Search results
Eóganacht Chaisil were a branch of the Eóganachta, the ruling dynasty of Munster between the 5th and 10th centuries. They took their name from Cashel (County Tipperary) which was the capital of the early Catholic kingdom of Munster.
The Eóganachta (Modern Irish: Eoghanachta, pronounced [ˈoːnˠəxt̪ˠə]) were an Irish dynasty centred on Cashel which dominated southern Ireland (namely the Kingdom of Munster) from the 6/7th to the 10th centuries, [1] and following that, in a restricted form, the Kingdom of Desmond, and its offshoot Carbery, to the late 16th century.
The son of Buadachán mac Lachtnai, he belonged to the Cashel branch of the Eóganachta kindred, the Eóganacht Chaisil. The last of his cognatic ancestors to have held the kingship of Munster was Colgú mac Faílbe Flaind (d. 678), eight generations earlier.
Cellachán Caisil (‘of Cashel’) (d. 954), son of Buadachán and overking of Munster, was the last notable overking of the dynastic federation of the Éoganachta.
Dál Cais genealogies as embedded in those of Eóganacht Caisil. Good ancestry is important. – even if you have to invent it. Dr. Catherine Swift, Mary Immaculate College. Acallamh na Senórach: Tales of the Elders of Ireland. – written. c. 1200-1210.
Eóganacht Chaisil were a branch of the Eóganachta, the ruling dynasty of Munster between the 5th and 10th centuries. They took their name from Cashel (County Tipperary) which was the capital of the early Catholic kingdom of Munster.
Cellachán mac Buadacháin was the son of Buadachán mac Lachtnai, of the Eóganacht Chaisil of Munster, Ireland. Perhaps better known as Cellachán Caisil or Ceallachan Cashel. He defeated and killed Cennétig mac Lorcáin king of the Dál gCais, and two of Cennétig's sons at the battle of Gort Rottacháin.
