The Kings of Luighne Connacht were rulers of the people and kingdom of Luighne Connacht, located in what is now County Mayo and County Sligo, Ireland...
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Luighne Connacht was a territory located in north-central Connacht, on the borders of what is now County Mayo and County Sligo, Ireland. The Tuatha of...
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Kings of Uí Fiachrach Muaidhe Kings of Uí Maine Kings of Luighne Connacht Kings of Sliabh Lugha Corca Fhir Trí List of Cities and Towns in Connacht by...
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Gailenga (category History of County Meath)
Gailenga was the name of two related peoples and kingdoms found in medieval Ireland in Brega and Connacht. Along with the Luighne, Delbhna, Saitne and...
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Ó Gadhra (category Surnames of Irish origin)
kingdom of Luighne Connacht. Variants include Garry, Geary, Gerry, and Guiry. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Garas were one of the chiefly...
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of Gailenga but by the 12th-century was separately called Sliabh Lugha. Its rulers were the Ó Gadhra, whose ancestors were Kings of Luighne Connacht,...
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by the Kings of Luighne Connacht. In the 13th century they were expelled from the area and moved to Cul Ui Fionn, later known as the barony of Coolavin...
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Corca Fhir Trí (category Connacht)
Two kings of the Corca, Dobhailen mac Gormghus, (died 885) and his son, Uathmarán mac Dobhailéin (died 920), were successive Kings of Luighne Connacht. Dobhailen...
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Ailill Aulom (category Cycles of the Kings)
believed a relation or probable descendant of Nia Segamain. Poetry portal Gailenga Luighne Connacht Scéla Mosaulum Eoghanacht Genealogies Eberian Kings...
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and Domnall, King of Connacht (deposed 1106). There was at least one sister, Dubhchobhlaigh Bean Ua hEaghra of Luighne Connacht (died 1131). Ruaidrí...
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sovereignty of Uí-Maine, fell there along with him; and Maghnus, son of Domhnall O'Conchobhair, tanist of Connacht; and Art O'hEghra, king of Luighne; and Maelechlainn...
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Dolan (surname) (category Surnames of Irish origin)
The Annals of the Four Masters under the year 885 state- Dobhailen, son of Gormghus, lord of Luighne Connacht, died. He was of the tribe of Corca Firthri...
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Fearghal Ó Gadhra (category Year of birth uncertain)
retained the name Luighne for their territory to the north. The O'Garas were expelled into Coolavin, Co. Sligo, by the Mac Jordan of Connacht. Sir Theobald...
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Ruaidrí na Saide Buide Ua Conchobair (category Kings of Connacht)
that the Kingdom of Breifne, whose rulers sometimes also ruled over Connacht, extended into parts of southern Ulster. The kings of Connacht had, for several...
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Tomaltach na Cairge mac Diarmata (category Year of birth unknown)
Choncobhair, & Corbmac mac Tomaltaigh, Concobhar God O h-Eghra tigherna Luighne, & Donnchadh Ua Dubhda tighearna Ua n-Amhalgadha, & Ua f-Fiachrach go ro...
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grandaunt of Dubhchobhlaigh Bean Ua hEaghra, Queen of Luighne Connacht (died 1131) and great-great-great grandaunt of Dub Coblaigh Ní Conchobhair, Queen of Cenél...
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Cobhlaith Mór Ní Conchobhair (category Year of birth unknown)
Bean Ua hEaghra, Queen of Luighne Connacht, died 1131. Rose Ní Conchobair, Lady of Meath, fl. 1180. Mor Ni Conchobair, Queen of Munster, died 1190. Nuala...
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Sligo (category Boroughs in the Republic of Ireland)
effective centre of the confederation of túatha. The other Irish túatha subject to here were Tír Fhíacrach Múaidhe, Luighne Connacht, Tir Olliol and Corann...
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Fortúatha (category History of County Armagh)
Déisi, Gailenga, Grecraige, Luighne, Masraige and Setantii. The status of each population-group could differ from one part of the island to another, with...
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O'Higgins family (category Chilean families of Irish ancestry)
in the Barony of Luighne under the protection of the O'Hara Chiefs and at Ballynary in the Barony of Tir-Errill under the protection of the MacDonagh...
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Dubhchobhlaigh Bean Ua hEaghra (category Year of birth unknown)
Conchobair, Queen of Luighne Connacht, died 1131. Dubhchobhlaigh was one of the two recorded daughters of King Ruaidrí na Saide Buide of Connacht, who ruled...
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Finshnechta mac Maele Corcrai, King of Luighne Connacht. Death of Áed Findliath, High King of Ireland. 880 Death of Irish philosopher and poet Johannes...
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Oliver O'Gara (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Sligo constituencies)
soldier of the 17th and 18th centuries who was closely identified with the Jacobite cause. He was descended from the Ó Gadhra's of Luighne Connacht. After...
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spelling Ní Ghadhra) is the feminine form of Ó Gadhra (O'Gara), surname of the chiefs of Luighne Connacht. Another "Sheela-na-Guira", or "Gillian Dwyer"...
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Irish clans (redirect from List of pre-Norman invasion Irish Celtic kinship groups)
literature of the time that came to Ireland with Christianity. The Cianacht. Their chiefly families were the O'Connors of Keenaght and the "race of Luighne" or...
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