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                                                                                                                                                                           Eoghanachta of Munster - 20A. 

            The Heberian Eoghanacht Locha Lein Septs descending from 90.Coirpre Luchra the original ancestor of the Iar Mumu, one of the 7 sons of 89.Conall Corc the 1st King of Cashel / Munster who is the aristocratic warrior ancestor of all of the Chaisil Septs were by now on the decline and their over - kingdom of Iar Mumu / West Munster was removed from subjection and their territory that had previously been larger then Co. Kerry and the west of Co. Cork also enveloped the region from Corcomroe / Corcom Ruadh in the north - west of Co. Clare / Southern Connacht also taking in the Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Fidgeinti Septs and their subject Septs in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province.

          The over lordship of the Heberian Eoghanacht Raithlind Septs was also disintegrating as their subject Septs in the west switched their allegiance to the more predominant Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Kings of Cashel / Munster who were set up in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of Munster.

        Also the Heberian In Deis Tuaiscirt / Dal gCais / Dalcassian Sept were not included, and their hold on their kingdom of Thomond / Northern Munster, based mainly on Co. Clare in the north - west of Munster / Southern Connacht became even greater by the weakening now of the Eoghanacht Locha Lein Septs' grip on Co. Limerick and the west of Co. Clare.

      Adding to all of this was also the fact that during the 8th Century AD the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn 3 Connachta kingdom that was previously based on the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach Aidne Septs in the south of Connacht Province, of which Co. Clare was once a part of, were also now in decline.

 

798 AD. the Scandinavian Vikings burnt the monastery on St. Patrick's Island / Inis Phadraig off the coast of Dublin in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster.

 

800 AD. During the first half of this Century most of the round towers were built coinciding with the pressure of the  Viking assaults.

       The kingdom of Ulaid / Ulster in the north - east of the Ulster Province, Mumu / Munster and Laighin / Leinster, which were 3 out of the 4 Irish Provinces were to take on a Norse element adding the word Tir (Land of) to their original Gaelic names.

 

802 AD From now on the monastery on the island of Iona / Holy Island was to be destroyed 3 times by the Viking Norsemen who were mainly after gold and jewels, and they also carried out 14 raids on the monastery at Kildare in Central Southern Leinster as the fine books and manuscripts where to have no value to the Vikings and were discarded by being "drowned" in the waters as they fled the scene, but some were to somehow survive these continual onslaughts. 

 

803 AD.  100.Aed Allen mac Coirpri from the Heberian Eoghanacht Locha Lein Sept was killed in a battle between the Heberian Eoghanachta Septs and the Heberian Cianachta Ciarraige Septs in the Connacht Province. He had been brother a to 100.Con Cu Chongelt the Heberian Eoghanacht Locha Lein King in Iar Muman / West Munster who had died in 791 AD.

 

806 AD. The Vikings once again raid the undefended spiritual island of Iona, situated in the north in the Irish Sea between Ireland and Scotland, this time killing 68 of the unguarded monks.

 

807 AD. Internal religious disputes also now began occurring when the monastic community in Co. Cork in Southern Munster was slaughtered in a battle with the monastic community from the north at Clonfert in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht.

 

  The monks on Iona were, by now, due to the massive previous slaughter carried out by the Vikings, were to be driven out temporarily from there, and they went onto Kells / Ceanannus Mor in Co. Meath in the south - east of Southern Leinster where they built an Oratory to St. Columba / St. Columbcille (The Dove of Peace).

          The Book of Kells, carried by them to Kells which is designated "The Most Beautiful Book in the World" was made up of 344 pages that included the Gospels in Latin, together with local land covenants and was originally encased in a golden shrine, until it was to be eventually stolen and found buried a few weeks later with the golden cover missing, but the book itself still exists and can be viewed at the Trinity College in Dublin.

 

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