Uí Fiachrach Aidhne

Uí Fiachrach Aidhne

Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne (also known as Hy Fiachrach) was a kingdom located in what is now the south of Co. Galway. In the centuries prior to the historical era, the Aidhne branch of the Ui Fiachrach dynasty emerged as the ruling tuath in this part of Connacht. Their territory was known as Aidhne or Maigh Aidhne / Maigh nAidhne and also by the tribal name Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne. The diocese of Cill Mhic Dhuach / Kilmacduagh is coextensive with the territory of Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne, which covers all of the barony of Kiltartan and large parts of the baronies of Loughrea and Dunkellin. In the eleventh century the Ó hEidhin / O Heyne / Hynes clan would emerge as the principal clan of the Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne. The Anglo-Norman invasion of Connacht in the 1200s considerably reduced the power of the Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne. The Clanricarde Burkes, the Norman family who led this invasion, captured a good deal of the north and east of the territory of Aidhne. After the 1200s the Ó hEidhin clan were largely confined to a sub district of Aidhne known as Coill Ua bhFhiachrach, which is the area covered by the modern Catholic parish of Kinvara. The Ó hEidhin clan remained the lords of Aidhne up until they lost their power and lands after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in the middle of the seventeenth century.

Three other important clans of the Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne included the O Shaughnessys (Ó Seachnasaigh), the O Clearys (Ó Cléirigh) and the (Mac) Kilkellys (Mac Giolla Cheallaigh). The O Clearys were kings of the territory before the O Hynes clan but were exiled from the territory probably in the years following the Anglo-Norman invasion of Connacht. Under the patronage of the O Donnells of Ulster the O Clearys went on to become one of the most famous learned families in Ireland. Up until the late 1600s the O Shaughnessys held the sub district of Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne known as Cinéal nAedha na hEchtghe, which was also their clan name. Cinéal nAedha na hEchtghe / Kinelea consisted roughly of the civil parishes of Beagh, Kilmacduagh and Kiltartan and also parts of the civil parishes of Kibeacanty and Kilthomas. During the 1600s the O Shaughnessys became more important than the O Hynes clan even though the Ó hEidhin was still styled the lord of Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne. In the 1690s the O Shaughnessys had their lands confiscated for supporting the Jacobite cause against William of Orange. A legal battle raged on into the first half of the 1700s between the O Shaughnessys and the dn|Prendergasts, the family who were granted the O Shaughnessy lands, with the O Shaughnessys eventually losing the case. The senior line of the O Shaughnessys may have died out in the 1780s. The (Mac) Kilkellys held the sub district of Aidhne known as Cinéal nGuaire, which is the area covered by the modern Catholic parish of Ballinderreen. They lost their lands in the Cromwellian confiscations during the middle of the 1600s.

The following were Kings of Connacht from the Ui Fiachrach Aidhne line: [Francis J.Byrne, "Irish Kings and High-Kings", Table 18 with dates per "The Chronology of the Irish Annals", Daniel P. McCarthy]

*Colmán mac Cobthaig(d.622)
*Loingsech mac Colmáin(d.655)
*Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin(d.663)
*Muirchertach Nár mac Guairi Aidne(d.668)
*Fergal Aidne mac Artgaile mac Guaire(d.696)

Notes

External links

* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/ihm/connacht.htm#aid Ui Fiachrach Aidne at Ireland's History in Maps]


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