Entities

Dál Cais

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See also: Ailill Ólomm

Ailill Ólomm

(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)

king of Munster; reputed ancestor of the Éoganacht and Dál Cais; a prominent figure in various king-tales, such as those revolving around the Battle of Mag Mucrama.

See more Brian Boru

Brían Bóruma (Brian Boru)

(c. 941–23 April 1014)

High-king of Ireland from the Dál Cais, son of Cennétig mac Lorcáin (d. 951); typically known for breaking the hegemony of the Uí Néill in Ireland; died at the battle of Clontarf (1014). He is the celebrated hero of Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib, a twelfth-century propagandistic narrative text that has helped to enhance his reputation.

See more Cennétig mac Lorcáin

Cennétig mac Lorcáin

(d. 951)

king of the Dál Cais, father of Brían Bóruma.

See more Cormac (Cas) mac Ailella Óloimm

Cormac (Cas) mac Ailella Óloimm

(time-frame ass. with Ailill Ólomm, Éogan Mór mac Ailella)

son of Ailill Ólomm and brother of Éogan, the eponymous ancestor of the Éoganachta. His appearance in the sources or that of his epithet Cas(s) has been related to the rise of the Dál Cais in the tenth century at the expense of the Éoganachta: by grafting an ancestor of their own to the Éoganacht genealogy, it sought to bolster rival claims to the kingship of Munster.

Dál Cais

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