Southern Uí Néill
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The Southern Uí Néill or Uí Néill Deisceart were that branch of the Uí Néill dynasty that invaded and settled in the Kingdom of Mide and its associated kingdoms.
In the initial decades two sons of Niall Noigiallach, Lóeguire and Coirpre and their immediate descendants led the dynasty. However, after the murder of Tuathal Maelgarb in about 549, it was left to another branch of the family descended from another of Niall's sons - Conall Cremthainne - to continue Uí Néill expansion and consolidate their position. No descendants of either Lughaid mac Lóegaire or Tuathal Maelgarb are recorded, and it not unlikely that they were either erased from the genealogical record, or indeed literally erased from history.
Just as their kinsmen the Northern Uí Néill split into two main branches, so too did the Southern Uí Néill, both being descended from sons of Diarmaid mac Cearball, Colman Mar and Aed Slaine. The former was the progenitor of the Clann Cholomain Kings of Mide, while the latter was the eponymous ancestor of the Sil nAedo Slaine.
[edit] Southern Uí Néill family tree
Niall Noigíallach, d. 450/455? | |_________________________________________________________ | | | | | | Coirpre Lóegaire Conall Cremthainne | | | | | | Cormac Caech Lughaid Fergus Cearball | d. 507 | | | Tuathal Maelgarb Diarmait mac Cerbaill, died 565. died 544/549. | ________________________________________|______________________ | | | | | | Colman Mar, d.555/8 Colman Bec, d. 587. Áed Sláine, d.604. | | | | Clann Cholmáin dynasty Síl nÁedo Sláine dynasty
