Cenél nEogain

Irish clan

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role in Irish history

  • Map showing the republic of Ireland, its counties, and its major cities.
    In Ireland: Early political history

    …branches of Niall’s descendants, the Cenél nEogain, of the northern Uí Néill, and the Clan Cholmáin, of the southern Uí Néill, alternated as kings of Ireland from 734 to 1002, a fact that suggests a formal arrangement between the two septs (i.e., descendants of a common ancestor). Inevitably, claims to…

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