610s in Ireland
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[edit] 610
- Death of Conall Laeg Breg mac Áedo Sláine,[1] a King of Brega from the Síl nÁedo Sláine branch of the southern Ui Neill. He was the son of the high king Áed Sláine mac Diarmato (died 602). He ruled from 602-610. He is not called King of Brega in the annals but is second in a poem on the rulers of Síl nÁedo Sláine in the Book of Leinster.[2]
[edit] 611
- Suibne Menn or Suibne mac Fiachnai (died 628) was an Irish king who is counted as a High King of Ireland and started his reign in 611.
[edit] 612
- Death of Áed Uaridnach or Áed mac Domnaill was a High King of Ireland. He was sometimes also known as Áed Allán, a name usually reserved for the 8th century king of the same name, this Áed's great-great-grandson.
[edit] 613
- Death of Rónán mac Colmáin of the Uí Dúnlainge, son of Colmán Már mac Coirpri.[3] The Annals of Tigernach includes his death obit with the title King of Laigin, that is King of Leinster.[4] These annals interpolated dates for some Leinster kings in this period from the king lists.
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[edit] 615
- Death of Saint Columbanus at Bobbio (now in northern Italy)[5]
[edit] 616
- Death of Áedán mac Mongain, of the Ui Echach Coba branch of the Dal nAraide and father of [6] Fergus mac Áedáin, [7] a king of Ulaid from 674-692.
[edit] 617
[edit] 618
- Death of Saint Kevin of Glendalough[8].
- Death of Fíngen mac Áedo Duib, also known as Fingen Flann, a King of Munster.[9]. His sobriquet Flann meant "blood-red".
- Death of Áed Bennán mac Crimthainn [1] was a possible King of Munster from the Eóganacht Locha Léin branch of the Eoganachta. He was definitely king of West Munster or Iarmuman. He was the great grandson of Dauí Iarlaithe mac Maithni also a possible king of Munster from this branch.[10]
[edit] 619
[edit] References
- ^ a b all dates per The Chronology of the Irish Annals, Daniel P. McCarthy
- ^ Book of Leinster, Flann Mainistrech: Síl Aeda Sláne Na Sleg"
- ^ Byrne, Table 9.
- ^ Annals of Tigernach AT 613.4
- ^ The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Foster, RF. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1989
- ^ Early Christian Ireland by T. M. Charles-Edwards
- ^ Date per Annals of Ulster
- ^ Illustrated Dictionary of Irish History. Mac Annaidh, S (ed). Gill and Macmillan, Dublin. 2001
- ^ Byrne, Table 12.
- ^ Byrne, Table 15.
[edit] Works cited
- Byrne, Francis John, Irish Kings and High-Kings. Batsford, London, 1973. ISBN 0-7134-5882-8.
