*92.Ailill Molt the 129th King of Tara / Ireland - 92.Eochy (Ui Fiachrach Aidni - 92.Fiachnae (Ui Fiachrach Muaidhe)
The perpetual tribute / borumha had been previously made obligatory on the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire UI Lughaidh Septs in Southern Leinster by *81.Tuathal / Toole "Teachtmhar" the Gaelic Milesian Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim 106th King of Tara / Ireland in the 1st Century AD for the death of his two daughters due to the insensitivity of the then King of Leinster. It was further added to to by *81.Tuathal Teachtmar's descendant, *85.Cormac mac Airt áfter he became the 115th King of Tara / Ireland due to the massacre during his time of the aristocratic girls and their maidservants at Tara, by 94.Dowling / Dunlaing a Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Prince of Leinster. This particular ongoing heavy tribute / borumha was to continue to create havoc between the Septs in Southern Leinster and the long line of Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn Kings of Tara / Ireland.
467 AD This year, *92.Ailill "Molt" the Gaelic Milesian Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach 129th King of Tara / Ireland came into conflict with the Septs in Southern Leinster. (He also held the Feast of Tara / Teamhair this year).
468 AD The Battle of Duma Aichir occurred against the rule of *92.Ailill "Molt" the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach 129th King of Tara / Ireland.
469 AD The Feast of Tara / Teamhair was held once again by *92.Ailill "Molt" the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach 129th King of Tara / Ireland.
470 AD The Feast of Tara / Teamhair was held again by *92.Ailill "Molt" the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach 129th King of Tara / Ireland, and once again he also came into conflict with the Septs Southern Leinster.
473 / 5 AD *92.Ailill "Molt" the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach 129th King of Tara / Ireland defeated the Septs in Southern Leinster in the Battle of Bri Eile.
474 / 6 AD This year, the Septs in Southern Leinster defeated *92.Ailill "Molt" the 129th King of Tara / Ireland in battle at Duma Aichir.
478 AD / 482 AD *92.Ailill "Molt" the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach 129th King of Tara / Ireland was killed in the Battle of Ochae near Tara after he was defeated this time by 92.Lewy / Lughaidh, the son of *91.Leary / Laoghaire the previous Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill 128th King of Tara / Ireland and 93.Murtogh / Muirchertach mac Ercae from the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept. (His demise was to see the end altogether of the direct male line from the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach Septs to the Kingship of Tara / Ireland. From now on it would only be the Dal Cuinn "southern" and "northern" Ui Niaill descendants of 90.Niall - of the Nine Hostages the previous 126th King of Tara / Ireland who would rule as the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn Kings of Tara / Ireland until 1004 AD when *105.Brian "Boru" - of the Tributes would become the Heberian Da gCais 175th High King of Ireland. This was to also mean that any chance of "unity" between the Dal Cuinn 3 Connachta Septs belonging to his half - brothers, 90.Brion (Ui Briuin), 90.Fiachra (Ui Fiachrach)and 90.Ailill (Ui Ailello) in the Connacht Province was now also gone.
495 AD Despite the growing importance of the Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill in gaining the Kingship of Tara / Ireland the Ui Fiachrach Septs at this time were still the most important dynasty in the Connacht Province as no over - king was to actually exist there until the middle of the 8th Century AD. Later on the "northern" Ui Fiachrach Muaidh Septs where to continue to rule the Moy Estuary in the north and the rich fertile plain to the east, including their O Dowd territory of Tireragh / Tir Fiachrach (The Land of 90.Fiachra) in the Middle Ages from the Ui Fiachrach Aidni territory in the south - west. (The Ui Fiachrach Muaidhe Mac Firbishs were to be the hereditary genealogists to the Ui Fiachrach Muaidhe O Dowds, who preserved many of their Septs manuscripts on Irish history).
The 3 sons of 90.Fiachra the direct male line ancestor of the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach Septs had been supreme during their time at the top with *91.Dathi / Nathi the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach 127th King of Tara / Ireland in Brega / Midlands / Midhe / Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster, while his brother, *91.Awley / Amhalgaidh had been the first Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach Christian King of Connacht who became the direct male line ancestor of the Tir nAmalgado Septs.
One of *92.Ailill "Molt's" 2 sons, who was also known as 93.Macc "Ercae," was to die in 543 AD, ending his particular aristocratic warrior male line quickly, while his other son, 93.Kelly / Cellach became the father of 94.Eogan "Bel" who was to be the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach 4th King of Connacht, after 91.Daui "Tenga Uma"- of the Sweet Tongue the son of *90.Fiachra's older deceased brother, 90.Brion (Ui Briuin). 94.Eogan "Bel's" son, 95.Ailill "Inbanda" became the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach 5th King of Connacht after his father, but was also to be the last of the male line of *92.Ailill "Molt" to do so, after he was to die in 550 AD.
92.Eochy / Echu one of *92.Ailill "Molt's" brothers who became the direct male line ancestor of the "southern" Ui Fiachrach Aidni Sept, whose son 93.Eogan was to be the father of 94.Conall, who had 2 sons, 95.Goibnenn who was to die in 538 AD, and 95.Gabran who was to be the father of 96.Coffey / Cobhthach, the father of 97.Colman, who became the Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Fiachrach Aidni 11th King of Connacht. He had 2 sons, 98.Laidgnen / Loingsech who became the 13th King of Connacht, and the more prominent 98.Guarie "Aidni" the 14th King of Connacht who had 5 sons, 99.Murtogh / Muirchertach "Nar" who became the 15th King of Connacht who was to die in 668 AD, which then ended his aristocratic warrior male line to the Kingship. 99.Kelly / Cellach who had died previously in 666 AD also left no issue to the Kingship, 99.Airmedach who had died in 675 AD also left no issue towards the Kingship, 99.Congal who died in 685 AD whose son 100.Encomras who died in 697 AD also left no issue to the Kingship. 98.Guarie "Aidni's" other son, 99.Artgal was to be the father of 100.Fergal "Aidni" the Dal Cuinn "southern" Üi Fiachrach 17th King of Connacht who was to die in 696 AD, which then saw the end altogether of the Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Fiachrach Aidni direct male line to the Kingship.
92.Fiachnae the other brother to *92.Ailill "Molt," became the direct male line ancestor of the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Fiachrach Muaide Sept, whose son, 93.Elgach was the father of 94.Maeldub, the father of 95.Tipraite, the father of 96.Dunchad "Muirisci" who had previously been the 16th King of Connacht and the first from his particular Ui Fiachrach Muaidhe Sept to do so. He had 3 sons who continued on their artistocratic warrior Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach Muaidhe male line into the Kingship, 97.Indrechtach who became the 20th King of Connacht, who was the father of 98.Aillill "Medraige" the 26th King of Connacht, the father of 99.Cathal the Ui Fiachrach King who was to die in 816 AD, who also left no further aristocratic warrior issue to the Kingship. Another son of 96.Dunchad "Muirisci" was 97.? who was the father of another 98.Tipraite who was to die in 719 AD who also left no issue to the Kingship, and another, 97.Ailill who was the father of 98.Cathal the father of 99.Donn "Cothaid" who became the 28th King of Connacht who was the father of 100.Cathmug who was to die in 787 AD, which ended altogether also the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Fiachrach Muaide direct male line to the Kingship forever.
From then on it was to be the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Septs'direct male line from 90.Fiachra's older brother, 90.Brion that was to outstay the Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach Septs as the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn O Connor Kings of Connacht, and later still as 2 of the Kings of Ireland down to 1189 AD after the Anglo - Norman Invasion. The Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin would then be represented by the main Families of the Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muiredaig Ui Conchobhair O Connors, Mac Dermots and Mac Donaghs, the Ui Briuin Breifne O Rourkes and O Reillys, and the Ui Briuin Seola O Flahertys. Another Dal Cuinn Sept, the Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine, also descending from 83.Conn - of the Hundred Battles the 110th King of Tara / Ireland was still to retain considerable overall authority over the south of Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province and the south - east of Co. Galway in Southern Connacht. Over the Centuries ahead the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill were to also finally take over the territories and Tuaths in the Ulster Province also. Connacht Province was to be the original Dal Cuinn territory during the 4th and 5th Century AD for the ancestors of the 4 Ui Briuin Septs, the Ui Fiachrach, the Ui Ailello and the Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine Sept in Fuerty in Co. Roscommon in the south east, with Breifne, the Dal Cuinn kingdom of the Ui Briuin Breifne Sept situated in a very narrow region to the north.
The Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Septs descending from 90.Fiachra's brother, 90.Brion were now moving towards overall authority in the Connacht Province, and from now on there was also to be pressure exerted to the south and west by the Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine Septs, who were also under pressure themselves in the north from the expanding Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai aristocratic warrior Sept. They too were also descended from *83.Conn - of the Hundred Battles the 110th King of Tara / Ireland initilaly through 89.Maine "Mor" one of the sons of *88.Murray "Tireach" the 122nd King of Tara / Ireland, who had been a brother to 89.Eochy / Echu "Mugmedon" the 124th King of Tara / Ireland the direct male line ancestor of the Ui Fiachrach Septs, the Ui Briuin Septs, the Ui Aiello Septs and the Ui Niaill Septs, 88.Colla Da Crioch, a cousin of *88.Murray "Tireach" became the eventual ancestor of the Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine Septs.
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