onwards and onwards for the ui duinn of the leary tribe

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1582ad                                                             1628 julian Egyptian calendar years = 594627 days plus precession of the equinox = 594627  + 23 days torque westwards = 594650 days minus one hundred and thirty leap year cycle = 594650 – 12 days torque eastwards = 594638 days = 1628 julian years + 11 days torque westwards

594627 days = 1582 calendar years

        11 days = difference =            11 days

Gregorian calendar reform 1582

1582 october 4th Thursday moved forward to      October 5th Friday = day 1 = 10 days to    October 6th Saturday = day 2 = 9 days to    October 7th Sunday = day 3 = 8 days to   October 8th Monday = day 4 = 7 days  to October 9th Tuesday = day 5 = 6 days   to October10thWednesday= day 6 = 5 days to October 11th Thursday = day 7 = 4 days to October 12th Friday = day 8 = 3 days    to October 13th Saturday = day 9 = 2 days to October 14th Sunday = day 10 = 1 day  to October 15th Monday = day 11 = 0 day  to October 15th Friday 1582                       the reason why galileo did not know why the calendar was changed in 1582ad by the papacy of the catholic church of rome            

 

• The cantred of Feara Arda of gold, Fear-Arda, i.e., men of the point. This was another name for the Corcumruadh. The island of Inis-caerach, now Mutton Island, near Kilmurry Ibrickan, was in the territory of Feara-Arda.
  Corcumruadh of the fiery battle hosts,
  O'Conchobhair obtained the land, O'Conchobhair, now O'Conor. This family had considerable possessions in the barony of Corcomroe, in the year 1584, and for some time after; but at the present day, there is not a man of the race above the rank of cottier or small farmer.
• 122. Teige O'Doyne, of Castlebrack, Queen's County: his son; prince of Iregon, and chief of his name; was living in 1593; had five sons, and a brother named Tirlogh, who was the ancestor of Dunn of Ards.
• Teige O'Doyne, of Castlebrack, Queen's County, prince of Iregon, and chief of his name; was living in 1593; had five sons, and a brother named Tirlogh, who was the ancestor of another branch - Dunn of Ards. It is noted that the Castlebrack tenants of this Teige O'Doyne paid one penny "heriot" per acre, on the death of each Ceannfinne or chief head of a family. The word heriot means "a fine paid to the lord of the manor at the death of a landholder." His tenants of Kernymore paid yearly - two beeves, twenty-four crannochs of oats, forty cakes of bread, thirteen dishes of butter, seventeen cans of malt; eight pence, heriot, in money, on the death of each Ceannfinne; one reaping hook (service) on one of every twenty acres; custom ploughs one day in winter and one in summer. From inhabitants of Ballykeneine Quarter: Meat and drink for twenty-four horse boys, or four shillings for their diet. From the inhabitants of Cappabrogan: like duties. From Garrough: like duties. These "Chief Rents" were A.D. 1613, abolished in Ireland in the reign of King James the First, by the Parliament then held in Dublin by the Lord Deputy Sir Arthur Chichester

·         1594 O'Ceallachain of the fair skin, O'Ceallachain. - The O'Ceallachains, now O'Callaghans, are descended from Ceallachan, son of Domhnall, son of Murchadh, son of Donnchadh, son of Ceallachan, king of Cashel, or Munster, who died in the year 954. See Circuit of Muircheartach Mac Neill, p. 64. Before the English Invasion the O'Callaghans were seated in the barony of Cinel-Aedha, now Kinelea, in the south of the county of Cork; but being driven from thence by Robert Fitzstephen and Milo de Cogan, they settled in the barony of Duhallow, in the north of the same county, where the chief of the family, Conor O'Callaghan, resided at the Castle of Drumaneen, on the Blackwater, in 1594, and then enjoyed extensive territorial possessions, comprising the parishes of Kilshannig and Clonmeen, as appears from an inquisition taken at Mallow before Sir Thomas Norris, Vice-President of Munster, on the 25th of Octorber, 1594. The head of this family was transplanted by Cromwell to the county of Clare. Lord Lismore is the present chief of the name in Ireland.
Of the race of Ceallachan of Caisel,
Men for whom a flood of fruit burst forth
Over the dark nut-bearing wood.

• No other of the name ever became Prince of Offaley, but shortly after O’Conor Faly’s downfall. O’Dempsey was created Viscount Clanmaliere, through what interest I know not, but it would appear that O’Dempsey assisted the Cosbys and other ferocious families to murder the Irish at Mullamast, and this is perhaps sufficient to account for his exaltation. But a reaction is sure to follow such massacres.
• See Extracts from the Annals under the heads Ui Failghe and Clann Maoilughra.
• It would also appear that O’Kelly’s beautiful Territory of Leighe was divided between the Geraldines and O’Dempseys after the O’Kellys were put down. The following passage in the Annals of Clonmacnoise as translated by Connell Mageoghegan will give some idea of the period at which the O’Kellys had possession of this territory:-
• 17th century odoyne oduinn dunne brown

·         1605 the territory south of birr the land of the ocarroll known as the territory of ely o carroll . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll the

·         baronies of ballybrit and clonlisk was incorporated in the kings county of offaly in 1605ad ely carroll . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, was part of ancient,munster.                                   1607 1607 thadhg oduinn oduin lord of ui riagan hy regan queens county laois dies two sons Charles and Thady

·         1609 january 10th teige logha surrendered his territory to the king  fitzgerald country eastern Glenmalire     

·         1610 march teige logha obtained a regrant of land considerably less that what he surrendered Charles was not impressed

·         1615 liber regalis visitationis of 1615 which states dua sunt rectoriae in patrica vocata oduns county d?tente in possessione doctoris dun ipse recipit decrmas sed mullus comparcut curaties as responded pro servus ecclesiae ideo fructus sequestrantur the two rectories are set down in the margin as oreagan et rosnolis

·         1617 may 17th Charles doyne died no heirs

·         1622 the plantation of leix and offaly completed 1556-1622  

• the odoyne manuscripts oduinn archbishop marsh library shelf 2 4.2.1
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• 1634 Keating cites the following family branches as belonging to the
• O Conchubhar Failghe:
• O Caomhanaigh,
• O Tuathalaigh,
• O Branaigh,
• Mac Giolla Phadraig,
• O' Duinn,
• O Diomasaigh,
• O Dubhuir,
• Muinntear Riain.
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• 1641 O’Dempsey was Viscount Clanmaliere during the War of 1641 but he lost all in the struggle and left his race a helpless people, unworthy of their name – Supervi progenies. …

1641-1649 Barnaby og took part in the confederate wars 1641-1649

In the 1642 James Doyle of Grange in County Meath was accused of High Treason

1643 Elizabeth Doyle of Glasnevin in Dublin was outlawed at Kilmainham in County Dublin in 1643

1650 O'Conghaile (O'Connell), that of Magunihy; O'Conghaile of the slender swords, O'Conghaile, now corrupted to O'Conaill, anglicised O'Connell. The head of this family was transplanted by 1650 Cromwell to Brenter, near Callan hill in the county of Clare.

1653 baun riaganach castle occupied by Charles dunne possibly the catholic son of Barnaby og was attacked blown up by cromwellian forces under colonel hewson very strong resistance from Charles resulted in colonel hewson using a full part of artillery to level the castle

In 1653 Colonel Edward Doyle, an Irish mercenary officer, was granted a licence by the English to recruit and transport 3,000 Irish soldiers to Flanders for service in the Spanish Army

One member of the sept was killed at the battle of Aughrim in 1691. Another very active Jacobite was James O'Dunne (circa 1700-1758), Bishop of Ossory, most of whose life was spent in France, in the service of which country several of his relatives distinguished themselves as diplomats and soldiers.

1731 Michael Doyle is named in a Return made in 1731 (See Vol. I. p. 268,) as Popish Priest of Agha and resident at Leighlin- Bridge. In the same return Charles Rice is mentioned as Priest of Lorum ; it is not unlikely that he was assistant to Michael Doyle. It would appear from Dean Skelton’s list of 1 733, that this Fr. Rice had then become P.P. of Leighlin-Bridge (See Vol. I.p. 274.) In the Dean’s List also there is a priest named Owen Boyle , the name of whose parish is omitted ; but as Dunleckney is there unaccounted for, it is surmised that he had charge of that parish.   

·         Another Branch:

·         121. Brian: son of Teige (120 above)

·         122. Barnaby: his son.

·         123. Terence: his son.

·         124. Edward: his son.

·         125. Francis: his son.

·         126. General Edward: his son.

·         127. Le Colonel Francis Dunn: his son.

·         Dunn of Ards:

·         122. Tirlogh: son of Teige (3) (121 above).

·         123. John, of Kilvavan: his son; next in remainder to the estate of Castlebrack, in case of the extinction of the line of his elder brother Teige (Deed 21st Feb., 1616.)

·         124. Terence (or Tirlogh), of Kilvavan, afterwards of Ards, in the Queen's Co.: his son; died 1680.

·         125. John, of Ards: his son; died 1726

·         126. Terence, of Ards: his son.

·         127. Lawrence: his second son; whose elder brother Terence died without issue.

The O'Neills of Ui-Eochain Finn, Deochain deacon Ui-Eoghain Finn. - The territory of this tribe was in northern Deisi,   two fair kings, I no not conceal them, Over the Deisi I assert, obric and phelan  Deisi.in the present county of Tipperary, and adjoining Iverk on the west side. See the Miscellany of the Archaeological Society, vol. i., p. 205. The O'Neills of this race, the head of whom was an esquire in 1753, were afterwards seated at Mount Neill, in the barony of Iverk, county Kilkenny.

·         the whimsically named Bramblestown, near the pretty village of Inistioge in County Kilkenny, nurtured a unique family. Between 1756 and 1856 came a dynasty of military men: a series of six major-generals, four of them baronets, and several Royal Navy officers. In 1911 a descendant, Colonel Arthur Doyle, did his utmost to sort them out in his book "A Hundred Years of Conflict, Being Some Records of the Services of Six Generals of the Doyle Family, 1756-1856". The number of Doyle generals was too much for the Dictionary of National Biography, which, Colonel Arthur writes, "got them all mixed up", as also did the Gentleman's Magazine. In London, a Court official who was sending out invitations, remarked to the King, "I can never distinguish between them". Said the King, "Perhaps it's just as well that they have taken good care to distinguish themselves".

·         Colonel Arthur Doyle tells how, "Being Catholic they were bullied by James I and bullied by Cromwell. Possibly they became Protestant by 1690 through marriage to a Scottish widow. Several were in King James's Irish army at the battle of the Boyne. Afterwards they were bullied again by William II who cut off a Doyle head and stuck it on the walls of Kilkenny Castle". They also served with the Irish Brigade in Europe where they were called Doyley and, in French, Doyelle. In the French army at that time, the Irish were at a disadvantage because of the vindictiveness of Sir Robert Walpole, the Whig Prime Minister, who made use of his friendship with a French cardinal to hold up the promotion of Irish officers.

·         Sir John Doyle (1756-1834), a general, was one of the four sons of Charles Doyle of Bramblestown. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, he served with the British army in the United States. When the Civil War ended there in 1784, he returned to Ireland where he was elected Member of Parliament for Mullingar and proved himself as eloquent a speaker as any in that talented, pre-Union, Irish House of Commons. Sir John raised the famous 87th Regiment in 1794 to serve in the Netherlands. At one time he was Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales. When he retired he was appointed Governor of Guernsey where his able administration, assisted by a nephew, also John Doyle, is commemorated by an impressive column.

·         Major Welbore-Ellis Doyle (1758-97) was in Philadelphia in 1788 where he founded a regiment from the Irish who were constantly deserting from the "enemy's" ranks. Called the Volunteers of Ireland, Doyle was its lieutenant-colonel. Unfortunately, the Irish, when they were displeased, had the habit of dashing back to the enemy's lines. A much-travelled soldier, Welbore was Military Envoy to Poland and Warsaw and died in Ceylon at the age of 39

·         Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Doyle (1770-1842) was the soldier who introduced the "Ca Ira" cry into the British army during a deadly exchange with the French. He was sent to Spain to train the Spanish army and was made a Spanish lieutenant-general with the Doyle Triadores. He was Member of Parliament for Carlow from 1831 to 1852. He served in many European countries. In Portugal he became entangled in politics, which led to him having some financial problems with the British army. However, his honour was vindicated by burial at Windsor

·         A further three distinguished Doyles were Major-General Sir Francis Doyle, Baronet (1783-1839), Major-General Charles Doyle (1787-1848), and Major-General Sir John Milley Doyle (1781-1856). They all had enterprising army careers in Europe, Egypt, Canada, America and the West Indies. Several budding Doyle generals had seen action by the tender age of ten or fourteen, enticed into the army by enthusiastic fathers, brothers or uncles. Between battles they would return to Ireland to cultivate their land, become Members of Parliament or command the local militia. Eventually, they mostly left Ireland for England, though one Doyle baronet, formerly of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, remains in the Republic of Ireland.

·         James doyle 1786-1834 bishop of Kildare and leighlin the champion o the catholic cause jkl

·         James Warren Doyle (1786-1834) was born in New Ross, County Wexford. His father was a farmer and his mother a Quaker. He went to college in Coimbra, Portugal, but his clerical studies were rudely interrupted by the clash between the armies of Napoleon and Wellington (who annexed him as an interpreter with the English army). When Napoleon was defeated he was able to return home and begin his clerical ministry at Carlow College. Probably marked by the rigours of war, his unorthodox battle-scarred appearance did not at first commend him to his pupils. They quickly discovered, however, that they had a knowledgeable teacher with a most original mind. He even dared express the hope of a possible union between the Established and the Catholic Churches! He was a stern disciplinarian and wrote vehemently on the state of Ireland and its Church, using the initials J.K.L. - James, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. Three times he was asked to give evidence before a parliamentary committee in London, where they found him impressive. "You have been examining Dr Doyle", someone remarked to the Duke of Wellington. "No, but he has been examining us", replied the Duke. Bishop Doyle renewed church discipline, built schools and the cathedral in Carlow where, worn out by overwork, he died and was buried at the age of 48.

·         John Doyle (1797-1868) was the forefather of a generation of Doyles who were to contribute greatly to the artistic and literary world. John first studied art in his native Dublin where he made a name painting horses. He went to London to try portrait painting, but, instead he was hugely successful as "HB", the political cartoonist who brightened the pages of Punch magazine with his sketches of people in the public eye, from 0 Connell to Disraeli and Palmerston and many other famous characters. He never descended to coarseness or vulgarity unlike many of his contemporaries.

·         During the Famine, many Doyles emigrated to America. Earlier, the family of John Thomas Doyle (1819-1906) had fled there after the rising of 1798. He was a lawyer who at one time was the general agent for the American Atlantic and Pacific Canal Company in Nicaragua (which failed to build the canal). He lived in California where he began to discover many facts regarding the possessions of the Roman Catholic missions during the Spanish occupancy. In fact the "Pious Fund", which he founded, recovered some of the money confiscated from the Church.

·         John doyle b1797-d1868 His son, Richard Doyle (1824-83), was taught by his father and at 19 he, too, was contributing to the newly-established humorous magazine, Punch. In fact it was Richard who designed its first, and famous, cover, which included among the images surrounding Mr Punch, his own dog, Toby. When Punch indulged in vicious cartooning of the Pope, Richard resigned. He illustrated many books by popular authors including Thackeray and Puskin. On his death he was described as a "singularly sweet and noble type of English gentleman". A prime example of Irish adaptability!

·         His eldest brother, Charles Altamont Doyle, was also an illustrator. He had a high-born Irish wife, Mary Foley, and ten children. Charles, who did not enjoy his exile in Edinburgh as a civil servant, escaped by painting flowers, animals and fairies. Victorian critics later described his work as among the most imaginative of the period. Alas, in middle age he disappeared into the confines of a Scottish lunatic asylum. Only in 1978, when his sketch book, accidentally discovered in 1955, was published, did research reveal Charles not to be insane but merely an epileptic who was also overfond of burgundy. The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery, written by Michael Baker, is beautifully illustrated with Doyle's sketches.

·         Henry Edward Doyle (1827-92), a Dublin painter, studied in London and Rome. In 1869 he was elected director of the National Gallery of Ireland. He was a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and exhibited there frequently.

·         128. James, of Ards: son of Lawrence; died in 1841; had two brothers - 1. John, 2. Lawrence.

·         129. Rev. John Dunn, of Ards: son of James; living in 1847.

·         130. Terence Dunn: his son.

·         Charles was the father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the Edinburgh-born medical doctor who gripped the reading public with his stories of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson and their cliffhanging adventures in crime detection. Sir Arthur, who kept very quiet about his eccentric father, was as prolific a writer as his forebears had been artists and cartoonists.

·         This Doyle family has been described as the only one to have given, in the space of three generations, five separate entries to the Dictionary of National Biography, and that does not include the hapless Charles

·         Jack Doyle (1913-78), the "Gorgeous Gael", was born in Cobh, Co.Cork, 31st August 1903. He became a 6'5" giant with remarkable good looks. He left home to enlist in the Irish Guards. Spotting his potential, Dan Sullivan bought him out and trained him as a heavyweight boxer. In a checkered career lasting from 1932 to 1942, he won his first 10 professional bouts all inside two rounds, making him a sensation with the boxing world. He then lost the British heavyweight crown by disquailfication to Jack Pedtersen in July 1933. His celebrity status, movie career and singing were then put ahead of his boxing, and his tally of 23 pro fights included 17 wins (13 by a clear knockout, 3 inside the distance), and 6 losses (2 by disqualification). He had style, good looks and he could also sing. Women adored Jack Doyle and followed him everywhere. He went into cabaret, did some wrestling, made form and married Monica, a film star. He was a charming playboy, until the champagne dried up when he went bankrupt and died in London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Biblical statement that God shall enlarge Japheth (Genesis 9:27) was used by some imperialists as a justification for the "enlargement" of European territories through Imperialism, interpreted as part of God's plan for the world

 

This chief-tain of the tain of eire does decree in the commemoration of the ui fhailghe royal lines of heber fionn heremon and mac uais that to this gaelic line we have our ancient glory our righteous story and I leave for you in perpetuity the following divisions of the talamh of eireann

To the feminine female line those who know they are the superior ones that if you draw a straight line from the centre of the universe and you are able to cross the edge of the milky way and attach this straight line cord to the planet venus or the earths satellite moon that all the area right and left of this line is yours to inform us all about from the beginning of creation to the now moment and as you are able and fine multifaceted multitaskers that this will be no problem for you to perform and be the bann rioghanacht of this realm and inform us all of the tree of knowledge that dwells there because you know it all   

To the masculine male line those who know they know very little the inferior ones that if you draw a straight line from the centre of the galaxy to the planets mars of mercury but anchored in the centre of the sun that all this territory will be yours to rule royally till the end of time and as you are able and capable single task operators that this will be no problem for you to perform and be ard ri of the milky way inner circle realm and inform us all of the tree of life that dwells there because you know so little

But if someone in ui fhaighle should arise or should someperson be raised up who knows both realms the superior realm of the tree of knowledge and the inferior realm of the tree of life in equal measure then to them is their dwelling place the long galactic arm of the milky way where the solar system abides the sun the moon the planets and the stars and that this arm the middle kingdom will be a pathway between the two realms from the centre of the galaxy to the solar system and from the solar system to the edge of the milky way galaxy and from the edge of the milky way all the way to the centre of the universe all one straight line 13.5 billion light years long thus does the chief-tain of the gaelic tain tradition declare the divisions have been traced   and at the solar system a line drawn at right angles to this traced line is the division between the feminine realm of the tree of knowledge and the masculine realm of the tree of life     these are the tri noid a gloir superior inferior and middle kingdoms of mother eire divisons mullach abu go keir because you are all worth it and more importantly to commemorate the ui fhailghe line of the heber kings the heremonian kings and the mac uias kings of the chief-tain tradition of eire og golden olden age so be it now and for ever till judgement day

 

Over the Deisi I assert, obric and phelan  
Are O'Bric, how has exceeded every tribe,  O'Bric, now Brick, without the prefix O'. This family originally possessed the southern Desies, comprised in the present county of Waterford,                                                       CASHELL On the plain of Caisel of firm ramparts, A fruitful wooded country of the head fortress To Caisel of the smooth clear plain Under Caisel of the territories of brown nuts,
Our visit shall be to Caisel of the kings,      Caisel of the kings, i.e., stone fort of the kings, now the town of Cashel, in the county of Tipperary, the seat of the kings of Munster from the beginning of the fifth century till the English Invasion. See Leabhar na gCeart, p. 28, note a                                                                The seat of Corc,who practised no evil deeds: cais-el  Corc. - He was king of Munster early in the fifth century, but the authentic irish annals contain no notice of his death. His grandson, Aenghus MacNadfraich, who is said to have been the first Christian king of Munster, was slain in the year 489. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 489, and Leabhar na gCeart, p. 28, note c.                       Nadfraech king of Munster                                                                         father of aenghus oengus                                  Oengus mac nad froich died 489 0r 492ad                                He was son of Aenghus, son of Nadfraech king of Munster, &c.  son or grandson                                                                                                                                Saint Carthage the Elder (or Carthach-loving) was an Irish bishop and abbot in the sixth century. His feast day is March 5.               The saint is mainly known as a disciple and successor of Ciaran of Saighir (the Elder) and the tutor and fosterer of his greater namesake, Saint Carthage of Lismore (also known as Saint Mochuda).[1] Carthage was of the Eóganacht Chaisil and son, or, more probably, grandson of Óengus mac Nad Froích whom Saint Patrick baptized. He was punished by St. Ciaran the Elder with penance for a sin of the flesh committed in his younger days. On completion of his canonical penance Carthage was reinstated as a member of the religious brotherhood of Saighir. Afterwards he founded the monastery of Druim Fertain and another monastery in the upper island of Lough Sheelin, County Meath.

In the barony of Clanmaurice is a townland called Monument on which are some scant remains of an ancient church called Cill Cartaig (Carthage's Church).

There is a short paragraph about St. Cartha in The Martyrology of Donegal: a Calendar of the Saints of Ireland (1864) by James Michael O'Clery, page 65:

Carthach,loving Bishop, alumnus of Ciaran of Saighir. One of his places was Druim-fertain, and in Cairbre Ua Ciardha is Druim-fertain; and to him belongs Inish Uachtair in Loch Sileann, and Cill Charthaigh in Tir Boghaine in Cinel Conaill. He was son of Aenghus, son of Nadfraech king of Munster, &c.

Deisi Dal cais In the fifth century,                 Aenghus Mac Nadfaeich, king of Munster, granted them the plain of Magh Feimhin, in the present county of Tipperary;                                169. Déissi, that is dí-ḟoissi 'unresting ones', since for long spaces of time they had no resting-place, but were wandering from one stead into another. Or Déissi, that is, duaisi 'gifts', for after they left Mag Breg land was given to them as a woman's dowry, that is, as the bride-price of Ethne the Horrible, daughter of Crimthann, son of Ende Cennselach, who was their fosterling, for 'tis the Déissi that reared her. Oengus, son of Natfraich, king of Munster, 'tis he that gave the Déissi, as the bride-price of Ethne the Horrible, the land on which they are now settled.                                                                                          170. Ethne Uathach 'horrible', why so called? Easy to say. When the Déissi took the girl to rear her they used to give her the flesh of children (to eat) so that she might the more rapidly grow up (and be married). For it had been determined that they would get land and a settlement as her bride-price. Or, again, she used to cut off the ends of the little-fingers of her own children so that they might be the longer-lived: for at first no children were left to her, (but all died prematurely). For that cause the children felt a great horror for her. Wherefore she is called Ethne the Horrible.                                                                       Over the Deisi I assert, obric and phelan  Are O'Bric, how has exceeded every tribe,  O'Bric, now Brick, without the prefix O'. This family originally possessed the southern Desies, comprised in the present county of Waterford, but they had sunk under the O'Faelains or O'Phelans, who were originally seated in the northern Decies, in the present county of Tipperary, some time before the English invasion.And the fair, wide O'Faelain. O'Faelain, now made Phelan, in the anglicised form of the name, without the prefix O'; and by some, Whelan.                                                  but they were driven from thence by the Eoghanachts.  two fair kings, I no not conceal them                                               Eoghanacht of Caisel of the plain of Cian, Eoghanacht of Caisel. - This was the original tribe name of the O'Donoghues, who were anciently seated in Magh-Feimhin, now the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the S.E. of the county of Tipperary. See Keating's History of Ireland; and Ogygia, part iii.,c. 69 the king's house in Feimhin (South Tipperary plain).                                              Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach517 is its name, 517. Corca-Athrach. - O'Flaherty describes this territory as extending in length from Tiprait-farran, near the abbey of the Holy Cross, called Huachtar-Iamhann, to Dunandreas, and the northern part of Knockgraffan. Ogygia, part iii., c. 81           Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon.It is also styled Feimhin,Uniter of the tribe of yellow nuts They were driven from this territory shortly after the English Invasion, when they settled in the present barony of Magunihy, in the county of Kerry, to which they gave the name of Eoghanacht Ui Donnchadha, anglicised Onaght-O'Donoghue.
O'Donnchadha is its hereditary chieftain;
It is also styled Feimhin,Uniter of the tribe of yellow nuts.                                                                  

 

AI 492.2 The battle of Cenn Losnada, in which fell Aengus, son of Nad Fraích, and Eithne Uathach his wife. [AU 490, 491].
The story of our adventure, when unfolded, Will presage prosperity, luck, and success. Let us mention henceforward every hero On the plain of Caisel of firm ramparts, A fruitful wooded country of the head fortress;We are not ignorant of them.
Let us give the first place to its own territory,To Caisel of the smooth clear plain,                                                             Afterwards the druid and his daughter Muncha went to Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach517 is its name, 517. Corca-Athrach. - O'Flaherty describes this territory as extending in length from Tiprait-farran, near the abbey of the Holy Cross, called Huachtar-Iamhann, to Dunandreas, and the northern part of Knockgraffan. Ogygia, part iii., c. 81
Fine are its battalion and march over districts. The dynast of the district that is here Under Caisel of the territories of brown nuts, Is a fresh bright gentle scion,

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Definition of scion1 :a detached living portion of a plant (such as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft 2 a :descendant, child; especially :a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family                       A wreath to the head of Caisel.
The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais.Around Caisel of the fair territory,I will not conceal that from any one,A cause without a flaw or defect.
Over the territory of Caisel who will prevail,
A house [built] over the relics of Tailgenn. Tailgenn. - This was the name by which St.Patrick was called by the Druids. It is explained circulo tonsus in capite by Colgan, but Asciciput in the Book of Armagh, p. 5, col. 2, p. 49, col. 1, and p. 123, col. 2
Sliabh-ardachaidh of the fine land Sliabh Ardachaidh, now the barony of Slievardagh, in the county of Tipperary Is hereditary to O'Deaghaidh as a patrimony; O'Deaghaidh, now anglicised Day, without the prefix O'. This family is to be distinguished from the O'Deaghaidhs, or O'Deas, of Cinel-Fearmaic, in Thomond, who of of the Dalcassian race.                     32. dearha-deaghatha-Deag: of these nothing remarkable is mentioned, but that they lived and died kings in Gothia or Getulia.    Gothia or Geulia-more recently called Lybia, where Carthage was afterwards built
Septs of the tribe of the head of the plain
Are O h-Oilella,  and O'Brachain the melodious. O'Brachain, now Brahan.                                                    O'h-Oilella. - This name is now obsolete, as is every derivative in Ireland formed from Oilioll, whether belonging to man or place, except Tir-Oilella, in the county of Sligo, which has been corrupted to Tirerrill. According to this analogy, O'h-Oilella might be anglicised O'Herrill, or Herrill; but there is no such surname now in Ireland.(Could this be tyrell)                                                                  Septs of the tribe of the head of the plain
Are O h-Oilella,O'Brachain the melodious. O'Brachain, now Brahan. 62. Labhradh Longseach: his son.63. Olioll Bracan: his son.                                                                                                                          two fair kings, I no not conceal them,
Over the Deisi528 I assert,   The 8th-century text The Expulsion of the Déisi describes enmity between Cormac and the group known as the Déisi, descendants of Cormac's great grandfather Fedlimid Rechtmar who had been his retainers. Cormac's son Cellach (or Conn) abducts Forach, the daughter of a Déisi leader. Her uncle Óengus Gaíbúaibthech comes to rescue her, but Cellach refuses to release her. Óengus runs Cellach through with his "dread spear", which has three chains attached to it; these chains wound one of Cormac's advisers and blind Cormac in one eye. Cormac fights seven battles against the Déisi, and expels them from their lands. After a period of wandering, they settled in Munster. The Déisi Muman themselves are subject of The Expulsion of the Déisi epic in the Cycles 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. 168. Fiacha Suigthi, that is, so-guiti 'easily entreated', for because of his gentleness it was easy to supplicate him; and he was constantly agreeable and always pleasant.                                                                                   Upon becoming the Déisi Muman, one branch then sailed across to Britain in the 4th century, coming to rule Dyfed. Their presence in Britain may have been initially supported by Magnus Maximus, Roman Emperor, as part of a policy of backing Gaelic vassals to be seafaring defenders of the shores of Britain facing the Irish Sea from pirates.[8] Eoin MacNeill has pointed out that they were not the only Irish colony in the area, with the Uí Liatháin also powerful                                                               In the fifth century, Aenghus Mac Nadfaeich, king of Munster, granted them the plain of Magh Feimhin, in the present county of Tipperary;                                                                     169. Déissi, that is dí-ḟoissi 'unresting ones', since for long spaces of time they had no resting-place, but were wandering from one stead into another. Or Déissi, that is, duaisi 'gifts', for after they left Mag Breg land was given to them as a woman's dowry, that is, as the bride-price of Ethne the Horrible, daughter of Crimthann, son of Ende Cennselach, who was their fosterling, for 'tis the Déissi that reared her. Oengus, son of Natfraich, king of Munster, 'tis he that gave the Déissi, as the bride-price of Ethne the Horrible, the land on which they are now settled.                                                                                            170. Ethne Uathach 'horrible', why so called? Easy to say. When the Déissi took the girl to rear her they used to give her the flesh of children (to eat) so that she might the more rapidly grow up (and be married). For it had been determined that they would get land and a settlement as her bride-price. Or, again, she used to cut off the ends of the little-fingers of her own children so that they might be the longer-lived: for at first no children were left to her, (but all died prematurely). For that cause the children felt a great horror for her. Wherefore she is called Ethne the Horrible.                                                                                                   but they were driven from thence by the Eoghanachts. See Keating's History of Ireland; and Ogygia, part iii.,c. 69.

who were anciently seated in Magh-Feimhin, now the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the S.E. of the county of Tipperary.

the king's house in Feimhin (South Tipperary plain). Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach517 is its name, 517. Corca-Athrach. - O'Flaherty describes this territory as extending in length from Tiprait-farran, near the abbey of the Holy Cross, called Huachtar-Iamhann, to Dunandreas, and the northern part of Knockgraffan. Ogygia, part iii., c. 81                   It is also styled Feimhin,Uniter of the tribe of yellow nuts                  Are O'Bric,529 how has exceeded every tribe, 529. O'Bric, now Brick, without the prefix O'. This family originally possessed the southern Desies, comprised in the present county of Waterford, but they had sunk under the O'Faelains or O'Phelans, who were originally seated in the northern Decies, in the present county of Tipperary, some time before the English invasion.
And the fair, wide O'Faelain.530 530. O'Faelain, now made Phelan, in the anglicised form of the name, without the prefix O'; and by some, Whelan.                                                   O'Mearadhaigh. the good king, O'Mearadhaigh, now O'Meara, or O'Mara, a name still numerous in the county of Tipperary. by many the prefix is rejected.
Chief of Ui Fathaidh, who obtained great land,  Ui-Fathaidh, now the barony of Iffa and Offa West, in the county of Tipperary.                   son of Finn was Maccon;                                              son to Maccon was Finn). Finn had two sons, namely, Fathadh and                                   Ciarmhac, from whom the Clann-Ciarmhaic. Fathad had three sons, namely,                    Donnchadh Mor, from whom the chieftains, Fathadh Og, from whom the Clann-Fathaidh, and Dunlang, from whom the Clann-Dunlaing.                                                                         Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach is its name, Corca-Athrach. - O'Flaherty describes this territory as extending in length from Tiprait-farran, near the abbey of the Holy Cross, called Huachtar-Iamhann, to Dunandreas, and the northern part of Knockgraffan. Ogygia, part iii., c. 81 who were anciently seated in Magh-Feimhin, now the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the S.E. of the county of Tipperary. It is also styled Feimhin,Uniter of the tribe of yellow nuts
B31a5 Cainte. Ceinte had a son: Crocharan Ciocharan had three sons: Eoghan, from whom Ui eoghainghain                                          The O'Neills of Ui-Eochain Finn, Deochain deacon Ui-Eoghain Finn. - The territory of this tribe was in northern Deisi,   two fair kings, I no not conceal them, Over the Deisi I assert, obric and phelan  Deisi.in the present county of Tipperary, and adjoining Iverk on the west side. See the Miscellany of the Archaeological Society, vol. i., p. 205. The O'Neills of this race, the head of whom was an esquire in 1753, were afterwards seated at Mount Neill, in the barony of Iverk, county Kilkenny.                                                                   All these lions I mention.
O'Flannagan obtained the land,Uachtar-tire,a land of brown berries, Uachtar-tire, now the barony of Upperthird, in the north-west of the county of Waterford.           Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach is its name, Corca-Athrach. - O'Flaherty describes this territory as extending in length from Tiprait-farran, near the abbey of the Holy Cross, called Huachtar-Iamhann, to Dunandreas, and the northern part of Knockgraffan. Ogygia, part iii., c. 81          The O'Flanagans of this race were dispossessed shortly after the English Invasion by the Anglo-Norman family of Poer, now Power, who still possess a large portion of this territory A land of most lasting fruitful soil Under a clothing of variegated green. See below ui athele
Ui Athele to the sea. Ui-Aithele. - The name of this tribe and territory, evidently situated between the barony of Upperthird and the sea, is now obsolete. The O'Breslins of this race are also unknown.Was obtained by hardihood of conflict,By scions of smooth skin to fight the battle, Definition of scion1 :a detached living portion of a plant (such as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft 2 a :descendant, child; especially :a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family The O'Breslins south-east to the sea. Bresal Einechglas. 7 ships, 50 shields, 5 swords, 5 chariots and horses, and lands of River Amergin   See above oflannagan
The O'Foghladhas it is meet for us O'Fodhladha, Fodhla / sucking pig now Foley, without the prefix O'. This family is very numerous in the county of Waterford                       To mention, of the scions Definition of scion1 :a detached living portion of a plant (such as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft                              2 a :descendant, child; especially :a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family of rich hair;O'Cein O'Cein, now Kean, a name still extant in the county of Waterford, and to be distinguished from the family of O'Cathain, now anglicised Kane, without the prefix O'. The two great tragedians of world-wide fame are of this race. Second great tragedian                  Cathan, from whom some of the Ui Cathain (Keane) families.first great tragedian ocathain kane the first settlers of waterford 4000bc from the mede-abounding Machuin, Machuin, now the river Mahon, which rises near Kilmacthomas, and falls into the sea at the village of Bun Machuine (Bunmahon).
They will exceed all tribes in fame. The delightful land of Ui-Eachach, Ui-Eachach. - This was the tribe name of the O'Bricks. Ui-Eachach-Mumhan-Cas-('the curly-haired')Eochu,from-whom-is-called-the-Ui-Eachach-(Ivagha) The south of the woody Inis Fail, Inis-Fail, one of the ancient names of Ireland.O'Bric selects it across the flood, O'Bric, now Brick, without the prefix O' From Lec Logha Lec Logha. - Tis was probably the ancient name of the remarkable rock now called Clochlobhrais, situated about midway between Kilmacthomas and Dungarvan, in the county of Waterford.                                                                                                              to Liathdruim. Liathdruim, i.e., gray ridge, now Leitrim, on the confines of the counties of Waterford and Cork-----double check tara liath druim the beautiful hill of tara hazel hill the hazel tree is traditionally associated with wisdom fertility and kingship of eire incidentally tara liath druim the beautiful hill was described as a pleasant hazel wood in the dindshnchas                                                             The lord of Feara-muighe of smooth mounds, Feara Muighe. - This name is now preserved in Fermoy, Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) a beautiful and fertile barony in the north of the county of Cork; but the ancient Feara Maighe comprised the modern baronies of Fermoy, Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) and Condons and Clangibbon. See Leabhar na gCeart, pp. 78, 82, 261.O'Dubhagain O'Dubhagain, now O'Dugan, and more usually Duggan. This family descends from the Druid Mogh Ruith, Magus Rotae, who was of the race of Rughraighe, king of Ulster. See Leabhar na gCeart, p. 82. Munster, Tir Duinn (Munster).so that the people and their lands were in danger of death from the want of water. Then Fiacha Muilleathan sent for Mogh Ruith son of Fergus, the best druid to be found in Ireland. Of the race of Fergus of Uladh. Fergus of Uladh, i.e., Fergus Mac Roigh, exiled king of Ulster, in the first century             Mogh Ruith then lived in Oilen Dairbhre (Valentia Island) in his old age, blind and decrepit, as he had outlived nineteen kings of Ireland:- from the time of Roth mac Rioghuill (the druid who had trained Mogh Ruith in sorcery) to the time of Cairbre Lifechair son of Cormac mac Airt. Mogh Ruith then came to meet Fiacha Muilleathan and the Munster Tir Duinn (Munster).nobles and they complained about what the druids of Leath Cuinn (Northern half of Ireland) had done to them. he undertook to oppose their magic spells, and he chose the territory of Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) as his reward. Mogh Ruith then overcame the druidery of Cormac and they defeated Cormac's forces routing them from Knockling to Tara with a great massacre But Fiacha in desperation turned to the powerful Munster druid Mug Ruith Macraith('son-of-grace'-aka-Magrath) Magrath ------grace mug ruith a legendary gaelic druid Or possibly a druidic title meaning servant of The, wheel (eel) Druid Mogh Ruith, Magus Rotae for aid, and his magic was too strong even for Cormac's fairy druids. He restored the water and conjured up magical hounds who destroyed the fairy druids. His breath created storms and turned men to stone. Cormac was driven out of Munster and compelled to seek terms.                                                                                                          of Dun-Manann, Dun Manann. - This name is now obsolete; it was evidently that of the chief residence of O'Dubhagain, who possessed about the northern half of the territory of Feara Maighe Feine, being seated between O'Keeffe and the Ui-Fidhgeinte. Tribe of relations of prosperous wealth,
O'Caoimh,547  547. O'Caoimh, now anglicised O'Keeffe, and by many Keeffe, without the prefix O'. O'Keeffe originally possessed the district now called Roche's Country, which formed the southern half of the ancient Feara Maighe. The family is of the race of Oilioll Olum, and had a king of Munster, namely Fionguine, son of Gorman, who died in the year 902; since which period the line of MacCarthy has been far more powerful. The O'Keeffes were driven from Fermoy Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) shortly after the English Invasion, when they settled in the present barony of Duhallow.   branch of Gleanomhain.648 548. Gleannomhain, or Gleann Amhnach, now Glanworth, in Roche's Country, in the north of the county of Cork. This was the original seat of O'Keeffe. See Smith, Natural and Civil History of Cork, book ii., chap. 7, and Leabhar na gCeart, p. 90, note s.                                                                                                                

chief residence of O'Dubhagain, who possessed about the northern half of the territory of Feara Maighe Feine, being seated between O'Keeffe and the Ui-Fidhgeinte.
 

King of Ui-Liathain,549 549. Ui Liathain. - This tribe derived their name and origin from Eochaidh Liathanach, son of Daire Cearba, ancestor of the Ui-Fidhgeinte. Their territory was nearly coextensive with the present barony of Barrymore, in the county of Cork. See Hibernia Expugnata, lib. ii., c. 8, 19, and Leabhar na gCeart, pp. 73, 74.                                                                                                     hero of renown,

The tribe of Mogh Ruith  Macraith('son-of-grace'-aka-Magrath)Magrath ------grace mug ruith a legendary gaelic druid Or possibly a druidic title meaning servant of The, wheel (eel)  Druid Mogh Ruith, Magus Rotae                                                               the druid was the chafer placed between the       3 Ui Liathain daire cearba and the                                 4  Ui Fidgeinte mid and west limerick maine muncharim so that neither could come to the help of the other.

 

Hardy divisions of the battalion of Munster,
The head of the O Anamchadhas O'Anamchadhas. - This name is obsolete, or changed into some anglicised form not now recognisable.is its rightful chief, A host of thin-edged arms of best nobility.
A fine tribe strong in pursuit
Is over Ui Mac Caille of the drinking; Ui-Mac Caille, now the barony of Imokilly, in the county of Cork.

tireachan also had occasion to mention some of brighids associates in this area including her uncle mac caorthainn and her mentor mac caille

Two tribes are in the smooth plain,
The Ui Breaghdhas, O'Breaghdha. - This name is now unknown. It might be anglicised Bray. Brega took its name from Magh Breagh (Breá), meaning "fine plain", in modern County Meath, County Louth and County Dublin, eire. They formed part of the  Uí Néill kindred, belonging to the Síl nÁedo Sláine branch of the southern Uí Néill. The kingdom of Brega included the Hill of Tara, the site where the High King of eire was proclaimed. Brega was bounded on the east by the Irish Sea and on the south by the River Liffey. It extended northwards across the River Boyne to the foothills of County Louth. The western boundary, which separated it from the Kingdom of Mide, was probably quite fluid and is not accurately known

35-5  aibhle nar fuid breaga muirtheime                                          

the plains of east brega                                      mag lii in ui mc uais breagh in east midhe

A tribe of the heroes of Breagh, from Tulach-an-Trir, Tulach-an-Trir, i.e., hill of the three persons. This was one of the most ancient names of Tara. See Ogygia, part iii., c. 17.         

Clan Cernaich Sottail appear to have been early kings of Loch Gabor, in Deisceart Breagh. Loch Gabor is described as a lake (now dried up) northeast of Dunshaughlin, in modern county Meath.                                   Skreen - formed from the territory of Magh Breagh, or Brega, which was centered around the ancient Hill of Tara. O'Haodha (O'Hea or Hughes) is given as chief of Odba (Odra?) here. The Ua Duinn (O'Dunne) of Brega were noted here prior to the Norman invasion. Territory here was granted to Adam Pheipo after the Norman Invasion.                           Ohaedha east tir teathfa ocearbhail over the south of teamhair the land of men has gone under bondage these people have not clung to their birthright let us raise up for teamhair more of kings with great courage his yoke has tamed each battalion oduinn over the districts of teamhair  oduinn this family is also totally unknown for centuries it cannot be distinguished from the oduinns or dunns of iregan                                                                                      and the fine O'Glaisins.553 553. O'Glaisin, now unknown. It is not the name anglicised Gleason or Gleeson.

Ciarraighe Chuirche of the bright harbour, Ciarraighe Chuirche, now Kerrycurrihy, a barony in county of Cork.

Let us turn our breast to the race of Fergus, Race of Fergus, ex-king of Ulster, in the first century. This Fergus, surnamed Mac Roigh, had three sons by Meadhbh, queen of Connaught, namely, Ciar, ancestor of all the Ciarraighe;

The plain of Luachair land of produce, Plain of Luachair. - This was the name of the level plain portion of the present barony of Magunihy, in the S.E. of the present oounty of Kerry; but it formed no part of the country of the ancient Ciarraighe. It comprised the territories of O'Keeffe, O'Callaghan, O'Donoghue and MacAuliffe.

To the race of Torna555a this land belongs, 555. Race of Torna, i.e., the sept of Ui Torna. The hereditary family name was O'Cuirre, which is now little known
O'Cuirre obtained the warm land,
Of a level like the plain of Meath.

Doilg Ireithneach was her name. She put a desire to cohabit with her into the king's mind and born to them whom they called                        Conall son of Lugaid.                                             And why did he get the name Corc? the persons who fostered Conall were Maghlar Dearg of the Corca Oiche tribe (Abbeyfeale district) and Torna Eigeas the poet of the Ciaraigh Luachra (of Kerry) - they reared him in the house of 2aCrimthann Mor now of Fiodhach

Hereditary to O'Donnabhain675 675. O'Donnabhain, now anglicised O'Donovan, and more frequently Donovan, without the prefix O'. This family, of the senior line of Oilioll Olum, was expelled from this territory shortly after the English Invasion by the O'Briens and Fitzgeralds, and they settled in O'Driscoll's country in the county of Cork. Their principal seats had been at Bruree and Croom in the present county of Limerick.                                                                                                                          of Dun Cuirc676 676. Dun Cuirc, i.e., the fort of Cork. This is a bardic name for Bruree, the seat of O'Donovan.
 Is this and, as a land of encampment;
To him, without tribute, belonged [the land] along the sluggish Maigh,677 677. The Maigh, i.e., the river of the plain, now the Maigue, which rises near Charleville, and passing through Croom and Adare, falls into the Shannon nine miles below Limerick.  
And the plains down to the Sionainn.678 678. Down to the Sionainn, i.e., down or northwards to the Shannon.

The descendants of C Aodh Osraigheach, son of Laoghaire (O'Donohues). Aodh-(Hugh

Aodh Osraigheach son of C1 Laoghaire (a quo clan Laoghaire) had two sons; Aodh-(Hugh

Eoghanacht of Caisel. - This was the original tribe name of the O'Donoghues, who were anciently seated in Magh-Feimhin, now the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the S.E. of the county of Tipperary.

Faílbe Flann mac Áedo Duib (died 639) [1] His sobriquet Flann meant "blood-red".was a King of Munster from the Eóganacht Chaisil branch of the Eoganachta. He succeeded Cathal mac Áedo Flaind Chathrach of the Glendamnach branch in 628. He was the younger brother of a previous king Fíngen mac Áedo Duib (d. 618).[2]

Lj and Flann, red ruddy from whom Ui Floinn (O'Flynn);flionn --------a daughter of this line = ui duinn line   

oflynn olynn the surname oflynn is derived from the gaelic personal name flann the adjective flann denotes a dull red colour and means ruddy when applied to persons ofloinn is the form of the surname in gaelic it is one of those which arose independently in several parts of the country and as might be expected is widely distributed

His son Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind (died 678) was also a King of Munster.  ??? see below

Ohaedha east tir teathfa ocearbhail over the south of teamhair the land of men has gone under bondage these people have not clung to their birthright let us raise up for teamhair more of kings with great courage his yoke has tamed each battalion oduinn over the districts of teamhair  oduinn this family is also totally unknown for centuries it cannot be distinguished from the oduinns or dunns of iregan                                   

So far the face of Sealbhaigh son of Clairineach.

The Deis Beg of the purple cloak Deis-beg. - This was the ancient name of the present barony of Small County, in the county of Limerick. The town of Bruff was the chief seat of this territory, and is still called Brugh na Deise by all the Irish-speaking people of the counties of Tipperary, Waterford, and Kilkenny.-------------limerick                                                             Is hereditary to the valorous tribe,
The heroes of Claire701 mentioned by us, 701. Claire. - This was the ancient name of a hill near Duntryleague, in the barony of Small County. Oilioll Olum, the great ancestor of the kings of Munster, was buried in this hill, and a remarkable cromlech was raised over him, which still remains in good preservation.
Of the fairest bay of Erin.

C1b1c1 Elathach, son of c1b1c Dunlang, son of C1b1 Clairneach, had one son C1b1c1b Dunland.

                      Dunlang had a son, Ainbhleithe.

                       Anbhleithe had a son, Flaithnia.

                                 Flaithnia had five sons:

                Aonghus, from whom the kingship;

           Flaitheamh, from whom Ui Flaitheamh .                                            (O'Flahiffe);

*****Conghal, from whom Ui Chonghaile (Connelly); ??? see above His son Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind (died 678) was also a King of Munster.

and

++++++Ceallachan, from whom Ui Ceallachan (O'Callaghan).

Ceallachan('frequenter-of-chapels'-or-older-as-'bright headed'),from-whom Ui Ceallachan(O'Callaghan).

 Is there also O'Callaghans Murchadh, son of Donnchadh, grandson of Ceallachan
Caiseil(' Ceallachan of the Castle'),                                         
Is O'Ceallachain557 557. O'Ceallachain, now O'Callaghan. This family, which is of the same race as the MacCarthys, was removed from the barony of Kinelea shortly after the English Invasion, when they settled in the barony of Duhallow, where they possessed the parishes of Kilshannick and Clonmeen. See Harris's edition of Ware's Works, vol. ii., p. 72, and Smith's History of Cork, book ii., chap. 6. The senior branch of this family was transplanted to the county of Clare by Cromwell, where it became extinct in the male line earlyl in the nineteenth century. Lord Lismore is the present head of this family in Ireland. See Circuit of Murchertach MacNeill, p. 64, for the descent of O'Callaghan and Mac Carthy.                                                                                                        of the plain of Bearra,558 558. Plain of Bearra. - This seems a mistake, as O'Callaghan never had any connextion with the territory of Bearra.
A land of green pools with white bottoms;
Land of widest harbours.

Four guardian tribes of tara

The chieftains of Teamhair, where we are,
O hAirt7 the noble, and O'Riagain,8,
A host which united the harbours,

• Four Tribes of Tara - Ua Riagain (O'Regan); Ua Conghalaigh (O'Connolly) of Upper Kells barony, Meath (later of Monaghan).

Four Tribes of Tara - Ua Ceallaigh (O'Kelly) of the Navan baronies, Meath; Ua hAirt (O'Hart) of Moygoish barony, Westmeath.
O'Ceallaigh,9O'Conghalaigh.10

*****Conghal, from whom Ui Chonghaile (Connelly); ??? see above His son Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind (died 678) was also a King of Munster.

and

++++++Ceallachan, from whom Ui Ceallachan (O'Callaghan).

Ceallachan('frequenter-of-chapels'-or-older-as-'bright headed'),from-whom Ui Ceallachan(O'Callaghan).

 Is there also O'Callaghans Murchadh, son of Donnchadh, grandson of Ceallachan
Caiseil(' Ceallachan of the Castle'),                                         

76. Breassal Breac: his son. Had two sons - 1. Lughaidh, 2. Conla, between whom he divided his country, viz. - to his eldest son Lughaidh [Luy], who was ancestor of the Kings, nobility, and gentry of Leinster, he gave all the territories on the north side of the river Bearbha (now the "Barrow"), from Wicklow to Drogheda; and to his son                         Conla, who was ancestor of the Kings, nobility, and gentry of Ossory, he gave the south part, from the said river to the sea.6. portnahinch in queens county laois                                                  6. Tuath liege the paradise of okelly the tuath liege of the bright plains (field) okelly of liege on the east of the strand (traigh) by traigh which is generally and properly applied to the strand or seashore he must by his usual mode of amplification mean the trench of the river barrow is the spouse of this plain of the knotty yews (of dells and yews) from ofalia of ancient lands we next approach leix in leinster                     The last of the seven Territories of Ofalia mentioned by O’Heerin is Tuath-Leighe, the Paradise of O’Kelly (+++++ceallachan) . Where is this lovely land? I have no clue to it but one name which is not, perhaps, a bad guide to the discovery of at least its whereabouts, and one passage in Mageoghegan’s Annals of Clonmacnoise. This is Caislean Leighe i.e., the Castle of Leighe, now Lea Castle mentioned by the Four Masters at the year 1452. This was certainly in O’Kelly’s Country and it will appear from it that a considerable part of the Country of Leighe fell into the hands of the O’Dempseys of Clanmaliere, in whose country Lea Castle is placed on the old Map of Leax and Ophaly              I have no pedigree of the O’Kelly of Leighe: does Mac Firbisse or the writers of the Books of Lecan or Ballymote mention him? Does he descend from Rossa Failghe? See above ceallachan family branch

the tuath liege of the bright plains (field) okelly of liege on the east of the strand (traigh) is the spouse of this plain of the knotty yews (of dells and yews)

 

The most warlike man from the rapid Muaidh,Rapid Muaidh seems to be the name of a river, but the name is now unknown in the county of Cork. Is O'Mathghamhna of the harbour of white foam. O'Mathghamhna, not anglicised O'Mahony, and sometimes Mahony, without the prefix O'. The senior of this family is probably in France. O'Mahony of Dunloe, in Kerry, is believed to be the present head of the family in Ireland.

Is this and, as a land of encampment;
To him, without tribute, belonged [the land] along the sluggish Maigh,677 677. The Maigh, i.e., the river of the plain, now the Maigue, which rises near Charleville, and passing through Croom and Adare, falls into the Shannon nine miles below Limerick.  
And the plains down to the Sionainn.678 678. Down to the Sionainn, i.e., down or northwards to the Shannon.

 

To the race of Lughaidh [Luy], lewy mac ithu near the sea, Race of Lughaidh. - These were the O'Driscolls, who, according to the Irish genealogists, descend from lewy Lughaidh Mac Ithu, the uncle of Milesius of Spain. See the Miscellany of the Celtic Society, 1849, pp. 56, 57
Here I pass over the boundary;
It behoves me not to pass these people by,
But to detail the renown of the heroes.
 O'h-Eidirsceoil,564 chief king of the land, 563. Race of Lughaidh. - These were the O'Driscolls, who, according to the Irish genealogists, descend from lewy Lughaidh Mac Ithu, the uncle of Milesius of Spain. See the Miscellany of the Celtic Society, 1849, pp. 56, 57 Of Corca Laighdhe565 I speak, 565. Corca Laighdhe. - This, which was the tribe name of the O'Driscolls, was also applied to their territory, which originally comprised all the south-west part of the present county of Cork, namely, the baronies of Carbery, Beare, and Bantry; but shortly after the English Invasion they were encroached upon by the O'Donovans, O'Mahonys, and O'Sullivans, and more recently by the MacCarthy Reaghs, who reduced their principality, comprising the parishes of Myross Midhros, Glanbarahane [Castlehaven], Tullagh, Creagh, Kilcoe, Aghadown, and Clear, to much narrower limits. See Miscellany of the Celtic Society, p. 48-57 and p. 148.
He assumed possession over the harbour of Clear,566 566. Harbour of Clear, i.e., the bay between Cape Clear and Mizen Head, in the south of the county of Cork.
The most tranquil pillar of the kings.

 

CASHELL
Our visit shall be to Caisel of the kings,      Caisel of the kings, i.e., stone fort of the kings, now the town of Cashel, in the county of Tipperary, the seat of the kings of Munster from the beginning of the fifth century till the English Invasion. See Leabhar na gCeart, p. 28, note a                                                                                                 The seat of Corc,who practised no evil deeds: Cais-el   Corc. - He was king of Munster early in the fifth century, but the authentic irish annals contain no notice of his death

1d8. Croanan from whom were the Cuircus sept of Westmeath.

The two Cairbres 1d5 and 1d7 were twins.

Two of the latter four remained in Scotland in the hereditary paterning of their mother, of the Picts of Scotland, i.e.,

Cairbre Cruithneacain in Magh Geirrgimn (Kincardine) and

Maine Leambna in Magh Leambna (Leven).

This Aoibhinn, daughter of Aonghus Bolg and the first wife of Corc(k}, saw a vision the first night while she lay with the king of Cashel; She though she bore four whelps –

the first Nad Fracich, she bathed in wine;

the second Cas, in ale,

the third, MacBroic in new milk, and

the fourth, MacCiair, in water.

Then came a fifth whelp and he was bathed in blood - Cairbre Cruithneacain and that he bit the nipples off her breasts then.

She also saw the vision in another form: four birds in a nest (in Cashel). Two other birds came to ireland and fought with them; then one went straight westwards and the other east. Of the four in the nest,

three went on the southwest

while one remained in the nest with the queen - Nad Fraoich son of Corc was the one who stayed behind - he was king of Cashel of that queen's family.

Cas and MacBroic and MacCiair were the three who went southwest (west Cork).

As to the two birds who came from other parts the one who went westwards was Cairbre Luachra who went west over Luachair Deadhaid (Slieveloughra) and was ancestor of Ui Cairbre Luachra i.e., the Eoghanacht of Loch Lein (Killarney); and the bird who went eastwards was Cairbre Cruithneacain who went east to Scotland.

Some say that these two Cairbres were but one and that Cairbre Cruitnechan (i.e., the son of the Pictish woman) was ancestor of the Eoghanacht of Loch Lein (Killarney the O'Moriarty sept).

Three other younger sons of Corc:

Deaghaid from whom were the

Ui Muircadhaigh and

Ui Deaghidh.

O'h-Eidirsceoil of Bearra,576 the good, 576. O'h-Eidersceoil of Bearra, i.e., O'Driscoll of Beare, a barnoy in the south-west of the county of Cork, which was possessed by the Driscolls till dispossessed by a branch of the O'Sullivans, some time after the English Invasion.
Over Bearra of the salmon-full border;
The harbour of Baoi,577 at which the branching sea is green, 577. The harbour of Baoi, now Bantry Bay. The island of Baoi Bheirre, in this bay, is now called Beare Island.
Is under his extensive fleet of wine.
After treating of the race of Lughaigh,578 578. The race of Lughaidh, i.e., the O'Driscolls and their correlatives
And the proper land of Desmond,
Let us leave entirely the land of Ith,579 579. The land of Ith, a bardic appellative for the O'Driscoll territory.

The O'Floinns of Arda of green woods, O'Floinns of Arda, i.e., O'Flynn of Ardagh. The chief family resided at Ardagh Castle, situate nearly midway between Skibbereen and Baltimore, in the barony of West Carbery, and county of Cork. See O'Brien's Irish Dictionary, under Flann and Cobhthach, and the Miscellany for the Celtic Society, pp. 9,10, 36.
A tribe of illustrious genealogy;
Every man of their host is the material of a chief;

Lj and Flann, red ruddy from whom Ui Floinn (O'Flynn);--------a daughter of this line = ui duinn line   

oflynn olynn the surname oflynn is derived from the gaelic personal name flann the adjective flann denotes a dull red colour and means ruddy when applied to persons ofloinn is the form of the surname in gaelic it is one of those which arose independently in several parts of the country and as might be expected is widely distributed

Lj and Flann, red ruddy from whom Ui Floinn (O'Flynn);--------a daughter of this line = ui duinn line    

oflynn olynn the surname oflynn is derived from the gaelic personal name flann the adjective flann denotes a dull red colour and means ruddy when applied to persons ofloinn is the form of the surname in gaelic it is one of those which arose independently in several parts of the country and as might be expected is widely distributed 41 in the list of most numerous of surnames  these are found chiefly in two main areas cork and waterford in the south and on the borders of connaught and ulster in the adjacent counties of roscommon leitrim and cavan two of the oflynn septs originated in county cork of these

oflynn of Ardagh castle between skibbereen and Baltimore dun na sead fort of the jewels was a branch of the corca laoidhe dun na sead or dunashad fort of the jewels a sanctuary for druids and the place name is associated with bealtaine the once mighty corcu loigde former kings of tara and kings of munster and the

oflynns of muskerry were lords of muskerrylinn muscraidhe ui fhloinn ie the country between ballyvourney and blarney

Srafan of coolcor cuil chorra parish and barony of granard county Longford this saint is said to have been the subject along with many others to brighid of Kildare (corpus genelogioriums hiberniae ed p orian Dublin 1985 670-64 lgen 753.30) the church assigned to him appears to also to have been claimed by Armagh as early as the seventh century to judge by tireachan who attributed to Patrick the founding of several churches in the Longford Westmeath area including one at coolcor (patrick texts book of Armagh ed c bielor sch10 dublin 1979  136 16.5.0 ) tireachan also had occasion to mention some of brighids associates in this area including her uncle mac caorthainn and her mentor mac caille (Patrick texts book of armagh 136 16.1 3 ) srafan may have been patron of a church much closer to brighid at straffan teach srafain srafans church in north Kildare and in this capacity he found mention in a poem on the church of ceall chorbain another name for the church of naas (metrical dindshenchus 5 volumes ed e j gwynn tls 7-12 1906-35 repr dublin 1991  iv 340 seanchas 221) the saint is probably the same as the srafan who is said to have brought his sisters son a laighnibh out of leinster to the cork church of dromdaleague drimoleague drimoleave parish east division of the barony of west carbery county of cork 7 miles south west by south of dunmanway on the river ilen where he married locally and became a ceann cinidh ancestor of a family (an leabhar muimhneach maraon le suim aguisini ed t o donchadha imc Dublin 1940 176 184 530-1) a holy well and road were named after him at dromdaleague according to local tradition (journal of the cork historical and archaeological society 1892  25 100-1 archive inventory of county cork 5 volumes comp d power e byrne u egan s lane and m sleeman dublin 1992-2009 282-3) a saint of the name was also commemorated at a church named cluain mor on 23 may (the martyrology of Tallaght ed r I best and h j Lawlor hbs 68 london 1931 451 martyrology felim hui Gorman ed w stokes hbs 9 london 1895 page 102 martyrology of Donegal calendar of irish saints page 136 ed j h todd and w reeves iacs dublin 1864) all in a dictionary of irish saints Padraig oriain four courts press   

             Nala, from whom UI Nala (Whooley);

> The other matter to bear in mind is that spelling only became standardized
> comparatively recently, say in the last 100 to 150 years.
>
> I can assure you that "Malla" has a better provenance than "Mallow" based
> on the original Gaelic name. The following is an extract from Wikipedia.
>
> "Name in Irish
>
> The earliest form of the name is Magh nAla "plain of the rock", which was
> gradually elided to Mala.[1] In the Anglicisation "Mallow", -ow originally
> represented a reduced schwa sound, which is now however pronounced as a full
> vowel IPA: /oʊ/[2] In 1975, Mala was among the first Irish placenames
> adopted by statute,[3] on the advice of the Placenames branch of the
> Ordnance Survey of Ireland.[4][5]
>
> In the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled in the 1630s, Magh nAla is
> misrepresented as Magh Eala, the Donegal-based authors being insufficiently
> familiar with Cork places.[1] P.W. Joyce in 1869 surmised that in Magh Ealla
> [sic], Ealla referred to the river Blackwater, and connected the name to the
> nearby barony of Duhallow.[1] Professor T. F. O'Rahilly in 1938 interpreted
> Magh Eala as "plain of the swans".[1] This false etymology remains widely
> cited and has caused resentment of the official Mala as being a gratuitous
> simplification of Magh Eala".

          Donn, from whom Ui Duinn (O'Dunne);

622 ui duinn descendant from cathaoir mor st b622 ui duirdrend subject to the king of cashel ha772.-----later breagh district of tara

Ailghean, a quo Ui Ailghean (Allen o h-ailin );

           little rock harmony noble off spring and

Cathan, from whom some of the Ui Cathain (Keane) families.  

i do declare the above ailghean son of srufan sister of the line of the dal riada kings and also a laighnibh (possibly of the heremons of the Milesian kings) who married a daughter of flionn a descendant of heber the eldest son of mil of the Milesian kings has now created a ceann cinnidh ancestor of a family which is tripartite

not once a chief-tain one race of royal kingly bloodline of ulad     the sister of srafan of the race of colla uais monarch of eire of dal riada line of chief-tain kings where the mournes sweep down to the sea also  chief-tain lord of the kingdom of the isles of orkneys Hebrides shetlands of scotae beag and isle of man isle of jersey and Skellig Michael and lambay and Irelands eye and dalkey and rockabill islands and iceland the east coast of Greenland and the eastern coast of the united states of America down to mexico bay and of nova scotia in newfoundland

  

These are the Ui-Baghamhna.                             Ui-Baghamhna, now the barony of Ibawn, in the south of the county of Cork, ibid., p.36
King of the vigorous Tricha medhonach Tricha ched medhonach, i.e., the central cantred. This was the old name of the present barony of Barryroe, in the county of Cork. See O'Brien's Irish Dictionary, in voce COBHTHACH. Dr. O'Brien, who knew this part of Ireland well, speaking of the families of O'Cowhig and O'Floinn Arda, about the middle of the last century, has the following observation which nearly holds good at the present day: "But the melancholy remark which remains to be made is, that, of the two families first mentioned, there is not, to my knowledge, one individual now existing that may be held in the light of a gentleman, having been dispossessed long since of their very ancient and large properties; which, indeed, is the case with many other Irish families, not less illustrious in former times, who are now quite extinct, or reduced to a state of perfect obscurity, for the reason now mentioned."
Is O'Cobhthaigh570 of the white-stone harbour; 570. O'Cobhthaigh. - Dr. O'Brien anglicises this name O'Cowhig, which seems to have been the form of the name in use, in his time, among this sept in the county of Cork; but in other more northern parts of Ireland, it is anglicised Coffey, without the prefix O'. Dr. Smith, in his "Natural and Civil History of Cork," book ii. c. 3, writes of this family: "Almost on every headland of this barony were castles erected by the Irish, seve of which belonged to the sept of O'Cowhig, as Dundeedy, Dunowen, Dunore, Duneen, Dunocowhig, Dunworley, and Dungorley."
Land of Cliodhna,571 plain of O'Cobhthaigh, 571. Land of Cliodhna, i.e., bordering on Tonn Cliodhna, a loud surge in the bay of Glandore, much celebrated by Irish poets

Clíodhna In Irish mythology, Clíodhna (/ˈklɪænæ/, Clídna, Clionadh, Clíodna, Clíona, transliterated to Kleena[dubious – discuss] in English) is a Queen of the Banshees of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Cleena of Carrigcleena is the potent banshee that rules as queen over the sidheog (fairy women of the hills) of South Munster, or Desmond. In some Irish myths, Clíodhna is a goddess of love and beauty, and the patron of County Cork. She is said to have three brightly coloured birds who eat apples from an otherworldly tree and whose sweet song heals the sick. She leaves the otherworldly island of Tir Tairngire ("the land of promise") to be with her mortal lover, Ciabhán, but is taken by a wave as she sleeps due to the music played by a minstrel of Manannan mac Lir in Glandore harbour in County Cork: the tide there is known as Tonn Chlíodhna, "Clíodhna's Wave". Whether she drowns or not depends on the version being told, along with many other details of the story.She had her palace in the heart of a pile of rocks, five miles from Mallow, which is still commonly known by the name of Carrig-Cleena, and numerous legends about her are told among the Munster peasantry.In general, it has been observed that Cleena is especially associated with old Irish families of Munster. Cleena has long been associated with the lands that had been the territory of the Ui-Fidgheinte during their period of influence (circa 373 A.D. to 977 A.D.), or were later associated with what had been the Ui-Fidghente territory (MacCarthys and FitzGeralds).Cleena is referred to as an unwelcome pursuer in Edward Walsh’s poem, O’Donovan’s Daughter. And, in an ode praising Donel O'Donovan upon his accession to the chiefship of Clancahill, Donal III O'Donovan he is referred to as the "Dragon of Clíodhna".Clíodhna is also associated with the MacCarthy dynasty of Desmond, who adopted her as their fairy woman, and the O'Keeffes and FitzGerald dynasty, with whom she has had amorous affairs Clíodhna appears in the name of one O'Leary in a medieval pedigree, as Conor Clíodhna or "Conor of Clíodhna", and it is notable that the family were originally based in the area of Rosscarbery, very near to Glandore, before moving north to Muskerry. The O'Learys belong to the ancient Corcu Loígde.

Rivalry with AibellClíodhna is said to be a rival Aibell, in one tale, Clíodhna cast a spell that turned Aibell into a white cat.

The Blarney Stone The most traditional story of the famous Blarney Stone involves Clíodhna.[8] Cormac Laidir MacCarthy, the builder of Blarney Castle,[9] being involved in a lawsuit, appealed to Clíodhna for her assistance. She told him to kiss the first stone he found in the morning on his way to court, and he did so, with the result that he pleaded his case with great eloquence and won. Thus the Blarney Stone is said to impart "the ability to deceive without offending". He then incorporated it into the parapet of the castle.[10] To be fair, Clíodhna does not take credit for all the blarney of the MacCarthys. Queen Elizabeth noted in frustration that she could not effect a negotiation with Cormac MacCarthy, whose seat was Blarney Castle, as everything he said was 'Blarney, as what he says he does not mean'.

John O'Donovan In her capacity as banshee, Cleena is mentioned by the Irish antiquarian John O’Donovan.[12] Writing in 1849 to a friend, O'Donovan says:

“

When my grandfather died in Leinster in 1798, Cleena came all the way from Ton Cleena to lament him; but she has not been heard ever since lamenting any of our race, though I believe she still weeps in the mountains of Drumaleaque in her own country, where so many of the race of Eoghan Mor are dying of starvation.

”

Michael Collins

The great Irish leader Michael Collins also had knowledge of Clíodhna. Stories were told of her in the Rosscarbery school he attended, and they took Sunday trips to Clíodhna's rock. Here, according to Michael's friend Piaras Béaslaí:

“

Michael heard many a wonderful tale of Clíodhna's enchantments, of wrecks and perils, and drownings and treasure trove.

”

It is worth noting that Collins was descended from the Ó Coileáins of Uí Chonaill Gabra. Both the Ui Chonaill and the Ui Donnobhans were tribes within the Ui-Fidghente.It has been suggested that Clídna derives from the Gaulish goddess Clutonda or Clutondae

achain in itself is in reality a tribal designation, which is derived from the middle Gaelic name Eachuinn and anciently Eqo-donno-s, meaning the Horse Lord, or more properly translated, the Lord or Chief of the Horse Tribe;    

                                                                                                                           O'h-Eidirsceoil of Bearra, the good,         O'h-Eidersceoil of Bearra, i.e., O'Driscoll of Beare, a barnoy in the south-west of the county of Cork, which was possessed by the Driscolls till dispossessed by a branch of the O'Sullivans, some time after the English Invasion. The surname O'Driscoll is an anglicised form of the Gaelic Ó hEidirsceóil which has the meaning of "diplomat" or "interpreter." (eidir 'between' + scéal 'story', 'news').
Over Bearra of the salmon-full border;
The harbour of Baoi, at which the branching sea is green, The harbour of Baoi, now Bantry Bay. The island of Baoi Bheirre, in this bay, is now called Beare Island.
Is under his extensive fleet of wine.
After treating of the race of Lughaigh, The race of Lughaidh, i.e., the O'Driscolls and their correlatives And the proper land of Desmond, Let us leave entirely the land of Ith, The land of Ith, a bardic appellative for the O'Driscoll territory.
Territories of yellow hazel nuts.    Eoghanacht of Caisel of the plain of Cian, Eoghanacht of Caisel. - This was the original tribe name of the O'Donoghues, who were anciently seated in Magh-Feimhin, now the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the S.E. of the county of Tipperary.                                             the king's house in Feimhin (South Tipperary plain). Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach is its name, Corca-Athrach. - O'Flaherty describes this territory as extending in length from Tiprait-farran, near the abbey of the Holy Cross, called Huachtar-Iamhann, to Dunandreas, and the northern part of Knockgraffan. Ogygia, part iii., c. 81                         All these lions I mention.                                They were driven from this territory shortly after the English Invasion, 1172ad when they settled in the present barony of Magunihy, in the county of Kerry, to which they gave the name of Eoghanacht Ui Donnchadha, anglicised Onaght-O'Donoghue.
O'Donnchadha is its hereditary chieftain;
It is also styled Feimhin,Uniter of the tribe of yellow nuts.                                                    The plain of Luachair land of produce, Plain of Luachair. - This was the name of the level plain portion of the present barony of Magunihy, in the S.E. of the present oounty of Kerry; but it formed no part of the country of the ancient Ciarraighe. It comprised the territories of O'Keeffe, O'Callaghan, O'Donoghue and MacAuliffe.                                  Let us proceed across Luachair hither, Across Luachair. - This shows that Luachair was conterminous with the territory of Claonghais, now Clonlish, a wild district in the barony of Upper Connelloe, in the county of Limerick, and on the confines of the counties of Cork and Kerry. Luachair evidently comprised the countries of O'Donoghue, O'Keeffe, O'Callaghan and Mac Auliffe, or the barony of Magunihy, in the county of Kerry, and that of Duhallow, in the county of Cork.
A journey which is fit for poets                                                                      In Munster, of the smooth flowing streams.
In the west, let us give first place to the host,Of Corca Duibhne, of great bounty; Corca Duibhne. - These were of the race of Conaire I., monarch of ireland, at the beginning of the first century (Ogygia, part iii., c. 45), and after the establishment of surnames, they branched into the families of O'Falvey, O'Shea, and O'Conghaile (O'Connell). Shortly anterior 1150ad to the English Invasion O'Falvy possessed the barony of Corcaguiny, O'Shea that of Iveragh, and O'Conghaile (O'Connell), that of Magunihy;------                                                           Over the bushy-forted Magh O'gCoinchinn; Magh O'gCoinchinn, now Mugunihy, forming the eastern portion of the county of Kerry. The O'Conghailes were driven from this territory in the eleventh centry by the O'Donoghues, who gave it their tribe name of Eoghanacht O'Donoghue.
A hazel tree of branching ringlets,
In the Munster plain of horse-hosts                 King of Eochanacht is he,
O'Cearbhaill who is our friend, O'Cearbhaill, anglice O'Carroll. There was a family of this name in Magunihy preceding the O'Donoghues; but they sunk into poverty and obscurity many centuries since, and are now unknown. . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race,
Hawk of the sept of the white strand.

-------but about the middle of the eleventh century, 1050ad the O'Donoghues settled in Magunihy, and drove the O'Conghailes westwards into Iveragh, where they were seated at Ballycarbery as castellans to Mac Carthy More. The territories of this race of Conaire extended to the Suir, in the county of Tipperary.                                                         Clann tSealbhaigh of the bright steams, Clann t-Sealbhaigh, i.e., the race of Sealbhach. This was the tribe name of the O'Donoghues of the county of Kerry. O'Domhnaill (O'Donnell) was one of the ancient chiefs of the race, but the name has been long obsolete.
A land of which there is no doubt;
O'Domhnaill and his strong hand
Divided the plain of brown nuts.
O'Donnchadha of Loch Lein, O'Donnchadha of Loch Lein, i.e., O'Donoghue of Ross, at Lough Leane or Killarney, county of Kerry. A fair-surfaced moist district.
O'Donnchadha of Loch Lein O'Donnchadha, not anglicised O'Donoghue. O'Donoghue of Loch Lein, or the Lakes of Killarney, is now unknown. He had his residence at Ross Castle, near Killarney, and was head chieftain over the whole territory of Eoghanacht Ui Donnchadha (anglicised Onaght-Idonoghue), which, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was considered as coextensive with the present barony of Magunihy.                                                  O'Donoghue of Glenflesk is the only known representative of this family.
King of Eochanacht is he,
O'Donnchadha of the full, strong Flesc, O'Donnchadha of the Flesc, i.e., O'Donoghue of Glenflesk, i.e., the vale of the river Flesk in Kerry. The present O'Donoghue is the head of this family. See Tribes of Ireland, p. 71.
Are thus over the Clann tSealbhaigh,
Men whose mind is on [the soverignty of] Munster. On Munster. - Dubhdabhoirenn, ancestor of O'Donoghue, was king of Munster in 957, and his son Domhnall, who was slain at the battle of Clontarf, A.D. 1014, was king of Desmond.                                                 Flann lua laoi                                                     A fine land which we are not pass over
O'Ceithearnaigh, the smooth-skinned, obtained;Ui-Floinn of Lua, about their far extending Laoi, Ui-Floinn of Lua, i.e., the territory of Muscraighe Ui-Fhloinn, or Muskerrylin, which contains fifteen parishes, and is correctly described as around the far extending Lee and Lua, now Lough Lua, in the barony of Muskerry, through which the river Lee flows. See Leabhar na g-Ceart, p. 44.
Scions of fresh aspect, like their fathers.
Definition of scion1 :a detached living portion of a plant (such as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft 2 a :descendant, child; especially :a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family                       
B Flann Lua or Laoi, son of Laoghaire. He is named for the river Lee and is ancestor of the sept Ui Flainn Lua.

It has been suggested that Flann was an alternative name for Criomthan, father of Aodh and Laoghaire, later mentioned. All this speculation was caused by a preconceived idea that Flann was an ancestor of the Cineal Aodha O’Mahony, whereas he was a member of the Cineal Laoghaire tribe, being son of Laoghaire himself. He is definitely described as Flann Laoi, so that decides once and for all who conquered the territory along the Lee, and gave his name

At this time the parts of County Cork north, west and northwest of Cineal Laoghaire, were occupied by independent tribes. The chiefs of Cineal Laoghaire, anxious to expand their possessions, made war on their neighbouring chiefs, or mayhap it was the neighbouring chief who was the aggressor, but at any rate the sequel was that Flann, son of Laoghaire, conquered the southern part of Muscraidhe Mitne, that is, the part bordering Macroom and along the Lee towards Crookstown.  In the early years of the third century circa 210ad a king named Cairbre Musc gave his name to six territories in the province of Munster. Of these only one, Muscraidhe Mitne, or alternatively, Muscraidhe Floinn Lua, has come down to our time as a place name. The agnomen Floinn, genitive of Flann, was added in course of time as it was conquered by a chief called Flann.   

This new acquisition came to be known as Muscraidhe Fhloinn, from its conqueror, and a part of it, roughly corresponding to the present parish of Kilmichael, got the name of Uibh Flann Luadh or Laoi. Thus the parish of Kilmichael was originally called Uibh Flann Luadh or Ifflanloe, as it is written by English historians.      584ad Felimy king of desmond                      father of Fergus                                                 father of cinel mbece the race of bece of the land of cattle Cinel mBece of the land of cattle,. Cinel mBece, i.e., the race of Bece, son of Fergus, who ws the son of Felimy, king of Desmond, A.D. 584, and ancestor of O'Mahony.See Battle of Magh-Rath, Geneal. Tab. p. 340, and Payne's Description of Ireland, edited by Dr. Aquilla Smith, p. 23.
Around the Bandain of fair woods,      Bandain, now the river Bandon in the county of Cork. O'Bece, scion of fair land,O’Bece This name, which would be anglicised Beck, has long since sunk into oblivion. Is over Beanntraighe of the fair summit, Beanntraighe, now the barony of Bantry, in the county of Cork.                                             Bandain, now the river Bandon in the county of Cork.  Bandon (/ˈbæn.dən/; Irish: Droichead na Bandan) is a town in County Cork, Ireland. It lies on the River Bandon between two hills. The name in Irish means Bridge of the Bandon, a reference to the origin of the town as a crossing-point on the river Droichead na Banndan

A host to whom high deeds are truly easy,
Of the race of Fergus of Uladh. Fergus of Uladh, i.e., Fergus Mac Roigh, exiled king of Ulster, in the first century, from which O'Conor Kerry, O'Conor of Corcumroe, O'Loughlin, and many other famlies in Munster are descended.

At the end of the fifth century a king named Eochu (Eochy), break­ing away from the royal house of the kings of Munster, founded for himself a kingdom in the present County Cork. This extended roughly from Cork Harbour to the confines of Drimoleague and from the Bandon to the Lee. This territory came to be known as Uibh Eachach from its founder Eochy. Eochy had a son named Criomthan (Griffin), who succeeded him as king of the new territory, but there were only two kings of this newly formed kingdom, for Criomthan’s two sons divided their patrimony.

The tribal name [McEachain] is still represented in the ancient territory of Dalaraidhe by the place named Ivahagh, in County Down, the Gaelic name of which is Uibb Eachach, pronounced Ivahagh, but now contracted to Ivagh.

barony of upper and lower iveagh county down eochaidh mac maireda the munster chieftain took possession of the territory around lough neagh and was subsequently drowned in the eruption which formed the lake gaelic loch neachach lough neagh……………………………...                                                                                                       There are many more places in this area that contain the Gaelic tribal word or name EACH which is record in English as AUGH. However, each case where the word is used in a place name must be judged on its own merits as to meaning, for it would not be quite correct to imply that the word Each has the same significance in all instances for it is governed by its prefix or suffix. Eachain in itself is in reality a tribal designation, which is derived from the middle Gaelic name Eachuinn and anciently Eqo-donno-s, meaning the Horse Lord, or more properly translated, the Lord or Chief of the Horse Tribe; the horse, in Gaelic Each, being the totem of their tribe." The McCaughans of Scotland and Ireland by John Alexander McCaughan of Ballyverdagh                       

Ui-Eachach588 of the east of Banba, Banbha / learned 588. Ui-Eachach, i.e, the descendant of Eochaidh, son of Cas, son of Corc, king of Munster Eochu,from-whom-is-called-the-Ui-Eachach-(Ivagha  ivahagh

1d2 Cas, son of Corc, had one son - Eochu, from whom is called the Ui Eachach (Ivagha).

Eochu,from-whom-is-called-the-Ui-Eachach-(Ivagha

Ui-Eachach-Mumhan-Cas-('the curly-haired'),                                    

from the mede-abounding Machuin. Machuin, now the river Mahon, which rises near Kilmacthomas, and falls into the sea at the village of Bun Machuine (Bunmahon).
They will exceed all tribes in fame

The delightful land of Ui-Eachach, Ui-Eachach. - This was the tribe name of the O'Bricks.The south of the woody Inis Fail, Inis-Fail, one of the ancient names of Ireland.
O'Bric selects it across the flood,O'Bric, now Brick, without the prefix O'
From Lec Logha Lec Logha. - Tis was probably the ancient name of the remarkable rock now called Clochlobhrais, situated about midway between Kilmacthomas and Dungarvan, in the county of Waterford.                                                                                                              to Liathdruim. Liathdruim, i.e., gray ridge, now Leitrim, on the confines of the counties of Waterford and Cork  check this with tara liath druim the beautiful hill of tara hazel hill the hazel tree is traditionally associated with wisdom fertility and kingship of eire incidentally tara liath druim the beautiful hill was described as a pleasant hazel wood in the dindshnchas

The Ui-Mathghamhna, or O'Mahonys, were the chief family of this race.

They wre first seated in the barony of Kinelmeaky, in the county of Cork, but they afterwards encroached on the Corca-Laighe, and became masters of the district called Fonn-Iartharach, i.e., western land. The name of Ui-Eathach is usually anglicised Ivahagh, and is shown on several maps of Munster, made in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. It comprised, according to the Liber Regalis Visitationis of 1615, the parishes of Kilmore, Scool, Kilcrohane, Durris, Kilmoconnoge, and Caheragh, in the south-west of the county of Cork.
Is the great patrimony of O'Mathghamhna,589 589. O'Mathghamhna, now O'Mahony. See note on Cinel m-Bece, supra. Land of fair mounds, irriguous, not undulating,That plain of brown nuts is extensive.

Ui-Eachach-Mumhan-Cas-('the curly-haired'),                                            Ui Eachach Mumhan (the O'Mahonys,                    Ui-Eachach-Mumhan-Cas-('the curly-haired'),            Mathghamain('bear-calf'aka-Mahon)                                    O'Donoghues etc. in West Cork)                                     

This territory came to be known as Uibh Eachach from its founder Eochy. Eochy had a son named Criomthan (Griffin), who succeeded him as king of the new territory, but there were only two kings of this newly formed kingdom, for Criomthan’s two sons divided their patrimony.
Aos Ais-de of the flock-abounding plain Aos Aisde. - This name is now forgotten; Aos Aiste (Tuosist)   Tuomuy and Tethmoy                                               Before the English Invasion the O'Callaghans were seated in the barony of Cinel-Aedha,  now Kinelea, in the south of the county of Cork for the descent of O'Callaghan and Mac Carthy.                                                                                                        of the plain of Bearra, Plain of Bearra. - This seems a mistake, as O'Callaghan never had any connextion with the territory of Bearra.
A land of green pools with white bottoms;
Land of widest harbours.

Four guardian tribes of tara

The chieftains of Teamhair, where we are,
O hAirt7 the noble, and O'Riagain,8,
A host which united the harbours,

Four Tribes of Tara - Ua Riagain (O'Regan); Ua Conghalaigh (O'Connolly) of Upper Kells barony, Meath (later of Monaghan).

Four Tribes of Tara - Ua Ceallaigh (O'Kelly) of the Navan baronies, Meath; Ua hAirt (O'Hart) of Moygoish barony, Westmeath.
O'Ceallaigh,9O'Conghalaigh.10

*****Conghal, from whom Ui Chonghaile (Connelly); ??? see above His son Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind (died 678) was also a King of Munster.

and

++++++Ceallachan, from whom Ui Ceallachan (O'Callaghan).

Ceallachan('frequenter-of-chapels'-or-older-as-'bright headed'),from-whom Ui Ceallachan(O'Callaghan).

 Is there also O'Callaghans Murchadh, son of Donnchadh, grandson of Ceallachan
Caiseil(' Ceallachan of the Castle'),                                         

but as it was the tribe-name of the family of O'Muircheartaigh, now o'Moriarty, or more usually Moriarty, without the prefix O', we must conclude that it was the name of a territory along the river Mang in Kerry.
The hero O'Muircheartaigh has obtained,
corc descendant Some say that these two Cairbres were but one and that Cairbre Cruitnechan (i.e., the son of the Pictish woman) was ancestor of the Eoghanacht of Loch Lein (Killarney the O'Moriarty sept).

A fine land with green aspect,
O'h-Imhasbhain has acquired.                  O'h-Imhasbhain. This name is now unknown in Munster After the tribes of the plain of the keels,

I speak of the race of Conaire, Race of Conaire, i.e., of Conaire II., of the Deagads of Munster, monarch of ireland in the year 212. See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. c. 63.
A tribe of the heroes of Breagh, from Tulach-an-Trir, Tulach-an-Trir, i.e., hill of the three persons. This was one of the most ancient names of Tara. See Ogygia, part iii., c. 17. In Munster, of the smooth flowing streams.

In the west, let us give first place to the host,Of Corca Duibhne,594 of great bounty; 594. Corca Duibhne. - These were of the race of Conaire I., monarch of ireland, at the beginning of the first century (Ogygia, part iii., c. 45), and after the establishment of surnames, 1050ad they branched into the families of O'Falvey, O'Shea, and O'Conghaile (O'Connell). Shortly anterior to the English Invasion  1150ad                                                       O'Falvy possessed the barony of Corcaguiny, O'Shea that of Iveragh, and                              O'Conghaile (O'Connell), that of Magunihy; but about the middle of the eleventh century, 1050ad the O'Donoghues settled in Magunihy, and drove the O'Conghailes westwards into Iveragh, where they were seated at Ballycarbery as castellans to Mac Carthy More. The territories of this race of Conaire extended to the Suir, in the county of Tipperary.
17. In Munster, of the smooth flowing streams. Let us speak of the east as far as the streamy Siuir, Of every fresh plain of fine cattle.Three sub-chiefs are hereditary to them,The old land of Ui Duibhne of good hosts, O'Seagha has obtained, without denial, A country not wretched; he is king of Ui-Fathach. Ui-Fathach. This ws the tribe name of the O'Sheas. it is now anglicised Iveragh, which is a well-known barony in the west of the county of Kerry O'Seagha O'Seagha, now anglicised O'Shea. A branch of this family removed to the city of Kilkenny, about the end of the fourteenth century, where they became wealthy and highly respectable.                                       
Seal of reckoning the districts.
O'Conghaile of the slender swords, O'Conghaile, now corrupted to O'Conaill, anglicised O'Connell. The head of this family was transplanted by 1650 Cromwell to Brenter, near Callan hill in the county of Clare.Over the bushy-forted Magh O'gCoinchinn; Magh O'gCoinchinn, now Mugunihy, forming the eastern portion of the county of Kerry. The O'Conghailes were driven from this territory in the eleventh centry by the O'Donoghues, who gave it their tribe name of Eoghanacht O'Donoghue.
A hazel tree of branching ringlets,
In the Munster plain of horse-hosts.

17. In Munster, of the smooth flowing streams. Three sub-chiefs are hereditary to them, The old land of Ui Duibhne of good hosts, O'Seagha and O'Failbhe the man,
From the Maing westwards is hereditary to them;O'Failbhe is owner as far as Fionntraigh; O'Faiblhe, anglice O'Falvy and Falvy, without the prefix O'. Their territory originally extended from the river Maing to Finntraigh, now Ventry, in the west of the county of Kerry and O'Failbhe the man,
Seal of reckoning the districts

Of the race of Conaire the hero
Let us speak, of the chiefs of Muscraighe,  Muscraighe. - According to all our genealogical Irish MSS. the Muscraighe were descendants of Cairbre Musc, son of Conaire Mor, monarch of Ireland, in the beginning of the third century. Ogygia, part iii., c. 63                      
A most whose seat is the fine land,
The land of Mairtine of Munster. Mairtine of Munster, an ancient tribe of the Firbolgs of whose territory Emly, in the county of Tipperary, was the centre and capital
In the early years of the third century circa 210ad a king named Cairbre Musc gave his name to six territories in the province of Munster. Of these only one, Muscraidhe Mitne, or alternatively, Muscraidhe Floinn Lua, has come down to our time as a place name. The agnomen Floinn, genitive of Flann, was added in course of time as it was conquered by a chief called Flann.   
Muscraighe Mitine the great Muscraighe-Mitine, otherwise called Muscraighe Ui-Fhloinn. This was the ancient name of the barony of West Muskerry, in the county of Cork. The family of O'Maoilfabhaill of this race is now unknown. It is quite clear that our author is here compiling his enumeration of chiefs and territories from written authoritesd, and not from the famlies existing in his time. See note 583, supra, on the territory of O'Floinn of Lua, which is evidently the one here referred to, but belonging to a different epoch. Neither of these families were dominant here in our author's time.
O'Floinn obtained, just is his battle-host;
A valiant array who obtain sway,
O'Maolfabhaill is over it.  In the early years of the third century circa 210ad a king named Cairbre Musc gave his name to six territories in the province of Munster. Of these only one, Muscraidhe Mitne, or alternatively, Muscraidhe Floinn Lua, has come down to our time as a place name. The agnomen Floinn, genitive of Flann, was added in course of time as it was conquered by a chief called Flann.    
O hAodha, who bestowed cows, has got O'h-Aodh, now anglicised O'Hea and Hayes, but the O'h-Aodhas of this race are quite obscure.The portion extending eastward from a line running from Enniskean to Crookstown, and then to Donoghmore, was allotted to Aodh and this territory came to be known as Cineal Aodha (modern Kinelea). The portion to the west of this line, and which included what are now known as the parishes of Kinneigh, Fanlobbus, Kilmurry and north­ward to Donoghmore, came under the rule of Laoghaire, another son of Criomthan’s. I shall not here enter into the question of the seniority of Aodh or Laoghaire. Suffice to say that the division appears to have been carried out in a friendly manner, and that the new sub-divisions worked in harmony for hundreds of years                                                                       Having now sketched how Kilmichael originated from Uibh Flann Luadh, we can proceed with its history. The two tribes of Cineal Aodha and Cineal Laoghaire lived in peace with one another, and later expanded westward to the sea and northwards to the borders of Kerry. A chief of the Cineal Laoghaire was raised to the kingship of Munster, and a chief of Cineal Aodha was also elected King of Munster. This latter chief was named Maolmuadh, anglicized Molloy. Maolmuadh was opposed by Mahon of the Dalgcais and later by his brother, Brian, known as Brian Boru. In the course of these struggles, a battle was fought near Macroom, at a place called Bealach Leachta, in the year 978. Here Brian was the victor and Maolmuadh retreated from the field of battle back through Bearna Dearg at Sleaveen.

The wide Muscraighe Luachra; Muscraighe Luachra, about the Abhainn mhor, a territory extending on both sides of the Blackwater, near its source, in the north-west of the county of Cork. - See Leabhar na gCeart, p. 44.
A tribe of fine land and high renown,
About the salmon-full Abhainn mor.
The territory of O'Donnagain, certainly
Is the great Muscraighe of Three Plains, Muscraighe of the Three Plains. - This territory was granted by king John to William de Barry, under the name of Muskerry Donegan. The family of O'Donegan is still extant in this territory, but reduced to poverty and obscurity. Dr. James Donegan, the author of the Greek-English Dictionary, who was a native of Charleville, was of them. "The church of Fiort Seithe, which is placed by the Calendars of Marianus, and the Four Masters (Sept. 6), in Muscraighe-tri-maighe, is now known by the name of Ardskeagh, which is a small parish in tht part of the barony of Fermoy Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) bordering on the barony of Orrery and Kilmore. In the ancient taxations of the diocese of Cloyne we find a rural deanery, called Muscry-donnegan, containing the parishes now comprehended in the barony of Orrery and Kilmore, with small adjacent portions of Duhallow and Fermoy. Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) Among the churhces in this deanery, Orwery [i.e., Orbraidhe, or Orrery] and Fersketh [i.e., Feart Skeithe, called Ardskagh, in 1615, now Ardskeagh] are two. Thus the identity of Muscraighe-tri-maighe and the barony of Orrey is proved to a demonstration and O'Brien's statement on the subject (Irish Dict., voc. Muscraighe) fully established." - Note communicated by Dr. Reeves.With the host of the flock-abounding Iarann, Iarann. - This was evidently the name of a river, but it is now obsolete. Host of the sunnyland of vowed deeds.

Tuath Saxan of the fair district, Tuath-Saxon, i.e., the cantred of the Saxons. This is the ancient name of the district containing the paish of Tullylease in the north-west of the county of Cork, of which St. Berichert, a Saxon, is the patron. It is probable that this saint established a Saxon colony here in the eighth century, in the same way as St.

Cairnech had established a colony of Britons at Tuilen, near Kells, in Meath. The family of O'h-Ionmhainen, now anglicised Noonan, were the herenachs of the church of Tullylease. See Dr. Reeve's Paper on St. Beretchert, in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. vi., p. 267.
I mention for O'h-Ionmhainen;
A beautiful territory of abundant crops,
A hardy section of the race of Conaire. Race of Conaire, i.e., of Conaire II. See note 591 supra Ionmainen,Clann Ionmainen. - This was the tribe name of the O'Hegans, but it is now forgotten, and the exact situation of O'Hegan is unknown to tradition.
Muscraighe Treithirne the mighty Muscraighe Treithirne, also called Muscraighe Breogain and Muscraighe Chuirc. This territory is now comprised in the barony of Clanwilliam, in the south-west of the county of Tipperary. The family name, O'Cuirc, is now anglicised Quirk, without the prefix O'.
Is hereditary to O'Cuirc, as a just man;
O'Maoilbloghain, important in the territory, O'Maoilbhloghain. - This name is still extant, and anglicised Malone or Mulowne; but this family is to be distinguished from that of O'Maoileoin, which is similarly anglicised Has tilled the land of fine sods. Aos-tri-muighe, smoothest of plains, Aos-tri-muighe, i.e., the people of the three plains. This territory comprised the whole of the present barony of Clanwilliam and a considerable part of what is now called the county of the city of Limerick. O'Conaing was seated at Caislen Ui-Chonaing, now Castleconnell, and his territory extended from Cnoc-Greine, near Pallas-Grean, to the city of Limerick. He was dispossessed by a branch of the Burkes shortly after the English Invasion. See Annals of the Four Masters, A.D. 1597, p. 2041, note z.Is the grassy territory of O'Conaing, A bright watered plain, of noblest aspect, by the meadowy side of Craobh Cumhraidhe. Craobh Cumhraidhe, i.e., the sweet or odoriferous branch, now Crecora, the name of a parish near the city of Limerick Aes-Greine of the fine bright land was obtained Aes-Greine. - This territory is comprised in the present barony of Clanwilliam, in the county of Limerick. See Aes-tri-maighe, infra.By O'Conaing O'Conaing. - This name is now anglicised Gunning. Their chief seat was at Caislen-Ui-Conaing, now corruptly anglicised Castleconnell, but they have long since sunk into poverty and obscurity, having been dispossessed by the Burkes shortly after the English Invasion. of the territory of Saingel, Saingil, now Singland, near Limerick, originally included in O'Conaing's territory. He possessed a cheery land around fair Grian, Grian, now Pallis-grean, which originally belonged to this territory, of Aes-Greine, though now included in the barony of Coonagh.From his noble descent from Eoghan.
O'Carthaigh's just share, O'Carthaigh. - This name, which is to be distinguished from that of MacCarthaigh, is still extant, and anglicised Carty, without the prefix O'. Is Muscraighe of the west of Feimhin; Muscraighe of the west of Feimhen, so-called from its lying to the west of Magh Feimhen, in the county of Tipperary.  Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach is its name, Corca-Athrach. - O'Flaherty describes this territory as extending in length from Tiprait-farran, near the abbey of the Holy Cross, called Huachtar-Iamhann, to Dunandreas, and the northern part of Knockgraffan. Ogygia, part iii., c. 81  who were anciently seated in Magh-Feimhin, now the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the S.E. of the county of Tipperary. It is also styled Feimhin,Uniter of the tribe of yellow nuts
Fort of the chessmen, hitherto pleasant,
A saying not seldom said of it. The chiefs of Munster of the fortress of Sionainn, Descendants of Eoghan, son of Oilioll, Eoghan, son of Oilioll, i.e., Eoghan, eldest son of Oilioll Olum, king of Munster in the third century Mac Carthaigh is hero of their law, MacCarthaigh, now anglicised Mac Carthy. This family was driven from Cashel shortly after the English Invasion, and they settled in the now counties of Kerry and Cork, where, in course of time, they became very numerous.
Like a stormy, inexhautible sea.

Over Muscraighe-tire the warm Muscraighe-tire.- This territory comprises the present barony of Lower Ormond, and a part of that of Upper Ormond, in the county of Tipperary.  He identifies the O’Marchahan belong in descent from Cormac Cas ruler of Thomond and North Munster. Brother to Cain ruler of Ormond and Cair whom county Kerry named after him. They are the sons of Fergus son of Ruighridhe the Great of the line of Ir

            DAL gCAIS

From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal,

From the race of Tal The race of Tal, i.e., the people of Corcumruadh, so called from their ancestor Tal, son of Broc, who was the eleventh in descent from 3 corc Modhruadh.

The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais. 

the mother of Conall was Derde of the Ui Cathbhaidh.113n The Ui-Cathbhaidh, a sept seated in Ormond in the County of Tipperary. The country of this sept is described in the Book of Leacan (fol. 208) as extending from Feart-Moraidh southwards to Sliabh Eibhlinne (the Slieve Phelim mountains.) In the Book of Leinster, fol. 105, the Finn-shruth or river of Nenagh, is described as in the territory of the Ui-Cathbhaidh.                           To O'Merghda belong as his share The smooth Eoghanacht of Ross-arguid, Eoghanacht of Rosarguid. - This was a territory in the barony of Upper Ormond, in the present county of Tipperary. O'Mergdha, or O'Meara, of this race, had his seat at Toomyvara, in this barony.

O'Mearadhaigh. the good king, O'Mearadhaigh, now O'Meara, or O'Mara, a name still numerous in the county of Tipperary. by many the prefix is rejected.
He is lord of every hill of fairy sprites
About the beauteous Carn Mughaine. Carn-Mughaine, i.e., the carn or sepulchral heap of Mughain, a woman's name. This carn is still to be seen near Toomyvara

Its extent is defined by Sir Charles O'Carroll in a letter to the Lord Deputy, in 1585, in which he calls it Muschryhyry, and states that the Earl of Ormonde lately called it by the false name of Lower Ormonde, a designation which it had never borne before, inasmuch as it was always considered a part of Thomond.
Are two dynasts of best nobility;
O'Donghalaigh O'Donghalaigh, now anglicised Donnelly, without the prefix O'. This family is to be distinguished from the O'Donnellys of Tryone, who are of a totally different race.                                                          and O'Fuirg also, O'Fuirg, now obsolete.                            
Of the fresh plains of the flowery smooth border.
Two cantreds, we remember,The two flowery Corca-Baiscinns, Corca-Baiscinns. - Our author here follows the race, and proceeds from the east side of the Shannon to the west of Thomond. These were the descendants of Cairbre Baschaoin, the brother of Cairbre Musc, already mentioned. The two Corca-Baiscinns originally comprised the baronies of Clonderalaw, Moyarta, and Ibrickan, in the west of the county of Clare.
Which are hereditary to the Muintir Domhnaill; Muintir Domhnaill, i.e., the family of O'Domhnaill, now anglice O'Donnell.A host who divide the territory.
Another sub-king of this land of flocks,
Sun-bright is his genealogy,
O'Baiscinn O'Baiscinn, now anglicised Baskin, without the prefix O'. These two famlies of the race of Cairbre Baschaoin were dispossessed by the MacMahons, a branch of the O'Briens, early in the fourteenth century.                                                                                                                     tree over the Boinn, Tree over the Boinn, so called because his ancestor was king of Tara, and Meath, through which the River Boyne flows.A tribe who traverse every hosting. The chief of Ui-Bracain of satin cloaks, Ui-Bracain, now the barony of Ibrickan, in the west of the county of Clare. Daire Barrach, ancestor of O'Gorman. Given Tuath Laighean (Fingal and Dublin). 150 spears, 50 swords, 50 gold rings, 150 cloaks, 7 military standards After the expulsion of the Mac Gormans from Leinster (see note on Ui-Bairrche, supra), shortly after the English Invasion, they were settled in this territory by O'Brien.                   Septs of the tribe of the head of the plain Are O h-Oilella,O'Brachain the melodious. O'Brachain, now Brahan. 62. Labhradh Longseach: his son.63. Olioll Bracan: his son. Chieftain of heavy hosting, O'Maolcorcra of fast fame, O'Maolcorcra. - This name is now unknown in the barony of Ibrickan. This family would appear to have sunk into insignificance when the Mac Gormans were planted in their territory by O'Brien.Of the margin of the two inbhers. The two Invers, i.e., Liscanor Bay and Dunbeg Bay, at the extremities of the territory of Ibrickan.
The two septs of all the Fochla, Fochla, i.e., the north, alluding to Ibrickan being the most northern portion of the country of the Corca-Baiscinn, of the race of Conaire II., in North Munster. Of the brave race of Conaire,
About the horbour of th moist plain, no falsehood,
Hereditary to O'Ceallaigh to gaurd them. O'Ceallaigh. - The king of Cashel was bound to defend O'Ceallaigh. Was O'Ceallaigh of Hy-Many bound to protect the race of Cairbre Baschaoin, son of Conaire II.? This is obscure. Skreen - formed from the territory of Magh Breagh, or Brega, which was centered around the ancient Hill of Tara. O'Haodha (O'Hea or Hughes) is given as chief of Odba (Odra?) here. The Ua Duinn (O'Dunne) of Brega were noted here prior to the Norman invasion. Territory here was granted to Adam Pheipo after the Norman Invasion. Ohaedha east tir teathfa ocearbhail over the south of teamhair the land of men has gone under bondage these people have not clung to their birthright let us raise up for teamhair more of kings with great courage his yoke has tamed each battalion oduinn over the districts of teamhair  oduinn this family is also totally unknown for centuries it cannot be distinguished from the oduinns or dunns of iregan All - Anciently inhabited by the Eblani, Meath later formed part of the fifth province of Ireland known as Midhe and Brega which included Westmeath and Longford counties as well as parts of Cavan, Kildare and King's county. The southern Ui Neill or Clan Colman (e.g. Melaghlin) held this territory up to the late 12th century. The O'Caindealbhain (O'Quinlan, O'Connellan or O'Kendellan) were princes of Ui Laeghari or "Ive-Leary", an extensive territory in the counties of Meath & Westmeath. The ancient kingdom of Meath was granted to Hugh de Lacy following the Norman Invasion. Misc - The O Connoly were one of the four tribes of Tara and Princes of Bregia prior to the coming o the Normans in the late 12th century. The four tribes of Tara included the O'Harts, the O'Regans, Connollys, and the O'Kellys. MacConmedha (MacConway) is cited as a principal chief in Teffia in the territory of Muintir Laodagain. O'Ruaidhri or O'Rory (Rogers) was lord of Finn Fochla in Bregia (Meath/Dublin area). The Annals record for 1018 that Ui Cleircein (O'Clerkin), Lord of Caille-Follamhaim died.  

Let us leave the race of Conaire of Cliach,Conaire of Cliach, alluding to the battle of Cliach, where Conaire I. defeated Nuada Finn, king of Leinster.Kings of Ernai of golden shields; Ernai, i.e., the Ernaans of Munster, who descended from Ederscel, the father of Conaire I., monarch of Ireland, A.M. 3944. See Ogygia, part iii., c. 44.
Let us turn our breast to the race of Fergus, Race of Fergus, ex-king of Ulster, in the first century. This Fergus, surnamed Mac Roigh, had three sons by Meadhbh, queen of Connaught, namely,                                              Ciar, ancestor of all the Ciarraighe;                           Corc, ancestor of the Corcumroe, of Thomond; and                                                      Conmac, ancestor of all the Conmaicni of Connaught and Moy-Rein.                                See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii., c. 42 and 46.
It is a step due as a just debt.

King of Ciarraighe over the clans of Ciar, Ciarraighe, now anglice Kerry.
O'Conchobhair, it is right for him so to be,  O'Conchobhair, now O'Conor, or O'Conor Kerry. Chief of the mede-abounding land,
From the strand to the fair-streamed Sionainn. From the Strand, i.e., the country of the Ciarraighe which extended from the strand of the harbour of Tralee                                       All the Alltraighe return Alltraighe. - This sept were seated around the river of Tralee, as we learn from the Latin Lives of St. Brendan, in which it is stated that that saint, who was of the Alltraighe, was born at Littus Ly (Lighe), now Tralee.                                                                    to the River Sinainn, now Shannon, and comprised about the northern third part of the present county of Kerry
O'Laoghain, hero of renown, O'Laoghain, now anglicised Lane, without the prefix O'.
Over Ui-Feaba we have found; Ui-Feabha. - Situation not proved.Trughanacmy- O'Laeghain (O'Leyne or Lane) is given as chief of Ui Ferba. The MacElligott family is cited here for the parish name of Ballymacelligott. O Muircheartaigh (O'Moriarity) are cited here and in the barony of Magunihy well before the Norman invasion.                                          O'Caithneannaigh obtained the land, O'Caithneannaigh. - This name is now unknown in Kerry. Hard under the battle-peaks of Cualann. Battle-peaks of Cualann. - Cualann is a mountainous territory in Leinster; but it is probable that the name is here intended for the mountains of Sliabh Mis, Cathair Conroi, &c., in the barony of Trughanackmy, and county of Kerry.                  195. This Art was married to Maedhbh, Leathdearg, the dau. of Conann Cualann; from this Queen, Rath Maedhbhe, near Tara, obtained its name. 89. Cathair [cahir] M?r: his son; the 109th Monarch of Ireland. Had a younger brother named Main Mal, who was the ancestor of O'Kelly, of Cualan (of Wicklow, etc.); and another, Eithne.   He was most likely a contemporary of Cellach Cualann (died 715), king of Leinster
Ui-Flanannain, extensive the land,
A great land of delightful streams,
O'Duibhduin635 is over the warm land, 635. O'Duibhduin. - This family is now unknown in Kerry, as well as the name and situation of their territory of Ui-Flannain.
He is its king, and his attention is upon [improving] it.
All the Alltraighe return Alltraighe. - This sept were seated around the river of Tralee, as we learn from the Latin Lives of St. Brendan, in which it is stated that that saint, who was of the Alltraighe, was born at Littus Ly (Lighe), now Tralee.  Saint Brendan of Clonfert (c. 484 – c. 577) (Irish: Naomh Bréanainn; Latin: Brendanus; Icelandic: (heilagur) Brandanus), also referred to as Brendan moccu Altae, called "the Navigator", "the Voyager", "the Anchorite", or "the Bold", is one of the early Irish monastic saints. He is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the "Isle of the Blessed," also called Saint Brendan's Island. The Voyage of Saint Brendan could be called an immram (Irish navigational story). He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.[1] Saint Brendan's feast day is celebrated on 16 May by the Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Orthodox Christians.[2]

Two kings of the plain of Ciarraighe,
A tribe which is ready in the point of difficulty, O'Neidhe O'Neidhe. - This name is still extant in Kerry, but by a whim of custom anglicised to Neville! A branch of this family was seated at Knockpatrick, in the county of Limerick, where they were hereditary keepers of Saint Patrick's Bell. John Neville, esq., M.R.I.A., engineer for the county of Louth, is of this family.and the Clann-Conaire. Clan Conaire, i.e., the family of O'Conaire, now anglicised Connery, without the prefix O'.
To Muintir Diocholla is due
Corcumruadh of the fiery battle hosts, Corcumruadh, otherwise called 3 Corc Modhruadh, i.e., the descendants of Corc Modhruad, third son of Fergus, dethroned king of Ulster, in the first century. The country of Corcomruadh was originally coextensive with the diocese of Kilfenora, and comprised the present baronies of Corcomroe and Burrin, in the north-west of the county of Clare. The bard here, following the tribes genealogically, jumps from Kerry to Clare to describe the territories of the race of Fergus of Ulster The families of O'Dicholla, 563 Saint Ros of Downpatrick, April On April 7 we commemorate Saint Ros of Downpatrick. This holy man is linked by kinship in the hagiographical sources to the chieftain Dichu, who gifts a barn to Saint Patrick and becomes one of his first converts. Later hagiologists, however, attempted to identify Ros of Downpatrick with a Saint Ruisen of Inis-Picht, modern Spike Island, County Cork                                                         O'Maoileitigh, O'Maoileitigh of hospitable seat,Who have not refused to contest their right. and                                                 O'Draighnen, of Sliabh-Eise, are now unknown in this territory. The name O'Draighnen is extant in other parts of Ireland, and anglicised Drinan. Sliabh-Eise may be the present Sliabh Eilbhe, on the confines of Burrin and Coromroe baronies. The lands around fair Sliabh Eisi In the sweet streamed Cinel-Sedna, A tribe who have cemented their people; Of their country is O'Draighnen.
The cantred of Feara Arda of gold, Fear-Arda, i.e., men of the point. This was another name for the Corcumruadh. The island of Inis-caerach, now Mutton Island, near Kilmurry Ibrickan, was in the territory of Feara-Arda.
Corcumruadh of the fiery battle hosts,
O'Conchobhair obtained the land, O'Conchobhair, now O'Conor. This family had considerable possessions in the barony of Corcomroe, in the year 1584, and for some time after; but at the present day, there is not a man of the race above the rank of cottier or small farmer. The hills of beautiful Conach. Conach. - This was probably the old name of the river Farsett, which rises in Binn Formaoile, and falls into Lisconor Bay, near Duagh Castle.

O'Lochlainn, hero over battalions, O'Lochlainn, now O'Loughlin. - This family has been somewhat more fortunate than their relations the O'Conors, for there are some respectable gentlemen of the name, as O'Loughlin, of Newtown, and Sir Colman O'Loghlen, but their pedigrees have not been made out with anything like certainty.
Is over the soft drop-scattering Borinn, Boirinn, i.e., a rocky district, now the barony of Burren, in the north of the county of Clare. It was originally considered a part of Corcomroe, and called East Corcomroe; and it is curious to observe that the abbey of Corcomroe is situated in Burren. Over Tealach Chuirc by right, Tealach-Chuirc. - This was the tribe name of the O'Loughlins. Of the cattle and wealth-abounding port.

Dal Meadhruaidh,hosts of Macha,Dal Meadhruaidh. - This was another name of the 3 Corca Modhruadh. They are called the host of Macha, because they came from Ulster, where Eamhain Macha was the name of their original palace.Nobler than the high chieftains,
Together with the race of musical Ciar, Race of musical Ciar, i.e., the Ciarraighe.
Are over the knightly host of embattled lions.
From the race of Tal The race of Tal, i.e., the people of Corcumruadh, so called from their ancestor Tal, son of Broc, who was the eleventh in descent from 3 corc Modhruadh. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 1573, p. 1669, note u.  3. Corc, a quo 3 Corc Modhruadh (or Corcumroe);turn we westwards Turn we westwards. - This is a mistake, because the province of the race of Maicniadh, by which Desmond is here meant, is nearly due south of the race of Tal, or the people of Corcomroe.

Conmac, ancestor of all the Conmaicni of Connaught and Moy-Rein.To the province of the race of Maicniadh,Maicniadh's land. - This was a bardic appellation of Munster
From the host who prevailed over Cruachan Prevailed over Cruachan, i.e., whose ancestor Fergus had possession of Cruachan, when he seduced Meadhbh, queen of Connacht.

'Tis right to proceed to old Luachair. Old Luachair. - This was the name of a territory of great extent situate to the south of the country of the Ciarraighe, and extending into the present counties of Cork and Limerick. As to the two birds who came from other parts the one who went westwards was Cairbre Luachra who went west over Luachair Deadhaid (Slieveloughra) and was ancestor of Ui Cairbre Luachra i.e., the Eoghanacht of Loch Lein (Killarney); Let us proceed across Luachair hither, Across Luachair. - This shows that Luachair was conterminous with the territory of Claonghais, now Clonlish, a wild district in the barony of Upper Connelloe, in the county of Limerick, and on the confines of the counties of Cork and Kerry. Luachair evidently comprised the countries of O'Donoghue, O'Keeffe, O'Callaghan and Mac Auliffe, or the barony of Magunihy, in the county of Kerry, and that of Duhallow, in the county of Cork.A journey which is fit for poets,  The plain of Luachair, land of produce, Plain of Luachair. - This was the name of the level plain portion of the present barony of Magunihy, in the S.E. of the present oounty of Kerry; but it formed no part of the country of the ancient Ciarraighe. It comprised the territories of O'Keeffe, O'Callaghan, O'Donoghue and MacAuliffe.Belongs to the beautiful O'Dunadhaigh, O'Dunadhaigh, now anglicised Doney and Denny, witout the prefix Tribes of hardy battle,A fair-surfaced moist district.
Eoghanacht of Caisel of the plain of Cian, Eoghanacht of Caisel. - This was the original tribe name of the O'Donoghues, who were anciently seated in Magh-Feimhin, now the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the S.E. of the county of Tipperary. They were driven from this territory shortly after the English Invasion, when they settled in the present barony of Magunihy, in the county of Kerry, to which they gave the name of Eoghanacht Ui Donnchadha, anglicised Onaght-O'Donoghue.
O'Donnchadha is its hereditary chieftain; It is also styled Feimhin,Uniter of the tribe of yellow nuts.

O'Cearbhaill who is our friend, O'Cearbhaill, anglice O'Carroll. There was a family of this name in Magunihy preceding the O'Donoghues; but they sunk into poverty and obscurity many centuries since, and are now unknown. Hawk of the sept of the white strand. . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race,

O'Donnchadha of Loch Lein  

O'Donnchadha, not anglicised O'Donoghue. O'Donoghue of Loch Lein, or the Lakes of Killarney, is now unknown. He had his residence at Ross Castle, near Killarney, and was head chieftain over the whole territory of Eoghanacht Ui Donnchadha (anglicised Onaght-Idonoghue), which, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was considered as coextensive with the present barony of Magunihy. O'Donoghue of Glenflesk is the only known representative of this family.
King of Eochanacht is he,--<<<<

>>>>--of Dun-Manann, Dun Manann. - This name is now obsolete; it was evidently that of the chief residence of O'Dubhagain, duggan who possessed about the northern half of the territory of Feara Maighe Feine, being seated between O'Keeffe and the Ui-Fidhgeinte.

branch of Gleanomhain. Gleannomhain, or Gleann Amhnach, now Glanworth, in Roche's Country, in the north of the county of Cork. This was the original seat of O'Keeffe. See Smith, Natural and Civil History of Cork, book ii., chap. 7, and Leabhar na gCeart, p. 90, note s. chief residence of O'Dubhagain, who possessed about the northern half of the territory of Feara Maighe Feine, being seated between O'Keeffe and the Ui-Fidhgeinte.

1d1. Nadfraoich, from whom were the Eoghanacht of Cashel and the                         Eoghanacht of Glanworth and the                   Eoghanacht of Aine (Knockeiney) and the Eoghanacht of Airthir Cliach (Tipperary town district). 

 Tribe of relations of prosperous wealth,
O'Caoimh, O'Caoimh, now anglicised O'Keeffe, and by many Keeffe, without the prefix O'. O'Keeffe originally possessed the district now called Roche's Country, which formed the southern half of the ancient Feara Maighe. The family is of the race of Oilioll Olum, and had a king of Munster, namely Fionguine, son of Gorman, who died in the year 902; since which period the line of MacCarthy has been far more powerful. The O'Keeffes were driven from Fermoy Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) shortly after the English Invasion, when they settled in the present barony of Duhallow.                                                                                                                 

O'Caoimh656 of the just, brown brow, 656. O'Caoimh, now O'Keeffe. The position of Urluachair is marked by the Crown lands of Pobble O'Keeffe, situate in the barony of Duhallow, on the confines of the counties or Cork, Limerick, and Kerry, and containing about 9,000 statute acres; but this territory was originally much more extensive, for we learn from ancient authorities that the two Paps of Danaan, now the Pap Mountains, were in it.

the two hills of slieve luchra in county Kerry

Or Muma, that is mó 'greater' its ána 'wealth' than the wealth of every other province in Erin; for in it was worshipped the goddess of prosperity, whose name was Ána, and from her are named the Two Paps of Ána over Luachair Degad.

See Cormac's Glossary in voce Anann; and Keating's History of Ireland, Haliday's edition, p. 104; also Leabhar na gCeart, p. 75.
Lord of Urluachair of fresh pasturage,
A man who united the warm country,
Which is constantly like the plain of Meath.
*****Conghal, from whom Ui Chonghaile (Connelly); ??? see above His son Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind (died 678) was also a King of Munster.

and

++++++Ceallachan, from whom Ui Ceallachan (O'Callaghan).

Ceallachan('frequenter-of-chapels'-or-older-as-'bright headed'),from-whom Ui Ceallachan(O'Callaghan).

 Is there also O'Callaghans Murchadh, son of Donnchadh, grandson of Ceallachan
Caiseil(' Ceallachan of the Castle'),                                          
Is O'Ceallachain O'Ceallachain, now O'Callaghan. This family, which is of the same race as the MacCarthys, was removed from the barony of Kinelea shortly after the English Invasion, when they settled in the barony of Duhallow, where they possessed the parishes of Kilshannick and Clonmeen. See Harris's edition of Ware's Works, vol. ii., p. 72, and Smith's History of Cork, book ii., chap. 6. The senior branch of this family was transplanted to the county of Clare by Cromwell, where it became extinct in the male line earlyl in the nineteenth century. Lord Lismore is the present head of this family in Ireland. See Circuit of Murchertach MacNeill, p. 64, for the descent of O'Callaghan and Mac Carthy.                                                                                                        of the plain of Bearra, Plain of Bearra. - This seems a mistake, as O'Callaghan never had any connextion with the territory of Bearra.
A land of green pools with white bottoms;
Land of widest harbours.

Four guardian tribes of tara

The chieftains of Teamhair, where we are,
O hAirt7 the noble, and O'Riagain,8,
A host which united the harbours,

• Four Tribes of Tara - Ua Riagain (O'Regan); Ua Conghalaigh (O'Connolly) of Upper Kells barony, Meath (later of Monaghan). O'Conghalaigh.10

• *****Conghal, from whom Ui Chonghaile (Connelly); ??? see above His son Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind (died 678) was also a King of Munster.

Four Tribes of Tara - Ua Ceallaigh (O'Kelly) of the Navan baronies, Meath; Ua hAirt (O'Hart) of Moygoish barony, Westmeath. O'Ceallaigh,9 and

++++++Ceallachan, from whom Ui Ceallachan (O'Callaghan).

Ceallachan('frequenter-of-chapels'-or-older-as-'bright headed'),from-whom Ui Ceallachan(O'Callaghan).

 Is there also O'Callaghans Murchadh, son of Donnchadh, grandson of Ceallachan
Caiseil(' Ceallachan of the Castle'),                                         

O'Ceallachain of the fair skin,O'Ceallachain. - The O'Ceallachains, now O'Callaghans, are descended from Ceallachan, son of Domhnall, son of Murchadh, son of Donnchadh, son of Ceallachan, king of Cashel, or Munster, who died in the year 954. See Circuit of Muircheartach Mac Neill, p. 64. Before the English Invasion the O'Callaghans were seated in the barony of Cinel-Aedha, now Kinelea, in the south of the county of Cork; but being driven from thence by Robert Fitzstephen and Milo de Cogan, they settled in the barony of Duhallow, in the north of the same county, where the chief of the family, Conor O'Callaghan, resided at the Castle of Drumaneen, on the Blackwater, in 1594, and then enjoyed extensive territorial possessions, comprising the parishes of Kilshannig and Clonmeen, as appears from an inquisition taken at Mallow before Sir Thomas Norris, Vice-President of Munster, on the 25th of Octorber, 1594. The head of this family was transplanted by Cromwell to the county of Clare. Lord Lismore is the present chief of the name in Ireland.
Of the race of Ceallachan of Caisel,
Men for whom a flood of fruit burst forth
Over the dark nut-bearing wood.
Far from the bounteous river Ella, The river Ella, now the Allo or Allow, which springs from the acclivities of the Use mountains, in the N.W. of the county of cork, and pays its tribute to the Blackwater ten miles below Kanturk. To the west of Gleann Salchain of smooth rods, Gleann Salchain, a valley extending N.W. of Newmarket, in the barony of Duhallow, and county Cork. is a fine land without concealment of fair nuts, O'Donoghue, O'Keeffe, O'Callaghan and Mac Auliffe, or the barony of Magunihy, in the county of Kerry, and that of Duhallow, in the county of Cork.
It is the land of the noble Mac Amhlaoibh. MacAmhlaoibh, now Mac Auliffe. The chief residence of Mac Auliffe was Castle Mac Auliffe, near Newmarket; and his territory with that of Aes-Ella, or people of the river Allo, comprised all that wild, mountainous, and heathy district lying between Newmarket and the boundaries of the counties of Limerick and Kerry, where the rivers Feale, Allo, and Blackwater have their sources. The head of this family, who had been born to a handsome estate, was weighmaster in this market-house at Kenmare, in 1840, when the editor had a long conversation with him on the traditions of this wild district of Aes-Ealla.
A patrimony of the plain of Corc,
Aes-Ealla of the famous level floor,
Belongs to this stately scion of Banba of curling hair, Banbha / learned Definition of scion1 :a detached living portion of a plant (such as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft 2 a :descendant, child; especially :a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family To O'Tedgamhna O'Tedgamhna.- This name is now obsolete, and the family seems to have sunk under the Mac Auliffes and O'Keefes at an early period.of Dun Durlais. Dun Durlais. - if this was a proper name it is now obsolete. It might mean simply, of the strong fort. Durlis and Derlish, as well as Thurles,durlas occur commonly as names of townlands and earthen forts. Deachluath, is ancestor of the tribe called Uí Fiachach Eile Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, (in north-east of Tipperary – Thurles and Roscrea
Let us proceed across Luachair hither, Across Luachair. - This shows that Luachair was conterminous with the territory of Claonghais, now Clonlish, a wild district in the barony of Upper Connelloe, in the county of Limerick, and on the confines of the counties of Cork and Kerry. Luachair evidently comprised the countries of O'Donoghue, O'Keeffe, O'Callaghan and Mac Auliffe, or the barony of Magunihy, in the county of Kerry, and that of Duhallow, in the county of Cork.A journey which is fit for poets,To the cold and festive Claonghlais
Of the green, irriguous, wooded land.
The Ui-Conaill of the battalion of Munster,  Ui-Conaill, now the baronies of Upper and Lower Connello, in the county of Limerick. Carthach,loving Bishop, alumnus of Ciaran of Saighir. One of his places was Druim-fertain, and in Cairbre Ua Ciardha is Druim-fertain; and to him belongs Inish Uachtair in Loch Sileann, and Cill Charthaigh in Tir Boghaine in Cinel Conaill. He was son of Aenghus, son of Nadfraech king of Munster, &c.In the fifth century, Aenghus Mac Nadfaeich, king of Munster, granted them the plain of Magh Feimhin, in the present county of Tipperary;

169. Déissi, that is dí-ḟoissi 'unresting ones', since for long spaces of time they had no resting-place, but were wandering from one stead into another. Or Déissi, that is, duaisi 'gifts', for after they left Mag Breg land was given to them as a woman's dowry, that is, as the bride-price of Ethne the Horrible, daughter of Crimthann, son of Ende Cennselach, who was their fosterling, for 'tis the Déissi that reared her. Oengus, son of Natfraich, king of Munster, 'tis he that gave the Déissi, as the bride-price of Ethne the Horrible, the land on which they are now settled.

170. Ethne Uathach 'horrible', why so called? Easy to say. When the Déissi took the girl to rear her they used to give her the flesh of children (to eat) so that she might the more rapidly grow up (and be married). For it had been determined that they would get land and a settlement as her bride-price. Or, again, she used to cut off the ends of the little-fingers of her own children so that they might be the longer-lived: for at first no children were left to her, (but all died prematurely). For that cause the children felt a great horror for her. Wherefore she is called Ethne the Horrible.

but they were driven from thence by the Eoghanachts. See Keating's History of Ireland; and Ogygia, part iii.,c. 69                             Multitudinous is the gathering
A great tribe, with whom it is not usual to contend, Are the battle-trooped host of the O'Coilens. O'Coilens, now Collins, without the prefix O'. The head of this family was afterwards driven from this territory, and settled in the barony of Carbery, county Cork. The family is still numerous in the original territory. Modern descendants of Daire Cerbba include the O'Connells of Derrynane, Daniel Charles, Count O'Connell having explicitly declared this to the heralds of Louis XVI of France. Also was Michael Collins, descending from the Ó Coileáin of Uí Chonaill Gabra,once the most powerful sept of the Uí Fidgenti. Mid and west limerick It is worth noting that Collins was descended from the Ó Coileáins of Uí Chonaill Gabra. Both the Ui Chonaill and the Ui Donnobhans were tribes within the Ui-Fidghente.It has been suggested that Clídna derives from the Gaulish goddess Clutonda or Clutondae O'Billraidhe who used to bestow cows, O'Billraidhe. - This name is now obsolete. This family, after being expelled from Ui-Conaill Gabhra, settled at Cnocan Ui-Bhillraidhe, now Watergrass Hill, in the county of Cork. Over Ui-Conaill of the field of Gabhra,

King of truth of fair lands,The smooth dells of heavy fruit.Mac Innerigh,hero of gems, Mac Innerigh, now Mac Eniry.Over the mellow Corca Muicheat, Corca-Muicheat. This name is still preserved, and is an alias name for Castletown Mac Eniry, in the barony of Upper Conello, in the county of Limerick. Mac Eniry descends from Sedna, the fourth son of Cairbre Aebhdha, ancestor of the Ui Cairbre; and though his territory is now a part of the barony of Upper Connello, it was originally a portion of the territory of the Ui-Cairbre Aebhdha. The Mac Enirys were never driven from this territory, and had considerable estates here up to the period of the Revolution; but they are all at present reduced to poverty and obscurity.
A fine host who constantly ramify
Like the white blossom of the branching apple tree.

The share of the noble Dal Cairbre Ebha, Dal-Cairbre-Ebha, otherwise Ui Cairbre Aebhdha. The territory of this tribe comprised the present barony of Coshma, in the county of Limerick, and the plains extending thence down to the Shannon.
 

O'Brearga of the fair mansion obtained
The cantred of Ui-Rossa of rich course; Ui-Rossa, now Iveross, or Iveruss, a parish on the Shannon, in the barony of Kenry, and county Limerick. The name O'Bearga, which might be anglicised O'Bargie, or Bargie, is now obsolete. The hero of Caonraighe of fair land Caonraighe, now the barony of Kenry, in the north of the county of Limerick.
is O'Maolcallann of branches. O'Maolcallann. - This name is now obsolete in this part of Ireland. In other places it is anglicised Mulholland or Mulhollan, without the prefix O'.
The share of the noble Dal Cairbre Ebha, Dal-Cairbre-Ebha, otherwise Ui Cairbre Aebhdha. The territory of this tribe comprised the present barony of Coshma, in the county of Limerick, and the plains extending thence down to the Shannon.
Of the kings of Caisel of white wattles,
Lasting is his profit of the land,
The brave pillar O'Cleirchin,. O'Cleirchin, now O'Clerchain, and anglicised Clerkan and Cleary. The name is still extant in this territory, but the family is reduced to poverty and obscurity.
Hereditary to O'Donnabhain Their principal seats had been at Bruree and Croom in the present county of Limerick. of Dun Cuirc Dun Cuirc, i.e., the fort of Cork. This is a bardic name for Bruree, the seat of O'Donovan.    O'Donnabhain, now anglicised O'Donovan, and more frequently Donovan, without the prefix O'. This family, of the senior line of Oilioll Olum, was expelled from this territory shortly after the English Invasion by the O'Briens and Fitzgeralds, and they settled in O'Driscoll's country in the county of Cork. Is this and, as a land of encampment;
To him, without tribute, belonged [the land] along the sluggish Maigh, The Maigh, i.e., the river of the plain, now the Maigue, which rises near Charleville, and passing through Croom and Adare, falls into the Shannon nine miles below Limerick. And the plains down to the Sionainn. Down to the Sionainn, i.e., down or northwards to the Shannon.
Eochanacht Aine of warm land, Eoghanacht-Aine, the name of a tribe and territory lying round Kockany, in the barony of Small County, and county of Limerick.
O'Ciarmhaic is prop of the territory, O'Ciarmhaic, now anglicised Kerwick, but more generally changed to Kirby Ciarmhac, from whom the Clann-Ciarmhaic.Territory of fairest root-lands,Ui-Enda Ui-Enda, now Heney, without the O'. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 1205, 1215. of Aine-Aulum. Aine-Aulum, situation not determined

Eoghanacht of Aine (Knockeiney)

The direct descendants of Fíngen mac Áedo Duib were known as the Cenél Fíngin are the O'Sullivans and MacGillycuddys. The McGillycuddys are a sub-sept of the O'Sullivan clan. (The name McGillycuddy originates from when O'Sullivan Mór sent his trusted son, Mac Giolla, to be educated under the tutelage of Saint Mochuda at Lismore). O'Suilleabhain who loved not oppresion,  O'Suilleabhain, now O'Sullivan. This family was originally seated at Knockraffon, in the barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary,>>>                                                 O'Carthaigh's just share, O'Carthaigh. - This name, which is to be distinguished from that of MacCarthaigh, is still extant, and anglicised Carty, without the prefix O'. Is Muscraighe of the west of Feimhin; Muscraighe of the west of Feimhen, so-called from its lying to the west of Magh Feimhen, in the county of Tipperary.  Western Magh Femhin, for there was Eoghan's residence at Knockgraffon. Corca Athrach is its name, Corca-Athrach. - O'Flaherty describes this territory as extending in length from Tiprait-farran, near the abbey of the Holy Cross, called Huachtar-Iamhann, to Dunandreas, and the northern part of Knockgraffan. Ogygia, part iii., c. 81  who were anciently seated in Magh-Feimhin, now the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the S.E. of the county of Tipperary. It is also styled Feimhin,Uniter of the tribe of yellow nuts
Fort of the chessmen, hitherto pleasant,
A saying not seldom said of it. The chiefs of Munster of the fortress of Sionainn, Descendants of Eoghan, son of Oilioll, Eoghan, son of Oilioll, i.e., Eoghan, eldest son of Oilioll Olum, king of Munster in the third century                                                             >>>but they were driven from thence shortly after the English Invasion, by the family of De Burgo, when they settled in the present counties of Cork and Kerry.Over the great Eoghanacht of Munster;Under Cnoc Rafonn he obtained the lands,After gaining battles and conflicts.
O'Cuile, who defended fame, 1b. Cathfaidh, from whom were the Ui Cathfhaid Cuile (these were scattered about N.W. Tipperary)
Over the generous Eoghanacht Aradh; Eoghanacht-Aradh. - This would appear to be same as Eoghanacht-Caille-na-manach, which is the present barony of Kilnamanagh, in the county of Tipperary. O'Cuile is probably the name now anglicised Quill. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 1046.Ui-Aimrit, land of hospitality, Ui Aimrit or Ui Aimeirt. - The situation of this sept is unknown. O'Duibhidhir, now O'Dwyer, was seated in the present barony of Kilnamnagh, in the county of Tipperary; but this appears to be a different family.Is hereditary to the sept of the O'Duibhidhirs;Their acquisition is far over Cliach;They are a branch in every ford.Over the land of fair Aolmhagh Aolmhagh, i.e., limestone plain. The exact situation of this territory, which was in the county Tipperary, is now unknown. The name O'Caollaighe is now anglicised Kelly. It seems to be a mistake for O'Caella, a name still numerous, and anglicised Kyley.
O'Caollaighe is the brace hospitable man. Green its baird, green its mounds,
Eoghanacht of Crich Cathbhuidh;                    The mother of Conall was Derde of the Ui Cathbhaidh.113n The Ui-Cathbhaidh, a sept seated in Ormond in the County of Tipperary. The country of this sept is described in the Book of Leacan (fol. 208) as extending from Feart-Moraidh southwards to Sliabh Eibhlinne (the Slieve Phelim mountains.) In the Book of Leinster, fol. 105, the Finn-shruth or river of Nenagh, is described as in the territory of the Ui-Cathbhaidh. Aolmhagh, i.e., limestone plain. The exact situation of this territory, which was in the county Tipperary, is now unknown. The name O'Caollaighe is now anglicised Kelly. It seems to be a mistake for O'Caella, a name still numerous, and anglicised Kyley. Delightful the land of the broad plain,It is hereditary to the host of O'Duineachair. O'Duineachair, now anglised Donaher, without the prefix O'.
To O'Merghda belong as his share
The smooth Eoghanacht of Ross-arguid, Eoghanacht of Rosarguid. - This was a territory in the barony of Upper Ormond, in the present county of Tipperary. O'Mergdha, or O'Meara, of this race, had his seat at Toomyvara, in this barony.O'Mearadhaigh. the good king, O'Mearadhaigh, now O'Meara, or O'Mara, a name still numerous in the county of Tipperary. by many the prefix is rejected He is lord of every hill of fairy spritesAbout the beauteous Carn Mughaine. Carn-Mughaine, i.e., the carn or sepulchral heap of Mughain, a woman's name. This carn is still to be seen near Toomyvara. The Siol-Maoilduin of Dun gCais Siol-Maoilduin. - This sept of the Eoghanachts and their seat of Dun gCais, are now unknown. From the reference to the water it is propable that they were seated on the east side of Loch Dergdheirc, to the north-west of Nenagh. Descendant of flann' (red); the name of several distinct families in different parts of ireland, of which the following are the best known: (1) Ó floinn of siol maolruain, a roscommon family who were chiefs of siol maolruain, a district which embraced the parish of kiltulagh and part of that of kilkeevin, in the west of co. roscommon. another family of the name were erenaghs of the church of st. dachonna, at eas ui fhloinn, a short distance to the west of the town of boyle.
Is over the noble Eoghanacht Indais,
An armed people passing over the waves,
The flock-abounding people of Eachdruim.Eachdhruim, now unknown. The name is usually anglicised Aughrim.
Eoghanacht of the sunny field of Gabhra, Eoghanacht of Gabhra. - This is another name of Ui-Conaill-Gabhra, now the barony of Connello, in the county of Limerick.                         A poem of one hundred and twenty eight verses beginning airgialla a heim maba oirgiallaus from eamhain of macha giving an account of the chief tribes descended from the three callas sons of cairbre liffeachar monarch of Ireland who was killed at the battle of gabhra aichle a small distance to the north east of tara in meath 296ad after a reign of seventeen years a copy of this poem in the handwriting of james Maguire 1708ad is in the collection of the assistant secretary  airgiulla a heamain macha giolla na naomh ua duinn in lec 81 rd 49 and bb 115e46                              Land of sweetest, smooth-round apples,
The gem of each female band of fame,
To O'Cinnfhaeladh693 of red weapons [it belongs]. 693. O'Cinnfhaeladh, now anglicised Kinealy without the prefix O'. This family is now reduced to poverty and obscurity, but the name is still numerous among the peasantry.
Aes-Greine of the fine bright land was obtained Aes-Greine. - This territory is comprised in the present barony of Clanwilliam, in the county of Limerick. See Aes-tri-maighe, infra. The church of Fiort Seithe, which is placed by the Calendars of Marianus, and the Four Masters (Sept. 6), in Muscraighe-tri-maighe, is now known by the name of Ardskeagh, which is a small parish in tht part of the barony of Fermoy Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) bordering on the barony of Orrery and Kilmore. In the ancient taxations of the diocese of Cloyne we find a rural deanery, called Muscry-donnegan, containing the parishes now comprehended in the barony of Orrery and Kilmore, with small adjacent portions of Duhallow and Fermoy. Fir Mhwige (Fermoy) Among the churhces in this deanery, Orwery [i.e., Orbraidhe, or Orrery] and Fersketh [i.e., Feart Skeithe, called Ardskagh, in 1615, now Ardskeagh] are two. Thus the identity of Muscraighe-tri-maighe and the barony of Orrey is proved to a demonstration and O'Brien's statement on the subject (Irish Dict., voc. Muscraighe) fully established."
By O'Conaing O'Conaing. - This name is now anglicised Gunning. Their chief seat was at Caislen-Ui-Conaing, now corruptly anglicised Castleconnell, but they have long since sunk into poverty and obscurity, having been dispossessed by the Burkes shortly after the English Invasion. of the territory of Saingel, Saingil, now Singland, near Limerick, originally included in O'Conaing's territory.
He possessed a cheery land around fair Grian, Grian, now Pallis-grean, which originally belonged to this territory, of Aes-Greine, though now included in the barony of Coonagh.   1d7. Cairbre Luachra (i.e., Cairbre of Sliobh Luachra on Cork-Kerry border), from whom were the Eoghanacht of Loch Lein (Killarney) 1d7 twin of 1d5 and the

Aos Aiste (Tuosist)

Aos Alla (in Dhallow) and

the Aos Greine (at Pallasgreen, Co. Muscraighe Treithirne the mighty Muscraighe Treithirne, also called Muscraighe Breogain and Muscraighe Chuirc. This territory is now comprised in the barony of Clanwilliam, in the south-west of the county of Tipperary. The family name, O'Cuirc, is now anglicised Quirk, without the prefix O'.
Is hereditary to O'Cuirc, as a just man;
O'Maoilbloghain, important in the territory, O'Maoilbhloghain. - This name is still extant, and anglicised Malone or Mulowne; but this family is to be distinguished from that of O'Maoileoin, which is similarly anglicised Has tilled the land of fine sods. Aos-tri-muighe, smoothest of plains, Aos-tri-muighe, i.e., the people of the three plains. This territory comprised the whole of the present barony of Clanwilliam and a considerable part of what is now called the county of the city of Limerick. O'Conaing was seated at Caislen Ui-Chonaing, now Castleconnell, and his territory extended from Cnoc-Greine, near Pallas-Grean, to the city of Limerick. He was dispossessed by a branch of the Burkes shortly after the English Invasion. See Annals of the Four Masters, A.D. 1597, p. 2041, note z.Is the grassy territory of O'Conaing, A bright watered plain, of noblest aspect, by the meadowy side of Craobh Cumhraidhe. Craobh Cumhraidhe, i.e., the sweet or odoriferous branch, now Crecora, the name of a parish near the city of Limerick From his noble descent from Eoghan.                                                              From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal, The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais.                                                      Around Caisel of the fair territory,I will not conceal that from any one,A cause without a flaw or defect He identifies the O’Marchahan belong in descent from                                                   Cormac Cas ruler of Thomond and North Munster.             DAL gCAIS

From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal,

From the race of Tal The race of Tal, i.e., the people of Corcumruadh, so called from their ancestor Tal, son of Broc, who was the eleventh in descent from 3 corc Modhruadh.

The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais.

Brother to Cain ruler of Ormond and                         brother to Cair whom county Kerry named after him.                                                                 They are the sons of Fergus son of Ruighridhe the Great of the line of Ir                         From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal, The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais. Let us speak of the race of Cormac Cas,The race of Cormac Cas. - These were the O'Briens of Thomond and their correlatives, who were in O'Huidhrin's times, principally seated to the north of the river Shannon, but they had a considerable territory to the south of it, in the present county Limerick. See a curious genealogical account of the people of Dal-Cais of Thomond, in O'Flaherty's Ogyga, part iii. c. 81, 82.. Chief king over all Erin Was Brian of the cow-tribute, Brian, i.e., Brian Borumha, ancestor of the O'Briens of Thomond, who became monarch of Ireland in 1002, and was killed at Clontarf in the year 1014. He was called Borumha because he renewed the cow tribute of Leinster, which had been remitted by Finachta, monarch of Ireland, in the seventh century. Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 690, p. 299, note x.
Let us pass across the Sionainn of green waves,From the sept of Corc, point out our way,To the tribe of Lorc of the lamp.Lorc of the lamp. - This was Lorcan, grandfather of Brian Boruumha. An army was led by (1014) Brian [Boru], son of (980) Ceinneidigh, son of Lorcan, (950)King of Ireland
The Deis Beg of the purple cloak Deis-beg. - This was the ancient name of the present barony of Small County, in the county of Limerick. The town of Bruff was the chief seat of this territory, and is still called Brugh na Deise by all the Irish-speaking people of the counties of Tipperary, Waterford, and Kilkenny.-------------limerick
Is hereditary to the valorous tribe,
The heroes of Claire mentioned by us, Claire. - This was the ancient name of a hill near Duntryleague, in the barony of Small County. Oilioll Olum, the great ancestor of the kings of Munster, was buried in this hill, and a remarkable cromlech was raised over him, which still remains in good preservation.
Of the fairest bay of Erin.                                Three septs of high hilarity Are over the Deis Beag of trees, Are over the smooth plain of the house of Tal, From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal, The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais.The populous tribe of O'Luain. O'Luoin, now Loane, and sometimes anglicised Lamb.                                    The Ui-Duibhrosa of hot incursions, Ui-Duibhrosa, now unknown. The name would be anglicised Duross.   (Durrow durrus)

"May neither heaven nor earth be thine," says Mochutu,

" and cold and hunger carry off thy successor always ! " " Tis a great

pity what ye do," says the prior of Durrow. " Tis thou (says Mochutu)

who will be prior arid erenagh always in thy place." " Drag him

down ! " says the erenagh of Durrow. " Hatred of thy congregation

upon thee (says Mochutu^ and on thy successor always ! and may a

finger be always needed to teach thee in meeting and to teach thy

successor."

The Ui-Faircheallaigh704 of the land of Claire, 704. O'Faircheallaigh, anglicised Farrelly, in other parts of Ireland; but the name is unknown at Duntryleague, and there is scarcely one of the name in the barony of Small County. Raithen Rahan rahen region of fircheall territory of meath mochuda or carthach -loving carthage     omolloy territory
True is the blood of the other tribe
 

 

By whom the tribe of the Mairtine705 were subdued. 705. Martine, an old sept of the Firbolgs, of whose territory Emly, in this neighbourhood, was the seat and centre.                   1 King of Medón Mairtine

King of Medón Mairtine[edit]

In a strange passage in the notably peculiar Munster epic Forbhais Droma Dámhgháire, Daire Cerbba (Ceirbe) is said to have been king of Medón Mairtine, known to historians as the ancient capital of the Mairtine, a once prominent Érainn people. In fact the passage gives it the alternative names of "... Ardchluain na Féne and Mucfhalach Mac Daire Ceirbe. This Ceirbe was king of Meáin Mairtine. This area is called Emly today..."[9] However it does not specifically state that Dáire belonged to the Mairtine themselves, and perhaps of importance is the fact that this site was historically occupied by the Eóganachta, for whom it was their chief church, namely Emly, which the author of FDD obviously recognizes. The Mairtine themselves belong only to prehistory and legend, but may be in part ancestral to the later Déisi Tuisceart and famous Dál gCais

The Dal gCais in the battalions of Claire
Have pure silver, and with it, Gold purely   smelted;The pleasant host are not indigent.
Each lord fits in his own territory;Of the   Dal Cais, brace is the career;Men of great  prosperity,who are mentioned by us,
From Collan eastwards to the Sionainn.      Collan, now Slieve Collane, or the Callan      mountain, about five miles to the east of        Milltown Malbay, in the barony of Ibrickan,   and county of Clare, celebrated for its Ogham inscription. The western and south-western      part of the county of Clare, as we have already seen, originally belonged to the                       Corca-Bhaiscinn.                                                The hero of Caonraighe of fair land             Caonraighe, now the barony of Kenry, in the   north of the county of Limerick.is                    O'Maolcallann of branches. O'Maolcallann. - This name is now obsolete in this part of           Ireland. In other places it is anglicised            Mulholland or Mulhollan, without the prefix OO'Conghaile of the slender swords,               O'Conghaile, now corrupted to O'Conaill,            anglicised O'Connell. The head of this family was transplanted by 1650 Cromwell to Brenternear Callan hill in the county of Clare
 

We give first place without violence
To the high upper cantred; Upper Cantred. - This was included in the present barony of           Inchiquin, in the county of Clare. The baronies of Corcomroe and Burren originally belonged, as we have already seen, to the race of Fergus MacRoigh, king of Ulster, i.e., the O'Conors   and O'Loughlins, so that the country of the O'Deas was the Upper Cantred of Cal Cais.
To O'Deadhaigh the land is dueO'Deadhaighnow anglicised O'Dea, the O' being generally  retained in this territory, but in other parts of   Ireland it is anglicised Day, without the prefix O'.This family was called by Irish genealogistsAes Iar Forgas,from their situation on the west side of the river Fergus.They had seats at        Tully O'Dea and Disert Tola. The O'Deas       derive their surname from Deaghaidh, the 20th in descent from Cormac Cas, a quo Dal Cais.  

Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Royal Irish Academy

31 b i. Genealogies of D�l gCais (continued); text includes note on the cursing of Cormac Coichin mac Carteind Fhind by St. Odhran and the blessing of Conall Caem mac Eachach Bailldeirg by St. Ruadan of Lothra; genealogies of S�l mBriain, (31va) � Caisin, pedigrees of Cen�l nDunghaile (� Grada), � Duibgind, U� Dobarchon, Clann Eochach, (31vb) Mac Conmara, Cen�l Fearmaic (U� Deadhaighidh), (32a) Sil Feircing, Sil Ferdomhnaigh, Cen�l mBaith, � Cuinn Claindi Hifern�n.

DAL gCAIS

From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal,

From the race of Tal The race of Tal, i.e., the people of Corcumruadh, so called from their ancestor Tal, son of Broc, who was the eleventh in descent from 3 corc Modhruadh.

The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais.

44. Cush son of (c)ham the empire the empire of kush to the south of egypt is known from at least 1970bc Chus (Cush): "Ethiopians... even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia,called Chusites’’.hurarina also happen to be the name of a fruit tree exclusive to          Shewa Ethiopia  but this name has also been    associated by some with the kassites who        inhabited the zagros area of mesopotamia the sumerian city of kish (kassmenes)                     Sliabh-ardachaidh of the fine land                 Sliabh Ardachaidh, now the barony of               Slievardagh, in the county of TipperaryIs       hereditary to O'Deaghaidh as a patrimony; O'Deaghaidh, now anglicised Day, without the prefix O'. This family is to be distinguished     from the O'Deaghaidhs, or O'Deas, of                Cinel-Fearmaic, in Thomond, who of of the Dalcassian race32.dearha-deaghatha-Deag: of these nothing remarkable is             mentioned, but that they lived and died kings in Gothia or Getulia.    Gothia or Geulia-more recently called Lybia,       where Carthage was afterwards built                                    
At Teallach of the plains of brown nuts.      Tealach, now Tullyodea, in the parish of Ruan,barony of Inchiquin, county of Clare, and         about three miles to the north of the church of Dysert.

To O'Cuinn of the candid heart O'Cuinn,     now anglicised Quin, without the prefix O'.
Belongs the extensive Muintir-Ifearnain,    Muinter-Ifearnain. - This was the tribe name   of the O'Quins, in the county of Clare, whose  territory extended around Coradh-Finne, now Corofin, in the barony of Inchiquin, and             county of Clare. Inchiquin was the original           seat of this family, but they were driven from  thence by the O'Briens, in the fourteenth century. The O'Quins derived this tribe name of    Muinter-Iffernain, from Iffernan, son of corc,  the fifteenth in descent from Cormac Cas, the progenitor of all the Dalcassian septs. See Genealogical Table in Battle of Magh Rath, opposite p. 340. 44.          

DAL gCAIS

From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal,

From the race of Tal The race of Tal, i.e., the people of Corcumruadh, so called from their ancestor Tal, son of Broc, who was the eleventh in descent from 3 corc Modhruadh.

The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais.

                                                                              Cush son of (c)ham the empire the empire of  kush to the south of egypt is known from at           least 1970bc       Chus (Cush): "Ethiopians...   even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites". hurarina also    happen to be the name of a fruit tree exclusive to Shewa Ethiopia  but this name has also been associated by some with the kassites who               inhabited the zagros area of mesopotamia the  sumerian city of kish   (kassmenes)                                 
The fruitful land of the fine youth
Lies around the festive Coradh-Finne.

Ui Flaithri, enough praising it, Ui-Flaithri. - The situation of this territory, as well   as of Finnchoradh, is now unknown. 

219. Rónán Rígḟlaith, that is, he was a king (rí) and a lord (flaith), and royal (rígda) was his lordship (flaithius) over every one.                                                                           A land close to Fionnchoradh Is the land of O'Cathail west and east, O'Cathail, now Cahill, without the prefix O'; but the name has sunk into poverty and obscurity.Dromdaleague (Drimoleague).

The remains of a family residence, Castle Donovan, survive today outside Drimoleague, County Cork. Believed to have been the seat for the Clann Cathail sept of the O’Donovan clan in the 16th century, most of the 60-foot-tall tower house remain and is undergoing restoration. Castle Donovan was abandoned in the mid-17th century after being attacked by soldiers during the Cromwellian invasion.

Under Druim Sailech,of the green carpet,  Druim-sailech, i.e., dorsum salicum, a conspicuous ridge in the barony of Ikerrin, about five miles to the south of Roscrea. The castle of Moydrum stands upon it. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 1601, p. 2276.
O'Cathail beyond all it has placed [as chief]  O'Cathail, now Cahill, without the prefix O'.
To unite the yewy land.

Smooth land is this land of yew.
Cinel Baith, of no small land,The fine tribe of Brentir, Brentir, now Breintre, a district comprising seven townlands lying north-east of Sliabh Collain, in the county of Clare. The tribe name Cinel-Baith is now obsolete. OO'Conghaile of the slender swords, O'Conghaile, now corrupted to O'Conaill, anglicised O'Connell. The head of this family was transplanted by 1650 Cromwell to Brenternear Callan hill in the county of Clare

O'Maoilmeadha of the fair land,
His [are] the woods about the delightful Eidhneach. Eidhneach, now Inagh, a small river near Milltown Malby, in the west of the county of Clare. It is also the name of a Roman Catholic parish through which this river flows. O'Maoilmeadha would be now anglicised O'Mulvey or Mulvey, but it is obsolete in this district.
Of the race of Eoghan, of the region of Cliach, The Ui Corbmaic of beautiful green land; Ui-Corbmaic. - This name is still locally rememberd, and is now applied to a district comprising the parish of Kilmaley, in the county of Clare; but it can be proved from various authorities that it originally comprised all the barony of Islands, except the parish of Clondagad, which was a part of East Corca-Vaskin. O'Haichir, now anglicised O'Hehir and Hare, was of the sept of the Ui-Fidhgeinte, of the race of Eoghan, son of Oilioll Olum, and not of the race of Cormac Cas; but no accounty has been yet discovered of when or by what means they effected a settlement in Thomond.  of Magh-Adhair, Magh Adhair, a level district lying between the towns of Ennis and Tullagh, in the county of Clare. See Annals of Four Masters, A.d. 981, 1099, and 1599. It would appear that the family of the O'Hehirs were seated here before the Mac Namaras. To O'h Aichir belongs the warm land,The plain of Meath is such another.

A dynast powerful in every house,
A noble sept of the Ui-Aichirs Is over Ui Flannchadha of hospitable seats, Ui-Flannchadha. - Situation unknown; but it is probable that it adjoined the last-mentioned territory.The thin-edged, illustrious host.
O'Duibhginn of the ruddy countenance,  O'Duibhginn. - This seems a mistake for O'Griobhtha, now Griffy and Griffin. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 2483, 1588.
Over the fair Muintir Connlochtaigh, Muintir-Connlochtaigh, otherwise called Cinel Cuallachta. According to the Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh this territory comprised the south-eastern part of the barony of Inchiquin, county Clare. The castles of Ballygriffy and Mogowna were in it. Magunihy- O'Conghail (O'Connell) ruled as chiefs here. By the 11th century the O'Donaghues forced them towards the west coast, as the O'Donaghues were driven from Cork by the MacCarthys and O'Mahanoys. The Mac Carthaigh (MacCarthy Mor) were centered at Muckross, near Killarney, south of the O'Donaghue territory. The ancient clan names of the O'Donaghue clan were Cinel Laoghaire and Clan tSealbach. The Mac Gillycuddys are also noted here. The chief gained its emolument By the strength of battle spears.
O'Grada took all 0. O'Grada, now anglicised O'Grady.The bountiful Cinel Dunghaile, Cinel-Dunghaile. - This was the tribe name of the O'Gradys, and became, as usual, that of their territory. Since the year 1318 this district comprised the parishes of Tomgraney, Inishcaltra, and Clonrush, of which the two latter are now included in the county of Galway, though belonging to the diocese of Killaloe  His yellow-hilted polished swords,
Weapons that slaughter meetings.
Royal dynast of fine incursions
Is Mac Conmara Mac Conmara, now anglicised Mac Namara. This family derives its name from its ancestor Cumara, son of Domhnall, who ws the twenty-second in descent from Cormac Cas. His son Domhnall died in 1099.           

DAL gCAIS

From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal,

From the race of Tal The race of Tal, i.e., the people of Corcumruadh, so called from their ancestor Tal, son of Broc, who was the eleventh in descent from 3 corc Modhruadh.

The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais.                                44. Cush son of (c)ham the empire the empire of kush to the south of egypt is known from at least 1970bc       Chus (Cush): "Ethiopians... even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites". hurarina also happen to be the name of a fruit tree exclusive to Shewa Ethiopia  but this name has also been associated by some with the kassites who inhabited the zagros area of mesopotamia the sumerian city of kish   (kassmenes)                     

It would appear that the family of the O'Hehirs were seated here before the Mac Namaras.  O'Haichir, now anglicised O'Hehir and Hare, was of the sept of the Ui-Fidhgeinte, of the race of Eoghan, son of Oilioll Olum, and not of the race of Cormac Cas;                                                                                                                         of Magh-Adhair,723 723. Magh Adhair, a level district lying between the towns of Ennis and Tullagh, in the county of Clare. See Annals of Four Masters, A.d. 981, 1099, and 1599. It would appear that the family of the O'Hehirs were seated here before the Mac Namaras.

The territories of wealth are his country;
Is over the Cantred of Ui-gCaisin. Ui-gCaisin. - The name and exact extent of this territory is preserved in the deanery of Ogashin, which comprises the parishes of Quin, Tullagh, Clooney, Doora, Kilraghtis, Kiltalagh, Templemaley, Inchicornan, and Kilmurry-na-gall, in the eastern part of the county of Clare. but in the year 1318, when after the defeat of De Clare and the expulsion of his allies - the Ui Bloid - O'Brien gave the Mac Namaras possession of a more extensive territory than Ogashin, lyinb between the rivers Fergus and Shannon, the exact limits of which, in 1584, are defined in a MS. account of Thomond, preserved in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, E., 2,14.
The host of the O'Dobharchons, pleasant company, Are the Muintir-Lideadha I mention, The Muinter-Lideadha, i.e., the O'Liddys, still extant, but reduced.These are the Clanns of Sinnell, Ready are they with the nobles.
The land of the poetical Clann Dealbhaoith Clann-Dealbhaoith. - This was the tribe name of the O'Neills of Tradry, a fertile territory in the county of Clare, the extent of which is presered in the deanery of Tradry, which contains the parishes of Tomfinlough, Killnasoolagh, Kilmaleery, Kilconry, Clonloghan, Drumline, Feenagh, Bunratty, Killaneen, and the Island of Inis-da-drom, in the south of the county of Clare. After the defeat of De Clare 1318 and his adherents, O'Brien gave the Mac Namaras the whole of this territory, which is the richest in all Thomond. Is under O'Neill, chief of Fionnluaraigh; Fionnluaraigh. - This name is now unknown. It seems to have been the name of the residence of the ancient chiefs of Tradry. The O'Neills of this race are still extant, but reduced to obscurity and poverty. If tradition may be relied upon, the family of Creagh is a branch of them.The host of Tradraighe come into his house,Of lank yellow-flowing tresses.

159. Delbaeth, that is delb aeda 'shape of fire'. Or delb-aed, that is, 'magic fire', which he made when his own son-in-law, Trad, son of Taissach, by art magic banished him out of the land in which the Tradraige are today. He went in flight into the Húi Néill's country. He went into Carn Fiachach meic Néill, and there he kindled a magic fire, and out of it burst five streams of fire, and with each of these streams he sent forth a son of his, and from them (the sons) are the five Delvins. Hence the name Delbaed, that is, delb-aeda 'form of fire' clave to him. Lugaid had been his name till then. Or Delb-aed, that is, a form (delb) of fire (aeda) upon him, because of his beauty, for his form was distinguished.
The cantred of O'm-Bloid of satin banners,  O'm-Bloid. - This name is still preserved in the deanery of Omulloid, in the east of the county of Clare. the chief families of this territory were the O'Kennedys, O'Shanahans, O'Duracks, and O'Aherns, who were all driven out of it in 1318 by Turlogh O'Brien, in consequence of the assistance which they had given to De Clare Kings of Cliach of embattled tribes,The tribe of Ui-Tail, to the clear green stream, Is throughout the wide yewy plain.
Over the Ui-Cearnaigh, of noble career, Ui-Cearnaigh. - This was the tribe name of the O'Echtigherns, now O'Aherns, and was, as usual, applied to their territory. It comprised the parish of Kilfinaghty and a considerable portion of the district lying between it and the city of Limerick. The name of this territory is still locally preserved in that of the river Ogarney, whoch intersects the little town of Six-Mile-bridge, and unites with the Shannon near Bunratty. This river flows through the middle of the territory of the Ui-Cearnaigh, from near the castle of Enaghofline to that of Rosmanagher, after passing which it forms the boundary between Hy-Cearnaigh and Tradry. It was the ancestor of O'Ahern that granted the island of Inis-Sibtonn, now the King's Island, in the city of Limerick, to St. Munchin, from which it may be inferred that he enjoyed a larger territory than that which remained in the possession of his descendants. Through his father Sétna, Mainchín is alleged to belong to the Dál Cais, given a pedigree linking him to the ancestors of the O'Brien dynasty. His tutor was the Corco Mruad saint Mac Creiche according to the Life of that saint.[1] Mainchín is said to have founded Luimneach when Ferdomnach, king from the Dál Cais, granted him land at Inis Sibtond. Mainchín mac Setnai (fl. late 6th century), also anglicised to Munchin, was allegedly the founder of the church of Luimneach (now Limerick), Ireland, and a saint in Irish tradition, acquiring special eminence as patron of Limerick City.[1] Both his origins and the date of his association with the city are debated.

A major problem with the above is that the Dál Cais themselves are unknown by that name before the 930s and are believed by scholars to be the descendants of a Déisi population which migrated into the region at an uncertain period. Before the Dál Cais the greater region appears to have been dominated for a time by another people entirely, the Uí Fidgenti, mid and west limreick who eventually found themselves much displaced by the Dál Cais in the second half of the 10th century and following, although after having previously overrun many of the Déisi themselves in the very same territories. Are the O'Echthigherns, of Maicniadh's land, Maicniadh's land. - This was a bardic appellation of Munster.

A spirited territory is under the fine youth, To the bright old stream of Sionainn.
The wood of Ui-Ronghaile of cleared land,  Ui-Ronghaile, the country of O'Seanchain. - This territory is frequently mentioned in the Caithreim Thoirdhealbaigh as the country of O'Shanahan, a chieftain of the Ui-Bloid who joined De Clare. He was driven out in the year 1318, and his country was given to his enemies, the Mac Namaras. Hy-Ronghaile comprised the parishes of Kilnoe and Killuran, and some of the adjoining districts; but the exact limits cannot now be determined.
O'Seanchain of the bright eyes possessed
The land about all Eibhlinn, Sliabh Eibhlinne (the Slieve Phelim mountains.) 8.Eibleo,                                                                                           Like the fine smooth plain of Maonmagh.
O'Cinneidigh, who reddens the javelin,
Over the wide smooth Gleann-Omra, Gleann Omra, now Glenomra, the country of O'Cinneidigh, Cinneidigh ('uglyhead'-aka-Kennedy). now O'Kennedy. This territory is co-extensive with the parish of Killokennedy. The O'Kennedys were driven out of this territory during the struggles between the descendants of Turlogh and Brian Roe O'Brien, and they settled on the east side of the Shannon. Some of the race, however, remained behind, and their descendants are still extant in Glenomra and its vicinity in the condition of small farmers and cottiers.
The race of our Donnchuan who, through valour, Race of Donnchuan. - The O'Kennedys are the descendants of Donnchuan, brother of the famous Brian Borumha, who was monarch of Ireland from A.d. 1002 to 1014. Obtained the lands without dispute.
Muintir-Duibhraic of Dun-Braine, Muinter Diubhraic, i.e., the family of O'Diubhraic, now anglicised Durack, without the prefix O'. Dun-Braine, the name of their seat, is now unknown. Are chieftains of Tuath-O'gConghaile, Tuath O'g-Conghaile, i.e., the territory of the Ui-Conghaile. This territory is probably co-extensive with the parish of Ogonnelloe, aliaas Aglish-Sinnell, which preserves its name. Their forts are about the good Borumha; Borumha, now Bealboroo, a fort near Killaloe, in the S.E. of the county of Clare.Locks [of hair] like gold are upon them. The Ui Toirdhealbhaigh of the house of Tal, From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal, The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais.Ui Toirdhealbhaigh. - The territory of this sept was bounded on the north by Ui Conghaile; on the east, by the Shannon; on the south and south-west by the river Shannon; and on the west, by Glenomra, the territory of O'Kennedy. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 1192 Near unto Flannan's Cilldalua; Flannan's Cill Dalua, i.e., Killaloe, of which St. Flannan is the patron saint. Delightful its woods, generous its lands, From that west to the Sionainn.
Tuath-Luimnigh about the noble Sionainn,  Tuath Luimnigh. - A district verging on the city of Limerick. O'Cadhla is now anglicised Kealy, and O'Maille, O'Malley. Two chiefs are over it on one side O'Cadhla and O'Maille, the swift, Beautiful ravens of the two inbhers.
Ui-Aimrit,land of hospitality, Ui Aimrit or Ui Aimeirt. - The situation of this sept is unknown. O'Duibhidhir, now O'Dwyer, was seated in the present barony of Kilnamnagh, in the county of Tipperary; but this appears to be a different family.Is hereditary to the sept of the O'Duibhidhirs;Their acquisition is far over Cliach;They are a branch in every ford.
O'Cedfadha, of the pure heart,
Is over the cantred of the Caladh; Caladh is on the north side of the river Shannon, near the city of Limerick, and extends from the Shannon to the southern boundary of the parish of Kilmurry na-Gaul. O'Ceadfadha is now anglicised Keating, but the true form would be O'Keaty The sept of Cluain, chosen by Tal,The beautiful plain of O'Cedfadha.
Aos-tri-muighe, smoothest of plains, Aos-tri-muighe, i.e., the people of the three plains. This territory comprised the whole of the present barony of Clanwilliam and a considerable part of what is now called the county of the city of Limerick. O'Conaing was seated at Caislen Ui-Chonaing, now Castleconnell, and his territory extended from Cnoc-Greine, near Pallas-Grean, to the city of Limerick. He was dispossessed by a branch of the Burkes shortly after the English Invasion. See Annals of the Four Masters, A.D. 1597, p. 2041, note z. Is the grassy territory of O'Conaing, A bright watered plain, of noblest aspect, by the meadowy side of Craobh Cumhraidhe. Craobh Cumhraidhe, i.e., the sweet or odoriferous branch, now Crecora, the name of a parish near the city of Limerick. From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal, From the race of Cormac Cas, of the house of Tal, The chief princes of the great plain of Tal, Plain of Tal. - Tal was a cognomen of Cormac Cais, ancestor of Dal-gCais. We must henceforward depart; To approach the Uaithnes is meet for us,  Uaithnes, now the baronies of Owney, in the counties of Limerick and Tipperary. Noble their name and their defence.Over Uaithne-tire, of fruit, Uaithne-tire, now the barony of Owney, in the county of Tipperary. Is Mag Ceoch, who loved great projects;  Mag-Ceoch, now Mac Keogh, and Keogh. This family was seated at Ballymakeogh, near the river Mulkern, not far from the city of Limerick. The Rev. John Keogh, author of the "Irish Herbal and Irish Zoology" and of "Vindication of the Antiquities of Ireland," was of this sept, as he himself informs us, in the last-mentioned work, p. 142, where he states that he was the son of the Rev. John Keogh, of Strokestown, in the county Roscommon, the son of Denis, son of John, who was son of Anthony Keogh, of Cloonclieve, near the river Mulkern, within two miles of Limerick, where his ancestors enjoyed a very plentiful estate on both sides of the river Shannon and Mulkern. Compare Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, p. 167, and correct the error in the notice of this John which is given there. Muintir Loinsigh, people of the lands, Muinter Loingsigh, i.e., the family of O'Loinsigh, now anglicsed Lynch in this territory, though the same name is in other parts of Ireland anglicised Linchy and Linskey. William Lynch, Esq., author of the "Feudal Dignities," was of this family.
In this wood at the breast of strangers.
Uaithne-Cliach, of bright green land, Uaithne-Cliach, now the barony of Owneybeg, in the east of the county of Limerick.Is the country of O'h-Ifearnain; O'h-Ifearnan. - This name is now anglicised Heffernan, without the prefix O'. The name is rather common in the counties of Limerick and Tipperary. Fine land at the side of each hillock,
Beautiful and loved by O'Cathalain. O'Cathalain, now Cahallan, and more generally shortened to Callan ???Cathalan, from whom Ui Chathalain (Cahalane);???                                                           These families were dispossessed by the O'Mulryans, now Ryans, a Leinster family of the race of Cathaoir Mor.---idrone
Chief king of Ara over every tribe, Ara, now the barony of Ara or Duhara, in the north-west of the county of Tipperary. The people of Ara are of the Ulster race of Rudhrighe, being, according to the Irish genealogists, descended from Feartlachta, the son of Fergus Mac Roigh, king of Ulster in the first century. See Ogygia, Part III., cap. 46. There was another territory of this name called Ara Cliach, situate in the county of Limerick.
O'Donnagain o0f the noble aspect; O'Donnagain, now Donegan without the O'. There are families of this name still extant in Tipperary, but among a very humble class. There were various other families of the name in Ireland of totally different races. The territory yielded heavy produce For the king of Ara; it is not trifling.
A territory around Crota Clilach was acquired Crota Cliach. - This was the ancient name of the Galtee mountains in the county of Tipperary. By Mag-Longachain, a fair, gray hero; Mag Longachain. - This name is now obsolete, unless it be that anglicised Lanigan, which is pronounced O'Lonnagain and O'Luinegain among the Irish-speaking people.
Lord of a populous plain is here,
Ui Cuanach of the green soft land. Ui-Cuanach. - This name is preserved in the now barony of Coonagh, in the east of the county of Limerick; but, from its connexion with Crota Cliach, it would appear that is was originally far more extensive. It was a portion of Ara Cliach. Of this same race, and this is right,Are Muintir-Duibhidhir, of white teeth, Muinter-Duibhidhir, now anglicised O'Dwyer and Dwyer. This family was seated in the present barony of Kilnamanagh, in the county of Tipperary. They seem to be different from the O'Duibhidhirs of Ui-Aimrit, already referred to. Plain of Sechtmadh, of fair fences,Is under the noble tribe in turn.
Lords to whom the nut-trees bend,
Are the Muintir-Cearbhaill Muinter Cearbhaill, i.e., the family of O'Cearbhaill, now anglicised O'Carroll, and more frequently Carroll wtihout the prefix O'. of Biorra's plain, Biorra's plain, i.e., the level district lying around Birr, now Parsonstown, in the King's County. King of Eile Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, to sweet Bladhma, Eile. - This was the name of a tribe, which was, as usual among the ancient Irish, applied to a territory. It was derived from Eile, the seventh in descent from Cian, son of Oiliol Olum, king of Munster, in the third century. It contained the whole of Ely O'Carroll, . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race,  which belonged originally to Munster, but is now assigned to King's County, and contains the baronies of Clonlisk and Ballybritt; in it wer also included the baronies of Ikerrin and Eliogarty, now in the county of Tipperary. The boundary between Ely O'Carroll . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll  Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, and the ancient Meath is determined by that between the diocese of Killaloe and the diocese of Meath; for that portion of the King's County which belongs to the diocese of Killaloe was Ely O'Carroll, . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll and originally belonged to Munster. The other portions of the original Ely, Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, such as Ikerrin and Eliogarty, were withdrawn from O'Carroll shortly after the English Invasion, and added to the Earl of Ormond's country; however the native chieftains, O'Meagher and O'Fogarty, were left in possession, but tributary to the Earl of Ormond. See Leabhar na gCeart, pp. 78, 79, note i.  O'Cearbhaill who is our friend, O'Cearbhaill, anglice O'Carroll. There was a family of this name in Magunihy preceding the O'Donoghues; but they sunk into poverty and obscurity many centuries since, and are now unknown. Hawk of the sept of the white strand. . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, Skreen - formed from the territory of Magh Breagh, or Brega, which was centered around the ancient Hill of Tara. O'Haodha (O'Hea or Hughes) is given as chief of Odba (Odra?) here. The Ua Duinn (O'Dunne) of Brega were noted here prior to the Norman invasion. Territory here was granted to Adam Pheipo after the Norman Invasion. Ohaedha east tir teathfa ocearbhail over the south of teamhair the land of men has gone under bondage these people have not clung to their birthright let us raise up for teamhair more of kings with great courage his yoke has tamed each battalion oduinn over the districts of teamhair  oduinn this family is also totally unknown for centuries it cannot be distinguished from the oduinns or dunns of iregan All - Anciently inhabited by the Eblani, Meath later formed part of the fifth province of Ireland known as Midhe and Brega which included Westmeath and Longford counties as well as parts of Cavan, Kildare and King's county. The southern Ui Neill or Clan Colman (e.g. Melaghlin) held this territory up to the late 12th century. The O'Caindealbhain (O'Quinlan, O'Connellan or O'Kendellan) were princes of Ui Laeghari or "Ive-Leary", an extensive territory in the counties of Meath & Westmeath. The ancient kingdom of Meath was granted to Hugh de Lacy following the Norman Invasion. Misc - The O Connoly were one of the four tribes of Tara and Princes of Bregia prior to the coming o the Normans in the late 12th century. The four tribes of Tara included the O'Harts, the O'Regans, Connollys, and the O'Kellys. MacConmedha (MacConway) is cited as a principal chief in Teffia in the territory of Muintir Laodagain. O'Ruaidhri or O'Rory (Rogers) was lord of Finn Fochla in Bregia (Meath/Dublin area). The Annals record for 1018 that Ui Cleircein (O'Clerkin), Lord of Caille-Follamhaim died. The most hospitable mansion in Erin.
Eight cantreds, eight chieftains east,
Under the king of Eile, Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, of the land of cattle;
Brace the host gathering a prey -
The host of yellow curling hair.
 

 

O'Flannagain, valiant his hand,
Over the whole of Cinel Farga,Cinel-Farga, Kinelarga, a territory in Ely-O'Carroll, . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, nearly, if not exactly, coextensive with the present barony of Ballybrit, in the King's County. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 1548, p. 1,509, note f. The O'Flanagans of this race are still extant, but all reduced to poverty and obscurity. The O'Flanagans of the line of Tadhg of the Battle of Crinna are to be distinguished from those of Clancahill, in the county of Roscommon, and of Tooraah, in the county of Fermanagh, who have been much more famous in Irish history. Of the race of Tadhg, son of Cian of Crinna, Race of Tadhg, son of Cian of Crinna. - This has reference to Tadhg, (the ancestor of the O'Flanagans of this race, and also of O'Carroll), who assisted Cormac Mac Art in the battle of Crinna, in the third century, in reward for which king Cormac granted him the territory of Cianachta, in the east of ancient Meath. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 226, and O'Flaherty's Ogygia, Part III., c. 68.
From the exalted, hospitable Lec Oilella.762 762. Lec-Oilella. - This place, which was the seat of O'Flanagan, has not been identified. 993: Aedh, son of Dubhghall, son of Donnchadh, lord of Magh- Ithe, and royal heir of Oileach, died.                                            Septs of the tribe of the head of the plain
Are O h-Oilella,O'Brachain the melodious.  O'Brachain, now Brahan.O'h-Oilella. - This name is now obsolete, as is every derivative in Ireland formed from Oilioll, whether belonging to man or place, except Tir-Oilella, in the county of Sligo, which has been corrupted to Tirerrill. According to this analogy, O'h-Oilella might be anglicised O'Herrill, or Herrill; but there is no such surname now in Ireland.  (could this be tyrell)            The Clann Ruainne, of the flowery roads, Clann-Ruainne, and Mag Corcrain. - The exact situation of this territory has not been yet deterimined; Donogh Mac Corcrane was one of O'Carroll's freeholders in 1576, when O'Carroll made his submission to Queen Elizabeth. The name MacCorcrain is still extant, but anglicised Corcoran and Corkran, without the prefix Mac.
A sweet, clear, smooth-streamed territory, The chief of Ui-Bracain of satin cloaks, Ui-Bracain, now the barony of Ibrickan, in the west of the county of Clare. Daire Barrach, ancestor of O'Gorman. Given Tuath Laighean (Fingal and Dublin). 150 spears, 50 swords, 50 gold rings, 150 cloaks, 7 military standards After the expulsion of the Mac Gormans from Leinster (see note on Ui-Bairrche, supra), shortly after the English Invasion, they were settled in this territory by O'Brien.                   Septs of the tribe of the head of the plain Are O h-Oilella,O'Brachain the melodious. O'Brachain, now Brahan. 62. Labhradh Longseach: his son.63. Olioll Bracan: his son. Chieftain of heavy hosting, O'Maolcorcra of fast fame, O'Maolcorcra. - This name is now unknown in the barony of Ibrickan. This family would appear to have sunk into insignificance when the Mac Gormans were planted in their territory by O'Brien.Of the margin of the two inbhers. The two Invers, i.e., Liscanor Bay and Dunbeg Bay, at the extremities of the territory of Ibrickan.The two septs of all the Fochla, Fochla, i.e., the north, alluding to Ibrickan being the most northern portion of the country of the Corca-Baiscinn, of the race of Conaire II., in North Munster. Of the brave race of Conaire, About the horbour of th moist plain, no falsehood, Hereditary to O'Ceallaigh to gaurd them.
Mag Corcrain is of this well-peopled territory,Of the white-breasted brink of banquets.
O'h-Aedhagain O'h-Aedhagain, now anglicised Egan. This name is to be distinguished from MacEgan, with which it is now confounded. Teige O'Hegan was one of O'Carroll's freeholders in 1576. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 1576, p. 1690, note e.                                                                                                               of Crich-Cein Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, Over the smooth-sodded Clann-Ionmainen, Clann Ionmainen. - This was the tribe name of the O'Hegans, but it is now forgotten, and the exact situation of O'Hegan is unknown to tradition. Tuath Saxan of the fair district, Tuath-Saxon, i.e., the cantred of the Saxons. This is the ancient name of the district containing the paish of Tullylease in the north-west of the county of Cork, of which St. Berichert, a Saxon, is the patron. It is probable that this saint established a Saxon colony here in the eighth century, in the same way as St.

Cairnech had established a colony of Britons at Tuilen, near Kells, in Meath. The family of O'h-Ionmhainen, now anglicised Noonan, were the herenachs of the church of Tullylease. See Dr. Reeve's Paper on St. Beretchert, in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. vi., p. 267.I mention for O'h-Ionmhainen;A beautiful territory of abundant crops,
A hardy section of the race of Conaire. Race of Conaire, i.e., of Conaire II. See note 591
A cantred which strewed banquets on every land,With honied dew upon each pod.
The great cantred of the rapid Clann-Maenaigh, Clann Maenaigh. - This was the tribe name of the O'Doolys, who were seated on the western face of Slieve Bloom, in Ely-O'Carroll. . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll  Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, But this family had been originally chiefs of Fertullagh, in Westmeath, whence they were banished before the English Invasion by the O'Melaghlins. All - Anciently inhabited by the Eblani, Meath later formed part of the fifth province of Ireland known as Midhe and Brega which included Westmeath and Longford counties as well as parts of Cavan, Kildare and King's county. The southern Ui Neill or Clan Colman (e.g. Melaghlin) held this territory up to the late 12th century. The O'Caindealbhain (O'Quinlan, O'Connellan or O'Kendellan) were princes of Ui Laeghari or "Ive-Leary", an extensive territory in the counties of Meath & Westmeath. Donogh Oge O'Dowlye was one of O'Carroll's freeholders in 1576. That country is hereditary to O'Dubhlaighe;The tribe are a fine tribe of leaders,At the breast of the clear-streamed Bladhma. Bladhma, now Slieve Bloom, on the western face of which this family was situated.
A chieftain for whom the trees yield fair nuts Is over Clann Coinlegain, of heavy fruit,Clann-Coinlegain. - This was the tribe name of the family of Mac Giolla-Phoil, now MacGilfoyle. This family had their seat at Suidhe-an-roin, now Shinrone, in 1576, when Sir William O'Carroll, chief of Ely, Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, made his submission to the Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney. Scion of Biorra of Biorra's plain, Biorra's plain, i.e., the level district lying around Birr, now Parsonstown, in the King's County. of the Elian race, Mag Gillaphoil of the fair seat. Definition of scion1 :a detached living portion of a plant (such as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft 2 a :descendant, child; especially :a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family macgilfoyle                        
Hui Deci, the good hilly cantred, Hui-Deci. - This was the tribe name of the family of O'Banain, now Banan, originally seated at Leim Ui-Bhanain, now the Leap Castle, in the barony of Clonlisk, near Roscrea. William O'Banane was one of O'Carroll's freeholders in 1576. See Annals of Four Masters, 1514, 1516, 1576. The extensive fair-mansioned land,A land of fruit, strengthened by them,
Is the patrimony of O'Banain. Mightily have they filled the land,The O'Meachairs- the territory of Ui-Cairin, The O'Meachairs. - The name of this family is now anglicised O'Meagher, but more generally Meagher or Maher, without the prefix O'. Their territory of Ui-Ciarin is now called Ikerrin, and is a barony in the north of the present county of Tipperary. Eile. - This was the name of a tribe, which was, as usual among the ancient Irish, applied to a territory. It was derived from Eile, the seventh in descent from Cian, son of Oiliol Olum, king of Munster, in the third century. It contained the whole of Ely O'Carroll, . Crich Cein. - This is only a bardic name for Ely-O'Carroll Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race,  which belonged originally to Munster, but is now assigned to King's County, and contains the baronies of Clonlisk and Ballybritt; in it wer also included the baronies of Ikerrin and Eliogarty, now in the county of Tipperary. A tribe at the foot of Bearnan-Eile; Bearnan-Eile, i.e., the gapped mountain of Ely, Gaels (or Gadelians); of the Elian race, now called in English the Devil's Bit Mountain. It is no shame to celebrate their triumph.
Tuatha Faralt of the smooth woods, Tuatha-Faralt. - This name is now obsolete.O'h-Ailche is now anglicised Halley. That is the patrimony of O'Ailche,A plain of fair mansions, powerful their tribe,Like the land of Tailltenn of dried-up rivers.
Corca-Thine, which serves nobly Tuatha-Faralt. - This name is now obsolete. O'h-Ailche is now anglicised Halley.                           Under Druim Sailech, of the green carpet, Druim-sailech, i.e., dorsum salicum, a conspicuous ridge in the barony of Ikerrin, about five miles to the south of Roscrea. The castle of Moydrum stands upon it. See Annals of Four Masters, A.D. 1601, p. 2276.
O'Cathail beyond all it has placed [as chief]  O'Cathail, now Cahill, without the prefix O'. Daire Cerbba is credited as the ancestor of the Ui Fidgheinte and thus the O'Donovan family, and was referred to in a poem addressed to [Donnell II O'Donovan], chief of Clan Cathail, in as late as the early 17th century, by the bardic poet Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte.[4] To unite the yewy land.
The southern Eile, mild to the poets, The Southern Eile. - This is Eliogarty, i.e., Eile Ui-Fhogartaigh, or O'Fogarty's Ely, a barony in the county of Tipperary. Of the race of the generous Eochaidh Baillderg; Eochaidh Baillderg. - He was the son of Caerthann Fionn, king of Thomond, in St. Patrick's time. See Ogygia, Part III., c. 82. According to this, O'Fogarty was not of the Elian race, but of the Dal-Cais of Thomond. Populous its tribes, and its purple hazels,The land which O'Fogarta has got. O'Fogarta, now anglicised Fogarty, without the prefix O'. This family became extinct, in the senior line, in the last century, and was succeeded by the Lanigans of Castlefogarty.
Let us travel.
Three tribes whose lands are delightful;
Three tribes like the blossom of the apples;
Three branches without fault in their time,
Over Corca Aela, I mention. Corca-Aela. - Exact situation not discovered. The families here mentioned are now totally unknown. Over the Deisi I assert, obric and phelan  
Are O'Bric, how has exceeded every tribe,  O'Bric, now Brick, without the prefix O'. This family originally possessed the southern Desies, comprised in the present county of Waterford, but they had sunk under the O'Faelains or O'Phelans, who were originally seated in the northern Decies, in the present county of Tipperary, some time before the English invasion.And the fair, wide O'Faelain. O'Faelain, now made Phelan, in the anglicised form of the name, without the prefix O'; and by some, Whelan.
Ui Dineartaigh is the country Of O'Aimrit, the mainstay of the territory;A household from which showers return,The merry people of Midhasa. (Midhe)Ui-Aimrit,land of hospitality, Ui Aimrit or Ui Aimeirt. - The situation of this sept is unknown.O'Duibhidhir, now O'Dwyer, was seated in the present barony of Kilnamnagh, in the county of Tipperary; but this appears to be a different family.Is hereditary to the sept of the O'Duibhidhirs;Their acquisition is far over Cliach;They are a branch in every ford.
Two other high tribes of it -Noble are the two tribes;A soldiery without concealment - fine the troop -
The swift Ui Cerc, the Ui Maoiluidhir.
The lord of Ui Lughdhach, of ancient swords, Ui-Lughdhach, otherwise called Ui-Luighdheach, or Ileagh, formerly a separate barony, and shown as such in the Down Survey, but now included in the barony of Eliogarty.
Is O'Spealain of white spurs, O'Spealain. - This name is now anglicised Spillan and Spollan, without the prefix O' Majestic is the battle-march of the hero,Increasing under the land of Macha.

 

 

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