Óengus Bolg, son of
Lugaid, son of Mac Nia, son of
Mac Con, son (or descendant) of
Lugaid Loígde, son of
Dáire Doimthech,
[O'Brien, p. 262][O'Donovan] was a king of the
Corcu Loígde
The Corcu Loígde (Corcu Lóegde, Corco Luigde, Corca Laoighdhe, Laidhe), meaning Gens of the Calf Goddess, also called the Síl Lugdach meic Itha, were a kingdom centred in West County Cork who descended from the proto-historical rulers of Mun ...
, and an ancestor of the
Eóganachta
The Eóganachta or Eoghanachta () were an Irish dynasty centred on Cashel which dominated southern Ireland (namely the Kingdom of Munster) from the 6/7th to the 10th centuries, and following that, in a restricted form, the Kingdom of Desmond, ...
"inner circle" through his daughter
Aimend, married to
Conall Corc
Corc mac Luigthig (340-379),Genealogy of the House of Mac-Carthy formerly Sovereign of the Two Momonies or Southern Ireland, P. Louis Lainé, pg. 26, https://celt.ucc.ie/published/F830000-001.html also called Conall Corc, Corc of Cashel, and Corc ...
. This serves to legitimize the coming rule of the Eóganachta in
Munster
Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" ( ga, rí ruirech). Following th ...
, still ruled by the powerful
Dáirine, of whom the Corcu Loígde are the sovereign royal sept.
The ruling sept of Corcu Loígde during the later Middle Ages, the Uí Builc,
took their name from him. They later became known as the O'Driscolls.
Mythology
T. F. O'Rahilly believed Óengus Bolg is unhistorical and simply another emanation of the hypothetical
Érainn ancestor deity
Bolg.
[O'Rahilly, pp. 49 ff, 63-5, 189] Thus, according to O'Rahilly, he is present to divinely represent the Érainn in a marriage to the Eóganachta.
Notes
References
*
Francis John Byrne, ''Irish Kings and High-Kings''.
Four Courts Press
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Founded in 1970 by Michael Adams, who died in February 2009, its early publications were primarily theological, notably t ...
. 2nd revised edition, 2001.
*
Thomas Charles-Edwards, ''Early Christian Ireland''.
Cambridge University Press
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Cambr ...
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* Vernam Hull
"Conall Corc and the Corco Luigde" in ''Proceedings of the Modern Languages Association of America 62'' (1947): 887-909.
* Vernam Hull
"On Conall Corc and the Corcu Luigde" in ''
Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie
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47, Issue 1'' (1959): 64-74.
* Paul MacCotter, ''Medieval Ireland: Territorial, Political and Economic Divisions''.
Four Courts Press
Four Courts Press is an independent Irish academic publishing house, with its office at Malpas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Founded in 1970 by Michael Adams, who died in February 2009, its early publications were primarily theological, notably t ...
. 2008.
* Michael A. O'Brien (ed.) with intr. by John V. Kelleher, ''Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae''.
DIAS. 1976. / partial digital edition:
Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Donnchadh Ó Corráin (28 February 1942 – 25 October 2017) was an Irish historian and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork. He earned his BA in history and Irish from that institution, graduating in 1964.
He was ...
(ed.)
Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502 University College, Cork
Corpus of Electronic Texts 1997.
*
John O'Donovan John O'Donovan may refer to:
*John O'Donovan (scholar) (1806–1861), Irish language scholar and place-name expert
*John O'Donovan (politician) (1908–1982), Irish TD and Senator
*John O'Donovan (police commissioner) (1858–1927), New Zealand pol ...
(ed.), "The Genealogy of Corca Laidhe", in
Miscellany of the Celtic Society'. Dublin: Printed for the Celtic Society. 1849
alternative scan*
T. F. O'Rahilly, ''Early Irish History and Mythology''.
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) ( ga, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a statutory independent research institute in Ireland. It was established in 1940 on the initiative of the Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, in Dub ...
. 1946.
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