Fráech mac Finchada or Fróech mac Findchado (died 495) was a

king of Leinster The kings of Leinster ( ga, Rí Laighín), ruled from the establishment of Leinster during the Irish Iron Age, until the 17th century Early Modern Ireland. According to Gaelic traditional history, laid out in works such as the ''Book of Invasio ...

. Fráech was a member of the

Dál Messin Corb The Dál Messin Corb were a ruling dynasty of Leinster along with the Dál Chormaic. Descended from Chú Chorb's son Messin Corb, they were the last of the Dumnonians. In the fifth and sixth centuries they were ousted and driven from their seat ...

dynasty's principal sub-sept, the

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. Their known kings include: ...

. He succeeded his father,

Fincath mac Garrchu Fincath mac Garrchu (or Findchad mac Garrchon) (died 485) was a king of Leinster. He was a member of the Dál Messin Corb dynasty's principal sub-sept, the Uí Garrchon. He was the son of the founder of this sept Garrchú mac Fothaid. Not mentio ...

, (died 485). He ruled from 485 to 495. The annals record a defeat of the Leinstermen at the Battle of Taillten in 494 by

Coirpre mac Néill Coirpre mac Néill ('' fl''. '' c''. 485–493), also Cairbre or Cairpre, was said to be a son of Niall of the Nine Hostages. Coirpre was perhaps the leader of the conquests that established the southern Uí Néill in the midlands of Ireland. T ...

. This is associated with the Ui Neill conquest of

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and the taking of Tailtiu. In 495 Fráech was defeated and slain by Eochu mac Coirpri at the second Battle of Grainaret (

Granard Granard () is a town in the north of County Longford, Ireland, and has a traceable history going back to AD 236. It is situated just south of the boundary between the watersheds of the Shannon and the Erne, at the point where the N55 nationa ...

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) in Tethba.''Annals of Ulster'' AU 493.3, 495.1; ''Annals of Tigernach'' AT 495.1

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* Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2000), ''Early Christian Ireland'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, * Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, * ''Book of Leinster'',''Rig Laigin'' a

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Dáibhí Ó Cróinín Dáibhí Iarla Ó Cróinín (born 29 August 1954) is an Irish historian and authority on Hiberno-Latin texts, noted for his significant mid-1980s discovery in a manuscript in Padua of the "lost" Irish 84-year Easter table. Ó Cróinín was Prof ...

''A New History of Ireland'', Vol.I, (edited Ó Cróinín).

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