RAINBOW FARMS AUSTRALIA
11th Century AD - 1
"The position of Irish Septs at this time."
During this
Century,
Ireland
was known as
"Scotia."
The Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Ui Dunlainge Tuatha / Family regions in Southern Leinster would by this time be well and truly feeling the crunch of being constantly "weakened" by the previous Centuries of battle for overall supremacy in Ireland against their kinsmen the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill Septs, and also the Tuetonic Scandinavian Vikings who now had "settlements" mainly along the "eastern coastal" regions of Ireland. The Heremonian Cu Corb Septs in Southern Leinster due also to the ongoing Viking attacks, were to be "defeated" by their closer kinsmen in the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla Kingdom of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster, whose territory and Kingdom actually created a "buffer" zone between the Munster Province and Southern Leinster in ancient Mogha's Half. (The emerging kingdom of Ossory, due to these never - ending Viking attacks from the nearby "coastal" regions, was to now also be capable of escaping the "over lordship" of the Heberian Septs in Munster Province, and endeavour also to become Kings of Leinster in their own right). Although all of the Gaelic Milesian Heremonian Septs in Southern Leinster were always under "attack," either from the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill Septs, the Heberian Eoghanachta Septs, the Heberian Dal gCais Septs, the various Irish Septs of Ulster Province, and the Vikings, a similar circumstance that was occurring to the two Gaelic Milesian Ulaid Septs who were also feeling the pressure on the "north - east coast" of Ulster Province, who nevertheless were more "genetically united." There was only the Gaelic Milesian Irian Ui Loigis Sept who had their territory and Kingdom in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster, and the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Fothairt Sept settled among the Heremonian Cu Corb Septs who were "vassal" Irish Septs, who were not Heremonian Cu Corb Septs there. (The Heremonian Fotharta Mara Sept had their Kingdom in the far "south - east" of Southern Leinster and their kinsmen the Heremonian Fotharta Fea Sept were on the River Slaney in Co. Wexford and Co. Carlow in Southern Leinster. They were also to be found around Kildare in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster where St. Bridget had eminated from their particular Sept, and where their territory was situated near the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Bairrche Sept who were descended from 91.Daire Barrach, who had been another of the 9 sons of *90.Caher / Cathair Mor the 109th King of Tara / Ireland to leave aristocratic warrior issue towards the Kingships. (The Ui Bairrche Sept had been an especially "important" Sept during the 6th - 7th Centuries AD). (At one time Cormac mac Dermot / mheic Diarmata from the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Bairrche Sept was the King of Southern Leinster, and 99.Columb mac Cormac / Colman mheic Cormaic from the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig Sept was the King of Northern Leinster. The fortunes of the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig / Cinnsela Sept would now also be on the "rise" once again this Century, as opposed to their close kinsmen the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Dunlainge Sept who had previously over a long period been the most pre - dominant Heremonian Cu Corb Sept in Southern Leinster.
The Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim
Dal
Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain
Sept
in the north in the Ulster Province
who were
descended from 91.Eogan the
1st King of Ailech
there
were to evolve not only into the main Septs of the
O Nialls
/ O Neills
and
Mac Loughlins, but also the
O Canes / O Kanes
/
Ui
Cathain, the
O Hagans
/ Ui hAgain
and
the
O
Gormleys
/ Ui Goirmleadhaigh
who were all to be descended through
91.Eogain
and his descendant *103.Niall
Glun Dubh - of the Black Knee the
previous
170th King of Ireland who had been slain by the
Tuetonic Scandinavian Vikings in a battle in 919 AD in Dublin.
*105.Brian
Boru
- of the Tributes
who was the Heberian Dal gCais
King
of Northern Munster /
Thomond and
41st
King
of Cashel / Munster in
Mogha's Half / Southern Ireland was also to
"revive" the boroimhe
/ tribute to be paid by the
Heremonian Cu Corb
Southern Leinster
Septs
because they had continued to adhere to the
Teutonic Scandinavian Danish
Viking cause, mainly due to the many Viking "settlements" that were situated
nearby along their eastern
coastline and the
Viking culture, which had remained
"foreign" to the Irish Septs
up until now, had only always had a destructive impact on
the Irish Septs in
Ireland, as their warfare was more
"brutal" and "savage" and less discriminating in regard to their victims. The ongoing turmoil
because of the constant Viking attacks had
by now conditioned many of the
Celtic
Gaelic
Irish Septs
to abandon their "traditional
respect" for Holy Places and
the tenets of "The Irish Brehon Law," as there was now a constant struggle
for the "Survival of the Fittest" for
total Overlordship
to try and counteract the continuing Viking onslaught. (Despite the terrible impacts that
had been created by this "turmoil," only
50 odd Norse
words were
ever to infringe into the Gaelic Irish
language).
One "positive
During this
Century and the next, the Celtic
Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh
Ui Felim Dal
Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Cremthainn Sept
who had their territory and Kingdom in
Central Ulster Province, under the leadership of
the Colla Da Crioch
O Carrolls /
Ui Cerbaill
were to either push,
or be pushed "southwards" towards the
River Boyne, enveloping the territory of
their kinsmen the
Colla Da Crioch
Ui Muirtheimne Sept in
the
south - east of the Ulster Province,
and what was by now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain sub
- kingdom of
the Heberian
Fir Arda Cianachta Sept, and from
now on many
of the O Carrolls were to become
the
Kings
of
Orghialla / Airghialla
/
Oriel there.
This Century
was to also see the
"introduction" of Irish
"surnames" following on from any one
outstanding "overall leader" of an Irish
Sept / Family branch, which then allowed a much simpler
genealogy for following Family names,
such as those taken up by the Heberian
Eoghanachta
Septs
and
the
Heberian Dalcassian
Septs
in the Munster Province, including,
*107.Turlough
O Brian, the grandson of
*105.Brian Boru
who would become the
175th High King of Ireland
and
108.Murrough mac
Carthy,
the son of
107.Carty / Carrthach
a Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Prince
/ Tanaiste
/ heir apparent who was an outstanding and great aristocratic warrior campaigner for his
Eoghanacht
Sept
in
Co. Kerry.
In the north other examples of important "surnames" occurred at this time in the Ulster Province
including
*105.Donnell Ard Macha
O Niall, (the grandson of
*103.Niall
Glun Dubh
-of the Black Knee the
previous 170th King of Ireland,
and
Cathbarr O Donnell, the
grandson of
Donnell
the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Cenel Conaill King
of Tir Conaill / Tyrconnell
now known as "Co. Donegal."
In the Connacht
Province there was also
111.Teague
O Connor, the grandson of
109.Conor
/ Conchobar who had been the
44th King of
Connacht, and in
Southern
Leinster
112.Donough mac
Murrough
the Heremonian
Cu Corb
Ui Cheinnselaig 56th King
of Leinster, the son of
111.Murrough
/ Murchad
the
51a King
of Leinster,
just to mention a few who all took up their surnames from their immediate or most
close "important" / standout ancestor.
Previously in the early 7th Century AD,
99.Bran
Dubh who was then the
Heremonian
Cu Corb
Ui Cheinnselaig 7th King
of Leinster was able to resist the advance of the
Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh
Ui Felim Dal Cuinn
Ui Niaill
Septs
into their territory in
Northern Leinster,
but since then after
104.Aed their
17a King
of Leinster
had died in 738 AD, their close kinsmen the
Heremonian
Cu Corb
Ui Dunlainge
Sept
had become the completely "dominant"
Sept
in the
Kingship
of Leinster.
During this Century this would once again
"change" as the Heremonian Cu Corb
Ui Cheinnselaig / cinnsela Sept
would re -
emerge as the "dominant" Heremonian Cu Corb Sept
there in Southern Leinster.
During the following
Century
the
territory of
Tethbae
in the Kingdom of Meath
/ Midhe in the south - west of
Northern
Leinster was to be taken
over also by the Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Breifne
Sept
who
controlled the
Gaelic Mlesian
Irian Conmaicne Maige Rein
Septs
there under the
O Rourkes
the
Ui Brian Breifne
Kings of West Breifne along with other territory, taking
in the "southern" borders of
Co. Westmeath
and Co. Offaly.
(Many of the
Kings
of
Tethbae
and the Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim
Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch
Ui
Maine Sept
were to
be interred at the monastery of
Clonmacnoise in
Co. Offaly in the north - west of
Southern
Leinster). Close by on the "western" side
of the
River Shannon, from Co. Westmeath, was the territory of the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch
Ui Maine
Sept whose territory was in the east of the
Connacht Province where, previously earlier
on their territory had been
farther north into Co. Roscommon
were
it bordered on the territory of the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui
Niaill kingdom of the similar named
Cenel Maine descended
from 91.Maine
of
Tethbae, who was another one of the
8 sons of
*90,Niall
-
of the Nine Hostages the
126th King of Tara / Ireland. Their
Kings
were also interred at Clonmacnoise
in Co. Offaly,
and
it could all have been one kingdom at one time, were in the east it may have extended
down south to
Tethbae
taking in the
Cuircne Sept,
the Bregmuine Sept, the
Calraige Sept,
and
Delbna Bethra
Septs, where
Clonmacnoise itself is actually situated.
Another branch of the
Sept were
the
Delbna Nuadat who were situated north
of Clonmacnoise
also in
Co. Offaly in Southern Leinster between the
River
Suck and the River Shannon,
who were
now under the over lordship of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da
Crioch
Ui Maine Sept who were in nearby
Co. Galway in the Connacht
Province.
The Gaelic Milesian
Irian
Conmaicne Maige Rein
Sept, descended initially in Ireland
also from
37.Ir, were
to be in the "south" of
Co. Leitrim in Northern
Connacht during the
11th
and
12th Century AD, as they had "migrated" from the east of the
River Shannon into the territory of
Mag Rein,
with
their "overlords" as mentioned now being the Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim
Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Breifne
Sept of the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
O Rourkes / Ui Ruairc.
They were to also take over
much of the territory in
Co. Longford
nearby
in the north - west of Northern Leinster, driving the
Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim
Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel Maine
of
Tethbae
further "south", with the territory there eventually becoming the
Barony of Ardagh.
Many "foreign" students
at this time were to still attend
the Gaelic Irish
"scholastic" and "religious" schools from all over
Europe, and they too were now going out
"to spread" the
Catholic Christian faith in the
known
World.
*105.Brian
Boru
the
Heberian Dal gCais 41st King of Northern
Munster / Thomond
was to
carry out further repair work, including the
Chapel at Killaloe
in
Co. Clare in the north -
west of the Munster Province of his
Family's kinsmen, 100.St.
Flannan who
had previously constructed it there as
*105.Brian
Boru was a sixth generation
relation of his and he
was to do
much during his lifetime to sustain his much "revered" memory.
This Century
Ivarr
the
Viking
King of Dublin in the north - east of
Southern Leinster and
Waterford
in the south - east of the Munster Province which were situated on the south - east coast of
Ireland,
was to
"die, " and the
Tuetonic Scandinavian Vikings
were now also to attack the monastery at
Kells
/
Ceanannus Mor
in
Co. Meath in the south - east
of Northern
Leinster destroying it.
The Celtic Gaelic Heremonian Scottii composed now on the "maternal line" of the Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Conaire Dal Riada Sept and on the "paternal" line of their kinsmen the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain who had initially had territory in the north - east of the Ulster Province in Co. Antrim in the far - north - east of the Ulster Province and Co. Derry were by now also well settled among the Celtic Scythian Gaelic Picts of Alba / Caledonia / Scottish Highlands and would continue now to produce the Gaelic Milesian Kings of Scotland until the coming of the Teutonic Normans into Albion / England.
The Celts who were to be driven from Southern Leinster were to be known as the Iverni Sept in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, while there were other "Celtic" Septs who left traces of their names throughout Ireland, including those of the Ciarraige Sept in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province, and the Fir Maige Sept / Fermoy in Co. Cork in Southern Munster.