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Tragic hero in the tale of Fingal Rónáin, according to which he was a son of the king of Leinster, Rónán, and was slain at his behest after false allegations of sexually assaulting the king’s new wife (Máel Fothartaig’s stepmother).
“Mael Mór is said to have been variously the half-brother, foster-brother, or tutor of Diarmait mac Fergusa Cherrbéoil, the kinsman and successor of Tuathal.” (Thornton, David E., Kings, chronologies, and genealogies (2003): 207).
- d. c.1106
- Clúain Moccu Nóis
- d. 887
- Othain ... Fahan, Co. Donegal
Early Irish poet and historian, who was apparently attached to the monastery of Othain (now Fahan, Inishowen barony, Co. Donegal), as his epithet suggests
- d. 792
- Tamlachta
Founding bishop-abbot of the monastery of Tallaght (Ir. Tamlacht, Co. Dublin) and a pioneer and leader of a kind of monastic reform that inspired the emergence of the Céli Dé.
- d. 722
- Bennchor ... Bangor, Apor Crossan ... Applecross
Abbot and founder of the monastery of Apor Crossan (Applecross, Scotland), commemorated as a saint in Irish and Scottish sources.
- d. 1022
King of Mide and high-king of Ireland from the Clann Cholmáin branch of the Uí Néill.
high-king of Ireland from the Clann Cholmáin sept of the Uí Néill
- d. 1031
Irish scholar, whose obit (1031) is recorded in the Annals of Inisfallen and Annals of the Four Masters. In the latter compilaton, he is called a confessor (anmchara) of Brían Bóruma but there is some doubt whether this description actually applies to him or to his earlier namesake, Máel Suthain Úa Cerbaill (d. 1010).
According to Fingal Rónáin, a son of Máel Fothartaig.
