The Cenél nEógain or Kinel-Owen ("Kindred of Owen") are a branch of the Northern Uí Néill, any of several dynasties in north-western medieval Ireland...

and In Tuaiscert, both meaning 'the North', and was initially ruled by the Cenél Conaill. After the Cenél nEógain's rise to dominance, it became known...

Fermanagh. The Cenél Conaill clashed regularly with their kin the Cenél nEogain, eventually capturing the latter's original power-base of Ailech in the Inishowen...

elsewhere. As kings of Cenél nEógain, they were historically one of the most prominent family of the Northern Uí Néill, along with the O'Donnell dynasty...

branches of the Cenél nEógain. The first to enter the area in the tenth-century were the Cenél mBinnig who are described in their genealogies in the twelfth-century...

Domnall, the Cenél nEógain were again a significant force in Irish politics. In the years before Domnall, the Cenél nEógain had been largely bereft of effective...

from the Uí Néill, such as the Cenél Conaill and Cenél nEógain, held power in Ulster until their defeat in the Nine Years War in 1603. Many of the heads...

tánaiste, Hugh Boy O'Neill. A consequence of this infighting between the rival factions of the Cenél Eoghain allowed the Normans to advance deeper into Gaelic...

a sept of Irish Gaels in County Donegal and County Tyrone, belonging to the Cenél nEógain of the Northern Uí Néill. They are a branch of the O'Neill...

Muiredach mac Eógain (died c. 489) was a King of Ailech and head of the Cenél nEógain branch of the Northern Uí Néill. He was the son of the founder of this dynasty...

Irish Cenél Conaill, a royal branch of the Northern Uí Néill dynasty. Christopher Cairney makes the case for a different Uí Néill descent in the Cenél nEógain...

The kingdom represented the core homeland of the Cenél nEógain people of the Northern Uí Néill and although they ruled, there were smaller groups of other...

Aed Buide Ó Néill) was the last ruler of the Cenél nEógain to be styled as king of Ailech and was the eponymous ancestor of the Clandeboye O'Neill's in...

are the eponymous ancestors of the various Uí Néill dynasties: Eógan of the Cenél nEógain and Conall Gulban of the Cenél Conaill, making up the northern...

(died 642) of the Cenél Conaill. It is probable that this was Cenél maic Ercae branch of the Cenél nEógain and not the Cenél Feradaig branch to which Crundmáel...

Áed Oirdnide ("the anointed"), was King of Ailech. A member of the Cenél nEógain dynasty of the northern Uí Néill, he was the son of Niall Frossach....

(died 630) was a King of Ailech and head of the Cenél nEógain branch of the northern Uí Néill. He was the son of the high king of Ireland Áed Uaridnach...

in the province of Ulster. It is the Anglicized form of Mac Conallaidh 'son of Cú Allaidh', a Gaelic name of the Cenél nEógain clan meaning the 'wild...

surname, and occasionally a given name, possibly a branch of the Cenél nEógain of the Northern Uí Néill. The name traditionally relates to a church ("kirk")...

branch of the Cenél nEógain called the Cenél maic Ercae had dominated the kingship of Ailech until the reign of his brother Suibne Menn (died 628) of...

plague in Tara". The Cenél Feradach, led by the descendants of Suibne Menn, overshadowed Áed's branch of the Cenél nEógain—the Cenél maic Ercae—and it...

Church today is part of a wall of the Knock Burial Ground, Clarawood, Belfast. Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe Branches of the Cenél nEógain Baron Dufferin and...

Cinel Fearadhaigh. "The most noble of Cinel Fearadhaigh ... Tellach Maoilpatraic". (Cenél Fearadhaigh is a branch of the Cenél nEógain in east Tyrone.) Máel...

('son/descendant of Cú Allta'; a variant of Cú Allaidh). The MacAnallys were of the Cenél nEógain, a large and powerful confederation of clans descended...

or lesser domains. The Uí Néill king Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, abandoned by his northern kinsmen of the Cenél nEógain and Cenél Conaill, acknowledged...

Brega. They were a branch of the southern Uí Néill. "The Kingdom is said to have stretched from Birr in County Offaly to the Hill of Uishneach in Westmeath...

northern Uí Néill kindred of the Cenél nEógain, Áed was the son of Niall Caille. From the death of Áed Allán in 743 until the overthrow of Máel Sechnaill mac...

of the Cenél nEógain kindred of the northern Uí Néill, the Cenél Feredaig, named for his grandfather Feredach, a great-grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages...

they fell under the dominance of the Cenél nEógain, and by 827 had become their vassals. The kingdom of Airgíalla was at its peak in the 12th century, under...

(Niall of the Callan) to distinguish him from his grandson Niall mac Áeda (died 917), was High King of Ireland. Niall belonged to Cenél nEógain, a northern...