Congal Cennmagair
Congal Cennmagair (died
642), was counted as a High King of Ireland.[2]
Congal's predecessor was
710.[3]
Congal was a guarantor of
697. He is the second lay guarantor listed after Loingsech and is called King of Tyrconell, though these titles may have been added later.[4]
The reigns of Loingsech and Congal represented the peak of Cenél Conaill, thereafter eclipsed by the rival kinsmen the
707 and the Connacht king Indrechtach mac Dúnchado was slain.[5]
Congal himself did not participate in this battle but Loingsech's son Fergal did.
In the same year Congal himself campaigned in Leinster.[6] Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn records that he burned the church of Kildare during this and implies his death was related to this.[7]
Congal himself died suddenly in 710. A gloss to the 722) of the Cenél nEógain.
Notes
- ^ After Seán Duffy (ed.), Atlas of Irish History, pp. 18–19.
- ^ Francis J.Byrne, Irish Kings and High-Kings, Table 4
- ^ the Laud Synchronisms give him a reign of 6 years while the Book of Leinster and Rawlinson Genealogies give him 8 years
- ^ T.M. Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland, pg.539
- ^ Annals of Ulster AU 707.2
- ^ Annals of Ulster AU 707.7
- ^ Geoffrey Keating. History of Ireland, Book II, pg.143
- ^ Annals of Ulster AU 710.3
- ^ Annals of Ulster, AU 732.10, 733.3
References
- Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
- ISBN 0-7134-5882-8
- Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2000), Early Christian Ireland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-36395-0
- Doherty, Charles (2004), "Congal Cennmagair (d. 710)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 22 October 2007
- Geoffrey Keating, History of Ireland at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
- Meyer, Kuno (1905), Cain Adamnain: An Old-Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnan, Oxford: Clarendon Press, retrieved 23 March 2008
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