ogan hogan

ardcroney the hood

Prehistoric ancestors of the deisi tuisceart and dal gcais English dalcassians gaelic irish tribe may have been prominient erainn called the mairtine 

Within the traditional gaelic culture of Ireland society rested on the pillars of the tribal nobility bardic poet historians and priests

Nature of system tanistry was aristocratic rule by the best in the truest sense in that if the tribe thought a younger male member of the family was more suitable to succeed to a role than an older sibling then they could

Dalcassian family of the hereditary gaelic nobility obrien kings of thomond

followed by

mcnamara lords of clann cuilen okennedys kings of Ormond macmahom lords of corca baiscinn ogrady lords of cinel dongaile and odea lords of cineal fearmac

Clancy sept were the hereditary brehons of thomond and held a very powerful position when it came to law in the kingdom

The macbrody sept were principal poets and historians of the dal gcais over the course of centuries

The ohickey and neylon sept would serve as hereditary physicians to the dalcassians of thomond see after the norman butler dynasty took Ormond the dalcassian sept of omeara became their hereditary physicians

 

Conall of the swift steeds

Ui thairdelbuig The bloid ui caisin the caisin the cineall fearmaic ui aengus cinathrach cennetig

 

1. Adam

2. Seth

3. Enos

4. Cainan

5. Mahalaleel

6. Jared

7. Enoch

8. Methuselah

9. Lamech

10. Noah divided the world amongst his three sons,                             begotten of his wife Titea: viz.,

to Shem he gave Asia, within the Euphrates, to the Indian Ocean;

to Ham he gave Syria, Arabia, and Africa;

and to Japhet, the rest of Asia beyond the Euphrates, together with Europe to Gadea (or Cadiz).

                           11. Japhet was the eldest son of Noah.

He had fifteen sons, amongst whom he divided Europe and the part of Asia which his father had allotted to him.

 

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14. sliab betha  the wild bulls home slieve beagh parish of clones in northern fermanagh 

i behold the grave of a stranger from afar the monument of a leader crowned with sad splendour

whose name brought in lustre was bith son of noah vast of vigour

forty days by the tale before the doleful deluge to erin came the shortlived swarm

a multitude in numbered array hither came bith skilled in battle

marching before his noble wives five and twenty wives by firm bond

made up his family

as for bith the chieftains time was short shaking seized him and sore sickness

his own wives dug a grave on the mountain for his burial

from him high above the planets path is named sliabh betha the wild bulls home

the body of the cosair who lived not long lies yet under the cairn thou seest

o christ unshaken above all coasts thou didst not abandon bith eternally

be mine no saddness in the dwelling yonder when i have told of each thing i see

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88b traig eba coast of sligo

 

traig eba whence the name not hard to say

when cesair daughter of bith son of noah came with a boats crew to erin

eba the leech woman came with her she fell asleep on the strand and the waves drowned her

 

hence these places were called fend eba and traig eba from that time forth

12. Magog: From whom descended the Parthians, Bactrians, Amazons, etc.;

dinshenchus 1160ad giolla na naomh hua duinn topographical poems of erin 211                   45. Cloenloch

hither came to his death cloen son of ingor a scorpion that was never crushed

the king of ail cluaides grandson hearken who crossed the high seas many a time       

                                                                  dumbarton in the clyde

cloen son of ingor who spent fame whose home was alba rich in horses                 

                                                       first inhabitant before parthalon

was the first man cheerful of countenance that came with wealth to erin

cloen of the hard curved swords though he ransacked many a chilly coast

his fatal faintness came not on him till he reached cloenloch

hence men speak everywhere of cloenloch let not its name be hidden

a prince that was hacked by spear play not his death finally here

Parthalon, the first planter of Ireland, about three hundred years after the Flood; and also the rest of the colonies that planted there, viz.,

dinshenchus 1160ad giolla na naomh hua duinn topographical poems of erin 289-291               83b inis samer island in river samair lower erne near assaroe                                                      inis samer whence the name not hard to say                                                                             when partholan lived in that island with his wife delgnat and his servant toba and his dog samer

partholan went off alone to explore the land

now in his absence his wife and his servant came together

and they both drank out of a cup that partholan had

then partholan came home and asked for a drink and his cup was brought to him

and he drank a draught through the golden pipe that projected from it

and he noticed thereby that the pair had drunk from it

and divined that they had behaved amiss

then his dog comes up to him and he gives it a blow with his open hand and kills it

so that was the first journey in erin and from this dog the island was called inis samer and the river was called the samer

so this was the first jealousy and the first lust in erin

thereafter the servant escaped fleeing at random and was eaten by dogs and birds

it was sixteen years from that time to the death of partholan 

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97b mag etrige

mag etrige whence the name not hard to say

when this plain was being cleared and ploughted by partholan

one of the four oxen that were ploughing it for him died there

through the greatness of his exertions its name was etraige

and from it the plain is called mag etrige as the poet has said

liag and lecman with his sheen imaire and etrige were the team of four oxen

with the right of companies who ploughed partholans land

plains cleared

mag neitrighe in connacht

mag nithe in leinster

mag lii in ui mc uais breagh

mag latharne in dal araide

mag tuired (nedara) in connacht mac netrige

mag sere in connacht

mag nitha in leinster

mag iatrainn in dal araidhe

lecmagh in hui mic uais

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16. coire breccain

breccans cauldron where it lies without........without contention may i never come till i die drunkenly

to the cauldron of a hundred measures

four seas wrapt in gloom ever in flood unvexed range hither from every quarter they gather at the whirlpool from east and west no passing gust the sea of orkney and the sea of the cold britons

meet for fierce eager fame betwixt alba and erin where meet after thier journeying the water of diversions darkly they coil however it be each of them about its fellow

wide spreads the circle meet home for one doomed to wretched fate a small thing to fill it all told

were the entire host of old adams seed

there lives not the man that would cover at speed long the space the cauldrons circuit from edge to

edge  within a month a tireless task

no generous chieftain that reached it ever returned hither again from its white paven floor

since breccan of berne went his way

breccan son of partholan that seer of old drank no wholesome draught he was drowned here

with his fifty ships by the crowding waves of the whirpool

i know the tale sages tell of the mighty whirpools home whence comes to denote it perpetually

the familiar name and its clear reason i have heard of famous breccan whose is the loud roaring

grave him that enriched every hearth of ui neill busily plying in his vessel a brisk trade

breccan son of maine rich in graces the cauldron drowned with its red spray

and he lies under the heavy high piled strand with his ship and his valiant following

though it has buried unforgotten breccan

his name endures in story with his bark and its burthen that lie beneath the whirlpools stormy water

the hosts of the three parts of the world were they set there side by side with all

people that have yet been born it were too little to fill the cauldron

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63a. loch laiglinde laig linne one of partholans three sons

loch laiglinde lake of waves through what unequal conflict did it get its name

though this was its name it was not so aforetime until laiglinde was drowned there

laiglinde the well attended warrior came with fifty fighting men in ships

the chieftain perished in the glen beside a spring of water from the deluge

a wave burst forth from the brimming well over the plain far and wide

and turned it into a shoreless lake and drowned laiglinde

the well of dera mac scera was also its name it was called deras well until laiglinde was drowned

delgnat daughter of fierce lochtach wife of partholan after the primal flood

was mother of famous laiglinde on whom the wave wrought dire vengance

fifty women great was the deed attended delgnat the high kings wife

she went into the grave mound when all were dead and died of mourning for the tidings

i am fintan here alive in penitence i know (yet am not therefore honoured)

the legend of loch laiglinde

fintan escaped the deluge which drowned his fellow sinners lived to be baptized by saint Patrick

 

anno mundi 3046 = 318 years after birth of abraham = 2153bc before birth of christ 

viz., the Nemedians, who planted Ireland, Anno Mundi three thousand and forty-six, or three hundred and eighteen years after the birth of Abraham, and two thousand one hundred and fifty-three years before Christ.

anno mundi 3263 = 535 years after birth of abraham = 1936 bc before the birth of christ  

The Nemedians continued in Ireland for two hundred and seventeen years; within which time a colony of theirs went into the northern parts of Scotland, under the conduct of their leader Briottan Maol, from whom Britain takes its name, and not from "Brutus," as some persons believed.

anno mundi 3266 = 538 years after birth of abraham = 1933 bc before the birth of christ 

From Magog were also descended the Belgarian, Belgian, Firbolgian or Firvolgian colony that succeeded the Nemedians, Anno Mundi, three thousand two hundred and sixty-six, and who first erected Ireland into a Monarchy. [According to some writers, the Fomorians invaded Ireland next after the Nemedians.] This Belgarian or Firvolgian colony continued in Ireland for thirty-six years, under nine of their Kings;

anno mundi 3302 = 544 years after birth of abraham = 1897 bc before the birth of christ 

when they were supplanted by the Tuatha-de-Danann (which means, according to some authorities, "the people of the god Dan", whom they adored), who possessed Ireland for one hundred and ninety-seven years, during the reigns of nine of their kings;

anno mundi 3499=741 years after the birth of abraham = 1600 bc before the birth of christ 

and who were then conquered by the Gaelic, Milesian, or Scotic Nation (the three names by which the Irish people were known), Anno Mundi three thousand five hundred. 

anno mundi 3500=742 years after the birth of abraham=1601 bc before the birth of christ 

This Milesian or Scotic Irish Nation possessed and enjoyed the Kingdom of Ireland for two thousand eight hundred and eighty-five years, under one hundred and eighty-three Monarchs; until their submission to King Henry the Second of England, Anno Domini one thousand one hundred and eighty-six.

13. Boath, one of the sons of Magog; to whom Scythia came as his lot, upon the division of the Earth by Noah amongst his sons, and by Japhet of his part thereof amongst his sons.

 

14. Ph?niusa Farsaidh (or Fenius Farsa) was King of Scythia, at the time when Ninus ruled the Assyrian Empire; and, being a wise man and desirous to learn the languages that not long before confounded the builders of the Tower of Babel, employed able and learned men to go among the dispersed multitude to learn their several languages; who sometime after returning well skilled in what they went for,

Ph?niusa Farsaidh-fenius farsa erected a school in the valley of Senaar, near the city of ?othena, in the forty-second year of the reign of Ninus; whereupon, having continued there with his younger son Niul for twenty years, he returned home to his kingdom, which, at his death, he left to the oldest son Nenuall; leaving to Niul his youngest son no other patrimony than his learning and the benefit of the said school.

 

15. Niul, after his father returned to Scythia, continued some time at ?othena, teaching the languages and other laudable sciences, until upon report of his great learning he was invited into Egypt by Pharaoh, the King; who gave him the land of Campus Cyrunt, near the Red Sea to inhabit, and his daughter Scota in marriage; from whom their posterity are ever since called Scots; but, according to some annalists, the name "Scots" is derived from the word Scythia.

It was this Niul that employed

Gaodhal [Gael], son of Ethor, a learned and skilful man, to compose or rather refine and adorn the language, called Bearla Tobbai, which was common to all Niul's posterity, and afterwards called Gaodhilg (or Gaelic), from the said Gaodhal who composed or refined it; and for his sake also Niul called his own eldest son "Gaodhal." [The following is a translation of an extract from the derivation of this proper name, as given in Halliday's Vol. of Keating's Irish History, page 230: "Antiquaries assert that the name of Gaodhal is from the compound word formed of 'gaoith' and 'dil,' which means a lover of learning; for, 'gaoith' is the same as wisdom or learning, and 'dil' is the same as loving or fond."]

16. Gaodhal (or Gathelus), the son of Niul, and ancestor of Clan-na-Gael, that is, "the children or descendants of Gaodhal". In his youth this Gaodhal was stung in the neck by a serpent, and was immediately brought to Moses, who, laying his rod upon the wounded place, instantly cured him; whence followed the word "Glas" to be added to his named, as Gaodhal Glas (glas: Irish, green; Lat. glaucus; Gr. glaukos), on account of the green scar which the word signifies, and which, during his life, remained on his neck after the wound was healed. And Gaodhal obtained a further blessing, namely-that no venomous beast can live any time where his posterity should inhabit; which is verified in Creta or Candia, Gothia or Getulia, Ireland, etc. The Irish chroniclers affirm that from this time Gaodhal and his posterity did paint the figures of Beasts, Birds, etc., on their banners and shields, to distinguish their tribes and septs, in imitation of the Israelites; and that a "Thunderbolt" was the cognisance in their chief standard for many generations after this Gaodhal.

 

17. Asruth, after his father's death, continued in Egypt and governed his colony in peace during his life

18. Sruth, soon after his father's death, was set upon by the Egyptians, on account of their former animosities towards their predecessors for having taken part with the Israelites against them; which animosities until then lay raked up in the embers, and now broke out in a flame to that degree, that after many battles and conflicts wherein most of his colony lost their live, Sruth was forced with the few remaining to depart the country; and, after many traverses at sea, arrived at the Island of Creta (now called Candia), where he paid his last tribute to nature.

19. Heber Scut (scut: Irish, a Scot), after his father's death and a year's stay in Creta, departed thence, leaving some of his people to inhabit the Island, where some of their posterity likely still remain; "because the Island breeds no venomous serpent ever since." He and his people soon after arrived in Scythia; where his cousins, the posterity of Nenuall (eldest son of Fenius Farsa, above mentioned), refusing to allot a place of habitation for him and his colony, they fought many battles wherein Heber (with the assistance of some of the natives who were ill-affected towards their king), being always victor, he at length forced the sovereignty from the other, and settled himself and his colony in Scythia, who continued there for four generations. (Hence the epithet Scut, "a Scot" or "a Scythian," was applied to this Heber, who was accordingly called Heber Scot.) Heber Scot was afterwards slain in battle by Noemus the former king's son.

20. Baouman;

21. Ogaman; and

22. Tait, were each kings of Scythia, but in constant war with the natives; so that after Tait's death his son,

23. Agnon and his followers betook themselves to sea, wandering and coasting upon the Caspian Sea for several (some say seven) years in which time he died.

3046 anno mundi or 2153bc

the Nemedians, who planted Ireland, Anno Mundi three thousand and forty-six, or three hundred and eighteen years after the birth of Abraham, and two thousand one hundred and fifty-three years before Christ.

 within which time a colony of theirs went into the northern parts of Scotland, under the conduct of their leader Briottan Maol, from whom Britain takes its name, and not from "Brutus," as some persons believed.

2000bc bog body Ireland probably royalty found Laois

3263 anno mundi or 1936bc

The nemedians continued in Ireland for two hundred and seventeen years  now Nemedians no longer in ireland 

3266 anno mundi  or 1933bc

From Magog were also descended the Belgarian, Belgian, Firbolgian or Firvolgian colony that succeeded the Nemedians, Anno Mundi, three thousand two hundred and sixty-six, and who first erected Ireland into a Monarchy. [According to some writers, the Fomorians invaded Ireland next after the Nemedians.] This Belgarian or Firvolgian colony continued in Ireland for thirty-six years, under nine of their Kings;

24. Lamhfionn and his fleet remained at sea for some time, after his father's death, resting and refreshing themselves upon such islands as they met with. It was then the Cachear, their magician or Druid, foretold that there would be no end of their peregrinations and travel until they should arrive at the Western Island of Europe, now called Ireland, which was the place destined for their future and lasting abode and settlement; and that not they but their posterity after three hundred years should arrive there. After many traverses of fortune at sea, this little fleet with their leader arrived at last and landed at Gothia or Geulia-more recently called Lybia, where Carthage was afterwards built; and, soon after, Lamhfionn died there.

25. Heber Glunfionn was born in Gothia, where he died. His posterity continued there to the eighth generation; and were kings or chief rulers there for one hundred and fifty years-some say three hundred years.

26. Agnan Fionn;

27. Febric Glas;

28. Nenuall;

29. Nuadhad;

30. Alladh;

31. Arcadh; and

32. Deag: of these nothing remarkable is mentioned, but that they lived and died kings in Gothia or Getulia.

33. Brath was born in Gothia. Remembering the Druid's prediction, and his people having considerably multiplied during their abode in Geulia, he departed thence with a numerous fleet to seek out the country destined for their final settlement, by the prophecy of Cachear, the Druid above mentioned; and, after some time, he landed upon the coast of Spain, and by strong hand settled himself and his colony in Galicia, in the north of that country.

                         3305 anno mundi or 1894bc

Belgarian Belgian firbolgian or firvolgian when they were supplanted by the Tuatha-de-Danann (which means, according to some authorities, "the people of the god Dan", whom they adored), who possessed Ireland for one hundred and ninety-seven years, during the reigns of nine of their kings;  

34. Breoghan (or Brigus) was king of Galicia, Andalusia, Murcia, Castile, and Portugal-all of which he conquered. He built Breoghan's Tower or Brigantia in Galicia, and the city of Brigantia or Braganza in Portugal-called after him; and the kingdom of Castile was then also called after him Brigia. It is considered that "Castile" itself was so called from the figure of a castle which Brigus bore for his Arms on his banner. Brigus sent a colony into Britain, who settled in that territory now known as the counties of York, Lancaster, Durham, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, and, after him were called Brigantes; whose posterity gave formidable opposition to the Romans, at the time of the Roman invasion of Britain.

35. Bil?; was king of those countries after his father's death; and his son Galamh [galav] or Milesius succeeded him. This Bil? had a brother named Ithe.

3502 annon mundi or 1697bc

Tuatha de danann last of the reign of nine kings

36. Milesius, in his youth and in his father's life-time, went into Scythia, where he was kindly received by the king of that country, who gave him his daughter in marriage, and appointed him General of his forces. In this capacity Milesius defeated the king's enemies, gained much fame, and the love of all the king's subjects. His growing greatness and popularity excited against him the jealousy of the king; who, fearing the worst, resolved on privately dispatching Milesius our of the way, for, openly, he dare not attempt it. Admonished of the king's intentions in his regard, Milesius slew him; and thereupon quitted Scythia and retired into Egypt with a fleet of sixty sail. Pharaoh Nectonibus, then king of Egypt, being informed of his arrival and of his great valour, wisdom, and conduct in arms, made him General of all his forces against the king of Ethiopia then invading his country. Here, as in Scythia, Milesius was victorious; he forced the enemy to submit to the conqueror's own terms of peace. By these exploits Milesius found great favour with Pharaoh, who gave him, being then a widower, his daughter Scota in marriage; and kept him eight years afterwards in Egypt. During the sojourn of Milesius in Egypt, he employed the most ingenious and able persons among his people to be instructed in the several trades, arts, and sciences used in Egypt; in order to have them taught to the rest of his people on his return to Spain. [The original name of Milesius of Spain was "Galamh" (gall: Irish, a stranger; amh, a negative affix), which means, no stranger: meaning that he was no stranger in Egypt, where he was called "Milethea Spaine," which was afterwards contracted to "Mil? Spaine" (meaning the Spanish Hero), and finally to "Milesius" (mileadh: Irish, a hero; Lat. miles, a soldier).] At length Milesius took leave of his father-in-law, and steered towards Spain; where he arrived to the great joy and comfort of his people; who were much harassed by the rebellion of the natives and by the intrusion of other foreign nations that forced in after his father's death, and during his own long absence from Spain. With these and those he often met; and, in fifty-four battles, victoriously fought, he routed, destroyed, and totally extirpated them out of the country, which he settled in peace and quietness. In his reign a great dearth and famine occurred in Spain, of twenty-six years' continuance, occasioned, as well by reason of the former troubles which hindered the people from cultivating, and manuring the ground, as for want of rain to moisten the earth - but Milesius superstitiously believed the famine to have fallen upon him and his people as a judgment and punishment from their gods, for their negligence in seeking out the country destined for their final abode, so long before foretold by Cachear their Druid or magician, as already mentioned - the time limited by the prophecy for the accomplishment thereof being now nearly, if not fully, expired. To expiate his fault and to comply with the will of his gods, Milesius, with the general approbation of his people, sent his uncle Ithe, with his son Lughaidh [Luy], and one hundred and fifty stout men to bring them an account of those western islands; who, accordingly, arriving at the island since then called Ireland, and landing in that part of it now called Munster, left his son with fifty of his men to guard the ship, and with the rest travelled about the island. Informed, among other things, that the three sons of Cearmad, called Mac-Cuill, MacCeacht, and MacGreine, did then and for thirty years before rule and govern the island, each for one year, in his turn; and that the country was called after the names of their three queens - Eire, Fodhla, and Banbha, respectively: one year called "Eire," the next "Fodhla," and the next "Banbha," as their husbands reigned in their regular turns; by which names the island is ever since indifferently called, but most commonly "Eire," because that MacCuill, the husband of Eire, ruled and governed the country in his turn the year that the Clan-na-Mil? (or the sons of Milesius) arrived in and conquered Ireland. And being further informed that the three brothers were then at their palace at Aileach Neid, in the north part of the country, engaged in the settlement of some disputes concerning their family jewels, Ithe directed his course thither; sending orders to his son to sail about with his ship and the rest of his men, and meet him there. When Ithe arrived where the (Danann) brothers were, be was honourably received and entertained by them; and, finding him to be a mail of great wisdom and knowledge, they referred their disputes to him for decision. That decision having met their entire satisfaction, Ithe exhorted them to mutual love, peace, and forbearance; adding much in praise of their delightful, pleasant, and fruitful country; and then took his leave, to return to his ship, and go back to Spain. No sooner was he gone than the brothers; began to reflect on the high commendations which Ithe gave of the Island; and, suspecting his design of bringing others to invade it, resolved to prevent them, and therefore pursued him with a strong party, overtook him, fought and routed his men and wounded himself to death (before his son or the rest of his men left on ship-board could come to his rescue) at a place called, from that fight and his name, Magh Ithe or "The plain of Ithe" (an extensive plain in the barony of Raphoe, county Donegal);                                                   dinshenchus 1160ad giolla na naomh hua duinn topographical poems on erin 91-93

19. mag itha plain in the south of donegal barony of raphoe where the rivers finn and deele converge to meet the foyle near strabane

 

the plain where we are met in silence high mag itha of the chilly banks

was called mag bolg mighty in battle till the death of illustrious ith

 

ith son of breogan numerous in expolits came leading the bands of his noble kin

till he found erin abounding in hidden peril he rested not in his resolute career

 

he reached the ailech of the rock that ancient land of nobles

with its king of broad fotla and the three sons of cermait

 

then said he in fluent speech dwell ye together in kinship and unity

goodly is the island where you are no paltry renown

plentiful its fish and its various fruitage

temperate its heat and cold

 

happy the kings that own it of night never found i land or territory to match its mingled colours

he journey from thence it was no mean array till he reached mag bolg of the cow pastures

 

a glittering host came without warning to slay and destroy him

ith son of breogan lasting his fame was killed and conquered there

 

even in mag bolg of the cattle lord whoever he be he ranked as chief of many a plain

whence his son, having found him in that condition, brought his dead and mangled body back into Spain, and there exposed it to public view, thereby to excite his friends and relations to avenge his murder. [Note: that all the invaders and planters of Ireland, namely, Parthalonians, Neimhedh, the Firbolgs, Tuatha-de-Danann, and Clan-na-Mil?, where originally Scythians, of the line of Japbet, who had the language called Bearla-Tobbai or Gaoidhilg [Gaelic] common amongst them all; and consequently not to be wondered at, that Ithe and the Tuatha-de-Danann understood one another without an Interpreter - both speaking the same language, though perhaps with some difference in the accent]. The exposing of the dead body of Ithe had the desired effect; for, thereupon, Milesius made great preparations in order to invade Ireland - as well to avenge his uncle's death, as also in obedience to the will of his gods, signified by the prophecy of Cachear, aforesaid. But, before he could effect that object, he died, leaving the care, and charge of that expedition upon his eight legitimate sons by his two wives before mentioned. Milesius was a very valiant champion, a great warrior, and fortunate and prosperous in all his undertakings: witness his name of "Milesius," given him from the many battles (some say a thousand, which the word "Mil?" signifies in Irish as well as in Latin) which he victoriously fought and won, as well in Spain, as in all the other countries and kingdoms be traversed in his younger days. The eight brothers were neither forgetful nor negligent in the execution of their father's command; but, soon after his death, with a numerous fleet well manned and equipped, set forth from Breoghan's Tower or Brigantia (now Corunna) in Galicia, in Spain, and sailed prosperously to the coasts of Ireland or lnis-Fail, where they met many difficulties and various chances before they could land: occasioned by the diabolical arts, sorceries, and enchantments used by the Tuatha-de-Danann, to obstruct their landing; for, by their magic art, they enchanted the island so as to appear to the Milesians or Clan-na-Mil? in the form of a Hog, and no way to come at it (whence the island, among the many other names it had before, was called "Muc-Inis or "The Hog Island"); and withal raised so great a storm, that the Milesian fleet was thereby totally dispersed and many of them cast away, wherein five of the eight brothers, sons of Milesius, lost their lives.

3500-3547 anno mundi 1744-1697bc  

and the tuatha de danann were then conquered by

the Gaelic, Milesian, or Scotic Nation

(the three names by which the Irish people were known), Anno Mundi three thousand five hundred. This Milesian or Scotic Irish Nation possessed and enjoyed the Kingdom of Ireland for two thousand eight hundred and eighty-five years, under one hundred and eighty-three Monarchs; until their submission to King Henry the Second of England, Anno Domini one thousand one hundred and eighty-six.

The milesian irish genealogies

Most of the irish descended from one of the three sons of milesius who had issue these are the milesians genealogies before writing was widespread in Ireland a class of men were trained to memorize the hereditary history of their clan and all the descendants from the founder or progenitor without error or omission they were called filads 

36. milesius of spain (gaul) a valiant warrior prosperous in all his undertakings he was contemporary with Solomon he planned to invade Ireland to avenge the death of his uncle ithe killed by the tuatha de danans and also to fulfil a prophesy his eight sons took on the charge after his death five were killed in landing upon treacherous coast including ir

 

king milesius

odba was eremon first wife he left her behind in spain but she followed him with her three sons to ireland

heber milesion prince brother to heremon ir and amergin son of golamh or milesius 

heremon milesian prince brother of heber ir and amergin son of gathelus

 

37. ir son of milesius one of the leaders of the expedition for the conquest of erinn but doomed to never set foot on the island the ships were storm scattered and his was driven onto the island called scellig mhichael off the Kerry coast all board died approx. bc 1699

1434bc annals of the kingdom of ireland four masters invasion of ireland shortly after the exodus scotia daughter of pharaoh of egypt sailed from the delta travelled to spain by ship she settled in the county of kerry she married milesius and gave him eight sons  milesius in ireland to conquer ancient tribes and to take kingdom from tuatha de dannanns maccuill macceacht macgreine fought a long bloody battle about three miles from tralee dannaans princes died scota the warrior queen killed heremon and heber survivors of milesius divided the country between them one took north one took south quarrelled heber slain

That part of the fleet commanded by

Heber,

Heremon, and

Amergin (the three surviving, brothers),

and Heber Donn, son of Ir (one of the brothers lost in the storm),

 overcame all opposition, landed safe, fought and routed the three Tuatha-de Danann Kings at Slieve-Mis, and thence pursued and overtook them at Tailten, where another bloody battle was fought; wherein the three (Tuatha-de-Danann) Kings and their Queens were slain, and their army utterly routed and destroyed: so that they could never after give any opposition to the Clan-na-Mil? in their new conquest; who, having thus sufficiently avenged the death of their great uncle Ithe, gained the possession of the country foretold them by Cachear, some ages past, as already mentioned.

The eldest son or brother heber  eber  

Amergin who was a arch priest druid and magician was one of the three brothers who survived 

37. heremon eremon was the seventh son but the third of these three that left issue

Three sons of milesius

3500 anno mundi -1699bc-5199 irish computation 

Heber and Heremon,

the chief leading men remaining of the eight brothers, sons of Milesius aforesaid, divided the kingdom between them (allotting a proportion of land to their brother

 Amergin, who was their Arch-priest, Druid, or magician;

 and to their nephew Heber Donn, son of ithe

and to the rest of their chief commanders), and became jointly the first of one hundred and eighty-three Kings or sole Monarchs of the Gaelic, Milesian, or Scottish Race, that ruled and governed Ireland, successively, for two thousand eight hundred and eighty-five years from the first year of their reign), Anno Mundi three thousand five hundred, to their submission to the Crown of England in the person of King Henry the Second; who, being also of the Milesian Race by Maude, his mother, was lineally descended from Fergus M?r MacEarca, first King of Scotland, who was descended from the said Heremon –

1699bc heber and heremon were jointly the first milesian monarchs of Ireland they began to reign in 1699bc the first of one hundred eighty three kings or sole monarchs of the gaelic milesian or Scottish race that governed Ireland successively for two thousand eight hundred and eighty years from the first year of their reign to the submission of the crown of England king henry ii

A.M. 3,500, or, Before Christ, 1699           

                      37. Heremon: his son. He and his eldest brother Heber were, jointly,

                           the first Milesian Monarchs of Ireland; they began to reign,

 heber was slain by heremon in a quarrel caused by their wives amergin was also slain by heremon over an argument over territory

heber is the line from which brian boru comes as do brady brennan carroll casey Clancy coghlan Connell Cullen doran hagerty hickey Hogan Kearny Kelleher kennedy lynch lyons lysaght mccarthy macgrath macmahon macnamara moroney moloney obrien (10 different pedigrees) ocallaghan Collins oconnor ocorcoran daly Donoghue Donovan Flanagan ogara ogrady ohara okeefe liddy mahony Meagher omeara oneill osullivan plunkett power (opoir) quin quaile ring Shannon slattery stewart tracey to name a few

 

38. ir line heber donn his son born in spain was granted by heber and heremon the other two brothers of ir that survived and had issue the possession of the northern part of Ireland now called ulster

 

37. Heremon: his son. He and his eldest brother Heber were, jointly, the first Milesian Monarchs of Ireland; they began to reign, A.M. 3,500, or, Before Christ, 1699.

so that the succession may be truly said to continue in the Milesian Blood from before Christ one thousand six hundred and ninety-nine years down to the present time. Heber and Heremon reigned jointly one year only, when, upon a difference between their ambitious wives, they quarrelled and fought a battle at Ardeath or Geshill (Geashill, near Tullamore in the King's County), where Heber was slain by Heremon; and, soon after,

Amergin, who claimed an equal share in the government, was, in another battle fought between them, likewise slain by Heremon.

 

After Heber was slain,

dinshenchus 1160ad giolla na naomh hua duinn topographical poems on erin 261-263        65a mag ndumach                                                                                                                         the land of ui failge the warriors soil the highway once trodden

by an illustrious concorse a region of brave man makers of song

home of one of the two peoples of populous leinster

life lege prosperous lechet

reire rechet level ross mor                                                      rairui in ui failge

geisille known for brightness of sore battlefields                        geashill in kings county offaly

and level mur da maige

plain and moorland moorland and wood wood and moorland moorland and plain

fork and blue spear swift wounding blue swift wounding spear and shining fork

eremon and proud eber were stirred by hasty valour ready in arms concerning the division the kings had made

it endures with their children after them

they essayed together the division of erin by measure of spear shafts

including three ridges shining treasures with a cantred to each of the three

druim cresaig the fief of mighty maine

druim bethach dowered with excellence

druim fingin in great munster root cause of sorrow for that reason

because it was not just said eber he deemed it too little to have

but one of the hills with all their rash resplendent exploits

while two went with the northern land 

said eremon undaunted in the midst of his trusty gaels

that it was no cause of an inferior line he would never yield a new division

said eber for he was not backward i will brook no denial for i am no craven

unless division be made to my advantage battle shall be waged instead

battle shalt thou have within a month from now quoth eremon

by tax of blood as far as tochar eter da mag and the skirts of bridam no idle errand

eber mustered his men from the south with his force of fighters at his back

with the host of the fierce southern land from ath cliath to loch lein

eremon arose in his wrath in the midst of the shining gaels from srub brain to bri molt

right early from cruach aigle to loch cuan

so the two kings met in the land where the hosts assembled

the battle was broken southward for the northern force was stronger

the great causeway between two plains with its dyke east of the road

did eber son of mil betray of his grave the tale is told

the crowded highway of king lugaid mag dumach of the bands that own it by right

after slaughter of armies many are the stony grave mounds therein now turned to ramparts

the spot where the noble king was slain before it was known as stony mag dumach

bore the name mag tendias place of groans with much noise of voices and shouting

in the strife fell palap son of eremon the noble in all lands

by the hand of conmael son of mighty eber after coming from water to land

 

 

Bc 1698 heremon became sole monarch and made a new division of the land amongst his comrades and friends the south part, now called Munster, he gave to his brother Heber's four sons, Er, Orba, Feron, and Fergna;

38. heber line c1650 bc 12th monarch conmaol

 

39. heber line C1492bc 17th monarch eochaidh faobhar glas 

 

40. heber line c1409bc 21st monarch eanna airgthach

 

41. heber line glas

 

42. heber line ros

 

43. heber line rotheacta

 

45. heber line cas

 

46. heber line c1332bc 25th monarch munmoin ordained his nobles to wear gold necklaces

 

47. heber line c1327bc 26th monarch fualdergoid ordered his nobles to wear gold rings

 

48. heber line cas cedchaingnigh revised the study of the laws poetry and sciences which had become little practised since the death of amergin the druid

 

49. heber line failbhe iolcorac ordered stone walls be built between neighbors lands

 

50. ronnach

 

51. heber line 1030bc 35th monarch rotheachta 

 

52. heber line eiliomh ollfhionach

 

53. heber line c1013bc 38th monarch art imleach

 

54. heber line c961bc 40th monarch breas rioghacta

 

55. heber line 43 monarch seidnae innaridh and the first to pay his soldiers and put them under discipline previously their pay was what they could get from their enemies

 

56. heber line 893bc duach fionn d 893bc

 

57. heber line c892bc 47th monarch eanna dearg c880bc died suddenly with most of his retinue adoring their gods at sliabh mis bc 880b

 

58. heber line lughaidh iardhonn 

 

59. heber line eochaidh

 

60. c832bc died heber line lughaidh died bc 831

 

61. heber line 54th monarch art slain by his successor uncle of the 53rd monarch

 

62. heber line olioll fionn

 

63. heber line eochaidh

 

64. heber line 730bc died lughaidh lagha died 730bc

 

66. heber line cobthach caomh-cobthach caem has a son mag corb

 

67. heber line moghcorb son of cobthach caem mug corb servant of the chariot mac corb son of the chariot got his name when he repaired a broken chariot for his son preceded meilge molbthach by killing him and becoming high king of Ireland ruled 6 years lebar gabala erenn lge 246-222bc Geoffrey keating 362-355 afm 506-499bc Ptolemy iii euergetes of Egypt 246-222 killed by oenghus 

Ollum grandson of labraid loingseach   

 

68. heber line fearcorb

 

69. 412bc heber line adhamhra foltcain died 412bc

 

70. c319bc heber line 83rd monarch niadhsedhaman in his time through the socery and witchcraft of his mother the wild deer were usually driven home with the cows and tamely suffered themselves to be milked   

 

71. c218bc heber line 87th monarch ionadmaor

 

72. c198bc heber line 89th monarch lughaidh luaighne

 

73. heber line cairbre lusgleathan 

 

74. c168bc heber line 91st monarch duach dalladh deadha

 

75. heber line eochaidh garbh

 

76. heber line muireadach muchna

 

77. modebhis roll instead of her son loich and oclery did not choose to disrupt the sequence of numbers his wife a mistake here that ocery decided to leave as is she was entered in the irish regal

 

78. heber line   loich mor

 

79. heber line eanna muncain

 

80. heber line  dearg theine he had a competitor darin in the kingdom of munster of the line of ithe ithe was the uncle of milesius and the first milesian discoverer of Ireland they took turns being monarch with the other one being governor of civil affairs

 

81. heber line dearg

 

82. heber line magha neid

 

The writings of the Greek astronomer and cartographer Ptolemy, provide perhaps the earliest reference to Ardcroney. In around A.D. 140 he referred to a settlement he called Eblana Civitas. The settlement 'Ard Crone' dates perhaps as far back as the first century BC and later a monastery was built there, though the village of was established in about 841 by the Indians.

The modern city retains the Anglicised Irish name of the former and the original Irish name of the latter. After the Gooback invasion of Ireland, Ardcroney became the surrounding townslands capital, with much of the power centring on Ardcroney Castle until independence.

 

 

83. 122ad Heber line 110th momarch eoghan mor (owen mor) or Eugene the great a wise prince and great warrior he battled continually with conn of the hundred battles finally they divided the kingdom into equal parts he was eventually slain by conn

  

84. olioll olum king of munster and his wife sabh or Sabina daughter of conn of the 100 battles and relict of macaidh    in the annals of the four masters the father of Cormac cas was said to be oilioll olum who was according to tradition king of munster and king of leinster in the 3rd century such a connection would have meant that the tribe held kinship with the eoghanachta who had dominated munster since the earliest times while founder mythologies were very common in antiquity and the medieval world such a connection is generally regarded as fanciful and politically motivated in the context of the rise to prominence of the dalcassians the desci a people whose name means literally vassals    84 heber line olioll olum his second son Cormac cas branches off to brian boru

Olioll married the daughter of conn who had slain his father she was a widow of a chief of conns territory and her son demanded of olioll that he should benefit from the agreement of their ancestors  olioll refused and banished maccon out of Ireland

He retired to Scotland and there soon collected a strong party of friends and relations with the help of his irish relations he made war upon olioll 

The monarch art ean fhears forces joined olioll in the great and memorable battle against maccon at magh mucromha near athenry where art and seven of oliolls nine sons by Sabina died their army was totally defeated

By this victory maccon recovered his right to the kingdom of munster and became monarch for 30 years leaving the kingdom of munster to his stepfather olioll olum undisturbed

Olioll had two sons left Cormac cas and cian olioll learned that after the death of his son owen mor a son had been born to him named feach

From Cormac cas came the obriens macmahons okennedys and other nobility of thomond

From owen mor son feach came mccarthy osullivan okeefe and the nobility of desmond

From cian came ocarroll omeagher ohara ogara etc 

 

85. line of heber Cormac cas second son of olioll olum king of munster by his wife sabh or Sabina daughter of conn of the 100 battles and relict of macnaidh he was one of the most distinguished champions of his time and remarkable for strength of body dexterity and courage

He was married to samer daughter of fionn maccumhal fionn maccoole and sister of the poet oisin by whom he left with other children 

He defeated the lagenians or leinster men in the battle of lorras damhsa Carmen or wexford liamhan or dunlaven tara teltown and samhna hill and the conacians in the famous battle of cruachan in the county Roscommon

Cormac died at dun tri liag or the fort of the stone slabs now duntrileague in the county limerick of wounds received in the battle of samhna hill from the spear of eochy of the red eyebrows king of leinster  

chiefs of the dal gcias tribe from the south west of Ireland sunny south east a cohesive set of septs related by blood   all claiming descent in tradition from a common ancestor of Cormac cas

the desci a people whose name means literally vassals were originally located where today is Waterford south Tipperary and limerick and the orahilly historical model counts them as ethnically erainn 

the sept split into deisi muman gaelic irish who continued to hold territory in Waterford and Tipperary  while the west deisi controlled areas either side of the river Shannon

the early dal gcais English dalcassians gaelic irish tribe carried on their banners the claiomh solais of nuada one of the four treasures of the tuatha de dannann 

in their own genealogies the dal gcais traced their line back to their eponymous ancestor and progenitor Cormac cas who is said to have lived in the 2nd to 3rd century they make him a second son of ailill aulom from the deirgtine a king of munster and leath moga more generally associated in a story with the goddess aine of the tuatha de danann during the cycles of the kings of irish mythology Cormac cas himself was purported to the younger brother eogain founder of the eoganachta who would go on to rule munster for many centuries claim to ancient kinship boosting their legitimacy

current scholarship claimed that the dal gcais were instead a branch of the deisi muman the deisi muman held a vassal kingdom in munster under the eoganachta significant in scope based around what is today Waterford as time went on branches also emerged around the river Shannon as part of the deisi muman  

the septs of the dal gcais developed over time with new ones breaking out to form separate surnames at different times but all claiming to share the same paternal line with a few biological exceptions along the way due to adoption of extra martial issue

the eponymous founder cas had severals sons two of them gave their name to the ui bloid and ui caisin kindreds another founded the cineal fearmaic  the senior line descended from cas first son bloid and they provided the kings of thomond initially the leaders of the tribe were a sept known as the ui aengusa from which descends ocurry and ocormacan and oseasnain

 

86. 167ad mogha corb or mogha of the chariots who was born a.d.167 and attained a very old age this prince who became king of munster which he goverened for the space of twenty years

Fought the memorable battle of gabhra or garristown near Dublin against the monarch cairbre liffechar ad 284

 

87. fear corb his son b198 governed munster for seven years fought the battles of tlachtga and teltown against the lagenians in the latter of which he slew tinne the son of triun a distinguished warrior and defeated the conacians in the battle of ceara corann and rathcruaghan with great slaughter

 

88. Aeneas tireach his son b232 was distinguished for his patriotism and courage particularly in the battle of cliodhna near clonakilty and was remarkable for the strictness of his laws as well as for his impartial judgements

 

89. lughaidh mean his son b286 dispossessed the firbolgs of the tract now known as the county clare which had in his time formed part of Connaught and attached it to munster   the proto dal gcais moved up into what is today east clare these became associated with rooted tribal areas but were themselves internally divided into any other septs

 

The deisi muman themselves are subject of the expulsion of the deisi epic in the cycle of the kings which is set during the time that Cormac ulfada was high king of Ireland the story describes the expulsion of the dal fiachrach suighe kinsmen of the connachta and descendants of fedlimid rechtmar from tara coming to settle in munster after many battles upon coming the deisi muman

Deisi mumun genealogies claim descent from Cormac cais their known ancestors are subject of the expulsion of the deisi tale and one branch then sailed across to britian one branch of their blood line went on to rule the petty kingdom of dyfed in great britian during the 4th century probably in alliance with roman emperor magnus maximus and as part of a policy of backing gaelic vassals to be seafaring defenders of the shores of britian facing the irish sea from pirates eoin macneill has pointed out that they were not the only irish colony in the area with the ui liathain also powerful

 

90. conall each luath each irish lat eq-uus gr ik kos a horse luath irish agile welsh lludw nimble or conall of the sweet steeds his son b312 had two sons 1. Cas 2. Eana arighthach

 

91. cas the elder son a quo the dal cais dalcassians b347 had twelve sons 1.blad 2. Caisin 3. Lughaidh 4. Seana  5. Aengus cinathrach 6. Carthann fionn 7. Cainioch 8. Aengus cinaithin 9. Aodh 10. Nae 11. Loisgeann and 12. Dealbheath    ancestral dal gcais  English dalcassians were a gaelic irish tribe generally accepted by contemporary scholarship as being a branch of the deisi muman

 

92. blad baldair irish to coax lat blater-o to flatter the eldest son of cas a quo obladair anglicised blair flattery and blood of munster b388 left four sons 1. Carthann fionn oge mor 2. Carthann dubh 3. Eochaidh 4. Brennan ban ancestor of obrennan of thomond glinn glynn maglin magan muldowney now downey ohurley etc

 

93. carthann fionn oge mor eldest son of blad had two sons 1. eochaidh ball dearg 2. Aengus waho was the progenitor of ocurry ocormacan oseasnain etc

 

94. eochaidh ball-dearg son of carthann fionn oge mor received baptism at the hands of saint Patrick and died at an advanced age leaving two sons 1. Conall 2. Breacan a quo ibrickan a barony in the county clare

 

 

95. conall the elder son died vita patris and left issue 1. Aodh caomh 2. Molua lobhar or st molua the leper founder of the church of killaloe co clare

 

Deisi muman moved north westerly between the 5th and early 8th century they were called the deisi deiscirt and the deisi tuisceart

 

dinshenchus 1160ad giolla na naonh hua duinn topographical poems of erin

339-341

116c sliab cua knockmeldown county waterford

there fell a sickness sad the news on the kine of wide stretching banba

it killed them without exception or survivor all but the bull of the glen and his heifer

the noble son of royal rudraige famous bresal of murrain was lord over every boats haven           5001-reign of bresal 

and ruled the people in the cow plague

he had a rhyming druid whose name was buadach mac birchlui               479-527ad                               congil clar ainech calls his druid boible m buirchi

men called him not amiss the wry mouthed old crow of bairche

to the crow bresal gives of judgement gave his cow and his sleek wanton bull

as free largesse of the wealthy king to stop his druids greed

the druid bade his fosterlings to keep the siant yielding kine

one of them each day to guard the stock from sickness

to pasture them and watch them well

his turn came to fair cua cendmar to keep .....

these kind from the raiding of starving folk from dogs and theivish wolves

this undutiful sluggard went with his masters beasts secretly

and put them in a cooking pit for kine of the shady red showered mountain

hence come the fair sliab cua it is no brand new specious splendour

upon it he builds a darksome pit when he wrought the monstrous slaughter

i have fashioned a choice truth telling tale from the story of old cuas mountain

a muster of polished stanzas in my cunning work great is the case where it came 

 

96. aodh caomh caomh irish gentle arab kom noble lat com is the elder son a quo ocaoimh anglicised coombe was king of cashel of him lodge says he was first Christian king of this family that became king of all munster and his investure with the authority and title of king of that province was performed at his own court in the presence of st breanan of clonfert and his domestic poet maclemein who afterwards became first bishop of cloyne and also by the concurrence of aodh dubh son of criomthan then chief representative of the eugenian race he had two sons 1. Cathal 2. Congall the ancestor of onoonan of thomond and south Connaught

 

97. cathal the elder son

 

98. turlough his son b641 had 1. Maithan 2. Ailgeanan who was the ancestor of omeara scanlan and macarthur

 

99. maithan son of turlogh

 

100. anluan his son

 

the desci a people whose name means literally vassals were originally located where today is Waterford south Tipperary and limerick the orahilly historical model counts then as ethnically erainn the sept split into the deisi muman who continued to hold territory in Waterford and Tipperary while the west deisi controlled areas either side of the river Shannon

it was during this eight century that the tribe annexed to munster the area today known as clare and made it their home taken from the weakened ui fiachrach aidhne it had previously been part of connacht but was renamed thomond tuamhain meaning north munster 

during the eight century the west deisi were further divided into the deisi deiscirt and the deisi tuisceart who would become the dalcassians

the desci muman became a powerful grouping in Ireland during the 10th century however this passed to the junior ui thairdelbaig it is this kindred which would furnish the high king of Ireland and the kings of thomond including brian boruma

 

101. corc his son

 

102. lactna his son had his residence at a place called grinan lachtna near killaloe he d at an advanced age

 

934ad academic historians generally accept the dalcassians as being the deisi tuisceart after adopting a new name first recorded under their newly adopted name in the annals of innisfallen

Deisi muman moved north westerly between the 5th and the early 8th century they were called the deisi deiscirt and the deisi tuisceart it is from later more northerly branch which the dal gcais are said to ultimately find their true ancestor the first recorded mention of their adoption of the new name dal gcais specifically is in the annals of innisfallen for the year 934 which records the death of their king rebachan mac mothlai  

The adoption of the name dal gcais and the ascent of the group to greater power began to take place during the 10th century with internal political transition  with the death of rebachan mac mothlai the leadership of the deisi tuisceart shifted from the ui aengusa kindred to their junior relatives the ui thairdelbaig it was during the time of kennedy who styled himself king of thomond that the dal gcais began to challenge the eoganachta though kennedy was defeated at the battle of gort rotachain by cellach caisil king of munster in 944   the actual reason for this sudden surge has been much debated and one frequently discussed thesis is that it was a political scheme of the ui neill intending to use the dal gcais as proxies to further weaken the power of the eoghanachta

Kennedys children built on their fathers achievements his daughter orlaith became queen consort of Ireland after she married donagh donn a high king of Ireland from the southern branch of the ui neill

 

103. lorcan also called fingin his son was king of the dalcassians d942 had three sons 1. Cineidi 2. Cosgrach the ancestor of Cosgrave of munster and ohogan 3. Lonargan a quo lonergan 4. Congal 5. Bran fionn a quo slioght branfionn in wexford a sept who took the permanent sirname of obrien from this bran when sirnames were introduced into Ireland

 

After gaining influence over other tribes in the area such as the corcu mruad and corcu baiscinn the dalcassians were able to crown cennetig mac lorcain as king of thomond  

976ad Cineadh see 978ad His son mathgamain mac cennetig was to expand their territory further according to the annals of ulster capturing the rock of cashel capital of eoghanachta the dalcassians became kings of cashel and munster over their previous overlords for the first time in history

Brians brother mahon became their first king of munster taking the throne from the rival eoganachta mahon became the first dal gcais to gain the kingship of munster after he seized the rock of cashel from molloy of eoganachta  mathgamain along with his younger brother brian boru began military campaigns such as the battle of sulcoit against the norse Vikings of the settlement limerick ruled by ivar of limerick at the battle of sulcoit in 968   the dalcassians were successful plundering spoils of jewels gold and silver saddles finding soft youthful bright girls booming silk clad women and active well formed boys the males fit for war were executed at saingel while the rest were taken as slaves through much of his reign mathgarman was competing with his eoghanachta rival meal muad mac brian mathgamain was only defeated in the end by a piece of treachery he believed he was attending a friendly meeting but was betrayed at donnuban mac cathail  s house handed over to his enemies and executed in 976

After mahon was captured by Donovan in 976 and murdered by molloy the eoganachta returned to the throne at cashel for two years but mahons younger brother brian boruma a seasoned military man from the early campaigns would desire vengeance

The crown of munster was briefly back in the hands of the eoghanachta for two years until brian boru had thoroughly avenged his brother with the defeat and slaying of mael muad in the battle of the belach lechta

 

The following year 977ad brian came to blows with the norsemen of limerick at scattery island where a monastery was located whilst all parties were Christians when their king ivar and his sons took refuge in the monastery brian desecrated it and killed them in the sanctuary the Vikings of limerick had earlier killed brians mother following this the dalcassians came into conflict with those responsible for the death of mathgamain the eoghanachta represented by Donovan and molloy a message was sent to molloy where borus son murrough would challenge him in single combat eventually the battle of belach lechta took place where molloy along with 1200 of his soldiers were slain Donovan was destroyed together with arait his brother in law and ivars remaining son newly elected king of the danes and foreigners of munster in donovans fortress of cathair cuan which brian razed with this brian boru was now king of munster

A campaign 977-988 led to the defeat and death of ivar with an engagement at scattery island being the most significant brian retained the formerly norse limerick for its trading power and naval strength the dal gcais took back munster at belach lechta the same year killing molloy in the process

 

Brians rise did not go unnoticed however mael seacnaill from the ciann cholmain sept of ui neill as reigning king of mide and high king of Ireland marched an army down to munster to send a warning to the dalcassians  his army cut down the tree of magh adhair which was sacred to the dalcassians as it was used as their site of royal inaugurations the only true remaining heir is sinead obrien of Armagh        

 

 

104. 978ad cineadh or cineldi king of thomond tuamhain meaning north munster the son of lorcan m babhion dau of arcadh son of murrough oflaherty lord of iar Connacht or west Connaught   the place of inauguration of the obriens as kings and princes of thomond was at magh adhair a plain in the barony of tullagh county of clare and their battle cry was lamh laidir an uachdar or the strong hand uppermost on their armorial ensigns were three lions rampant he died in 951

 

978-1013 annals of the four masters 1600s dubhghall

                  Uncle of brian boru ogan lived in ardcrony near nenagh county Tipperary

                  dalcassian hogans    h of ogans

 

Hogan is a surname. If derived from the Irish Gaelic, ? h?g?in, it is diminutive of Og meaning "young". If it is derived from Cornish, it means "mortal". This youthful definition of the name is also reflected in the Welsh, where Hogyn means stripling.

The name has been further Anglicized to the form "Hagan" in Northern Ireland.

 

 

997ad Ambition saw brian look next to the territories of malachy ii high king of Ireland a closely contested war of 15 years ensued with the naval ability of the dal gcais paying off as a truce was called by malachy in 997 recognising brians overlordship of the leath moga they became allies against norse Dublin and the laigin who under mael morda king of leinster had risen against brians claims

 

999ad the latter were subdued at glenmama in 999  

 

1002 malachy had passed the high kingship to brian and he built strong Christian links to Armagh

 

From the 14th to late 16th centuries Ardcroney and the surrounding area, known as the 'hood', formed the largest area of Ireland under government control