The Kingdom of Breifne or Bréifne (Irish: [ˈbʲɾʲeːfʲnʲə]), anglicized as Breffny, was a medieval overkingdom in Gaelic Ireland. It comprised what is now...
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The Kingdom of West Breifne (Irish: Breifne Ua Ruairc) or Breifne O'Rourke was a historic kingdom of Ireland that existed from 1256 to 1605, located in...
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The Kingdom of East Breifne or Breifne O'Reilly (Old Irish: Muintir-Maelmordha; Irish: Bréifne Uí Raghallaigh, IPA: [ˈbʲɾʲeːfʲnʲə iː ˈɾˠəil̪ˠiː]) was an...
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the Kingdom of Breifne under Tigernán Ua Ruairc. Mide was frequently overrun and partitioned and began to collapse as a coherent kingdom. Following the...
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Connacht (redirect from Province of Connaught)
incorporated the often independent Kingdom of Breifne, as well as vassalage from the lordships of western Mide and west Leinster. Two of its greatest kings, Tairrdelbach...
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Dartry Mountains (category Mountains and hills of County Sligo)
named after the old túath of Dartraighe, which was part of the kingdom of Bréifne. The mountains are very close to the Breifne Mountains, which lie to the...
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Íochtar West Breifne Irish nobility Pre-Norman invasion Irish Celtic kinship groups Irish clans List of Irish clans MacDunleavy (dynasty) Monarchy of Ireland...
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(pre 634 – 10th century) Conaille Muirtheimne (pre 668 – after 1081) Kingdom of Breifne (6th century – 1605) Northumbria (654–954) Champa (c. 7th century...
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County Cavan (redirect from County of Cavan)
territory of East Breffny (Bréifne). Cavan County Council is the local authority for the county, which had a population of 81,704 at the 2022 census....
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Tigernán Ua Ruairc (category Year of birth unknown)
ruled the kingdom of Breifne as the 19th king in its Ua Ruairc (later O'Rourke) dynasty (964–1605 CE), a branch of the Uí Briúin. As one of the provincial...
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County Leitrim (redirect from History of County Leitrim)
half of the kingdom, however, a split occurred in the 13th century and the kingdom was divided into East Breifne, now County Cavan, and West Breifne, now...
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Cloughoughter Castle (category Ruins in the Republic of Ireland)
is located in the historic Kingdom of Breifne, specifically in the part that would later be subdivided into East Breifne, roughly corresponding to County...
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Uí Briúin (redirect from Uí Briúin Bréifne)
the ruling families of Ó Conchubhair (O'Connor) and MacDermot descended. The Uí Briúin Bréifne, whose high medieval kingdom of Bréifne lay in modern County...
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Toirdelbach, Ua Máel Sechnaill, and Aéd Ua Ruairc of the Kingdom of Breifne, attacked Tadgh Mac Carthaigh of the MacCarthy Mór dynasty. But they turned against...
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(?–917) Kingdom of Breifne (complete list) – Muircheartach mac Donnghal, King (c.800–806) Mael Dúin mac Échtgal, King (?–822) Ceallach son of Cearnach...
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Áedo Alláin, King (770–788) Áed Oirdnide mac Néill, King (788–819) Kingdom of Breifne (complete list) – Dub Dothra, King (c.743) Cormacc mac Duibh Dá Críoch...
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Ua Ainbhigh, King (?–1094) Cu Caishil Ua Cerbaill, King (?–1101) Kingdom of Breifne (complete list) – Niall Ó Ruairc, heir (1000–1001) Aedh Ó Ruairc,...
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King (1189–1194) unknown king (?–1196) Ua Eichnigh, King (?–1201) Kingdom of Breifne (complete list) – Donnchadh Ó Ruairc, Lord (1101) Domnall Ó Ruairc...
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Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree)
family members were descendants of ninth-century kings of Connacht and ruled the ancient kingdom of Breifne in the northwest of the country until they were...
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point at which the Kingdom of Breifne was left permanently divided, creating West Breifne (O'Rourke) and East Breifne (O'Reilly). Ally of the O'Reillys, Walter...
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Henry III of England, asks him for support but Henry refuses. The ancient Irish Kingdom of Breifne splits into East Breifne and West Breifne, after a war...
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which would today be recognised as their areas of origin. The Donohoes of the ancient Kingdom of Breifne, centered in modern-day County Cavan, are genetically...
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cede parts of Scotland to England in 1157 and make peace with Somerled in 1160. In Ireland, Mac Lochlainn invaded the Kingdom of Breifne, forced the...
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County Longford (redirect from History of County Longford)
the Kingdom of Bréifne". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Volumes...
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Mathgahamna mac Neill, King (?–1273) Brian mac Eochada, King (1283–1311) Kingdom of Breifne (complete list) – Domnall Ó Ruairc, Lord (c.1207) Ualgarg Ó Ruairc...
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mac Dalagh, King (?–998) Mac Leiginn mac Cerbaill, King (?–1022) Kingdom of Breifne (complete list) – Flann mac Tighearnáin, Lord (c.910) Cernachan mac...
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Brian Boru (redirect from Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig, King of Munster)
attack Mael Sechnaill. His fleet sailed up the Shannon and invaded the Kingdom of Breifne, in what is now counties Leitrim and Cavan. In doing this, he put...
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a territorial diocese, based on the kingdom of Breifne. From the late twelfth century the chieftainship of Breifne was contested between the Ui Raghallaigh...
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Tully (surname) (redirect from Tully of Ulster)
O'Connor's of Connacht and the O'Reilly's of Kingdom of Breifne. One of these Mac Tuile's is stated by an eye-witness as being present at the inauguration of Cathal...
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the first half of the 8th century been the dominant dynasty. Uí Briúin also influenced the kingdom of Breifne on the southern borders of the Northern Uí...
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