The area came under the sway of the local clan which controlled the south and middle of the County of Longford ( historically called Anghaile or ) and hence, the town is sometimes called Longphort Uí Fhearghail ( port of O ' Farrell ).

He names the source of this material as Leabhar Airisean Fhearghail Uí Ghadhra, an alternative name for the Annals of the Four Masters.

The descendants of Fearghal, who fought alongside Brian Boru at the battle of Clontarf, took the surname of Uí Fhearghail ( descendants of Fearghal ).

Another site associated with the clan was Moatfarrell ( Móta Uí Fhearghail ), in the east of Annaly between the present day towns of Ballinalee and Edgeworthstown.

They had divided into two family subgroups, Uí Fhearghail Bán ( White O ' Farrell ) and Uí Fhearghail Buí ( Yellow O ' Farrell ), controlling the north and south of Annaly respectively.

" Columba sought support from his kinsmen among the Cenél Conaill and the Cenél nEógain of the northern Uí Néill who went to war with Diarmait.

As grandchildren of Dáire Cerbba ( Cearba, Cearb ) in most sources ( e. g. Rawlinson B 502 ), also an ancestor of the Uí Liatháin and Uí Fidgenti, the brother and sister are sometimes regarded as belonging to an early branch of the Eóganachta which later became peripheral or went extinct, although it is more likely that all descendants of Dáire Cerbba belong to a distinct people, possibly the Dáirine, which may be hinted at in an obscure Old Irish poem by Flann mac Lonáin, although in the Banshenchus Mongfind is called " Mongfind of the Érnai " ( Érainn ), a people in any case related to the Dáirine.

Toirdelbach was the chief beneficiary of Diarmait's death, the Annals of Innisfallen recording that: Toirdelbach Ua Briain went to Osraige and Leinster, burned Uí Cheinnselaig and brought away much booty and cows, and took hostages from it as well as from Leinster.

Congalach was the grandson of High King Flann Sinna of Clann Cholmáin and succeeded to the Uí Néill High Kingship in unusual circumstances on the death of his mother's half-brother Donnchad Donn.

* Brian Boru, King of Leinster and Munster, becomes High King of Ireland, breaking the Uí Néill monopoly on the title.

Executive members included Máire Ní Chinnéide, Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh ( who wrote pamphlets on behalf of the League ), Bean an Doc Uí Choisdealbha, Máire Ní hAodáin, Máire de Buitléir, Nellie O ' Brien, Eibhlín Ní Dhonnabháin and Eibhlín Nic Néill.

The Uí Ímair in Ireland had also suffered in 944 as Dublin was sacked that year by the High King of Ireland Congalach Cnogba, whose power base lay in Brega, north of Dublin on the lower reaches of the River Boyne.

However, Woolf ( 2005 ) asserts that " contrary to the image, projected by recent clan-historians, of Clann Somhairle as Gaelic nationalists liberating the Isles from Scandinavians, it is quite explicit in our two extended narrative accounts from the thirteenth century, Orkneyinga saga and The Chronicle of the Kings of Man and the Isles, that the early leaders of Clann Somhairle saw themselves as competitors for the kingship of the Isles on the basis of their descent through their mother Ragnhilt " and that their claim " to royal status was based on its position as a segment of Uí Ímair.

It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Uí Failghe and was formerly known as King's County until it was informally changed on establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.

* Uí Néill, for information on the Ui Neill dynasty

This towerhouse is believed to have been built on or close to the site of Dúrlas Guaire the main residence of Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin, the 7th-century king of Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne and Connacht.

Sports meetings were frequently held on the area now occupied by Páirc Uí Chaoimh even before the establishment of the Gaelic Athletic Association.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh was officially opened on June 6, 1976 by Con Murphy, then president of the GAA.

Dabhach Bhríde is found near the Cliffs of Moher in an area of great scenic beauty, and behind the well on a higher level, to which steps lead, is an ancient cemetery in which the Uí Bhrian, the Kings of Dál gCais, are buried.

Members of the Ó Ceileacháin family were mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters as being lords of Uí Breasail, a district on the southern shore of Lough Neagh, and priors of Armagh in the 11th century.

Dinnshenchas Érenn, probably composed by Cináed Ua Hartacáin ( d. 975 ), also selected the nearby Cnoch Liamhna for mention as one of the “ assemblies and noted places in Ireland ”, an indication of the strength of the local ruling family, the Uí Dúnchada branch of the Uí Dúnlainge who supplied ten kings of Leinster from their base on nearby Lyons Hill between 750 and 1050.

Grandson of Tuathal Ó Cléirigh, a chief of the sept of Uí Chléirigh in Donegal, he was born in Kilbarron near Creevy, between Rossnowlagh and Ballyshannon on Donegal Bay.

Aidhne is bounded on the east by the low mountains of Slieve Aughty, which separated Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne from Uí Maine.

On the north-east Aidhne is bounded by the plains of Uí Mhaine and on the north by Maigh Mucruimhe ( the area around Athenry ).

Aidhne is bounded on the east by the low mountains of Sliabh Echtghe / Slieve Aughty, which separate Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne from the territory of Uí Mhaine in eastern County Galway.

On the north-east Aidhne is bounded by the plains of Uí Mhaine and on the north by Maigh Mucruimhe ( the area around Athenry ).

The decline of Clann Cholmáin, and the defeat inflicted on the Uí Dúnlainge, led by Máel Mórda mac Murchada, at the battle of Clontarf in 1014, changed the political landscape to favour the Uí Cheinnselaig once more.

Maigh Seola the plain lying on eastern side of Lough Corrib was also considered to be part of Iar Chonnachta up until the 13th century when the native rulers of Maigh Seola-the O Flahertys / Uí Fhlaithbheartaigh-were ousted from Maigh Seola during the Norman invasion of Connacht in that century.

Muscraighe Mitine underwent three invasions during the thirteenth century ; from the Murcheatach Uí Briain and Richard de Cogan in 1201 and 1207 respectively, and finally from the MacCarthy family who had become the dominant and most powerful family in what was then known as Muscraighe Uí Fhloinn.

Mac Murchada planned not only to retake Leinster, but to oust the Uí Conchobair clan and become the High King of Ireland himself.

Up until the mid 17th century the O ' Hynes clan were still styled lords of Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne even though the Ó Seachnasaigh's had become more powerful than their kinsmen during this century.

Máel Sechnaill now turned his attention to the north, where the growing power of Áed Findliath had become a threat against him as head of Uí Néill.

The Uí Briúin Seóla was one of the major branches of the powerful Uí Briúin dynasty, which had become the dominant force in Connacht by the 8th century.

However Dál Riata came to form, the period in which it arose was one of great instability in Ulster, following the loss of territory by the kingdom of Ulaid, including the ancient centre of Emain Macha, to the Airgíalla and the Uí Néill.

Other scholars, following T. F. O ' Rahilly, propose that the sagas of the Ulster Cycle derive from the wars between the Ulaid and the midland dynasties of the Connachta and the nascent Uí Néill in the 4th and 5th centuries, at the end of which the Ulaid lost much of their territory, and their capital, to the new kingdoms of the Airgíalla.

On the north-west it was bounded by the parish of Maree which was in the territory of Uí Bhriúin Seola.

Alternative designations for the territory were Maigh Aidhne ( the plain of Aidhne ), Maigh nAidhne, eventually becoming Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne after the dynasty.

Aidhne also known as, Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne, Maigh Aidhne / Maigh nAidhne (' Plain ( of ) Aidhne ') was the territory of the Ui Fiachrach Aidhne, a tuath ( tribal kingdom ) located in the south of what is now County Galway in the south of Connacht, Ireland.

On the north-west Aidhne is bounded by the parish of Meadhraighe / Maree which is in the territory of Uí Bhriúin Seola.

The territory of Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne is coextensive with the diocese of Cill Mhic Dhuach / Kilmacduagh, which contains the civil parishes of Kinvarradoorus, Killinny, Killeenavarra, Drumacoo, Kilcolgan, Ardrahan, Stradbally, Killeeneen, Killeely, Killora, Killogilleen, Kilchreest, Isertkelly, Killinan, Kilthomas, Kilbeacanty, Beagh, Kilmacduagh, Kiltartan.

Clann Fhergail itself was a sub district of Uí Bhriúin Seola the territory of which is called Maigh Seola (' plain of Seola ').

St. Grellan ’ s Crozier, or Bachall Grealláin was given to the Uí Maine with the territory, and was thenceforth borne in their standard on the battlefield.