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220 AD *91.Fiacha "Ba hAiccid" - the Lame the youngest of the 9 sons of *90.Cahir / Cathair “Mor” the 109th King of Tara / Ireland died this year whose male line was to become the most dominant direct ancestor of the many Cu Corb Septs who were to continue to control Southern Leinster prior to the Anglo - Norman Invasion. He would become the ancestor of the Ui Cheinnselaig and Ui Dunlainge Septs who would carry their Heremonian U Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb male line forward to the Kingships. His son;

*92.Bressal “Belach” - of the Large Lips became the Christian Cu Corb 1st King of Leinster and it would mainly be his descendants from 2 of his sons who would now carry their Cu Corb male line forward from *60.Leary / Laoghaire "Lorc" (Ui Laoghaire) as the future Heremonian Kings of Leinster. One of these sons was to be *93.Enda / Enna “Niadh” who became the direct male line ancestor of the O Cosgraves / Ui Fearghusa Sept and the Ui Briuin Cualann Sept from one of his sons, 94.Brion "Lethderg." Another of his sons, 94.Dowling / Dunlaing was at first to produce the strongest, the Ui Dunlainge Sept male line, from 2 of his own sons, 95.Illann the 5th King of Leinster who died in 527 AD, which ended his particular male line to the Kingship, and 95.Ailill / Oilioll the 6th King of Leinster who became the direct male line ancestor of the O Tooles from the Ui Dunlainge Ui Muireadhaig Septs and 15 Kings of Leinster, the Fitz Dermots, and the O Byrnes from the Ui Dunlainge Ui Faelain Septs and 10 Kings of Leinster, and the Ui Dunlainge Ui Dunchada Sept who would produce 11 Kings of Leinster. The Ui Dunlainge Septs would go on to provide 47 Kings of Leinster down to 112.Murrough / Murchad who would die in 1042 AD as the last Cu Corb Ui Dunlainge Ui Muiredaig 50th King of Leinster.

*93.Labraid "Laidech" the second son of 92.Bressal "Belach" was to be the father of 3 sons who would continue on the Cu Corb male line coming down through *90.Cahir / Cathair "Mor" the previous 109th King of Tara / Ireland. Of these 94.Deag / Daig became the direct male line ancestor of the O Hays of Leinster / Ui Dego / Dheaga "Mor" Sept who were to also have their territory among their near kinsmen in the Ui Cheinnselaig Tuath / Family region. His son, 95.Erc "Buadach" was to be the father of 96.Nad "Buibh" who also became a Cu Corb Ui Dego King of Leinster whose male line to the Kingship was to also end with him. From another of his sons, 94.Dron would come the O Ryans of Leinster from the Ui Drona Sept. 93.Labraid "Laidech's" male line would produce 16 Leinster Kings all up. The oldest son of *93.Labraid "Laidech" who was to mainly carry the Cu Corb male line forward was;

*94.Enda / Enna “Cennsalach” who became the Cu Corb 2nd King of Leinster who was married to Conang / Ceann Salach, named so by Cednathech the Druid who *94.Enda had killed at Croghan Hill in Co. Offaly in the mid - north - west of Southern Leinster when he was to defeat 86.Eochy / Eochaidh “Mugmedon” the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn 124th King of Tara / Ireland in 365 AD. *94.Enda "Cennsalach" would then become the direct male line ancestor of the Ui Cheinnselaig / Kinsella Septs, the Siol Faelchain / Mac Murroughs, Ui Felmeda Thes Sept / Murphys, Ui Felmeda Tuaid Sept, the Siol Cormaic and the Hartleys from the Siol Maeluidir. (*94.Enda "Cennsalach" as the 2nd King of Leinster was to refuse the offer of St. Patrick to become a Christian.) Of his 3 sons, 95.Felim / Fedelmid was to become the direct male line ancestor of the Ui Felmeda Sept who were to produce only 1 Leinster King, but he was to be the father of 96.Angus / Oengus who became the 5th Ui Cheinnselaig King, whose son, 97.Murray / Muiredach was to be the 8th Ui Cheinnselaig King and the father of 98.Eochy / Echu who became the 10th Ui Cheinnselaig King. His son, 99.Brandub became the 12th Ui Cheinnselaig King and the Cu Corb 7th King of Leinster who was to die in 605 / 8 AD, which quickly ended their particular male line altogether also to the Kingship. (Despite this he was to still be be the direct male line ancestor of the Fir Thulach Mide Sept.) Another son of *94.Enda "Cennsalach" was 95.Eochy / Echu “Cheinnselaig” who was to be exiled to Alba (Scottish Highlands) by 87.Niall of the Nine Hostages the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn 126th King of Tara / Ireland (Ui Niaill), and for this he later killed 87.Niall near Boulogne in revenge, in close proximity to the River Lianne / Leor. Other sons of *94.Enda "Cennsalach" who left no issue towards the Kingship were 95.Earc, 95.Angus, 95.Conal, 95.Trian and 95.Cairbre / Cairpre.

*95.Criffan / Crimthann “Cass” - of the Curley Hair his third son was to become the 1st Ui Cheinnselaig King and Cu Corb 3rd King of Leinster who was to rule for 40 years and be baptized by St. Patrick at Rathvilly in 448 AD. He married 84.Mell the daughter of 83.Erebran of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Desies in the Munster Province, a son of 82.Eoghan “Bric,” a son of 81.Art “Cuirb,” a son of 80.Fiacha “Suighde,” a son of 79.Felim “Reachtmar” the 108th King of Tara / Ireland (Ui Felim / Decies / Fotharta) who was also to be the father of 80.Conn of the Hundred Battles the 110th King of Tara / Ireland the male line direct ancestor of the Dal Cuinn. *95.Criffan "Cass" was to be the father of 96.Ingen the wife of Daire mac Ercadh of the Cu Corb Ui Bairrche Sept, and he was to be killed in 483 / 4 AD by his own grandson, *97.Eochy / Eochaidh “Guinech” from the Ui Bairrche Sept. Another of *95.Criffan "Cass's" sons, 96.Fiachra the Fair was appointed the Catholic 1st Bishop of Leinster by St. Patrick. Another of his daughters, 96.Eithne “Uathach” became the wife of 91.Angus / Oengus mac Nad the Heberian Eoghanacht 3rd King of Cashel / Munster descended from 37.Heber "Fionn."(Heberians). 96.Fergus was another of his sons who was to defeat 90.Dermot mac Carroll / Diarmait mac Cerbaill the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn "Southern" Ui Niaill 133rd King of Tara / Ireland at Drum Laoghaire, by the side of Cais, in the territory of the Ui Dunlainge Ui Faelain Sept. He was defending the payment of the troublesome borumha (tribute) originally made obligatory by 78.Toole "Teachtmhar" the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh 106th King of Tara / Ireland in the early 2nd Century AD, who is the ancestor also of the Dal Cuinn, for the death of his two daughters in Southern Leinster. It was also later to be increased by his descendant, 82.Cormac mac Airt the Dal Cuinn 115th King of Tara / Ireland in the 3rd Century AD because of the terrible mayhem at Tara carried out by 94.Dowling / Dunlaing the ancestor of the Cu Corb Ui Dunlainge Sept. His other sons were 96.Angus / Oengus, 96.Etchen and 96.Coffey / Cobthach.

The Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig Sept would produce 6 Kings of Leinster early on up until *104.Aed the 17a King of Leinster who was to die in 738 AD, which then seemed to bring to an end their participation in the male line to the Leinster Kingship, but 304 years later on in 1042 AD after the demise of the Ui Dunlainge male line the Ui Cheinnselaig Sept would regain the upper hand and produce another 9 Kings of Leinster prior to the Anglo - Norman Invasion in 1169 AD. This later reversal of fate would then bring great external misfortune to Ireland when the Invasion would be instigated by their last renowned descendant *113.Dermot Mac Murrough "na Gall" - of the Foreigners who had by then become the 65th Ui Cheinnselaig King and the Cu Corb 59th King of Leinster who would be their last.

The ancient Ui Cheinnselaig Kings of Leinster were to have fortresses at Dinn Righ near the River Barrow between Carlow and Leighlin, at Naas in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster, and later on at Ferns in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster, also at Ross in Co. Wexford, and Ballymoon in Co. Carlow in the south of Southern Leinster. The Ui Cheinnselaig Kings were inaugurated at Cnoc an Bhogha by the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Fotharta O Nolans who were the Lord Martials for the King and Chiefs of Forth in Carlow, and also by the O Dorans who were the Chief Brehon of Southern Leinster, and by the Mac Keoghs the Chief Bards.

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