The Cenél nEógain or Kinel-Owen ("Kindred of Owen") are a branch of the Northern Uí Néill, who claim descent from Eógan mac Néill, son of Niall of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

('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...

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...

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...

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 Mac Lochlainn (Irish pronunciation: [mˠək ˈl̪ˠɔxl̪ˠən̠ʲ]) were a leading branch of the Cenél nEógain and during the early medieval period, the most...

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...

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")...

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...

great-grandson of the high king Áed Uaridnach (died 612). He belonged to the Cenél maic Ercae branch of the Cenél nEógain and was King of Ailech from 700...

McMurphy was the surname of a branch of the Cenél nEógain. They were originally native to the district of Munterbirn (now in the barony of Dungannon) and...

Máele Fithrich of the Cenél Meic Ercae of Cenél nEógain. Some form of combination of the Dál nAraidi, the Cianachta Glenn Geimin and the Cenél Feradaig was...

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...

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...

(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...

(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...

much of Flaithbertach's reign his kingship was contested by his northern Uí Néill rival, Áed Allán of the Cenél nEógain. Áed's goal was the conquest of Mag...

of the Cenél nEógain and belonged to the Cenél Feradaig. Maeltuile was the son of Crundmáel mac Suibni, who had also been chief of the Cenél nEógain....

was a son of Niall Noígiallach and the eponymous ancestor of the Cenél nEógain (kindred of Eoghan) branch of the Northern Uí Néill. The Cenél Eoghan would...

Gofraidh's death, there was a leadership crisis among the Cenél Conaill which their rivals, the Cenél nEógain, attempted to exploit by demanding tribute. It...

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

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

The O'Cahan (Irish: Ó Catháin 'descendants of Cahan') were a powerful sept of the Northern Uí Néill's Cenél nEógain in medieval Ireland. The name is presently...

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...