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- Ess Rúaid, Tír Áeda
A legendary king of Ireland mentioned in some tales of the Ulster Cycle and related texts. According to an origin legend concerning Emain Macha, he ‘shared’ the kingship with Díthorba and Cimbáeth, being the first of them to hold it until he drowned in Ess Ruaid (Assaroe); he is identified as the father of Macha Mongrúad, from whom Emain Macha is said to take its name.
- d. 604
joint high-king of Ireland, eponymous ancestor of Síl nÁedo Sláine; said to be a son of Díarmait mac Cerbaill and Mugain.
Áed Úa Crimthainn See: Áed Úa Crimthainn [abbot of Terryglass]
- d. 612
high-king of Ireland; son of Domnall Ilchelgach
A son of Óengus mac in Dagda, according to Acallam na senórach.
- r. 574–609
- Dál Riata
king of Dál Riata (r. c.574–609)
- fl. ?
- Munster, Máig ... r. Maigue
early Munster poet of whom little is known. The tale Cath Maige Mucrama cites a quatrain beg. Usce Máge cenbad sruth (§ 5), perhaps ascribed to him, which says that the river Maigue (Co. Cork and Co. Limerick) passes by his courtyard (les).
Áedán of Ferns See: Máedóc of Ferns
