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Comgall moccu Araidi See: Comgall of Bangor

  • d. 601/602
  • Bennchor ... Bangor
Comgall (mac Sétnai) moccu Araidi, patron saint of Bangor

Comgán Mac Da Cherda See: Comgán Mac Dá Cherda

  • fl. first half of the 7th century
Poet and fool (óinmit) in Irish literature; a son of Máel Ochtraig (king of the Déisi Muman) and a contemporary of Cummíne Fota. The name Mac Dá Cherda would mean ‘Son of Two Arts’, but seeing as it may go back to an original Moccu Cherda (as suggested by Jackson and Ó Coileáin) it is perhaps best spelled conservatively, without lengthening in Da.

Commán mac Fáelchon See: Commán of Roscommon

  • d. 747
  • Ros Commáin
Commán mac Fáelchon, patron saint of Ros Commáin (Roscommon).
  • d. 1907
legendary high-king of Ireland; son of Eterscél (Mór) and Mess Búachalla; tragic protagonist of Togail bruidne Da Derga
Warrior of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle; son of Amergin and Findchóem. In Irish genealogies, he is presented as an ancestor of the kings of the Dál nAraidi and the Uí Echach Coba.
  • Caisel
Legendary ancestor of the Éoganachta and a key figure in origin stories about the kingship of Cashel.

Conall Corc mac Luigdech See: Conall Corc

One of the sons of Níall Noígíallach; king of Uisnech/Mide.
  • supp. fl. 5th c.
son of Níall Noígíallach; ruler of what was to become Tír Conaill (‘Conall's land’) and eponymous ancestor of the Cenél Conaill.

Conall mac Luigthig See: Conall Corc