971 - 980 AD
971 AD Dunchad, died, this year, who was the foster - son of Diarmait the Bishop of Ossory and Chief poet, in the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla kingdom of Ossory, in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster.
104.Niall the
Heremonian
Dal Fiatach 43rd King
of
Ulaid, who had his territory in the east of the
Ulster Province, died, who was one of the
3 sons of 103.Aed the previous
37th King
of Ulaid, which was to see the
end of his
particular Heremonian Dal Fiatach
aristocratic warrior male line to the Kingship
altogether, and a change of dynasty was now to occur there once again
and
972 AD
The Heremonian Ui Laoghaire
Ui Connla Sept in the kingdom of
Ossory in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster, defeated the re - emerging Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb
Ui
Cheinnselaig Sept in
a conflict there again over who had the sovereignty in that region.
104.Aed the
Gaelic Milesian
Irian Dal nAraidi 44th King
of
Ulaid, died, who was the son of
103.Lynch
/ Loingsech the previous
39th King of
Ulaid, and he would be the
last one of the aristocratic warrior Gaelic Milesian Irian Dal nAraidi Sept to be a
King of Ulaid, and a
permanent change of dynasty was now to occur there as the
Dal nAraidi Septs who had their territory in the north - east of the Ulster
Province
were also to be further weakened at this time, by
the increasing expansion of the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Thuirtri
Sept, who had previously had their territory around Loch Neagh and who were also
under pressure. Meanwhile, the
Heremonian Dal Fiatach Septs
who had their territory in Co. Down had also
expanded their territory further north into
the south of the territory
of the Dal nAraidi
Septs, and this all meant that the
Kingship of Ulaid
was from now on to be the
exclusive right of the Heremonian Dal Fiatach
Septs descended from 90.Forgg
mac Dallain.
973
AD
109.Conor / Conchobar O Connor, the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair 44th King of Connacht, died, this year, who had been a son of 108.Teague / Tadhg O Connor the previous 42nd King of Connacht, the son of 107.Cathal mac Connor the 41st King of Connacht and 109.Cono O Connor's son, 110.Cathal O Connor would eventually become the 46th King of Connacht.
Another, 108.Cathal O Connor now became the new Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray 45th King of Connacht, who was a son of 107.Teague / Tadhg O Connor the previous 40th King of Connacht, who was also one of the 4 sons of 106.Conor / Conchobar the previous 38th King of Connacht who is the direct male line ancestor of the Ui Conchobhair Sept in the Connacht Province, but he too was to die this year, which brought a quick end to his particular Ui Conchobair male line to the Kingships.
110.Cathal O Connor now became the new Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh Ui Conchobair 46th King of Connacht, who was another son of 109.Conor / Conchobar O Connor the previous 44th King of Connacht, the son of 108.Teague / Tadhg O Connor who had been the 42nd King of Connacht.
974 AD Donough / Donnchad, died this year, who was the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla King of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster, the son of Kelly / Ceallach,
107.Donnell
/ Domhnall the
Heremonian
Cu Corb
53rd Ui Cheinnselaig King,
died this year, who
was a son of 106.Kelly / Ceallach the previous
50th Ui Cheinnselaig KIng
whose father had been 105.Kenneth
/ Cinaed
who had been
the 48th Ui Cheinnselaig
KIng and his son,108.Diarmait would become
the father of
109.Donough / Donnchad
Mael na mBo, who was to then be the father of
110.Donnell / Domhnall
Remar and
110.Diarmait mac Mael
na mBo - of the Many Cattle who would become the
51st King of
975 AD Kenneth O Hartigan / Cinaith Ua hArtagain the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niall Siol nAedo Slaine whowas the chief poet of Leth Cuinn and Ireland, died and Uard mac Coise took up the position.
975 - 976 AD. The Viking settlement in Limerick, in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province, had once again came under the control of Ivor the Danish Viking King, who had been set up on the islands and he had also returned to the mainland, and was naturally hostile to the Heberian Dal gCais Septs for his previous defeats and his allies, 107.Donovan from the Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Fidhgheinte Cenel Cairbre Sept, who was married to Ivor's daughter, and 109.Molloy / Maelmuad the Heberian Ui Echach Muman Cenel nAeda Cenel mBecce Tanaiste / heir apparent who was disgruntled over losing the Kingship of Munster to the Dal gCais Sept was by now desperate to replace 105.Mahon the 39th King of Cashell / Munster, 105.Mahon had been the first from the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough Sept, descended from 85.Cormac Cass to become a Heberian King of Cashel / Munster and 109.Molloy decided to carry out treachery and to this end he had the Bishop of Cork and the clergy arrange a meeting between these 3 Milesian Gaelic leaders to settle their dispute at 107.Donovan's residence in Co. Kerry. 105.Mahon arrived with a contingent of only 12 of his nobles, while 109.Molloy and 107.Donovan arrived with many more of their followers, and 105.Mahon was seized there in 107.O Donovan's territory and taken to Co. Cork where he was killed at what is now Leacht Mahon near Macroom by Ivor the Viking King of Limerick and his 2 Heberian Eoghanacht allies. The 2 Eoghanacht Chiefs, were then cursed by the clergy of the Munster Province for their involvement in this foul deed and the Viking Danes were then invited back into the Munster Province by 107.Donovan and 109.Molloy, and they began to overrun the Province once more.
105.Mahon was to become the direct male line ancestor of many of the O Bolands of Co. Clare, O Caseys, O Spillane / O Splaine / O Spellane, the Ui hAmhrachain Sept and the Ui Sidhachachain Septs, the Mac Inerneys the Kings of Corca Muirceadha / Conaill Uachtrach, the Ui Conghalaigh Sept, and the O Twomeys of Co. Cork and Co. Kerry in Southern Munster and the O Toomeys of Co. Limerick.
109.Molloy
/
Mael Muad,
became
the new Eoghanacht Raithlind
40th King of Cashel /
Munster, whose male line had
produced only one King
of Munster
380 years previously, 14
generations ago in
95.Felim
/ Feidlimid who had been the
8a King
of Cashel / Munster, who had died
in 593 AD.
109.Molloy was a son of 108.Bran, a son of
107.Cian, a son of
106.Spelan, a son 105.Cathnia, a son of
104.Conor / Conchobar, a son of
103.Cu Chongelt, a son of
102.Ailill Broga, a son of 101.Connath, a
son of 100.Artgal, a son of
99.Fer De Lethe, a son of
98.Becc (Cenel mBecce). He in
turn was a son of
97.Fergus, a son of 96.Kennelly
/ Cenn
Faelad, the son of 95.Felim
/ Fedelmid who had been the
8a King of Cashel / Munster, a son of 94.Tierney
/ Tigernach, the son
of 93.Aed Ualgarb
(Cenel nAeda), who had been one of the 2
sons
of 92.Criffan /
Crimthann, a son of 91.Eochy
/ Echu (Ui Ecach Muman), a son of
90.mac Cass
(Desmuma),
one of the 7 sons of
89.Conal
Corc
the
1st Eoghanacht Chaisil King of Cashel / Munster),
who had originally set up on the Rock of Cashel, descended from
85.Eoghan
Mor (Eoghanachta)
and
84.Ailill
Oluimm the
1st King
of Munster.
With the death of
105.Mahon, his younger brother,
*105.Brian
(Ui mBriain) became the Dalcassian
King
of Northern Munster /
Thomond
who had his fortress at
Killaloe still in their Ui Bloid Ui Turlough
territory in
Co. Clare in the north - west of the
Munster Province, who would also eventually become the
41st King of Cashell / Munster and the 175th High King of Ireland.
He was to marry 4 times: Firstly to
Mor, a
daughter of Flann O Hyne the
Prince of the Dal Cuinn
southern Ui Fiachrach Aidhne Sept,
who had their territory in
Co. Galway in the south of the
Connacht Province adjacent to
Co. Clare, who bore him 3 sons, including
106.Murrough /
Murchadh, who was to be killed in 1014 AD in
the Battle of Clontarf against the Vikings, along with his own son,
107,Turlough.
Secondly
he married Eachraidh, a daughter of
Ailill / Oilioll Fionn, who produced 2 sons,
106.Teague
/ Tadhg,
whose
Ui mBriain male line would persist to the end,
and 106.Donnell who was also
killed later on by the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin
Siol Muireadhaigh
Ui Conchobair Sept in a
conflict over sovereignty. Thirdly he married
110.Gormflaith
/
Kormloda the sister of 110.Mael Morda, who was by
then to be the Heremonian Cu
Corb
Ui Dunlainge
Ui Faelain
45th King of Leinster.
She had
previously been the wife of Aulaf / Olaf the late Danish Christian Viking King of Dublin and had produced a son,
Sitric,
who had succeeded his father there. She would then marry
*107.Malachy 11 / Mael Sechlainn the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
southern Ui Niall
Clann Cholmain
106th King of Tara / Ireland
to unify the Septs in the whole of the
Leinster Province, but he could not put up with her
devious ways. *105.Brian was to then marry her
to unify Mogha's Half
(Southern Leinster and the Munster Province)
and she was to produce *106.Donough, who was to become the
42nd King of Cashel / Munster, and
106.Sadbh, a daughter who was to marry 110.Cian,
the son of 109.Molloy
/ Mael Muad the previous
Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Raithlind40th
King of Cashel / Munster and produce
111.Mahon the
direct male line ancestor of all of the O Mahony Septs.
In the recorded
History of the Vikings, *105.Brian
Boru - of the Tributes, was
to be greatly respected, as it was recorded that he had great patience, tempered with
mercy and justice, and forgave his enemies 3 times, and he was remembered
by them as stout,
able, valiant, fierce, magnificent, hospitable, munificent, strong, lively and
friendly.
977
AD
*105.Brian
(Ui mBriain) who was now the
Heberian
Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough
King of Northern Munster
/ Thomond, finally
killed Ivor
the Danish Viking King of Limerick in battle on Coney Island
in Limerick, and then cleared out all of his
followers systematically, after conducting a rapid series off battles and the
Heberian Eoghanacht leaders
109.Molloy / Mael Muad
and
Donovan panicked, and sent for assistance also
from Harold the Viking Dane Chieftain, who now styled himself the
Viking King of Munster. Although he put together a large
force to take on *105.Brian, during the ferocious battle that followed they were all killed by the
Heberian Dal gCais
warriors under the leadership of
*105.Brian's teenage son,
106.Murrogh
/ Murchadh and *105.Brian then
controlled the whole of the Munster
Province from his palace at Kincora in Co. Clare
in the north - west of
Northern
Munster / Thomond.
A Mint
was established in Dublin his year.
106.Murtough / Muirchertach O Niall the joint heir - apparent / Tanaiste of Ireland, and 106.Congalach, two of the sons of *105.Donnell Ard Macha O Niall who was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain 34th / 37th King of Aileach and Gaelic Milesian 173rd King of Ireland, were killed in battle this year against Anlaimh the Viking King of Dublin, who was a son of Sitric. 106.Murtough O Niall was to become the father of 107.Flaherty / Flaithbertach an Trostain - of the Pilgrim's Staff O Niall who was also born this year who would himself become the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain 40th King of Aileach from 1004 AD until 1030 AD, when he was to go on a pilgrimage to Rome, and then again the 42nd King of Aileach from 1033 AD - 1036 AD after returning and the death of his own son, 105.Aedh Athlaman - the Handy O Niall who was to be killed in 1033 AD. 107.Flaherty an Trostain - of the Pilgrim's Staff's male line would become the continuing direct aristocratic warrior male line for all of the O Nialls / O Neills in the Ulster Province who are descended initially from his ancestor, *103.Niall Glun Dubh - of the Black Knee who had been the previous Gaelic Milesian 170th King of Ireland who had previously been killed in battle against the Vikings of Dublin in 919 AD.
Gilla Coluim O Cannon / Ua Canannain from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill Sept in Tyrconnell / Tir Conaill in the north - west of the Ulster Province had also been slain this year by *105.Donnell Ard Macha O Niaill the Gaeic Milesian 174th King of Ireland.
978
AD
*105.Brian became the
Heberian Dalcassian
Ui Bloid Ui Turlough
41st King of Cashel / Munster when he was inaugurated on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary
in the north - east of the Munster Province,
and he then fortified the towns in Munster,
and laid waste to the Viking settlements, and
also drove them out of
the Shannon Islands, and from the south - west of Co. Clare
in the north - west of Munster,
and began to further encourage the use of Irish surnames.
*105.Donnell / Domhnall Ard Macha - of Armagh O Niall the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain 34th / 37th King of Aileach and Gaelic Milesian 173rd King of Ireland, died this year, who had been a son of 104.Moriarty / Murtough / Muirchertach na gCochall gCraicinn - of the Leather Cloaks, the previous heir apparent / Tanaiste and 33rd King of Aileach, who had previously been slain in 943 AD who had been a son of *103.Niall - of the Black Knee the 29th / 30th King of Aileach and Gaelic Milesian 170th King of Ireland, the direct male line ancestor of the O Nialls / O Neills of Ulster Province who had also been salin in 919 AD. *105,Donnell Ard Macha O Niall was the father of the 106.Murtough / Muirchertach O Niall who had predeceased him in 977 AD, who was the father of 107.Flaherty / Flaithbertach an Trostain - of the Pilgrim's Staff O Niall who was to be the future 40th / 42nd King of Aileach who would be the one to continue on the O Niall aristocratic warrior male in Ulster after his death in 1036 AD. *105.Donnell Ard Macha O Niall's other son, 106.Murray / Muireadach O Niall would become the father of 107.Lochlainn, who may have / or not been, the father of 108.Ardgar mac Lochlainn who would become the 44th King of Aileach who would die in 1064 AD as the father of *109.Donnell / Domhnall O Lochlainn the future 51st King of Aileach and Gaelic MIlesian 179th King of Ireland, who would die in 1121 AD, who in turn was to be the father of 110.Niall O Lochlainn who was to die in 1129 AD, the father of *111.Murtough Mac Loughlin / Lochlainn who would become the 55th / 57th King of Aileach and Gaelic Milesian 182nd King of Ireland who would die in 1166 AD.
In the
Highlands of Scotland
another of
105.Donnell Ard Macha
- of Armagh O Niall's sons,
108.Aedh -
the Splendid, was also to be the father of
109.Gillachrist (Devotee of Christ) in the
12th Century AD whose son, 110.Gillascop
/
Giollaesbuig
(Devotee of the Bishop)
would hold territory at Glassary in Scotland
in 1240 AD, whose heiress was to become the ancestor of the Scymgeours of Dudhope
and
Glassary and the Mac Corquodales of Phantelane
there. 109.Gillachrist's other son,
110.Gillapatrick (Devotee of Patrick) in and around 1238
AD was to be the
father of 110.Lachlan Mor, who was to become the ancestor of the
Mac Lachlans of
Strathlachlan.
979 - 1002 AD *107.Malachy 11 / Mael Sechnaill (Devotee of St. Sechnaill) the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain 40th King of Meath was to become the Gaelic Milesian 174th High King of Ireland, when he would then be deposed by *105.Brian Boru - of the Tributes who would then become the Gaelic Milesian Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough 175th High King of Ireland until he was to be also killed in 1014 AD in the Battle of Clontarf against the Vikings and their Southern Leinster allies in Dublin. 107.Malachy 11 would then become the King of Ireland once again until his death in 1022 AD. *107.Malachy 11 was a son of 106.Donnell / Domhnall the previous "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain 37th King of Meath who had died in 952 AD, the son of *105.Donough / Donnchad Donn the previous 32nd King of Meath and Gaelic Milesian 171st King of Ireland who had died in 942 AD. He in turn was the son of *104.Flann Sinna the 29th King of Meath and Gaelic Milesian 169th King of Ireland who had died in 914 AD, the son of *103.Malachy 1st / Mael Sechnaill the 26th King of Meath and Gaelic Milesian 167th High King of Ireland who had died in 860 AD. During his reign, *107.Malachy 11 was able to defeat the nearby Dublin Vikings on many occasions, although they also had other Norse allies from the Hebrides Islands who were allied with them.
Olaf / Aulaf
Cuaran the Viking Danish Christian King of
Dublin, who had
married 110.Gormlaith / Kormloda the
Leinster Princess, who was a sister to
110.Mael
Morda the
Heremonian Cu
Corb
Ui Dunlainge Ui Faelain 45th
King of Leinster, now
retired to the Holy Island / Iona of
94.St. Columbcille, and he was to die there