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Eoghanachta of Munster - 29A.
897 AD. 103.Finguine Cenn nGecan the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil 30th King of Cashel / Munster still had his fortress on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of th Munster Province where he was to be the 27th Munster King who did so there since the time of 91.Aengus / Oengus mac Nad Froich the 3rd King of Cashel / Munster and his brother, 91.Aillil had been baptized there by St. Patrick.
The Stowe Missal, a Mass Book, was written in this Century at the Lorrha monastery in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, which is still in existence and can be seen at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, while the metal Shrine that originally surrounded it can be viewed at the National Museum also in Dublin.
900 AD. Up until this period in time the Irish Brehon lawyers in Ireland had produced 18 Law Books of Irish Brehon Laws.
02 AD. 103.Finguine Cenn nGecan the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil 30th King of Cashel / Munster, died this year, which also brought to an end his particular aristocratic warrior Chaisil male line from 96.Colgan / Colgu the previous 15th King of Cashel / Munster through 95.Failbhe Fland who had been the 11th King of Cashel / Munster to the Munster Kingship.
102.Cormac mac Cuilennain
became the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil 31st King of Cashel / Munster who was a very pious individual and historian and really did not want this position due to his strong religious convictions, but was pressured into accepting it and he too also tried to restrain the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill Septs in the north in Conn's Half / Leath Cuinn endeavouring also to stop them from continuing to gain the total High Kingship of Ireland, which still did not exist under the tenants of the Irish Brehon Law. To further highlight the position that the the Heberian Eoghanachta Septs now found themselves in as to the Kingship of Cashel / Munster, 102.Cormac mac Cuilennain was not from one of the previous main Eoghanacht dynasties that had reigned up until this time, although he was a Chaisil King and Flaherty / Flaithbertach mac Inmainen who was from the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Conaire Muscraige Sept who were descended from *88.Conaire 11 who had been the 111th King of Tara / Ireland, and who was also the Abbot of Inis Cathaig was his back up, and was to follow after him, as a Heremonian King of Cashel / Munster, the first ever and the last Heremonian, and he was to be the last Irish King to be a cleric. (It was only during the Viking period that the Irish Kingships and religion became so involved and this was only in Mogha's Half / Leath Mogha).The Heberian Eoghanacht direct aristocratic warrior male line to 102.Cormac mac Cuilennain from 89.Conall Corc the original Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil 1st King of Cashel / Munster who was himself 5 generations from 85.Eoghan Mor the aristocratic warrior ancestor of all of the Eoghanachta was through another of the 4 sons of 91.Angus / Oengus mac Nad Froich the 3rd King of Cashel / Munster namely, 92.Bressal who had never left a Munster King at any stage, and 102.Cormac mac Cuilennain was 11 generations back to him, and after him they would never leave another. 102.Cormac mac Cuilennain because of his great piety and as the Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, was especially selected to lead the Eoghanachta through these troubled times that they were by now experiencing due to the constant Viking disruptions. Because of his particular overall statesman like attitude to life 102.Cormac mac Cuilennain was to inform 103.Lorcan the Heberian Dal gCais Prince of the Heberian Dalcassians in Thomond / Northern Munster that they both traced to 84.Ailill / Oilioll Oluimm the 1st Heberian King of Munster who had been the son of 83.Mogha / Mug Nuadat the original Heberian King of Mogha's Half in the south of Ireland and of the original decree that had been set down by 84.Ailill Oluimm that their Celtic Gaelic Milesian Heberian kingdom in Munster Province was to be alternated between the descendants of his 2 older sons, 85.Eoghan Mor who became the aristocratic warrior ancestor of the Eoghanachta and 85.Cormac Cass the aristocratic warrior ancestor of the Dal gCais. He also advised him that previously 7 Heberian Kings from the direct male line of 85.Cormac Cass the ancestor of the Dal gCais had been Kings of Munster in their own right. 103.Lorcan then informed his son, 104.Kennedy and a new leading role then opened up for the Dal gCais Septs in the Munster Province.
The Viking Norse still under pressure from the Irish Kings now withdrew, once again, from Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster with the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill Septs still in the overall charge of Ireland with the most important churches including Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province associated with the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill and giving advice, while also supporting and promoting the overall interests of the Heremonian Ui Niaill Septs.
905 AD. 102.Cormac Mac Cuilennain the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil 30th King of Cashel / Munster, who had his fortress also on the Rock of Cashel, was a person of outstanding ability, who was also a Bishop (supervisor) of the Catholic Church in Ireland and was highly skilled in Irish literature, Latin, Greek, Welsh, Anglo - Saxon and the Norse languages, but unfortunately it was this year that the Vikings overran the Rock of Cashel, so the Irish National Assemblies then had to be held at Glanworth in Co. Cork in Southern Munster.
907 AD. 102.Cormac mac Cuilennain the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil 30th King of Cashel / Munster put a fleet on the River Shannon to besiege the Midlands / Midhe / Meath / Northern Leinster and also the Connacht Province were he took hostages, and was able to defeat the Heremonian Ui Niaill forces there.
908 AD. Now due to a continuing lack of overall leadership and the constant struggle among the Irish Chiefs to win out, there was a great amount of infighting occurring once again among the Irish Septs who were by now always trying to find their actual place in the scheme of things and naturally the Vikings took this opportunity to gain back all of the town areas they had previously lost in Ireland with the worst of it being that it allowed Sitric to regain Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster, which not only gave the Vikings greater access and some further control over the Midlands / Northern Leinster, and also over the south of Ireland in Mogha's Half. Although he was against it, 102.Cormac Mac Cuilennain the 30th King of Cashel / Munster with his combined Heberian aristocratic warriors was forced to invade Southern Leinster to try and regain some semblance of over lordship in Mogha's Half where he was to be defeated and killed there at Belach Mugna in Co. Carlow in Southern Leinster near Leighlin Bridge by the combined forces of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill and the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Septs of Southern Leinster, which finally totally devastated the Heberian Eoghanachta of Cashel. *104.Flann Sinna who was now the Gaelic Milesian Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain 169th King of Ireland had already submitted his own kinsman in the west who were led by 104.Cathal mac Connor the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin 41st King of Connacht and the overall Heremonian Ui Niaill supremacy over Ireland was now once again confirmed.
102.Cormac mac Cuilennain had previously also compiled the historical book known as the "Saltair of Cashel," which still existed up until 1454 AD, but it is now also lost.
Because of the decline of the fortunes and strength of the Heberian Eoghanacht Septs in the Munster Province and the commitment and position he had held under 102.Cormac mac Cuilennain, Flaherty / Flaithbertach mac Inmainen from the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Conaire Muscraige Sept, who were descended from *88.Conaire 11 who had been the 111th King of Tara / Ireland) was installed as the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Conaire Muscraige 32nd King of Cashel / Munster as the only Heremonian and the last to do so. This did not bode well for the future aristocratic warrior Eoghanachta control over the Kingship of Cashel / Munster, which had been so strong, for so long previously. Flaherty / Flaithbertach mac Inmainen who was not of the Eoghanachta was to remain the Heremonian King of Cashel / Munster until 922 AD.
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