – and that "some say" he ruled all of Europe. He married Cessair Chrothach, daughter of the king of the Gauls, who bore him twenty-two sons and three daughters. He is said to have divided Ireland into twenty-five shares, one for each of his children. For example, his son Lóegaire Lorc ruled Life and Cobthach Cóel Breg ruled Bregia. His daughter Muirisc ruled Mag Muirisce, from which Murrisk is said to have taken its name. This partitioning of the island stood for three hundred years, unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conn Of The Hundred Battles
Conn Cétchathach (; "of the Hundred Battles"), son of Fedlimid Rechtmar, was a semi-legendary High King of Ireland and the ancestor of the Connachta, and, through his descendant Niall Noígiallach, the Uí Néill dynasties, which dominated Ireland in the early Middle Ages. Literary tradition Early life and accession The ''Annals of the Four Masters'' says that five roads to Tara, which had never been seen before, were discovered on the night of Conn's birth. According to the ''Lebor Gabála Érenn'', he took power after killing his predecessor Cathair Mór. In other sources his predecessor is Dáire Doimthech. The ''Lia Fáil'', the coronation stone at Tara which was said to roar when the rightful king stood on it, roared under Conn for the first time since Cúchulainn split it with his sword when it failed to roar for Lugaid Riab nDerg. In the saga ''Baile in Scáil'' ("The Phantom's Ecstatic Vision"), Conn treads on the stone by accident while walking the ramparts of Tara, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Mac Cuinn
Art mac Cuinn ("son of Conn"), also known as Art Óenfer (literally "one man", used in the sense of "lone", "solitary", or "only son"), was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. Siblings According to the legend, '' Echtra Condla'', he was not Conn's only son: he had a brother called Connla, who fell in love with a fairy woman, and went with her to Mag Mell, never to be seen again. After that, Art was alone and gained his nickname, ''Art Óenfer''. Geoffrey Keating says he had two brothers, Connla and Crionna, who were killed by their uncle Eochaid Finn. Biography Another fairy woman, Bé Chuille, who had been banished to Ireland by the Tuatha Dé Danann, fell in love with Art, but, when she learned his father Conn was still alive and a widower, agreed to marry him instead, on the condition that Art be banished from Tara for a year. The injustice caused famine in Ireland, until Art forced Bé Chuille to leave as a forfeit in a game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairbre Lifechair
Cairbre Lifechair ("lover of the Liffey"), son of Cormac mac Airt, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He came to the throne after the death of Eochaid Gonnat. During his time Bresal Belach was king of Leinster, and refused to pay the ''bórama'' or cow-tribute to the High King, but Cairbre defeated him in the Battle of Dubchomar, and from then on exacted the ''bórama'' without a battle. Reign According to the 8th-century text known as ''The Expulsion of the Déisi'', Cairbre takes the throne when his father Cormac is blinded by Óengus Gaíbúaibthech of the Déisi, it being against the law for the king to have any physical blemish. The chronicles indicate that Eochaid Gonnat succeeded Cormac, but was soon succeeded by Cairbre following his death in battle. According to '' Cath Gabhra'' (''The Battle of Gabhra''), a narrative of the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, Cairbre married Aine, daughter of Fionn mac Cumhaill. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiacha Sraibhtine
Fiacha (earlier Fíachu) is a name borne by numerous figures from Irish history and mythology, including: * Fiacha Cennfinnán, High King of Ireland in the 16th or 20th century BC * Fiacha mac Delbaíth, High King in the 14th or 18th century BC * Fiacha Labhrainne, High King in the 11th or 15th century BC * Fiacha Finscothach, High King in the 10th or 14th century BC * Fiacha Finnailches, High King in the 9th or 13th century BC * Fiacha Tolgrach, High King in the 6th or 9th century BC * Fiacha Sraibhtine, High King in the 3rd century BC * Fiacha Finnfolaidh, High King in the 1st century AD * Fiacha Muilleathan, a king of Munster in the 3rd century AD * Fiachu mac Néill, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages Similar names * Fiach * Fiachra * Fiachna Fiachna or Fiachnae is a name borne by several figures from Irish history and legend, including: Meaning- War Dodger- Fiach-Nah "Hippie" (Battle Fairy) * Fiachnae mac Báetáin, king of the Dál nAraidi in the 7th century *Fiachnae mac D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muiredach Tirech
Muiredach Tirech son of Fiacha Sraibhtine, was a semi-legendary High King of Ireland of the fourth century. He gained power by exiling the three Collas, who had killed his father. The Collas later returned and tried to provoke him into trying to kill them. When he did not, they entered his service and led his armies. He was overthrown by Cáelbad. “In the beginning of the fourth century, Muiredeach Tireach, High King of Ireland, directed his nephews, the three Collas, to face north and win sword land for themselves. On the ruins of the old kingdom of Uladh they founded a new kingdom—of Airgíalla—which was henceforth for nearly a thousand years to play an important part in the history of Ireland, and which was possessed afterwards by their descendants, the MacMahons, O'Hanlons, O'Carrolls, and Maguires.” According to the ''Lebor Gabála Érenn''R. A. Stewart MacAlister (ed. & trans.), ''Lebor Gabála Érenn'' Part V, Irish Texts Society, 1956, p. 345-347 and its derivat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eochaid Mugmedon
Eochaid Mugmedón () was a semi-legendary Irish king. According to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, Eochaid was a High King of Ireland, best known as the father of Niall of the Nine Hostages and ancestor of the Uí Néill and Connachta dynasties. He is not mentioned in the list of kings of Tara in the ''Baile Chuind'' (The Ecstasy of Conn), but is included in the synthetic lists of High Kings in the ''Lebor Gabála Érenn'', the Irish annals, Geoffrey Keating's history, and the ''Laud Synchronisms''. According to the ''Lebor Gabála Érenn'' and its derivative works, Eochaid was the son of the former High King Muiredach Tírech, a descendant of Conn Cétchathach. Muiredach was overthrown and killed by Cáelbad son of Cronn Bradruí, an Ulster king, but Cáelbad only ruled one year before Eochaid killed him and took the throne. The ''Lebor Gabála'' says he extracted the ''bórama'' or cow tribute from Leinster without a battle. However, Keating records that he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niall Of The Nine Hostages
Niall ''Noígíallach'' (; Old Irish "having nine hostages"), or Niall of the Nine Hostages, was a legendary, semi-historical Irish king who was the ancestor of the Uí Néill dynasties that dominated Ireland from the 6th to the 10th centuries. Irish annalistic and chronicle sources place his reign in the late 4th and early 5th centuries, although modern scholars, through critical study of the annals, date him about half a century later. Historicity and dates Niall is presumed, on the basis of the importance of his sons and grandsons, to have been a historical person,Francis J. Byrne, ''Irish Kings and High-Kings'', Second Edition, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001, but the early Irish annals say little about him. The ''Annals of Inisfallen'' date his death before 382, and the ''Chronicon Scotorum'' to 411.Kathleen Hughes, "The church in Irish society, 400–800, in Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), ''A New History of Ireland Vol I: Prehistoric and Early Ireland'', Oxford University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
