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The last of Diarmait's ancestors to have been counted as king of all Leinster, Crimthann mac Énnai, died in the late 5th century; but Diarmait's more immediate forebears, most recently his great-grandfather Domnall mac Cellaig (died 974), had been counted among the kings of the Uí Cheinnselaig.
Diarmait was born around 1090 [3] or 1110, [4] [5] a son of Donnchadh mac Murchada, King of Leinster and Dublin.His father's paternal grandmother, Derbforgaill, was a daughter of Donnchad, King of Munster and thus a granddaughter of Brian Boru.
The kingship of Leinster thereupon fell to Diarmait himself, who soon after seized control of Dublin, before dying there in 1117. After his death, Domnall Gerrlámhach retook the kingship of Dublin ; [ 3 ] and Énna Mac Murchada , an Uí Chennselaig kinsman of Diarmait, was elected King of Leinster.
The Kings of Uisnech ruled a kingdom centred in modern County Westmeath, named for Uisnech (also Ushnagh), the Hill of Uisneach, reputed to be the centre of Ireland.They belonged to Clann Cholmáin, a kin group descended from Colmán Már, son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill, and were counted among the southern branches of the Uí Néill.
The kings of Leinster (Irish: 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 found in works such as the Book of Invasions, Leinster was created during the division of Ireland among the Irish Gaels, descendants of Milesius: Leinster was one of the territories held by the ...
Domhnall was the eldest son of the 12th century King of Leinster, Diarmait Mac Murchada in Ireland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Domhnall was fostered for his training and education by the coarb of the monastery of St. Caomhán at Kilcavan near Gorey, County Wexford.
Diarmait's deep-rooted authority in Norse-Gaelic Dublin lasted for two decades, and was a remarkable achievement that no other Irish king had ever accomplished. [14] Unfortunately for the Uí Chennselaig, two of Diarmait's sons—Murchad and Glún Iairn—unexpectedly predeceased their father in 1070, [ 15 ] and Diarmait himself fell in battle ...
Diarmait was one of the younger sons of King of Ireland, Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (died 1198). The Annals of the Four Masters , sub anno 1203, say of him: Murtough the Teffian, son of Conor Moinmoy, who was the son of Roderic O'Conor, was slain by ' Dermot , the son of Roderic, and Hugh, the son of Roderic, namely, by his own two paternal uncles ...