Cairbre Crom ("Cairbre the Hunched"; ''fl. c.'' AD 556) was an Irish king of the 6th century AD; he was 11th King of
Uí Maine, in the west of
Ireland
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.
Background
Cairbre Crom is regarded as the last of the semi-historical kings of Uí Maine, his ''floruit'' estimated to be the second quarter of the 6th century.
He was a descendant of
Máine Mór, who founded the kingdom of Uí Maine about the middle years of the 4th century. In the king-lists, he is recorded as the 10th (inclusive) in succession to Máine Mór.
Genealogy
Cairbre is listed, along with Cairpri Mac Feithine and Nadsluaigh as the three sons of Feradhach mac Lughaidh. His
pedigree is given thus:
Descendants
Cairbre's notability is as the ancestor of almost all subsequent rulers of both Uí Maine and Síol Anmchadha, from the early historic period into the early modern era, a period of over one thousand years.
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Cairbre Crom's descendant
Anmchadh mac Eogan Buac
Anmchadh mac Eoghan Buac, Prince of Síol Anmchadha, died c.757.
Anmchad was a son of Eoghan Buac (''the generous''), who was of the Uí Maine and a descendant of Maine Mór, who founded the kingdom some centuries previously.
Anmchad had a br ...
(died c. 757), founded the kingdom of
Síol Anmchadha
Síol Anmchadha () was a sub-kingdom or lordship of Uí Maine, and ruled by an offshoot of the Uí Maine called the Síol Anmchadha (''"the seed of Anmchadh"''), from whom the territory took its name. It was located in Connacht, Ireland.
Hist ...
, which was referred to as ' (southern Uí Maine). Families descended from Cairbre via Anmchadh include
hUallacháin and Madden.
Eoghan Finn was the ancestor of King
Tadhg Mór Ua Cellaigh
Tadhg Mór Ua Cellaigh, 36th King of Uí Maine and 1st Chief of the Name.
Background
Ua Cellaigh was the first King of Uí Maine to bear the surname Ua Cellaigh, derived from his grandfather, Ceallach mac Finnachta, who was in turn a sixth-gener ...
(died 1014), from whom descend the Clann Ó Cellaigh or
Kelly of
County Galway
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, who were referred to as ' (northern Uí Maine).
Finn and Buac
The two Eoghan's shared the same name because they likely had different mothers, hence the use of
epithet
An epithet (, ), also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing. It is usually literally descriptive, as in Alfred the Great, Suleima ...
s. They were sons of Cormac mac Cairbre Crom.
References
* ''Annals of Ulster'' a
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Textsa
University College Cork* ''Annals of Tigernach'' a
a
University College Cork
of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin
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.
* Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press,
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Nobility from County Galway
Nobility from County Roscommon
6th-century Irish monarchs
Kings of Uí Maine