Dúngal mac Fergaile (sometime Dúnlang mac Fergaile) was king of

Osraige Osraige (Old Irish) or Osraighe (Classical Irish), Osraí (Modern Irish), anglicized as Ossory, was a medieval Irish kingdom comprising what is now County Kilkenny and western County Laois, corresponding to the Diocese of Ossory. The home o ...

from 802 until his death in 842.

History

Dúngal mac Fergaile was of the old Ossorian lineage called the

Dál Birn ''Dál Birn'' (''"portion" of Birn'') is a tribal epithet found in Irish sources which refers to the descendants of Loegaire Birn Buadach, the hereditary ruling lineage of the kingdom of Osraige in Ireland. Lineage This illustrious lineage produ ...

, who traced their descent from

Óengus Osrithe Óengus Osrithe son of Criomthann Mór (son of Iar mac Sétnai) and his wife Cindnit, daughter of Dáire mac Degad and Morand, was the semi-legendary first king and eponymous ancestor of the Osraige people of Ireland. His supposed floruit lies ...

the first

king of Osraige The kings of Osraige (alternately spelled ''Osraighe'' and Anglicised as ''Ossory'') reigned over the medieval Irish kingdom of Osraige from the first or second century AD until the late twelfth century. Osraige was a semi-provincial kingdom in s ...

through his son and successor Loegaire Birn Buadach, of the second century. King Dúngal took the

throne A throne is the seat of state of a potentate or dignitary, especially the seat occupied by a sovereign on state occasions; or the seat occupied by a pope or bishop on ceremonial occasions. "Throne" in an abstract sense can also refer to the mona ...

of Osraige after the death of his father, king

Fergal mac Anmchada Fergal mac Anmchada (died 802) was a King of Osraige in modern County Kilkenny. He was of the dynasty that ruled over Osraige in the early Christian period known as the Dál Birn and was the son of Anmchad mac Con Cherca (died circa 761), a previ ...

(K.O., d. 802) at a critical point in its history, just at the dawn of the

Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

age in Ireland. Dúngal mac Fergaile's long reign was part of a longer period of steady royal succession and political stability within the kingdom of Osraige. He is also noteworthy as being the father of two other kings of Osraige;

Cerball mac Dúnlainge Cerball mac Dúnlainge (patronymic sometimes spelled ''Dúngaile'', ) (died 888) was king of Ossory in south-east Ireland. The kingdom of Ossory (''Osraige'') occupied roughly the area of modern County Kilkenny and western County Laois and lay b ...

(K.O. 842-888), his successor whose fame is recounted in the

Fragmentary Annals of Ireland The ''Fragmentary Annals of Ireland'' or ''Three Fragments'' are a Middle Irish combination of chronicles from various Irish annals and narrative history. They were compiled in the kingdom of Osraige, probably in the lifetime of Donnchad mac Gil ...

and Riacan mac Dúnlainge (K.O. 888-894); as well as their sister, princess Land ingen Dúngaile, wife of the high king

Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid Máel Sechnaill mac Máel Ruanaida (Modern Irish: ''Maolsheachlann Mac Maolruanaidh''), also known as Máel Sechnaill I, anglicised as Malachy MacMulrooney (died 27 November 862) was High King of Ireland. The Annals of Ulster use the Old Irish ...

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Notes

References

* ''Annals of Ulster'' a
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a
University College Cork
* ''Book of Leinster'',''Reges Ossairge'' a

a
University College Cork
* ''Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502'', compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin a

a
University College Cork

External links

The Fitzpatrick – Mac Giolla Phádraig Clan Society
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