• from the Ó Coileáin of Chonaill Gabra, once the most powerful sept of the Fidgenti. A variety of sources show that Fidgenti was the most prominent...
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    also among the septs of the Fidgenti. As the Ui Fidgenti were the ruling clan in Limerick after 400 a.d., the Fidgenti still made a substantial contribution...
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    descendants of Donnubán, referring to the 10th century ruler of the Fidgenti, Donnubán mac Cathail. During the 12th and 13th century, O'Donovan relations...
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    Sometimes also included are the Fidgenti (O'Donovan, O'Collins, O'Flannery, Lyons, among others.) and the related Liatháin (Lyons, Gleeson, others)...
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    much of their history the Chonaill Gabra were in turn the leading sept of the greater regional overkingdom of the Fidgenti, considered among the highest...
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    The Liatháin (IPA:[ˈiːˈlʲiəhaːnʲ]) were an early kingdom of Munster in southern Ireland. They belonged the same kindred as the Fidgenti, and the...
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  • Thomas Cairney, the O'Cullanes were one of the chiefly families of the Fidgenti who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle...
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    extent be blamed. At this time also flourished the semi-independent Fidgenti and Liatháin, a pair of shadowy sister kingdoms whose official origins...
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  • tenth-century ruler of the Irish regional kingdom of Fidgenti, and possibly also of the smaller overkingdom of Chairbre Áebda within that. In contemporary...
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  • associate her with the O'Keeffes and O'Donovans. The latter, originally from Fidgenti in North Munster with its own traditions, where their original goddess...
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    independent until disintegrating in the later Middle Ages. Liatháin was the sister kingdom of 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." 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 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 Fidgenti. Later tradition finds them in alliance with Mongfind's descendants the Fiachrach Aidhne, especially in...
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  • the Dáirine were represented, as stated, by the Corcu Loígde, the Fidgenti and 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 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 Liatháin and Fidgenti are sometimes lumped in with the latter group. According to the...
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    Medieval Munster were Iarmuman (West Munster), Osraige (Ossory), Liatháin, 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 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 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 Fidgenti ( 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 Fidgenti known as the Conaill Gabra, ancestors of the later famous septs of O'Connell...
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  • resisting Fidgenti subjugation. In the region of Thomond in County Clare, the Déisi destroyed the Corco Mruad in 744 and the Fidgenti fought a battle...
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  • of Fidgenti and an ancestor of the medieval and modern O'Donovan family. He may have succeeded his brother Uainide mac Donnubáin as King of Chairpre...
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  • western Ireland, in what was once the territory of the kingdom of the 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 Fidgenti and Dedaid, close kindred of the Liatháin. MacNeill further associates this with the...
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    century. It is likely that the sometimes powerful Liatháin and their close kin the 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 Fidgenti, whom they have a corresponding genetic and genealogical relationship...
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    the Eóganachta, while their longtime allies and possible cousins the Fidgenti ruled in the Limerick area. Feidlimid mac Cremthanin, king-bishop of...
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    gCais Deirgtine Déisi Eóganachta Érainn Iarmuman Mairtine Múscraige Fidgenti Liatháin Kingdom of Desmond Auteini in County Galway, identified with...
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