from the Ó Coileáin of Uí Chonaill Gabra, once the most powerful sept of the Uí Fidgenti. A variety of sources show that Uí Fidgenti was the most prominent...
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also among the septs of the Uí Fidgenti. As the Ui Fidgenti were the ruling clan in Limerick after 400 a.d., the Uí Fidgenti still made a substantial contribution...
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descendants of Donnubán, referring to the 10th century ruler of the Uí Fidgenti, Donnubán mac Cathail. During the 12th and 13th century, O'Donovan relations...
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Eóganachta (section Competition with the Uí Néill)
Sometimes also included are the Uí Fidgenti (O'Donovan, O'Collins, O'Flannery, Lyons, among others.) and the related Uí Liatháin (Lyons, Gleeson, others)...
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Ó Coileáin (section Kings of Uí Chonaill Gabra)
much of their history the Uí Chonaill Gabra were in turn the leading sept of the greater regional overkingdom of the Uí Fidgenti, considered among the highest...
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The Uí Liatháin (IPA:[ˈiːˈlʲiəhaːnʲ]) were an early kingdom of Munster in southern Ireland. They belonged the same kindred as the Uí Fidgenti, and the...
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Thomas Cairney, the O'Cullanes were one of the chiefly families of the Uí Fidgenti who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle...
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List of kings of Munster (section Uí Ímair, 960–977)
extent be blamed. At this time also flourished the semi-independent Uí Fidgenti and Uí Liatháin, a pair of shadowy sister kingdoms whose official origins...
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tenth-century ruler of the Irish regional kingdom of Uí Fidgenti, and possibly also of the smaller overkingdom of Uí Chairbre Áebda within that. In contemporary...
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associate her with the O'Keeffes and O'Donovans. The latter, originally from Uí Fidgenti in North Munster with its own traditions, where their original goddess...
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independent until disintegrating in the later Middle Ages. Uí Liatháin was the sister kingdom of Uí Fidgenti, and thus its people share common ancestry with the...
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From this sept came Daniel O'Connell of Derrynane, "The Liberator." Uí Fidgenti The O'Donovan of Clancahill Corcu Duibne O'Shea of Iveragh (now represented...
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Donnubán mac Cathail, Tigerna (Chief of the Name) of the Irish clan Uí Fidgenti, with whom the Dál gCais were vying for territory, and who were in alliance...
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been the inauguration site of the Uí Fidgenti. Later tradition finds them in alliance with Mongfind's descendants the Uí Fiachrach Aidhne, especially in...
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the Dáirine were represented, as stated, by the Corcu Loígde, the Uí Fidgenti and Uí Liatháin, as well as a few other early historical kindreds of both...
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Munster were the Eóganachta, while their allies and possible cousins the Uí Fidgenti ruled in the Limerick area (see Byrne 2001; Begley 1906). Although the...
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descended from a different lineage (that of Dáire Cerbba), the Uí Liatháin and Uí Fidgenti are sometimes lumped in with the latter group. According to the...
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Medieval Munster were Iarmuman (West Munster), Osraige (Ossory), Uí Liatháin, Uí Fidgenti, Éile, Múscraige, Ciarraige Luachra, Corcu Duibne, Corcu Baiscinn...
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the Shadow; murdered in Penance of the Damned. Conri - Warlord of the Uí Fidgenti. First appeared in the short story "Cry Wolf"; became a more substantive...
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Kings of Munster. At some point later it came into the possession of the Uí Fidgenti and was their capital until the late 12th century. Before them it may...
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National Monument. According to tradition, they descend from the ancient Uí Fidgenti (Uí Chonaill Gabra sept) of County Limerick, being descendants of Dáire...
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several centuries) in some sources. He belonged to a branch of the Uí Fidgenti known as the Uí Conaill Gabra, ancestors of the later famous septs of O'Connell...
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resisting Uí Fidgenti subjugation. In the region of Thomond in County Clare, the Déisi destroyed the Corco Mruad in 744 and the Uí Fidgenti fought a battle...
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of Uí Fidgenti and an ancestor of the medieval and modern O'Donovan family. He may have succeeded his brother Uainide mac Donnubáin as King of Uí Chairpre...
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western Ireland, in what was once the territory of the kingdom of the Uí Fidgenti. The name occurs in only a small number of surviving sources, which for...
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Braccan also occurs early in the pedigrees of the Uí Fidgenti and Uí Dedaid, close kindred of the Uí Liatháin. MacNeill further associates this with the...
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century. It is likely that the sometimes powerful Uí Liatháin and their close kin the Uí Fidgenti originally belonged to the Érainn/Dáirine as well,...
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L21>>DF13>ZZ10_1>>Z2534>>>L226>>Z17669. The Eoganacht and their close relatives, the Uí Fidgenti, whom they have a corresponding genetic and genealogical relationship...
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the Eóganachta, while their longtime allies and possible cousins the Uí Fidgenti ruled in the Limerick area. Feidlimid mac Cremthanin, king-bishop of...
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gCais Deirgtine Déisi Eóganachta Érainn Iarmuman Mairtine Múscraige Uí Fidgenti Uí Liatháin Kingdom of Desmond Auteini in County Galway, identified with...
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