Mael Ruanaidh na Paidre Ua hEidhin

Mael Ruanaidh na Paidre Ua hEidhin, king of Ui Fiachrach Aidhne, died 1014.

Mael Ruanaidh was the first of the Ua hEidhin kings to rule Aidhne, the last of whom, Eoghan Ó hEidhin, died in 1340.

Mael Ruanaidh was a partisan of Brian Boru, and may have been related by marriage. He fought on the side of Brian at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, where he died.

References

• http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/hynes_family.htm
• Irish Kings and High-Kings, Francis John Byrne (2001), Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9
• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork