921 - 930 AD 

921 AD  Ranald / Ronald  who was the Viking King along the coast of Dublin in Southern Leinster and Waterford on the south - east of the coast in the Munster Province, died this year.

    Although Sitric the Viking King of Dublin had now turned his attention mostly towards York in Albion / England instead of Ireland, other Vikings were to sack Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province, again. 

921 AD - 930 AD A Cross, that would play a devastating part in the future history of Ireland for members of the the United Irishmen who were to be against English oppression in Ireland in the late 18th Century AD, was constructed this year in Ceanannus Mor / Kells in the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill kingdom of Midhe in Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster.

922 AD Flaherty / Flaithbertach mac Inmainen from the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Conaire Muscraige Sept who had been previously installed as the 32nd King of Cashel / Munster, died, this year, and he would be the first and the last from any of the Heremonian Septs to be a King of Cashel / Munster as his election in the first place from a totally different Sept after all of the previous generations of Heberian leadership had shown the depths to which the Heberian Eoghanacht Septs aristocratic warrior class had finally come to under the intensive Viking assaults and the Heberian Eoghanachta Septs were now desperate for a real aristocratic warrior Heberian leader to come forward.

922 - 934 AD 105.Lorcan mac Condligain was to be the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil 33rd King of Cashel / Munster  who was a son of 104.Condligan, a son of 103.Corcran, a son of 102.Corcc, a son of 101.Artgal, a son of 100.Donnell / Domhnall, the son of 99.Conall the direct aristocratic warrior male line ancestor of the Eoghanacht Cenel Conaill in the Munster Province, the son of 98.Snedgus, one of the 2 sons of 95.Colgan / Colgu the previous 15th King of Cashel / Munster, one of the 2 sons of 95.Failbhe Fland who had been the 11th King of Cashel / Munster descended from 92.Felim / Fedelmid the 4a King of Cashel Munster, a son of 91.Angus / Oengus mac Nad Froich, a son of 90.Nad Froich, one of the 7 sons of 89.Conall Corc (Chaisil) descended from 85.Eoghan Mor (Eoghanachta) and 84.Ailill Oluimm the Heberian 1st King of Munster.

      The Vikings establish another permanent settlement on an island on the east bank of the River Shannon above the river mouth that is now known as Limerick in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province, as their fleet of ships now dominated the Lower River Shannon region and Abel who was a scribe was slain by them this year.

923 AD Murray / Muireadach, who had been the second one of that name, who was the Abbot of Monasterboice Abbey in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster, died and a High Cross was then erected there to commemorate his memory.

924 / 925 AD February 7th: Colman mac Ailill the Abbot of Clonmacnoise in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster, died, who had been a faithful servant of *101.Flann Sinna the previous Gaelic Milesian Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain 169th King of Ireland and both had previously constructed the Great Church were he was to be interred.

      104.Dubgall the Heremonian Dal Fiatach 38th King of Ulaid, died,, who had his territory in the south - east of the Ulster Province, and who was one of the 3 sons of 103.Aed the previous Dal Fiatach 37th King of Ulaid, and of his 2 brothers, 104.Matudan was to be the future 41st King of Ulaid who would be the one to carry their Heremonian Dal Fiatach aristocratic warrior male line forward, while their other brother, 104.Niall would later on become the 43rd King of Ulaid.

    103.Lynch / Loingsech the Gaelic Milesian Irian Dal nAraidi 33rd King became the new Irian 39th King of Ulaid who had his territory in the north - east of the Ulster Province, who was a son of 102.Kennedy / Cenn Etig the previous 36a King of Ulaid, who was descended from 95.Eochy / Eochaidh Iarlaithe the Dal nAraidi 10th King, one of the 2 sons of 95.Fiachnae Lurgan the 9th King of Ulaid, descended from *62.Rory Mor who had been the Gaelic Milesian 86th King of Tara / Erinn (Clann na Rory) and 37.Ir (Irians).

    107.Cathal O Connor the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair 41st King of Connacht, died, this year, who had been one of the 4 sons of 106.Conor / Conchobar the previous 38th King of Connacht (Ui Conchobair) and his brother, 107.Aed O Connor had been the 39th King of Connacht, while another brother, 107.Mael Cluiche O Connor had died in 913 AD, and another 107.Teague / Tadhg O Connor had been the 40th King of Connacht before him and 107.Cathal O Connor was to be the one who would continue their Ui Conchobair aristocratic warrior male line forward to continue on to the O Connor Kings of Ireland through his son; 108.Teague / Tadhg O Connor who now became the Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh Ui Conchobair 42nd King of Connacht.

926 AD 104.Murtough / Muirchertach mac Niaill the 33rd King of Ailech in Co. Tyrone / Tir Eogain (The Land of 91.Eogan) was the son of *103.Niall - of the Black Knee the previous Gaelic Milesian 170th King of Ireland from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain and he was also the heir apparent / Tanaiste / Prince, and as such he was to take his position in the scheme of things very seriously and he set about systematically defeating the Viking Danes at Carlingford / Loch Cuan in the Ulster Province, and also at their settlement at Annagassan in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster. 

927 AD In Normandy, Rollo who was to be the Scandinavian Viking founder of the Anglo - Norman dynasties in Normandy, France and England who was also now in reality the 1st Duke of Normandy, died this year,

     Sitric / Sigtrygg Caoch - of the Silkbeard, who had ruled as the Viking King of  Dublin, and of York in Albion / England, who had been a son of Brogus the previous Viking King of Dublin and York, who had died as a monk, died this year.

928 AD 107.Dermot mac Carroll / Cerbaill the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla King of Ossory / Co. Kilkenny, died, who was a son of 106.Carroll / Cerball the previous standout King of Ossory and 108.Cuilen mac Kelly / mac Cellaig, who was a son of his brother, 107.Kelly / Ceallach who had also been a previous King of Ossory, became the new Heremonian Ui Connla King of Ossory until 933 AD, who had his territory in the south - west of Southern Leinster,

      Godfrey who was now the Viking King in Ireland plundered the Dunmore Caves in the south - west of Southern Leinster in the kingdom of Ossory this year and at least 1,000 people were killed.

929 AD Godfrey the Viking King in Ireland invaded the Heremonian Ui Connla kingdom of Ossory / Co. Kilkenny, again, to expel the grandson of Imhar Magh Roinne.

929 AD Both the Abbot of Bangor monastery in Co. Down in the south - east of the Ulster Province, and  the Abbot of Terryglass / Tir Dha Ghlas (The Land of Two Streams) monastery in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, died while in Rome this year.

930 AD 104.Kennedy / Ceann Eidigh, who was a son of 103.Larkin / Lorcan / Fingin the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough Chief of Thomond / Northern Munster, whose territory was based in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, was related to St. Munchin, and St. Flannan the Bishop of Killaloe there and their ancestor, 98.Turlough who is the direct aristocratic warrior male line ancestor of the Ui Turlough Sept had been the father of St. Flannan, and had himself become a monk at the Lismore monastery in Co. Waterford in the south - east of Munster and in the future all of 104.Kennedy's aristocratic warrior sons, especially 105.Mahon and *105.Brian Boru - of the Tributes were to play a major role in resistance to the Vikings.

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