821 - 830
AD
821 AD 100.Artri the
Heberian
Eoghanacht Glendamnach
21st King of Cashel
/ Munster
abdicated and died, who was a son of 99.Cathal the
previous 19th King of Cashel
/ Munster, a son of
98.Finguine the 16th King
of Cashel / Munster, who was one of the 2 sons of 97.Cathal
Cu
Cen Mathair - the Motherless Hound who had been the 14th King
of Cashel / Munster, descended from
93.Criffan /
Crimthann Srem Feimin the direct male line ancestor of the
Glendamnach Septs.
101.Toole / Tuathal
became the Hebrian Eoghanacht Glendamnach
21a King of Cashel / Munster
who was a son of
100.Artri the previous 21st King
of Cashel / Munster.
97.Tnuthgal
became the new
Heberian
Eoghanacht Chaisil 22nd King
of Cashel / Munster, who was
a son of 100.Donngus, one of the
3 sons of
99.Donngal / Dungalach, the son of
98.Faelgus, one of the 2
sons of
97.Nad Fraich, a son of
96.Colgan / Colgu the previous
15th King of Cashel /
Munster,
one of the 2 sons of 95.Failbe
Fland the
11th King of Cashel /
Munster, descended from 92.Felim
/
Feidlimid the Chaisil
4a
King of Cashel / Munster.
100.Felim
/ Feidlimid
mac Crimthainn became the new
Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil
23rd King of Cashel / Munster,
who was the son of
99.Criffan
/ Crimthann,
the son of
98.Dubh Da Crich,
the son of
97.Colman, the son of
96.Sechnussach, the son of
95.Fingen who had been the
previous
9th King
of Cashel / Munster who had died
way back in 619 AD, as none of 100.Felim's immediate
ancestors had been
Kings
of Cashel
/ Munster
for 228 years ánd 100.Felim
mac Crimthainn was
now to rule until 847
AD, a period in which there was to be a great influx of Viking
raids throughout Ireland of which he was to seem to be totally oblivious
of, and the resulting
circumstances that would continue to occur because of his indifference. He was
to have two main objectives, the first would be centred on trying to bring to an end the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Ui Niaill Sept's ambitions of
obtaining the
High Kingship of Ireland
and his second ambition was to bring about
religious reform in the monasteries. To these ends he endeavoured to confine the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
Ui Niaill
Septs
to their own territories in the north in
Leath Cuinn
/ Conn's Half, but despite this he was to also be open to the idea of
High Kingship for himself,
being the Heberian overlord of
Leath Moga
/
Mogha's Half
in the south of Ireland. He was always to be on very
friendly terms with the reforming religious order known as the
Celi De / Culdees
(Servants or Clients of God) and he never took on the Vikings like he should have, but actually did what they
did, and because of his long reign and his restricted outlook he lost a golden opportunity
to bring to an end initially their constant attacks on the Celtic Septs of
Ireland. Unknowingly by his indifference he
was to encourage their further advance
into Ireland, by basically ignoring them, and concentrating more on his
reforming religious
agenda. He was to plunder the
monasteries that the Celi De especially considered needed reforming, such as
Clonfert
in
Co. Galway
in the south - west of the
Connacht Province,
Clonmacnoise and Gallen in Co. Offaly
in the north - west of
Southern Leinster,
Durrow in Co. Laois in the mid - north - west
of Southern Leinster, and Kildare in
Co. Kildare
in
Central Southern Leinster. He also captured and ill - treated the
Abbot of Armagh
from the Ulster Province, and allowed the
Abbot of Cork
to die in prison at Cashel
in
Co. Tipperary in the north
- east of the
Munster Province for
which he was to be struck down by
St. Kieran
/ Ciaran and he was to be the
first of the
Irish Kings to carry on like this, as the Irish Septs who
eventually survived the continual Viking raids
under his watch, only had the
protection of their Chiefs or sub
- Kings from their individual Septs to thank, due to his
complete indifference
to the ongoing Viking violations. This meant that their Family regions
/ Tuaths became a storage place for their
individual valuables and therefore they also became fair game
for their enemies and any one else who might decide to attack them.
100.Felim mac Crimthann the
23rd King of
Cashel /
Munster became one of the
12 leading members
of the Celi De / Culdees, with
3 representatives in Tallaght in Co.
Dublin, 1 in Co.
Westmeath, 4 in Co. Kildare and
Co. Clare, 2 in Co. Cork,
and 5 in Co. Tipperary who all used to meet at
Druim Ednech / Druim Abrat
for prayer before arriving at Tallaght in Co.
Dublin in Southern Leinster, which was their Mother church.
100.Felim
mac Crimthainn
as the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil 23rd King
of
Cashel /
Munster to strengthen his authority had first
sought to take hostages from the
7 Septs of the Heberian
Eoghanachta
/ Saer Thuatha, but the
Ui Liathain, Ui Cairpre
and
Ui Chonaill Gabra Septs refused
to agree, unless he first gained hostages from the Heberian
Dal gCais
/ Dalcassian Sept in
Thomond /
Northern Munster who always did their own
thing, and if he was to
be successful in receiving submission from them
also
they advised him that they too would then submit to him. The
In Deis Tuaiscirt
/ Dal gCais Sept having won
Co. Clare
as sword - land would not pay tribute for it to anyone so he approached
102.Lachtna,
the Heberian Dal gCais
Ui Turlough
King in Co. Clare
in Thomond, who was to be
so impressed by the committed religious piety he expressed that he agreed to
give him their allegiance, for which he
then waived any claim to tribute against Thomond. 102.Lachtna
was so taken by his piety that he even invited him to spend Lent among the
Heberian Dal
gCais Septs. The
reforming
members of the Celi De / Culdees who
100.Felim so solidly
supported, were antagonistic to the other religious
members of the older churches / Lucht na Sen - Chell, who from the
Celi De's
particular point of view were corrupt and decadent and because of their
strong reforming zeal the members of the Celi De were to become the future Bishops
(supervisors) to the Kings
of Cashel / Munster
during the 9th and 10th Centuries AD.
The
Vikings (Norsemen) now attacked and
partly destroyed the monastery at Nendrum, which was on an island in the
Strangford Loch / Loch Cuan in the north - east of
the Ulster Province,
which would be rebuilt
later on with a stone wall and tower attached, but their continuing raids
were to continue to fracture the unity of the Irish Septs and
especially their adherence to the Irish Brehon Law,
as it now all come down to the "survival of the fittest."
822 AD The Vikings
carried out more raids on
Co.
Cork
in Southern Munster
where they also set up a camp in that area, and it soon become
a Norsetown, and the
monks there at the monastery of St. Finnbarr were forced to try and gather up together
any of their remaining
members who had been scattered throughout there during these violent attacks.
823 AD The
Vikings were only seen as a nuisance, at this time, but in a sign of what was
really to come this year they defeated the
Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla Septs of
Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west
of Southern Leinster in a ferocious battle
and also the
tempo of their attacks was increasing, as the most important monastery in
Ireland
at Armagh
in the south - east of the Ulster
Province
was raided by them three times in a month, while the Danish Vikings also raided the Bangor
Monastery
situated on the coast in Co. Down
in the south - east of Ulster
killing many of
the scholars there, and they also destroyed the shrine there of
the founder, the Gaelic Milesian Irian monk St.
Comgall.
Despite these continuing early warning signs of things
to come,
100.Felim
mac Crimthainn the
Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil
23rd King
of Cashel / Munster in the south in
Mogha's Half had other fish to fry, and he instead went
after the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch
Ui Maine Sept in
the north - east
of the
Connacht Province
instead,
were he was defeated by
Cathal,
the son of Ailill,
who was the
Ui Maine
King
at Magh nAi (The Plain of Ai).
100.Felim mac Crimthainn and
Artri,
the son of Conor,
who was
the Abbot of Armagh now joined together in a
proclamation in the Munster Province
based on the teachings of St. Patrick known as the Lex Patricii
/ Cain Phatraic
/ The Law
of Patrick. This year he also burnt the
Gallen monastery
/ Galine na mBretan in Co. Offaly in
the north - west of Southern Leinster, which was
actually at this time in Leth Cuinn
/ Conn's
Half the territory of the Heremonian Dal
Cuinn
"southern" Ui Niaill Septs.
Cathal,
the son of
Ailill, the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine
King along with a
Vice - Abbot of
Clonmacnoise in
Co. Offaly in the north - west of
Southern
Leinster were drowned in the
River Shannon this year.
In an expression of what the
Clonmacnoise monastery
in
Co.
Offaly meant to all of the Heremonian Septs,
Flann,
the son of Flaherty / Flaithbertach from the
Ui Forga Sept, which was a Sept of the
Heremonian
Ui Conaire Muscraige
Tire
arranged for 7 churches to be constructed there. (The Ui
Forga territory was around Nenagh
in the north - west of Co. Tipperary just to the south of the
Northern Munster
border, and adjacent to Loch Derg),
824 AD The monastic community of
Co. Kildare in
Central
Southern Leinster plundered
Tallaght / Tamhlacht (The Grave), which was the Mother
church of the Celi De / Culdee
reformers situated in Co. Dublin in
the north - east of Southern Leinster.
The
Vikings invaded the Skellig Michael monastery off the coast of Co. Kerry again in
the south - west of the Munster
Province, and carried off Eitgal
the Abbot of Skellig Michael who was to eventually escape, but
was later to die of
hunger and thirst, and although
Cormac, the son of
Shally
/
Selbach was also
taken hostage he too had managed to escape.
Elann the son of Kelly
/
Ceallach who was then the Abbot of Skellig
Michael,
died this year
also.
The
Vikings
again
raided the Bangor Monastery in
Co. Down
on the south - east coast of the Ulster Province,
originally founded by St. Comgall, who
had been born across the loch at Black Head,
and as he had been well known for
his piety and learning this had induced multitudes of scholars to come to his
school there from many distant parts, with up to 3,000 students and teachers
there at one time and his evangelistic zeal was so inspiring, that he had encouraged
many of his disciples, such as St. Columbanus
and St. Gall, to embark from there in their coracles to spread the Gospel of
Christ all over Europe. Unfortunately this
particular time the Vikings carried out a total blood - bath
managing to kill all of the 3,000 who were studying there during their vicious attack,
who were naturally totally undefended
825 AD The Vikings
now plundered the St. Mullins monastery /
Tigh Moling
in Co. Carlow
in Southern Leinster.
100.Diarmait,
died, who was the leader of the
Celi De / Culdees, who had been the grandson of
98.Aed Roin the previous
Heremonian
Dal Fiatach 19th
King of Ulaid in the north - east
of the
Ulster Province and he had
previously founded the Hermitage known as Dysert Diarmata
at Castledermot in
Co. Kildare in Central
Southern
Leinster on land given
to him by 104.Bran
Ardchenn
who had been the Heremonian Cu Corb
Ui Dunlainge
21st King of Leinster and a disciple of St.
Comgall.
Artri,
the Abbot of Armagh
in
the south - east of the
Ulster Province,
who was a son of
Conor,
now pushed forward much harder The Law of Patrick / Lex
Patricii in the
Connacht Province to
try and bring about peace among the Septs there.
102.Mael
Bressail
the Gaelic Milesian
Irian Dal nAraidi
Ui Echach Cobo
26th King of
Ulaid, who had his territory in the east of the
Ulster Province, died,
who was a son of 101.Ailill, a previous
Ui Echach Cobo King, a grandson of
99.Mael Cothaig, one of the 2 sons of
98.Fergus the previous 16th King of Ulaid, who had been the
first one of the Sept to be a
King of Ulaid, emanating from
91.Eochy / Echu, who was one of the
3
sons of 90.Crond Ba Drui
and this was to see the
end of his
particular Irian Ui
Ecach Cobo male line to the Kingship).
101.Murray
/ Muireadach became the
Heremonian Dal Fiatach 27th King
of Ulaid in the east of the Ulster Province, who was one of the
2 sons
of 100.Eochy / Eochaidh the previous
24th King
of Ulaid, one of the
2 sons of
99.Fiachnae who had been the 22nd King
of Ulaid, descended
from 91.Murray / Muireadach Muinderg the
Heremonian Dal Fiatach 1st King
of Ulaid,
one of the 2 sons of 90.Forgg
mac Dallain.
826 AD
100.Felim
mac Crimthainn the
Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil
23rd
King of Cashel / Munster besieged
the "southern" Ui Niaill Ui
Fiachach kingdom of Delbna Bethra near Clonmacnoise in Co.
Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster, but
his protege,
Artri, the son of
Conor / Conchobar
still failed to
become the Abbot of
Armagh.
827 AD
The Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel
nEogain
Septs were
now totally dominant in the north of the Ulster Province, and were a real threat to the
overall authority of the
Gaelic Milesian
Irian
Ulaid
Septs who had their territory in the north - east of
Ulster and
101.Murray
/ Muireadach
the Heremonian Dal Fiatach 27th King
of
Ulaid
and
many from the surrounding Heremonian Dal Cuinn 3 Colla kingdom of
Orghialla / Airghialla (Oriel) kingdom were
slain in battle at Leth Carn
during the advance of the
Heremonian Dal
Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niall
Cenel nEogain Septs into
the territory there in Central
Ulster and Co. Armagh
in the south - east of
Ulster.
They were defeated by
*101.Niall
Caille the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain 23rd
King of Aileach there who was the
Tanaiste / heir apparent who had his territory also in
Ulster, who would later
become the
Gaelic Milesian 166th King of Tara / Ireland. The
conflict seemingly had come about due to the dispute
over who would be the Abbot
of
Armagh, but was in reality about who had the
overall authority over the various Septs in the kingdom of
Orghialla / Airghialla,
as the
Cenel nEoghain Sept had already
won over their Colla Da Crioch kinsmen, the
Airthir Sept, by supporting them against the
interests of their other kinsmen the
Colla da Crioch
Ui Cremthainne Sept. The
office of Abbot of
Armagh was to be given to the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Airthir Sept from now on.
Despite their loss of authority in Ulster the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn 3 Colla
kingdom of Orghialla / Airghialla
was still to continue on, but they would now be subject to the overall authority
of their
Heremonian Dal Cuinn kinsmen the "northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept
of
Aileach, who
now also had territory in Co. Tyrone
/ Tir Eogain
(The Land of
91.Eogan) where they were to hold their
future Inaugurations at Tulach Oc near Dungannon,
and be interred at Armagh Abbey in the south - east of Ulster.
The
Ui Nadsluaig Sept, who were
also a Sept of the Colla Da Crioch Ui Cremthainn
Sept, shifted further down to the south from out of Clogher and Clones
to Farney in southern Co. Monaghan, reducing the
Colla da Crioch Ui Meith Sept, the
Colla Mend Mugdorna Sept and
the
3 Colla Fir Ros Sept to
being subordinates. This was all to lead on to indirect control of the
Armagh
Abbey,
and vindicate Eogan
Mainistrech there as the recognized
Abbot of Armagh,
as the overall control of the
Armagh Abbey was possibly
now just as important as claiming the Kingship of Tara.
100.Felim
mac Crimthainn
the
Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil
23rd
King of Cashell /
Munster met with
*102.Connor
/ Conchobar the
Gaelic Milesian Heremonian
Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui Niaill Clann
Cholmain 165th King of Ireland
at the
monastery of Birr
near their Northern Munster
border, as the raids carried out by
100.Felim mac Crimthainn on the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui Niaill
Sept
were a threat to *102.Connor
and to Artri winning the position of
Abbot of Armagh.
The
Viking build up now
really began as
60 Viking ships appeared
this year on
the River Boyne in the north, and another on the River Liffey
in the south near
Dublin
in the north - east of
Southern Leinster.
At this time, Abner was
the
Abbot of
Killeigh
/ Cill Achaidh
(The Church of the Field) in Co. Offaly
in the north - west of Southern Leinster.
828 AD The
Heberian Fir Ardda Cianachta
Sept in the Barony
of Ferrard drove off Cummaseach the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui Niaill Siol nAedo Slaine
King
of Knowth / Northern Brega in
Northern Leinster who wanted to put his son,
Kenneth / Cinaed in there as
a Siol nAedo Slaine King. The
Colla
Ui Macc Uais Breg
Sept, the Colla Mend
Mugdorna Breg
Sept, the Heberian Cianachta Gailenga Breg Sept, and the
the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill
Fir Chul Breg Sept who were a separate Sept of the
Siol nAedo Slaine Tuath, were
all Septs in the north of Co. Meath
in the south - east of
Northern
Leinster. When the
Heremonian Fir Chul
Breg Sept were to eventually disappear into
oblivion, the
Heberian Cianachta Gailenga Breg Sept
were to take over their territory and
kingdom, and the Heberian Cianachta Luigni Mide
Sept were to take
over from their previous overlords the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"southern" Ui
Niaill
Cenel nArdgail
Sept in the south - east of Midhe / Meath.
The
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Siol nAedo Slaine Sept were
now to be further weakened by the ongoing opposition of their
own kinsmen the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill
Clann Cholmain
Sept who were from now on to become predominant there as the
Gaelic Milesian Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
"southern"
Ui Niaill
Kings of Ireland
instead.
98.Eladach
from the
Heberian
Eoghanacht Raithlind Sept, died,
who was the son of 98.Shally
/ Selbach, a son of
96.Clarenach, a son of
95.Coirpre
Riastrain, a son
of 94.Aed Osraige, one of the 2 sons of 93.Leary
/ Loegaire,
one of the 2 sons of 92.Criffan
/ Crimthann, a son
of 91.Eochy
/ Echu the direct male line ancestor of the
Ui Echach Muman Sept, a son of
90.Mac Cass the ancestor of Desmuma
in
Desmond / Southern Munster, who was another of the
7 sons of 89.Conall
Corc. 98.Eladach had
been killed in a battle
along with 170 others against the
Heremonian
Ui Conaire Muscraige Mittine
Sept in the Munster Province, and this gave
101.Felim
mac Crimthainn the
Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil
23rd
King of Cashel / Munster also a hold in
Desmond / Southern
Munster, as the
Eoghanacht Raithlind Sept, just
like the Eoghanacht Locha Lein
Sept,
had regarded themselves as separate Eoghanacht over - kingdoms.
Cairpre, the son of Cathal,
who was the Heremonian Cu
Corb Ui Cheinnselaig King
was joined by the warriors from Taghmon / Teach Munna
(Munna's House) in
Co. Wexford in the south - east of
Southern
Leinster, and they took the Vikings head
on and defeated them there.
829 AD
105.Murray
/ Muireadach the Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Cu Corb
Ui Dunlainge Ui Faelain 23rd
King of Leinster,
died,
who was one of the 2 sons of 104.Rory
/ Ruaidri the
previous 20th King of
Leinster, the son of
103.Faelan who had been the 16th King
of Leinster who is the direct male line ancestor of the Ui Faelain
Sept and his demise would see the Ui Faelain male line then
continue on through his brother, 105.Diarmait, who
would be the father of 105.Muirecan who would
become the 29th King of Leinster.
105.Kelly /
Ceallach became the Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire
Cu Corb Ui Muireadhaigh
24th King of Leinster, who was one of the
2 sons of
104.Bran Ardchenn the previous
21st King of Leinster, the son of
103.Murray
/ Muireadach who had been
the Ui Dunlainge
18th King of Leinster
who is the direct male line ancestor of the
Ui Muireadhaigh
Septs of
Southern Leinster.
In a further expression of
his
overall authority *102.Conor
/ Conchobar
the
Gaelic Milesian Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"southern"
Ui Niaill Clann
Cholmain 165th King of Ireland sent his forces from
Midhe
/ Meath against the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Septs in
the
Connacht Province and
defeated them.
The
Council of Paris this year decried the
harsh penalties
the Irish monks imposed on themselves and their hard way of life.
830 AD
101.Felim
mac Crimthainn the
Heberian
Eoghanacht Chaisil
23rd King of Cashel /
Munster
won a victory over the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui Briuin Sept of
Mag Seola, and
although it was a combined Heremonian
Dal
Cuinn Ui Briuin
and Ui Niaill
force and 102.Follaman,
the brother of
*102.Conor / Conchobar the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain
165th
King of Ireland,
was killed by the Septs from the Munster
Province during
the attack on
the
Connacht Province, and
101.Felim also burnt the
monastery at Fore / Foir.
From now on the
Vikings
were to be left totally alone by 100.Felim mac Crimthainn, and
feeling more confident were
to become totally officious carrying out further large scale attacks, with
Turgesius the
Viking Norwegian Prince becoming their overall leader in
Ireland where he made Armagh in Co. Armagh in
the south - east of the Ulster Province his main
seat and he took over the abbeys and the churches putting in his Abbots in
charge, with a Dane in charge of each region, with each
Irish family
to maintain one of his men there, and he forbid education and books, and the
manuscripts were burnt, and poets, historians and musicians were imprisoned or
driven off into the mountains and woods. Feeling real confident he sacked the ancient capital of
Tara in Co. Meath
in the south - east of Northern Leinster and destroyed the altars there,
while setting up his camp at the entrance of the Ulster
Gap (The Pass of Moyry) to now try and gain complete
control over all of Ireland.
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