The Senchineoil was the name of the pre-Gaelic

Gaels

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 inhabitants of what is now central and east County Galway

County Galway

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 and south County Roscommon

County Roscommon

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Overview

The term Senchineoil (sen = old; chineoil = people/tribe/kindred) was used by the Uí Maine to described aithechtuatha - unfree, enslaved vassal peoples - who they subjugated during the founding of their kingdom sometime prior to the fifth century AD. They are described as:

"Seincheinéal of the old plain of Soghan/stretched eastward over [the river] Suck

River Suck

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/until it reached Delbhna

Delbhna

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 of Dealbhaoth; manly were the good heroes, like a flame."

It is not know by what term the Senchineoil described themselves, or even if it was in Gaelic

Irish language

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. Their last recorded ruler was Cian d'Fhearaibh Bolg

Cian d'Fhearaibh Bolg

Cian d'Fhearaibh Bolg, last King of the Senchineoil of Magh Senchineoil, now in County Galway.-Background:Cian is identified as the king of Magh Senchineol, home to the Senchineoil people, who were said to be of Fir Bolg origin, a population group from Irish mythology. It was asserted by T. F...

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See also

• Uí Fiachrach Aidhne
  Uí Fiachrach Aidhne
  Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne was a kingdom located in what is now the south of Co. Galway.-Legendary origins and geography:...
  
  
• Clann Fhergail
  Clann Fhergail
  Clann Fhergail was a cantred located in County Galway, compriseing the baronies of Moycullen and Galway, the parishes of Oranmore and Ballynacourty and Rahoon....
  
  
• Clann Taidg
  Clann Taidg
  Clann Taidg was the name of a medieval cantred located in what is now County Galway, Ireland.It consisted of the parishes of Athenry, Monivea, Tiaquin, Kilkerrin, Moylough, Killererin, Ballynakill-Aghiart, Kilmoylan, and possibly Abbeyknockmoy....
  
  
• Delbhna Tir Dha Locha
  Delbhna Tir Dha Locha
  Dealbhne Thíre Dhá Loch was a tuath of Gaelic Ireland, located in the west of what is now Co. Galway, Ireland. It is now called Connemara-Overview:It was ruled by the Mac Conraoi clann...
  
  
• Muintir Murchada
  Muintir Murchada
  Muintir Murchada was the name of an Irish territory which derived its name from the ruling dynasty, who were in turn a branchh of the Uí Briúin. The name was derived from Murchadh mac Maenach, King of Uí Briúin Seóla, who died 891.-Overview:...
  
  
• Uí Maine
• Soghain
  Soghain
  The Soghain were a people of ancient Ireland. Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh identified them as part of a larger group called the Cruithin, and stated of them:...
  
  
• Trícha Máenmaige
• Uí Díarmata
  Uí Díarmata
  Uí Díarmata was a local kingdom located in what is now north County Galway.-Origins:The ruling dynasty took its name from King Diarmait Finn of Connacht , and the territory in turn was named after them. It seems to have been created by the Uí Briúin in the ninth century during a wave of expansion...
  
  
• Cóiced Ol nEchmacht
  Cóiced Ol nEchmacht
  -Etymology and extent:Cóiced Ol nEchmacht may be translated as the portion/fifth/province of the Ol nEchmacht, also called the Fir Ol nEchmacht . They were divided up into three main tribes: the Fir Craibe, or Fir na Criabe; the Tuatha Taiden; the Gamanraige...
  
  
• Síol Anmchadha
  Síol Anmchadha
  Síol Anmchadha was a sub-kingdom or lordship of Hy-Many, and ruled by an off-shoot of the Ui Maine called the Síol Anmchadha , from whom the territory took its name....
  
  
• Iar Connacht
  Iar Connacht
  Iar Chonnachta , was a region covering all of County Galway west of the river Corrib and Lough Corrib; Maigh Seola; and part of the barony of Ross in County Mayo.-Description:The area of Co...
  
  
• Maigh Seola
  Maigh Seola
  Maigh Seola was a term used to describe the land along the east shore of Lough Corrib in County Galway, Ireland. It was bounded by the Uí Maine vassal kingdom of Soghain. Its rulers up to the 1220s were the Muintir Murchada, who took the surname O'Flaherty...
  
  
• Cenél Áeda na hEchtge
  Cenél Áeda na hEchtge
  Cenél Áeda na hEchtge was a trícha cét Cenél Áeda na hEchtge (also Cenél Áeda, Kenloth, Kinalethes, Kenealea, Kinelea)was a trícha cét Cenél Áeda na hEchtge (also Cenél Áeda, Kenloth, Kinalethes, Kenealea, Kinelea)was a trícha cét (later a cantred, (a branch of the Uí Fiachrach Aidhne) and which...
  
  
• Cenél Guaire
• Muintir Máelfináin
• Conmaícne Cenéoil Dubáin
• Conmaícne Cúile Toland
• Bunrath
• Uí Briúin Rátha
• Tír Maine
• Uí Briúin Seola
• Machaire Riabhach
• Maigh Mucruimhe
• Airthir Connacht
• Meadraige
• Corca Moga
• Óic Bethra