In medieval Ireland

History of Ireland

The first known settlement in Ireland began around 8000 BC, when hunter-gatherers arrived from continental Europe, probably via a land bridge. Few archaeological traces remain of this group, but their descendants and later Neolithic arrivals, particularly from the Iberian Peninsula, were...

, the Kings of Mide were of the Clann Cholmáin

Clann Cholmáin

Clann Cholmáin is the name of the dynasty descended from Colmán Mór , son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Part of the Southern Uí Néill — they were the kings of Mide — they traced their descent to Niall Noígiallach and his son Conall Cremthainne.Related dynasties descended through Conall...

, a branch of the Uí Néill

Uí Néill

The Uí Néill are Irish and Scottish dynasties who claim descent from Niall Noigiallach , an historical King of Tara who died about 405....

. Several were High Kings of Ireland. After the collapse of the kingdom in the 12th century its dynasty, the Ua Mael Sechlainn or Ó Melaghlins, were forced west and settled on the east bank of the Shannon

River Shannon

The River Shannon is the longest river in Ireland at . It divides the west of Ireland from the east and south . County Clare, being west of the Shannon but part of the province of Munster, is the major exception...

. Bearers of the name were still noted as among the Gael

Gaël

Gaël is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in north-western France.It lies southwest of Rennes between Saint-Méen-le-Grand and Mauron...

ic nobility till as late as the 1690s, though they had lost any real power long before.

The Kingdom of Mide

Kingdom of Mide

Mide , spelt Midhe in modern Irish and anglicised as Meath, was a medieval kingdom in Ireland for over 1,000 years. Its name means "middle", denoting the fact that lay in the middle of Ireland....

 itself seems to have existed as a kingdom (though of varying sizes) since at least the early historic era. Its name means "middle", denoting the fact that it was situated in the very centre of Ireland in what is now County Westmeath

County Westmeath

-Economy:Westmeath has a strong agricultural economy. Initially, development occurred around the major market centres of Mullingar, Moate, and Kinnegad. Athlone developed due to its military significance, and its strategic location on the main Dublin–Galway route across the River Shannon. Mullingar...

, parts of north County Offaly

County Offaly

County Offaly is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Uí Failghe and was formerly known as King's County until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. Offaly County Council is...

, south County Longford

County Longford

County Longford is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Longford.Longford County Council is the local authority for the county...

 and western County Meath

County Meath

County Meath is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Mid-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Mide . Meath County Council is the local authority for the county...

. Its early kings may have been of the Dál Messin Corb - whose sept, the Uí Garrchon

Uí Garrchon

The Uí Garrchon were the principal sub-sept of the Dál Messin Corb, who were the ruling dynasty of Leinster, Ireland for much of the fifth century. Their main opponents outside of Leinster were the nascent Uí Néill...

, were Kings of Leinster

Kings of Leinster

The following is a provisional list of the kings of Leinster who ruled the Irish kingdom of Leinster up to 1632 with the death of Domhnall Spainnach MacMurrough-Kavanagh, the last legitimately inaugurated head of the MacMurrough Kavanagh royal line...

. However, from the late 400's onwards they were driven away from their original homeland in modern County Kildare

County Kildare

County Kildare is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Mid-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Kildare. Kildare County Council is the local authority for the county...

 and over the Wicklow Mountains

Wicklow Mountains

The Wicklow Mountains form the largest continuous upland area in Ireland. They occupy the whole centre of County Wicklow and stretch outside its borders into Counties Carlow, Wexford and Dublin. Where the mountains extend into County Dublin, they are known locally as the Dublin Mountains...

 by the Ui Néill

Uí Néill

The Uí Néill are Irish and Scottish dynasties who claim descent from Niall Noigiallach , an historical King of Tara who died about 405....

, whose sept, the Clann Cholmáin

Clann Cholmáin

Clann Cholmáin is the name of the dynasty descended from Colmán Mór , son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Part of the Southern Uí Néill — they were the kings of Mide — they traced their descent to Niall Noígiallach and his son Conall Cremthainne.Related dynasties descended through Conall...

, took their place.

Clann Cholmáin Kings of Mide

• Domnall Midi
  Domnall Midi
  Domhnall Mac Murchada , called Domnall Midi , was High King of Ireland. He belonged to the Clann Cholmáin branch of the Uí Néill...
  
   mac Murchado 743-763
• Fallomon mac Con Congalt
  Fallomon mac Con Congalt
  Fallomon mac Con Congalt , also written Follaman mac Con Congelt, was King of Mide, a kingdom of the Uí Néill in central Ireland in modern County Westmeath and County Meath.-Background:...
  
   (of Clann Cholmáin Bicc) ? to 766
• Donnchad Midi mac Domnaill
  Donnchad Midi mac Domnaill
  Donnchad mac Domnaill , called Donnchad Midi, was High King of Ireland. His father, Domnall Midi, had been the first Uí Néill High King from the south-central Clann Cholmáin based in modern County Westmeath and western County Meath, Ireland...
  
    766-797
• Domnall mac Donnchada Midi
  Domnall mac Donnchada Midi
  Domnall mac Donnchada Midi was a King of Mide of the Clann Cholmáin. He was the son of the High King of Ireland, Donnchad Midi . He ruled in as King of Mide from 797 to 799...
  
   797-799
• Muiredach mac Domnaill Midi
  Muiredach mac Domnaill Midi
  Muiredach mac Domnaill Midi was a King of Uisnech in Mide of the Clann Cholmáin. He was the son of the High King of Ireland, Domnall Midi and brother of the high king Donnchad Midi...
  
   799-802
• Diarmait mac Donnchado 802-803
• Conchobar mac Donnchado 803-833
• Niall mac Diarmato ???-826
• Máel Ruanaid mac Donnchada Midi
  Máel Ruanaid mac Donnchada Midi
  Máel Ruanaid mac Donnchada Midi was a King of Uisnech in Mide of the Clann Cholmáin. He was the son of the High King of Ireland, Donnchad Midi and brother of the high king Conchobar mac Donnchada...
  
   833-843
• Fland mac Maele Ruanaid 843-845
• Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid
  Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid
  Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid was High King of Ireland. The Annals of Ulster use the Old Irish title rí hÉrenn uile, that is "king of all Ireland", when reporting his death, distinguishing Máel Sechnaill from the usual Kings of Tara who are only called High Kings of Ireland in late sources such...
  
    845-22 November 862
• Lorcán mac Cathail
  Lorcán mac Cathail
  Lorcán mac Cathail was a King of Uisnech and Mide of the Clann Cholmáin. Lorcán ruled in as King of Mide from 862-864.His exact dynastic affiliations are unknown. The death of a certain Cathal mac Conchobair is mentioned in the annals in 843. If this was his father he may have been the grandson...
  
    862-864
• Conchobar mac Donnchado ???-864
• Donnchad mac Aedacain
  Donnchad mac Aedacain
  Donnchad mac Aedacain was a King of Uisnech and Mide of the Clann Cholmáin. He was the grandson of the High King Conchobar mac Donnchada . He ruled as King of Mide from 864 to 877....
  
   864-877
• Flann Sinna
  Flann Sinna
  Flann Sinna was the son of Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid of Clann Cholmáin, a branch of the southern Uí Néill. He was King of Mide from 877 onwards and is counted as a High King of Ireland...
  
   mac Maíl Sechnaill 877-25 May 916
• Conchobar mac Flainn 916-919
• Donnchad Donn
  Donnchad Donn
  Donnchadh Donn mac Flainn was High King of Ireland. He belonged to Clann Cholmáin, a branch of the southern Uí Néill.-Origins:...
  
   mac Flainn 919-944
• Oengus mac Donnchada 944-945/946
• Donnchad mac Domnaill 945/946-950
• Fergal Got mac Oengussa c.950-c.950
• Aed mac Mael Ruanaid c.950-951
• Domnall mac Donnchada 951-952
• Carlus mac Cuinn 952-960
• Donnchad Finn mac Aeda 960-974
• Muirchertach mac Mael Sechnaill 974-c.976
• Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill
  Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill
  Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill , also called Máel Sechnaill Mór, Máel Sechnaill II, anglicized Malachy II, was King of Mide and High King of Ireland...
  
    975/976-2 September 1022
• Mael Sechnaill Got mac Mael Sechnaill 1022-1025
• Roen mac Muirchertaig 1025-1027
• Domnall Got 1027-1030
• Conchobar ua Mael Sechlainn 1030-1073
• Murchad mac Flainn Ua Mael Sechlainn 1073-1073
• Mael Sechlainn Ban mac Conchobair Ua Mael Sechlainn 1073-1087
• Domnall mac Flainn Ua Mael Sechlainn 1087-1094
• Donnchad mac Murchada Ua Mael Sechlainn 1094-1105
  1105 in Ireland
  -Events:*Cellach Ua Sinaig inherits the position of Abbot of Armagh ....
  
  
• Conchobar mac Mael Sechlainn Ua Mael Sechlainn 1094-1105
• Muirchertach mac Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1105-1106
  1106 in Ireland
  -Events:*Turlough O’Connor becomes King of Connacht and claimant to the High Kingship of Ireland, reigning until 1156....
  
  
• Murchad mac Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1106-1153
  1153 in Ireland
  -Births:*Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht ....
  
  
• Mael Sechlainn mac Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1115-1115
• Domnall mac Murchada Ua Mael Sechlainn 1127
  1127 in Ireland
  -Events:*Building starts on Cormac's Chapel, on the Rock of Cashel, Cashel, County Tipperary ....
  
  -1127
• Diarmait mac Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1127 - 1130
• Conchobar Ua Conchobair 1143-1144
• Donnchad mac Muirchertaig Ua Mael Sechlainn 1144-????
• Mael Sechlainn mac Murchada Ua Mael Sechlainn 1152
  1152 in Ireland
  -Events:*Synod of Kells-Mellifont results in a national church organisation with four metropolitans and 36 sees, under the primacy of Armagh.*Diarmaid mac Murchadha elopes with Devorgill...
  
  -1155
  1155 in Ireland
  -Events:*Pope Adrian IV grants Henry II of England the right to rule Ireland, after Henry convinced the Pope that he was needed "to proclaim the truths of the Christian religion" to the Irish people."...
  
  
• Donnchad mac Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1155-1155
• Diarmait mac Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1155-1156
  1156 in Ireland
  -Deaths:*Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair , who had reigned as King of Connacht since 1106 and was a claimant to the High Kingship of Ireland. He was buried in Clonmacnoise....
  
  
• Donnchad mac Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1156-1157
  1157 in Ireland
  -Events:*Completion and consecration of Mellifont Abbey, the first Cistercian foundation in Ireland....
  
  
• Diarmait mac Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1157- 1158
• Donnchad mac Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1158-1160
• Diarmait mac Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1160-1169
  1169 in Ireland
  -Events:* 1 May - Norman invasion of Ireland starts with the arrival of Norman military leaders FitzStephen, Fitzgerald and others.*Wexford is taken.*Dermot MacMurrough is restored as King of Leinster....
  
  
• Domnall Bregach mac Mael Sechlainn meic Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1169-1173

The Lords of Clonlonan

• Art mac Mael Sechlainn meic Domnaill Ua Mael Sechlainn 1173-1184
• Magnus Ua Mael Sechlainn ????-1175
• Mael Sechlainn Beg, 1184–1213
• Cormac mac Art O Melaghlain
  Cormac mac Art O Melaghlain
  Cormac mac Art Ó Melaghlain, was King of Mide from about 1205 to 1239. He was acknowledged as one of the most ferocious and formidable opponents of the Normans since their arrival in Ireland...
  
  , 1213–1239
• Art mac Cormac, 1239–1283
• Cairbre, 1283–1290
• Murchadh mac Cairbre, 1290–93
• Cormac mac Cormac, 1293?-1301
• Cairbre an Sgregain, 1301?-1323
• Art Mór mac Cormac, 1323-1344.
• Cormac Ballach mac Art, 1344-62.
• Art mac Art Mór, 1362–85
• Conchobhar, 1385?-1401
• ?, fl. 1431.
• Art mac Conn?, died 1431
• Laighnech mac Corc, d. 1487
• Conn mac Art mac Conn, 1487–1500
• Murchad mac Conn, d. 1518.
• Toirrdelbach the Cleric, 1518-37.
• Art mac Conn, 1537–39
• Felim Óg mac Felim mac Conn, 1539-42.
• Rudhraighe, 1542–43; died 1544.
• Caedach mac Felim mac Conn, 1543-?
• Conn mac Art mac Conn, ?-1548
• Tadhg Ruadh mac Toirrdelbach, 1548-53?
• Murchad mac Toirrdelbach?, fl. 1547/49?
• An Calbhach, 1564-c. December 1600.
• Irriel, December 1600 - 10 April 1604.
• Phelim mac Irriel, born 1 August 1602, alive 1604.