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Breogán Brigus mac Bráth King of Galicia Andalusia Murcia Castile and Portugal


Preferred Parents:
Father: Brath MacDeagh King of Gothia, b. 1820 BC in North Africa, Africa   d. 1715 BC in Galicia, Spain
Mother: Breatha Ingen Brach,   d. in SPAIN

Family 1: Guala Ingen Brathaus ,    b. 1800 BC in Galicia, Spain    d. DECEASED
  1. Ithe Mac Breoghain, b. ABT 1400 BC in Galicia, Spain     d. in Raphoe, County Donegal, Irlanda
  2. Bile mac Breoghain King of Galicia Andalusia Murcia Castile, b. 1681 BC in Spain     d. ABT 1639 BC in Galicia, Spain
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  1. Title: Wikiwand: Tower of Hercules
    Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Tower_of_Hercules;
    Note: The Tower of Hercules (Spanish: "Torre de Hércules") is an ancient Roman lighthouse on a peninsula about 2.4 km (1.5 mi) from the center of A Coruña, Galicia, in northwestern Spain. Until the 20th century, the tower was known as the "Farum Brigantium." The Latin word farum is derived from the Greek Φάρος Pharos for the Lighthouse of Alexandria. The structure is 55 metres (180 ft) tall and overlooks the North Atlantic coast of Spain. The structure, built in the 2nd century and renovated in 1791, is the oldest lighthouse in use today. There is a sculpture garden featuring works by Pablo Serrano and Francisco Leiro. The Tower of Hercules is a National Monument of Spain, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 27 June 2009. It is the second-tallest lighthouse in Spain, after the Faro de Chipiona. Construction and history The tower is known to have existed by the 2nd century, built or perhaps rebuilt under Trajan, possibly on foundations following a design that was Phoenician in origin. It is thought to be modeled after the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Its base preserves a cornerstone with the inscription MARTI AUG.SACR C.SEVIVS LVPVS ARCHTECTVS AEMINIENSIS LVSITANVS.EX.VO, permitting the original lighthouse tower to be ascribed to the architect Gaius Sevius Lupus, from Aeminium (present-day Coimbra, Portugal) in the former province of Lusitania, as an offering dedicated to the Roman god of war, Mars. The tower has been in constant use since the 2nd century and is considered to be the oldest extant lighthouse. The original tower was shorter and wider, as the surviving core was surrounded by a spiral ramp. The outline of this ramp is still visible in the restored exterior. The final story was likely surmounted with a dome. The earliest known reference to the lighthouse at Brigantium is by Paulus Orosius in "Historiae adversum Paganos," written around 415–417: Secundus angulus circium intendit, ubi Brigantia Gallaeciae civitas sita altissimum farum et inter pauca memorandi operis ad speculam Britanniae erigit ("At the second angle of the circuit circumnavigating Hispania, where the Gallaecian city of Brigantia is sited, a very tall lighthouse is erected among a few commemorative works, for looking towards Britannia.") In 1788, the surviving 34-meter (112 ft) tower core, was given a neoclassical restoration, including a new 21-meter (69 ft) fourth storey. The restoration was undertaken by naval engineer Eustaquio Giannini during the reign of Charles III of Spain, and was finished in 1791. Within, the much-repaired Roman and medieval masonry may be inspected. The Romans who conquered this region of Spain believed it to be, in a figurative sense, the end of the earth—hence its name, "Finisterra." This region is notorious for shipwrecks, earning it the name "Costa da Morte," "Coast of Death." Myths Through the millennia many mythical stories of the lighthouse's origin have been told. According to a myth that mixes Celtic and Greco-Roman elements, the hero Hercules slew the giant tyrant Geryon after three days and three nights of continuous battle. Hercules then—in a Celtic gesture—buried the head of Geryon with his weapons and ordered that a city be built on the site. The lighthouse atop a skull and crossbones representing the buried head of Hercules’ slain enemy appears in the coat-of-arms of the city of Coruña. Another legend embodied in the 11th-century Irish compilation "Lebor Gabála Érenn"—the "Book of Invasions"—King Breogán, the founding father of the Galician Celtic nation, constructed a massive tower of such a grand height that his sons could see a distant green shore from its top. The glimpse of that distant green land lured them to sail north to Ireland. According to the legend Breogán's descendants stayed in Ireland and are the Celtic ancestors of the current Irish people. A colossal statue of Breogán has been erected near the Tower. Possible locations of Brigantia Early geographical descriptions on the location of "Brigantia" point out that the town actually could be located in Corunna or in the locality of the modern town of Betanzos. There is some debate about this, as the people from Betanzos claim it as a fact that Betanzos was referred to as "the former city of Brigancia" until the 17th century, both in literary accounts as well as in maps, and they also believe that the name "Betanzos" is a phonetical evolution from "Brigantium" > "Breganzo" > "Betanzos." This, however, could be a false etymology. The Betanzos tradition claims that the port of Betanzos was getting too small for the larger medieval ships, and that king Alfonso IX of León decided to create a bigger port nearby in the 13th century. The place he chose was an uninhabited place called "Clunia," which later on evolved to "Cruña" and Coruña, and so (in English) to Corunna. The place name Clunia is believed to come from the Proto-Celtic root klou̯ni (cf. Old Irish "cluain"), meaning "meadow." However, the Coruña tradition maintains that the "port" of Betanzos (which is a fluvial one, in a quite small river) was far too small for Roman warships to dock at, for example when Julius Caesar visited this area with "more than a hundred triremes." It is demonstrated that Corunna was an important Roman site, as graveyards and other Roman remains have been found in the city centre, demonstrating that the site was inhabited in the Roman period, and was deserted only during the early Middle Ages due to Viking attacks, when its people moved inland to O Burgo (now Culleredo). The proponents of Corunna also explain the different name as a change that occurred in the Middle Ages, and point out that the lighthouse, which was called "Pharum Brigantium," was erected in Corunna, and is at least 25 km (or a day's walk) from Betanzos.
  2. Title: Wikiwand: Breogán
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Breog%C3%A1n;
    Note: Breogán (also spelled Breoghan, Bregon or Breachdan) is a character in the Lebor Gabála Érenn, a medieval Christian history of Ireland and the Irish (or Gaels). He is described as an ancestor of the Gaels. The Lebor Gabála purports to be an account of how the Gaels descend from Adam through the sons of Noah and how they came to Ireland. It tells us that they spent 440 years wandering the Earth and underwent a series of trials and tribulations, which is based on the tale of the Israelites in the Old Testament. Eventually, they sail to Iberia and conquer it. There, one of their leaders, Breogán, founds a city called Brigantia and builds a great tower. From the top of the tower, his son Íth glimpses Ireland. The Gaels, including some of Breogán's sons, sail to Ireland from Brigantia and take it from the Tuatha Dé Danann, the Irish pagan gods. Brigantia likely refers to A Coruña in present-day Galicia and Breogán's tower is likely based on the Tower of Hercules (which was built at A Coruña by the Romans) or the Tower of Babel. The idea that the Irish Gaels came from Hispania may be based on the similarity of the names Iberia and Hibernia and the names Galicia and Gael. Medieval pseudo-historians made similar claims about other nations based on their names. A similar story about a monk who voyaged to a marvelous island he saw from the top of the tower of Brigantia was written in the first years of the eleventh century in Galicia. The story, preserved in two 14th-century manuscripts, is known as Trezenzonii de Solistitionis Insula Magna ("Trezenzonius' Great Island of the Solstice"). His son was Bile, who was in turn the father of Milesius (also called Míl Espáne, soldier of Hispania or Spain), said to be the ancestor of the Irish people. Although this is generally regarded as myth, the conquering of Ireland by people coming from the Iberian peninsula in prehistoric times fits in with a genetic study conducted in 2006 at Oxford University, which concluded that the majority of people in the British Isles are actually descended from neolithic farmers coming from the coastal north regions of Spain. The Lebor Gabála was a hugely popular and influential work. Galicia itself is sometimes described poetically as the "Home" or "Nation" of Breogán (in Galician, the fogar or nazón de Breogán). The land is so described in the anthem of Galicia, "Os Pinos." A large statue of Breogán stands near the Tower of Hercules in Coruña. In Madrid, Spain's capital, there is a park called Parque de Breogán, named after Breogán.
  3. Title: Wikiwand: Lebor Gabála Érenn
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn;
    Note: "Lebor Gabála Érenn" ("The Book of the Taking of Ireland") is a collection of poems and prose narratives that purports to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages. There are a number of versions, the earliest of which was compiled by an anonymous writer in the 11th century. It synthesized narratives that had been developing over the foregoing centuries. The "Lebor Gabála" tells of Ireland being settled (or 'taken') six times by six groups of people: the people of Cessair, the people of Partholón, the people of Nemed, the Fir Bolg, the Tuatha Dé Danann, and the Milesians. The first four groups are wiped out or forced to abandon the island, the fifth group represent Ireland's pagan gods, while the final group represent the Irish people (the Gaels). Today, most scholars regard the "Lebor Gabála" as primarily myth rather than history. It appears to be mostly based on medieval Christian pseudo-histories, but it also incorporates some of Ireland's native pagan mythology. Scholars believe the goal of its writers was to provide an epic history for Ireland that could compare to that of the Israelites or the Romans, and which reconciled native myth with the Christian view of history. It is suggested, for example, that there are six "takings" to match the "Six Ages of the World." The 'Lebor Gabála' became one of the most popular and influential works of early Irish literature. It usually is known in English as "The Book of Invasions or The Book of Conquests," and in Modern Irish as "Leabhar Gabhála Éireann" or "Leabhar Gabhála na hÉireann." Origin and purpose Purporting to be a history of Ireland and the Irish, the purpose of "Lebor Gabála Érenn" (hereinafter abbreviated as "LGE") was three-fold: "firstly to unite the population by obliterating the memory of previous and different ethnic groups, secondly to weaken the influence of pre-Christian pagan religions by converting their gods into mere mortals, and thirdly to manufacture pedigrees into which the various dynastic groups could conveniently be fitted." It is believed that the writers sought to provide the Irish with an epic written history comparable to that which the Israelites provided for themselves in the Old Testament. This history was meant to fit the Irish into the Christian world-chronology and trace them back to Adam. In doing so, it links them to events from the Old Testament and likens them to the Israelites. Thus we find the ancestors of the Irish enslaved in a foreign land, or fleeing into exile, or wandering in the wilderness, or sighting the "Promised Land" from afar. It also draws upon the pagan myths of Gaelic Ireland but reinterprets them in the light of Christian theology and historiography. Four Christian works in particular seem to have had a significant bearing on the formation of LGE: . St Augustine's "De Civitate Dei," "The City of God," (413–426 AD) . Orosius's "Historiae adversum paganos," "Histories," (417) . Eusebius's "Chronicon," translated into Latin by St Jerome as the "Temporum liber" (379) . Isidore of Seville's "Etymologiae" ("Etymologies"), or "Origines" ("Origins") (early 7th century) The pre-Christian elements, however, were never effaced entirely. One of the poems in LGE, for instance, recounts how goddesses from among the Tuatha Dé Danann took husbands from the Gaeil when they "invaded" and "colonized" Ireland. Furthermore, the pattern of successive invasions that LGE preserves is reminiscent of Timagenes of Alexandria's account of the origins of the Gauls of continental Europe. Cited by the 4th-century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, Timagenes (1st century BC) describes how the ancestors of the Gauls were driven from their native lands in eastern Europe by a succession of wars and floods.[ Numerous fragments of Ireland's mythological history are scattered throughout the 7th and 8th centuries. In his "Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History," Eugene O'Curry, Professor of Irish History and Archaeology at the Catholic University of Ireland, discusses various genres of historical tales mentioned in the manuscripts: "The Tochomladh was an Immigration or arrival of a Colony; and under this name the coming of the several colonies of Parthalon of Nemedh, of the Firbolgs, the Tuatha Dé Danann, the Milesians, etc., into Erinn, are all described in separate tales. It is probably from the original records of these ancient stories that the early part of the various Books of Invasions has been compiled." The earliest extant account of the purported history of Ireland is to be found in the "Historia Brittonum," or "History of the Britons," which once was thought to have been written by the Welsh priest Nennius in 829–830. This text gives two separate accounts of early Irish history. The first consists of a series of successive colonizations from Iberia by the pre-Gaelic peoples of Ireland, all of which found their way into LGE. The second recounts the origins of the Gaeil themselves, and tells how they in turn came to be the masters of the country and "ancestors" of all the Irish. R. A. Stewart Macalister believes that the LGE was a conflation of two independent works: a "History of the Gaedil' (modeled after the history of the Israelites in the Old Testament), and an account of several pre-Gaelic settlements of Ireland (to the historicity of which Macalister gave very little credence). The latter was then inserted into the middle of the other work. Macalister theorised that the quasi-Biblical text had been a scholarly Latin work named "Liber Occupationis Hiberniae' ("The Book of the Taking of Ireland"). These two stories continued to be enriched and elaborated upon by Irish historian-poets throughout the 9th century. In the 10th and 11th centuries, several long historical poems were written that were later incorporated into the scheme of LGE. Most of the poems on which the 11th-12th century version of LGE was based were written by the following four poets: . Eochaidh Ua Floinn (936–1004) from Armagh – Poems 30, 41, 53, 65, 98, 109, 111 . Flann Mainistrech mac Echthigrin (died 1056), lector and historian of Monasterboice Abbey – Poems ?42, 56, 67, ?82 . Tanaide (died c. 1075) – Poems 47, 54, 86 . Gilla Cómáin mac Gilla Samthainde (fl. 1072) – Poems 13, 96, 115 It was late in the 11th century that a single anonymous scholar appears to have brought together these and numerous other poems and fitted them into an elaborate prose framework – partly of his own composition and partly drawn from older, no longer extant sources (i.e. the "tochomlaidh" referred to above by O'Curry), paraphrasing and enlarging the verse. The result was the earliest version of LGE. It was written in Middle Irish, a form of Irish Gaelic used between 900 and 1200. Versions From the beginning, LGE proved to be an enormously popular and influential document, quickly acquiring canonical status. Older texts were altered to bring their narratives into closer accord with its version of history, and numerous new poems were written and inserted into it. Within a century of its compilation there existed a plethora of copies and revisions, with as many as 136 poems between them. Five recensions of LGE are now extant, surviving in more than a dozen medieval manuscripts: . First Redaction (R¹): preserved in The Book of Leinster (c. 1150) and "The Book of Fermoy" (1373). . Míniugud (Min): this rescension is closely related to the Second Redaction. It is probably older than the surviving MSS of that redaction, though not older than the now lost exemplar on which those MSS were based. The surviving sources are suffixed to copies of the Second Redaction. . Second Redaction (R²): survives in no less than seven separate texts, the best known of which is "The Great Book of Lecan" (1418). . Third Redaction (R³): preserved in both "The Book of Ballymote" (1391) and "The Great Book of Lecan." . O'Clery's Redaction (K): written in 1631 by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, a Franciscan scribe and one of the Four Masters. Unlike the earlier versions of LGE, this redaction is in Early Modern Irish but was admitted as an independent redaction by Macalister because there are indications that the author had access to sources which are no longer extant and which were not used by the compilers of the other four redactions. The work was compiled in the convent of Lisgool, near Enniskillen. O'Clery was assisted by Gillapatrick O'Luinin and Peregrine O'Clery (Michael O Clery's third cousin once removed, and one of the Four Masters). The following table summarizes the extant manuscripts that contain versions of LGE. Most of the abbreviations used are taken from R. A. S. Macalister's critical edition of the work (see references for details): Sigla Manuscript Location Redactions Notes A Stowe A.2.4 Royal Irish Academy R² A direct and poor copy of D B The Book of Ballymote Royal Irish Academy R³ B lost one folio after β, β¹ and β² were derived from it β H.2.4 Trinity College, Dublin R³ A transcript of B made in 1728 by Richard Tipper β¹ H.1.15 Trinity College, Dublin R³ A copy, made around 1745 by Tadgh Ó Neachtáin, of a lost transcript of B β² Stowe D.3.2 Royal Irish Academy R³ An anonymous copy of the same lost transcript of B D Stowe D.4.3 Royal Irish Academy R² E E.3.5. no. 2 Trinity College, Dublin R² F¹ The Book of Fermoy Royal Irish Academy R¹ F¹ and F² are parts of one dismembered MS, F F² Stowe D.3.1 Royal Irish Academy R¹ H H.2.15. no. 1 Trinity College, Dublin R³ L The Book of Leinster Trinity College, Dublin R¹ Λ The Book of Lecan Royal Irish Academy R², Min First text of LGE in The Book of Lecan M The Book of Lecan Royal Irish Academy R³ Second text...
  4. Title: INDEPENDENT News: "Celts descended from Spanish fishermen, study finds"
    Publication: Name: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/celts-descended-from-spanish-fishermen-study-finds-416727.html;
    Note: Don't tell the locals, but the hordes of British holidaymakers who visited Spain this summer were, in fact, returning to their ancestral home. A team from Oxford University has discovered that the Celts, Britain's indigenous people, are descended from a tribe of Iberian fishermen who crossed the Bay of Biscay 6,000 years ago. DNA analysis reveals they have an almost identical genetic "fingerprint" to the inhabitants of coastal regions of Spain, whose own ancestors migrated north between 4,000 and 5,000BC. The discovery, by Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University, will herald a change in scientific understanding of Britishness. People of Celtic ancestry were thought to have descended from tribes of central Europe. Professor Sykes, who is soon to publish the first DNA map of the British Isles, said: "About 6,000 years ago Iberians developed ocean-going boats that enabled them to push up the Channel. Before they arrived, there were some human inhabitants of Britain but only a few thousand in number. These people were later subsumed into a larger Celtic tribe... The majority of people in the British Isles are actually descended from the Spanish." Professor Sykes spent five years taking DNA samples from 10,000 volunteers in Britain and Ireland, in an effort to produce a map of our genetic roots. Research on their "Y" chromosome, which subjects inherit from their fathers, revealed that all but a tiny percentage of the volunteers were originally descended from one of six clans who arrived in the UK in several waves of immigration prior to the Norman conquest. The most common genetic fingerprint belongs to the Celtic clan, which Professor Sykes has called "Oisin". After that, the next most widespread originally belonged to tribes of Danish and Norse Vikings. Small numbers of today's Britons are also descended from north African, Middle Eastern and Roman clans. These DNA "fingerprints" have enabled Professor Sykes to create the first genetic maps of the British Isles, which are analysed in Blood of the Isles, a book published this week. The maps show that Celts are most dominant in areas of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. But, contrary to popular myth, the Celtic clan is also strongly represented elsewhere in the British Isles. "Although Celtic countries have previously thought of themselves as being genetically different from the English, this is emphatically not the case," Professor Sykes said. "This is significant, because the idea of a separate Celtic race is deeply ingrained in our political structure, and has historically been very divisive. Culturally, the view of a separate race holds water. But from a genetic point of view, Britain is emphatically not a divided nation." Origins of Britons Oisin Descended from Iberian fishermen who migrated to Britain between 4,000 and 5,000BC and now considered the UK's indigenous inhabitants. Wodan Second most common clan arrived from Denmark during Viking invasions in the 9th century. Sigurd Descended from Viking invaders who settled in the British Isles from AD 793. One of the most common clans in the Shetland Isles, and areas of north and west Scotland. Eshu The wave of Oisin immigration was joined by the Eshu clan, which has roots in Africa. Eshu descendants are primarily found in coastal areas. Re A second wave of arrivals which came from the Middle East. The Re were farmers who spread westwards across Europe. Roman Although the Romans ruled from AD 43 until 410, they left a tiny genetic footprint. For the first 200 years occupying forces were forbidden from marrying locally.
  5. Title: Personal knowledge of Karen Eddy
  6. Title: CIAV: TOWER OF HERCULES
    Publication: Name: http://ciav.torredeherculesacoruna.com/en/;
    Note: Welcome to CIAV, an interpretive center dedicated to the Tower of Hercules, with information about its historical evolution and operation. This website introduces the contents of the current Centro de Interpretación y Atención al Visitante de la Torre de Hércules [Tower of Hercules Visitor Services and Interpretive Center, CIAV in Spanish], which is located at the foot of the access ramp to the lighthouse. The CIAV is made up of two enclosed areas and is dedicated to receiving visitors and providing them with historical and current information related to the monument and its surroundings. At the entrance visitors are greeted by a sculpture of Hercules created by Francisco Leiro. To its right is a reception area staffed by specialized personnel, where a variety of brochures with information about the Tower, the CIAV, and the city’s tourism resources are also available. To the left there are a variety of displays, maps, models, and interactive screens that offer the visitor information about the historical evolution of the lighthouse and its surroundings from the perspectives of heritage, culture, and society. There are three relief maps on display that analyze data related to the lighthouse’s significant influence on the importance of trade routes from the Roman era until modern times, and which orient the viewer within the temporal context of the lighthouse’s creation. There is also a model of a Roman trireme (a sailing ship with three rows of oars), as well as two other models depicting a hypothetical reconstruction of the tower during Roman times and the tower as it stands today. These allow comparison of the structure during different time periods as well as consideration of its original form. A variety of video screens allow a compilation of information on the monument to be displayed, including signs, images, maps, and early plans. A slideshow also uses a succession of images to explain the phases of the tower’s construction. These contents are complemented by informative panels that describe the tower’s historical evolution and the most relevant historical events in relation to the tower. The displays also include a description of Roman construction methods, a copy of the Peutinger Map, the signatures of those involved with the structure, and the evolution of the tower’s operation as a maritime beacon and navigational aid from its initial construction up until the present. The Tower of Hercules is the only lighthouse on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. This reflects the exceptional nature of the monument and its possession of one of the characteristics required by this international organization for inclusion on its list: to represent “a unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared”. The first efforts to obtain World Heritage status for the Tower of Hercules took place in 1986, but further support was received in 2001 from the Instituto de Estudios Torre de Hércules [Institute of Tower of Hercules Studies]. Success finally came in 2009 with unanimous approval by the UNESCO World Heritage committee, and the designation was awarded in Seville on June 27 of that year.
  7. Title: Wikiwand: List of High Kings of Ireland
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_High_Kings_of_Ireland;
    Note: Medieval Irish historical tradition held that Ireland had been ruled by an Ard Rí or High King since ancient times, and compilations like the 11th-century Lebor Gabála Érenn, followed by early modern works like the Annals of the Four Masters and Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, purported to trace the line of High Kings. The corpus of early Irish law does not support the existence of such an institution, and scholars now believe it is a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century AD, a projection into the distant past of a political entity which did not become a reality until the Normans. Rulers like Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid declared themselves as King of All Ireland but such claims did not gain the political support of other kingdoms (i.e. Munster), the Norse and Norse-Gaels and was unable to maintain peace with his own Uí Néill kinsmen. The traditional list of High Kings of Ireland is thus a mixture of fact, legend, fiction, and propaganda. The individuals appearing prior to the fifth century AD are generally considered legendary, and the application of the title to individuals before the ninth century is considered anachronistic. The annalists frequently describe later high kings as rígh Érenn co fressabra ("Kings of Ireland with Opposition"), which is a reference to the instability of the kingship of Tara from the death of Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill in 1022. Máel Sechnaill had been overthrown by Brian Boru in 1002, and restored in 1014 following Brian's death, but the example of Brian's coup was followed by numerous other families in the century following 1022, and the High Kingship was effectively ended by the Norman quasi-conquest of Ireland in 1171. Legendary kings Kings in the Baile Chuind The earliest surviving list appears in the Baile Chuind (The Ecstasy of Conn) a late seventh century poem in which Conn of the Hundred Battles experiences a vision of the kings who will succeed him. Many of these kings appear to correspond with the kings of later traditions, although the order is different, and some of the kings cannot be identified. The last four kings following Snechta Fína (Fínsnechta Fledach) do not correspond with any of the kings in later lists. The poem is therefore presumed to have been written during his time, and the kings who follow him are presumed to be fictional. With few exceptions, kings belong to Dál Cuinn (the Connachta and Uí Néill). Understood as a list of Kings of Tara, it is not considered to be inclusive. A number of well known kings from the Laigin, Érainn, Ulaid, and Cruthin, are missing. The chief rivals of Dál Cuinn at the time of Conn's supposed floruit were the Dáirine, alias Corcu Loígde, two of whom are listed, but whose overkingdom in the south of Ireland collapsed in the 7th century. They would be replaced by the Eóganachta, who established the Kingship of Cashel, later to rival Tara.
  8. Title: Wikipedia: Breog
    Publication: Name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breog%C3%A1n;
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