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* Eógan mac Néill, founder of the kingdom of Ailech ( County Tyrone ), is baptized by Saint Patrick.
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The king of Fortriu Eógan mac Óengusa, the king of Dál Riata Áed mac Boanta, and many more, were killed in a major battle against the Vikings in 839.
* Eógan mac Néill, king of Ireland
Eógan mac Ferchair
Eógan mac Muiredaig
Eógan mac Ferchair
Eógan mac Muiredaig is named in some Scots sources as a king of Dál Riata, probably in the 730s.
Presumed to be the son of Muiredach mac Ainbcellaig, and thus a king of the Cenél Loairn, Eógan is not named in any surviving Irish annals, nor does he appear in the Duan Albanach, which passes from Muiredach to Áed Find.
Predating the formation of County Donegal by centuries, the area was named Inis Eoghain ( the Island of Eoghan ) after Eógan mac Néill, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages ( Niall Naoigeallach, a High King of Ireland ), whose name was also used for Tyrone ( Irish: Tír Eoghain ).
Like the family of O ' Neill, that of O ' Donnell of Tyrconnell was of the Uí Néill, i. e. descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, High-King of Ireland at the beginning of the 5th century ; the O ' Neill, or Cenél nEógain, tracing their pedigree to Eógan mac Néill, and the O ' Donnells, or Cenél Conaill, to Conall Gulban, both sons of Niall.
He was apparently very close to his brother Eógan mac Néill who died of grief over his brother's death the next year.
The old graveyard and the ruined church in Iskaheen-the resting place of Eógan mac Néill
The plaque marking the burial place of Eógan mac Néill
sh: Eógan mac Néill
Many of the Pictish kings until the death of Eógan mac Óengusa in 839 belong to the family of Óengus, in particular the 9th century sons of Fergus, Caustantín and Óengus.
Eógan and kingdom
It has traditionally been supposed that King Eógan the Bald of Strathclyde died at the Battle of Carham and that the kingdom passed into the hands of the Scots afterwards.
Eógan and ),
* Eógan Bél ( died 542 ), a king of Connacht ( in what is now Ireland )
* Eógan ( given name ), pronouned Owen, Irish-Scottish version of the given name
In Irish traditional history Eógan ( or Eoghan Mór — a name also used by his grandfather, Mug Nuadat ), eldest son of Ailill Ollamh, was a 2nd or 3rd century AD king of Munster.
Eógan and is
It is far from certain that Eógan died at Carham, and it is reasonably certain that there were kings of Strathclyde as late as the 1054, when Edward the Confessor sent Earl Siward to install " Máel Coluim son of the king of the Cumbrians ".
In some later traditions of Thomond, Eógan had a younger brother, Cas, who is said to have originated the rival Dál gCais dynasty of Ireland, although this has been disproven.
Óengus, like his successors and possible kinsmen Caustantín and Eógan, is recorded prominently in the Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, a list of some 3000 benefactors for whom prayers were said in religious institutions connected with Durham.
Eógan and by
His father, the King of Tír Eógan, was murdered in 1493 by his brother.
Eógan and .
The Chronicle of the Kings of Dál Riata names Eógan son of Muiredach as king after Muiredach, and the king-list in the Chronicle of Melrose includes him.
Some Scottish sources, including the Chronicle of Melrose, have Muiredach's son Eógan as his successor.
They are descended from Eógan, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages.
* AI876. 2 Repose of Eógan, abbot of Cluain Moccu Nóis.
Conall Gulban Endae Eógan.
* Eógan, ancestor of the Cenél nEógain dynasty.
Eógan of Strathclyde was at Æthelstan's court along with Idwal and Hywel.
mac and Néill
In Ireland, the failure of the northern Uí Néill to support their southern kinsman Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill against Brian Bóruma, and the resulting end to the system of Uí Néill High Kingship appears to have been caused by political geography.
* Murchad mac Flaithbertaig, chief of the Cenél Conaill of the northern Uí Néill
* Fogartach mac Néill, High King of Ireland
This alliance was likely precipitated by the conquests of the Dál Fiatach king Báetán mac Cairill, one of the very few High Kings of Ireland not of the Connachta or the Uí Néill, who had sought to subjugate all of Dál Riata, and the Isle of Man as well.
The Collectio canonum Hibernensis cites the authority of Saint Patrick as indicating that the custom originated with the swineherd of Lóegaire mac Néill, the king who opposed Patrick.
Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig ( c. 941 – 23 April 1014 ) (,, ), was an Irish king who ended the domination of the High Kingship of Ireland by the Uí Néill.
The Uí Néill king Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, abandoned by his northern kinsmen of the Cenél nEógain and Cenél Conaill, acknowledged Brian as High King at Athlone in 1002.
Added to this was a request for aid from the King of Tír Eóghain, Domhnall mac Briain Ó Néill.
The Prince of the Fews is a male line descendant of Art mac Aodha, King of Ulster ( r. 1509-1513 / 4 ), grandson of Eóghan Ó Néill Mór, King of Ulster ( d. 1456 ), however it is uncertain if Art was a paternal or maternal grandson, and whether his father Aodh Ó Néill descended from the Tyrone or Clanaboy O ' Neills in the male line.
Of the Uí Néill kings, Áed mac Ainmuirech of the Cenél Conaill, Columba's first cousin once removed, was the most important during Áedán's reign.
The Duan Albanach says that he reigned " without dissension ", but there is a report of an expedition by Conall and Colmán Bec mac Diarmato of the Southern Uí Néill to Iardoaman in the Annals of Ulster for 568.
* Maine mac Néill ( died 712 ), Irish king
The crown in the device is that of King Lóegaire mac Néill ( Laoghaire, the High King of Ireland in the fifth century, who resided in the area ).
They contain stories of the legendary kings of Ireland, for example Cormac mac Airt, Niall of the Nine Hostages, Éogan Mór, Conall Corc, Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin, Diarmait mac Cerbaill, Lugaid mac Con, Conn of the Hundred Battles, Lóegaire mac Néill, Crimthann mac Fidaig, and Brian Bóruma.
* King Leary or Lóegaire mac Néill, an Irish king
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