Óengus Bolg, son of
Lugaid, son of Mac Nia, son of
Mac Con
Lugaid Mac Con, often known simply as Mac Con, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He belonged to the Corcu LoÃgde, and thus to the Dáirine. His father was Macnia mac Lugdach, and his mothe ...
, son (or descendant) of
Lugaid LoÃgde
Lugaid LoÃgde "Lugaid of the Fawn/Calf Goddess", also known as Lugaid mac Dáire, was a legendary King of Tara and High King of Ireland. He is a son of Dáire Doimthech, ancestor of the Dáirine, and gives his epithet to their principal royal se ...
, son of
Dáire Doimthech
Dáire Doimthech (Dáire "poor house"), alias Dáire SÃrchréchtach ("the ever-wounded"), son of Sithbolg, was a legendary King of Tara and High King of Ireland, and one of the eponymous ancestors of the proto-historical Dáirine and historical ...
,
[O'Brien, p. 262][O'Donovan] was a king of the
Corcu LoÃgde
The Corcu LoÃgde (Corcu Lóegde, Corco Luigde, Corca Laoighdhe, Laidhe), meaning Gens of the Calf Goddess, also called the SÃl Lugdach meic Itha, were a kingdom centred in West County Cork who descended from the proto-historical rulers of M ...
, and an ancestor of the
Eóganachta
The Eóganachta (Modern , ) were an Irish dynasty centred on Rock of Cashel, 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 De ...
"inner circle" through his daughter
Aimend, married to
Conall Corc. This serves to legitimize the coming rule of the Eóganachta in
Munster
Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" (). Following the Nor ...
, still ruled by the powerful
Dáirine
The Dáirine (Dárine, Dáirfine, Dáirfhine, Dárfine, Dárinne, Dairinne), later known dynastically as the Corcu LoÃgde and associated, were the proto-historical rulers of Munster before the rise of the Eóganachta in the 7th century AD. They ...
, of whom the Corcu LoÃgde are the sovereign royal sept.
The ruling sept of Corcu LoÃgde during the later Middle Ages, the UÃ 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
The Iverni (, ') were a people of early Ireland first mentioned in Ptolemy's 2nd century ''Geography'' as living in the extreme south-west of the island. He also locates a "city" called Ivernis (, ') in their territory, and observes that this se ...
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
Francis John Byrne (1934 – 30 December 2017) was an Irish historian.
Born in Shanghai where his father, a Dundalk man, captained a ship on the Yellow River, Byrne was evacuated with his mother to Australia on the outbreak of World War II. A ...
, ''Irish Kings and High-Kings''.
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 ...
. 2nd revised edition, 2001.
*
Thomas Charles-Edwards, ''Early Christian Ireland''.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...
. 2000.
* 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 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 ...
. 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 Republic of Ireland, Irish historian and professor emeritus of medieval history at University College Cork. He earned his BA in history and Irish from UCC, graduating in 1964.
...
(ed.)
Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502 University College, Cork
Corpus of Electronic Texts 1997.
*
John O'Donovan (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) () is a statutory independent research institute in Dublin, Ireland. It was established, under the Institute For Advanced Studies Act 1940, by the government of the then Taoiseach, Éamon de Vale ...
. 1946.
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