Southern Uí Néill

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Ireland about the year 900

The Southern Uí Néill (

Kingdom of Mide and its associated kingdoms.[1]

Two sons of

Niall Noigiallach, Lóegaire (fl. c. 450) and Coirpre (fl. c. 480), initially led the dynasty. As did their immediate descendants. However, after the murder of Túathal Máelgarb in about 544, it was left to another branch of the family descended from another of Niall's sons – Conall Cremthainne – to continue Uí Néill expansion and consolidate their position. No descendants of either Lugaid mac Lóegairi or Túathal Máelgarb are recorded.[citation needed
]

Just as their kinsmen the

ruled the kingdom of Mide, while Síl nÁedo Sláine were Kings of Brega.[1]

According to A Dictionary of British and Irish History (2020), the "last effective high‐king of the Southern Uí Néill" was Conchobar Ua Máel Sechlainn.[3] A member of the "Clann Cholmáin dynasty of the Uí Néill", he died c. 1073.[4]

Southern Uí Néill family tree

   
Niall Noigíallach
, d. 450/455?
   |                   
   |_________________________________________________________
   |                       |                |
   |                       |                |                     
   Coirpre                 Lóegaire         Conall Cremthainne  
   |                       |                |
   |                       |                | 
   Cormac Cáech            Lugaid           Fergus Cerball      
   |                       d. 507           |
   |                                        |
   Túathal Máelgarb                         Diarmait mac Cerbaill, died 565.
    died 544/549.                           |
    ________________________________________|______________________
   |                      |                             |
   |                      |                             |
   Colmán Már, d.555/8    Colmán Bec, d. 587.           Áed Sláine, d.604.
   |                                                    |
   |                                                    |
   Clann Cholmáin dynasty                               Síl nÁedo Sláine dynasty

See also

Further reading

  • Karkov, Catherine E.; Ruffing, John (1997). "The Southern Uí Néill and the political landscape of Lough Ennell".
    doi:10.1484/J.Peri.3.288
    .
  • O'Flynn, Eoin (2013). "The Dublin Vikings and the Clann Cholmáin kings of the southern Uí Néill". In Duffy, Seán (ed.). Medieval Dublin XIII: proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium, 2011. Dublin: Four Courts Press. pp. 13–26.
    ISBN 1846823897
    .

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2307/j.ctvh1dmk1
    . The main Southern Uí Néill dynasties were Clann Cholmáin, who ruled the kingdom of Mide, and Síl nÁedo Sláine, who ruled Brega, while their northern cousins were Cenél nEógain and Cenél Conaill
  2. ISBN 110854794X
    . [The] Southern Uí Néill [..] were split into two main groups that dominated the east midlands, namely Síl nÁedo Sláine and Clann Cholmáin
  3. ISBN 1119698421
    . The last effective high‐king of the Southern Uí Néill was Conchobar Ua Máel Sechlainn (ruled 1030–73)
  4. doi:10.3318/dib.008749.v1
    .
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