Umhaill

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Umhaill
8th century–1576
Government
Tanistry
Rí 
• -773
Flannabhra
• 1580–1603
Grace O'Malley
History 
• Established
8th century
• Disestablished
1576
ISO 3166 codeIE
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Partraige
Mac William Íochtar
Kingdom of Ireland
Today part ofIreland

Umhaill or Umhall (anglicized as Owill

seafaring culture.[2] Important sites associated with it include Carrickkildavnet Castle, Carrickahowley Castle, Granuaile's Castle and Clare Island Abbey
.

Description

Knox says of Murrisk "With Burrishoole it forms the kingdom of Aicill and Umall, which comes into history at the battle of Moy Lena. Aicill seems to be a descriptive term applied to mountainous country. Umall means low, and applies in this sense to the country lying east of Clew Bay, as Aicill applies to the parts lying north and south of the bay. The title may be translated as King of Highland and Lowland. Aicill survives in

Curraun peninsula
. The term was applied to the country between Clew Bay and the Killeries in the thirteenth century. Though at all times an independent kingdom acknowledging supremacy of only the King of Connacht, it was too small to play an independent part, and therefore is rarely mentioned in the annals." (p. 303).

Legacy

The

An Corrán are part of the Mayo Gaeltacht
.

Kings of Umaill

Main article:
Kings of Umaill

Its earliest rulers were the semi-historical

Mac Conraoi
as supreme seafaring clans of Connacht.

Annalistic references

  • 812.A slaughter was made of the foreigners [i.e. Vikings] by the men of Umhall.
  • 813.A battle between the men of Umhall and the foreigners, in which the men of Umhall were slaughtered, and Cosgrach, son of Flannabhrat, and Dunadhach, lord of Umhall, were slain.
  • 848. Loch Laeigh, in the territory of Umhall, in Connaught, migrated.
  • U913.6. Niall son of Aed led an expedition to Connacht and inflicted a battle-rout on the warriors of the north of Connacht, i.e. on the Uí Amalgada and the men of Umall, and they left behind a very large number either dead or captured, including Mael Cluiche son of Conchobor.
  • M1002.10 - Conchobhar, son of Maelseachlainn, lord of Corca-Modhruadh; and Aicher Ua Traighthech, with many others, were slain by the men of Umhall.
  • M1219.6. Duvdara, the son of Murray O'Malley, was put to death for his crimes by Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, while in fetters in O'Conor's fortress.
  • 1415. A great prey was taken by O'Malley, i.e. Hugh, from Dermot O'Malley. Dermot in retaliation took O'Malley's Island, upon which Hugh went in pursuit of Dermot; and a battle was fought between them, in which Hugh O'Malley, Lord of Umallia, was slain by Dermot and his son Conor, and also the son of Thomas O'Malley, and Donnell, the son of Dermot O'Malley. The chieftainship of Umallia was thenceforth wrested from the descendants of Hugh; and Dermot assumed the lordship.
  • 1417. Rory, the son of Murrough O'Flaherty; Rory, the son of Dermot Duv O'Flaherty, and sixteen others of the O'Flahertys, were drowned in the bay of Umallia.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Burrishoole". Placenames Database of Ireland.
  2. ^ a b Chambers, Anne (1988). Granuaile: The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley. Wolfhound Press. pp. 11–12.
  • The History of Mayo, p. 303,
    Hubert T. Knox
    , 1908.

External links

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