Eoghanachta of Munster - 22A.
During the reign of 100.Felim mac Crimthainn the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil 23rd King of Cashel / Munster he was to send the wrong message to the Vikings as he basically left the way clear in the south - west and to the east of Southern Ireland contenting himself instead with actually doing what they also did.
He also continued to plunder a selection of monasteries that he and the Celi De considered needed reforming and among these were Clonfert in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, Clonmacnoise and Gallen in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster, Durrow in Co. Laois in the mid - west of Southern Leinster, and Kildare in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster.
He was to capture and ill - treat the Abbot of Armagh in the north in the south - east of the Ulster Province, which was the main monastery in Ireland especially for the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill Septs who were his other nemesis. He also allowed the Abbot of Cork in Southern Munster to die in confinement at Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of Munster Province for which St. Ciaran was to strike him down. (He was to be the first of the Irish Kings to carry on like this).
From his time on, those Irish Septs who were continually under attack by the Vikings and were able to survive their raids in the south, found that they were only to be protected by their local Irish Chiefs / Sub - Kings and this meant that there individual Irish Family territories became a storage place for valuables, and therefore also fair game for their enemies and any one else who might attack them, especially later on in the 11th Century AD.
With his particular mind set 100.Felim mac Crimthann was to lose a great opportunity for the Irish Septs / Family branches in the south of Ireland to reduce the Viking advances in the bud, which was to be the worst aspect of the legacy that he was to leave behind and while acting quite out of character to the other Irish Kings during his Kingship he laid the foundation for even greater troubles ahead.
100.Felim mac Crimthainn
even sought to take hostages from the Saer - Thuatha of Munster Province that was made up of the combined 7 Irish Septs of his kinsmen the Heberian Eoghanachta to further entrench his high overall status with the rest of the Munster Septs / Families. The Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Liathain Sept the Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Choirpri Sept and the Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Chonaill Gabra Sept refused to comply unless he first gained hostages from the Heberian Dal gCais Sept in their kingdom of Thomond / Northern Munster based in Co. Clare / Southern Connacht in the north - west of Munster who always did their own thing. (The In Deis Tuaiscirt / Dal gCais Sept having won the territory initially in Co. Clare as sword - land from the Fir Bolg Septs there and the 3 Connachta Septs would not pay tribute for it.) These 3 previously mentioned Heberian Eoghanacht Septs advised him that if he succeeded in receiving subjection from the Dalcassians they too would submit to him as the overall Heberian Eoghanacht King of Cashel / Munster. 102.Lachtna who was then the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough leader was so impressed by his outward piety and religious conviction that he agreed to give him their allegiance and in return he waived any claim to "tribute" / borumha against Thomond / North Munster, in fact 102.Lachtna was so convinced of his committed religious outlook that he even went as far as inviting him to spend Lent among the Dal gCais Septs in Co. Clare.The Celi De who 100.Felim mac Crimthainn so solidly supported were hostile to the other religious members of the older churches / Lucht na Sen - Chell, who they saw as corrupt and decadent, and because of their on going commitment to such a reforming religious zeal the Celi De were also to become the Bishops to the future Heberian Eoghanacht Kings of Cashel / Munster during the 9th and 10th Century AD.
The Vikings now began raids that were concentrated specifically on the Cork region in Co. Cork in Southern Munster attacking the Abbey of St. Finnbarr, and also began setting themselves up there in that area, as it all seemed so easy with no real resistance in that region.
822 AD. the Vikings continued to raid the Cork area in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, and it soon became known as Norsetown and the devotees of St. Finnbarr's monastery there who were left to their own devices tried desperately to gather together what was by then the remains of their scattered church.
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