The Eóganacht Ninussa were a branch of the
Eóganacht dynasty. According to Francis John Byrne,
"were settled in Northwest Clare 1 and Aran presumably since the conquest of that are in the 5th century, and were important enough to be grouped as one of the seven main branches of the Eóganachta at some stage in the compilation of the Lebor Gabála (in the 8th century ?). They were sufficiently well known c. 900 to furnish the hero of a popular saga 2 but seem to have been eclipsed by the end of the 10th century, and find no place in the Annals or the genealogies. The few later references are vague and tantalizing rather than informative and give the impressive of being of a pseudo-antiquarian nature. Their one concrete frlic is the village (and fort ?) of Onaght 3 in Aran;"
* 1
Corcomroe and
The Burren
The Burren ( ; ) is a karst/glaciokarst landscape centred in County Clare, on the west coast of Republic of Ireland, Ireland.
* 2 Ailill Ochair Ága, father of the protagonist, ''Immran Curaig Maíle Dúin''
* 3 The village of Onaght, and the fort of
Dún Aonghasa
References
* "The Eóganacht Ninussa",
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 ...
, in ''
Éigse
''Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies'' is an academic journal devoted to the study of the Irish language and literature. It began in 1923 as part of an initiative by the Senate of the National University of Ireland to use the Adam Boyd Simpson F ...
'' 9, 1958/61, (pt. 1), pp. 18–29, 200
orrig.
* "Origins of the Eoghnachta", David Sproule, ''Eiru'' 35, 1984, pp. 31–37.
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