Cairbre Liffeachair

• Preferred Name: Cairbre Liffeachair^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 284 in Ireland with note: Standardized
  
• Birth: in Ireland with note: Most accurate standardization
  
• FSID: G69W-4T8
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  PLEASE DO NOT MERGE OR MAKE CHANGES TO THIS PERSON, AS THEY ARE PART OF AN OFFICIAL ONGOING FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT: Cairbre Liffeachar (–284) G69W-4T8
  
  Annals of the Four Masters of Ireland
  https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100005A/index.html
  
  M268.0
  The Age of Christ, 268.
  M268.1
  The first year of Cairbre Liffeachair, son of Cormac, son of Art, in the sovereignty of Ireland.
  
  Annal M271
  M271.0
  The Age of Christ, 271.
  M271.1
  The fourth year of Cairbre.
  M271.2
  Three battles were fought by Cairbre against the men of Munster, in defence of the rights of Leinster.
  
  Annal M272
  M272.0
  The Age of Christ, 272.
  M272.1
  The fifth year of Cairbre.
  M272.2
  Four battles by Cairbre against the men of Munster, in defence of the rights of Leinster.
  
  Annal M276
  M276.0
  The Age of Christ, 276.
  M276.1
  The ninth year of Cairbre in the sovereignty of Ireland.
  M276.2
  Aenghus Gaibuaibhtheach was killed this year by the sons of Cairbre Liffechair, namely, Fiacha Sraibhtine and Eochaidh Doimhlen.
  Annal M283
  M283.0
  The Age of Christ, 283.
  M283.1
  The sixteenth year of Cairbre.
  M283.2
  Finn, grandson of Baisgne, fell by Aichleach, son of Duibhdreann, and the sons of Uirgreann of the Luaighni Teamhrach, at Ath Brea, upon the Boinn Boyne, of which was said:
  p.121
  1.Finn was killed, it was with darts,
  With a lamentable wound;
  Aichleach, son of Duibhdreann, cut off
  The head of the son of Mochtamuin.
  2.Were it not that Caeilti took revenge,
  It would have been a victory after all his true battles;
  The three were cut off by him,
  Exulting over the head of the royal champion.
  
  Annal M284
  M284.0
  The Age of Christ, 284.
  M284.1
  After Cairbre Liffeachair had been seventeen years in the sovereignty of Ireland, he fell in the battle of Gabhra Aichle, by the hand of Semeon, son of Cearb, one of the Fotharta; Fearcorb, the son of Cormac Cas, having brought the Fiana with him, against the king, to defend Leath Mhogha against him.

• m. ABT 270 in Gabhrán, County Kilkenny, Ireland

1. Fiacha Srabhteine, b. in Tara, Meath, Ireland     d. ABT 322 in Ireland

1. Title: Roman Influence in Ireland during the Late Iron Age (C. a.d. 100 TO C. 550 a.d.)
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/141457990;
   Note: Toward the end of the Late Iron Age, perhaps in the fourth century a.d., the first indications of native Irish literacy appear in the form of ogham inscriptions, in which letters of the alphabet are denoted by different combinations of vertical or oblique strokes. The model for an alphabetic script presumably was Roman, and its employment on memorial stones also echoes Roman usage. There is no space here to debate the vexed issue of when the Irish language first entered Ireland, but these ogham inscriptions are the earliest written evidence for the language. The script also demonstrates the presence of Irish settlers in western Britain, where ogham inscriptions (many duplicated in Latin) date to the fifth and sixth centuries, particularly in Wales and southwestern Britain.
   Page: Documents Roman influence in Ireland during Iron Age
   
2. Title: The Annals of the Four Masters of Ireland
   Author: The Annals of the Four Masters of Ireland https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100005A/index.html Annal M268 Pages 119 - 121
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/147995176;
   Note: The Age of Christ, 268. M268.1 The first year of Cairbre Liffeachair, son of Cormac, son of Art, in the sovereignty of Ireland. Annal M271 M271.0 The Age of Christ, 271. M271.1 The fourth year of Cairbre. M271.2 Three battles were fought by Cairbre against the men of Munster, in defence of the rights of Leinster. Annal M272 M272.0 The Age of Christ, 272. M272.1 The fifth year of Cairbre. M272.2 Four battles by Cairbre against the men of Munster, in defence of the rights of Leinster. Annal M276 M276.0 The Age of Christ, 276. M276.1 The ninth year of Cairbre in the sovereignty of Ireland. M276.2 Aenghus Gaibuaibhtheach was killed this year by the sons of Cairbre Liffechair, namely, Fiacha Sraibhtine and Eochaidh Doimhlen. Annal M283 M283.0 The Age of Christ, 283. M283.1 The sixteenth year of Cairbre. M283.2 Finn, grandson of Baisgne, fell by Aichleach, son of Duibhdreann, and the sons of Uirgreann of the Luaighni Teamhrach, at Ath Brea, upon the Boinn Boyne, of which was said: p.121 Finn was killed, it was with darts, With a lamentable wound; Aichleach, son of Duibhdreann, cut off The head of the son of Mochtamuin. Were it not that Caeilti took revenge, It would have been a victory after all his true battles; The three were cut off by him, Exulting over the head of the royal champion. Annal M284 M284.0 The Age of Christ, 284. M284.1 After Cairbre Liffeachair had been seventeen years in the sovereignty of Ireland, he fell in the battle of Gabhra Aichle, by the hand of Semeon, son of Cearb, one of the Fotharta; Fearcorb, the son of Cormac Cas, having brought the Fiana with him, against the king, to defend Leath Mhogha against him.
   Page: Original source information which documents consistency of data
   
3. Title: Blood of the Irish: What DNA Tells Us About the Ancestry of People in Ireland
   Author: Blood of the Irish: What DNA Tells Us About the Ancestry of People in Ireland Blood of the Irish; Owlcation
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/141212484;
   Note: Do Irish Origin Myths Match the Scientific Evidence? One of the oldest texts composed in Ireland is the Leabhar Gabhla, the Book of Invasions. It tells a semi-mythical history of the waves of people who settled in Ireland in earliest times. It says the first settlers to arrive in Ireland were a small dark people called the Fir Bolg, followed by a magical super-race called the Tuatha de Danaan (the people of the goddess Dana). Most interestingly, the book says that the group which then came to Ireland and fully established itself as rulers of the island were the Milesians—the sons of Mil, a soldier from Spain. Modern DNA research into male Y chromosomes has found that the the R1b haplogroup reaches very high concentrations in Western Ireland and the Basque country in northern Spain. While the picture for matrilineal descent (mother to daughter) is more complex, it seems that the northern Spanish and the Irish might have common male ancestors at some point in history.
   Page: Confirms Smith/MacGowan DNA data
   
4. Title: The Ancient Genealogy of the Milesian Irish and the Clan of the Geoghegans according to O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees
   Publication: Name: http://abrahams-legacy.org/geoghegans.html#:~:text=83.,lost%20his%20life.;
   Note: 83. Cairbre-Lifeachar, the 117th Monarch of Ireland: son of King Cormac Mac Art; was so called from his having been nursed by the side of the Liffey, the river on which Dublin is built. His mother was Eithne, daughter of Dunlong, King of Leinster. He had three sons - 1. Eochaidh Dubhlen; 2. Eocho; and 3. Fiacha Srabhteine, who was the 120th Monarch of Ireland , and the ancestor of O'Neill, Princes of Tyrone. Fiacha Srabhteine was so called, from his having been fostered at Dunsrabhteine, in Connaught ; of which province he was King, before his elevation to the Monarchy. After seventeen years' reign, the Monarch Cairbre Lifeachar was slain at the battle of Gabhra [Gaura], A.D. 284, by Simeon, the son of Ceirb, who came from the south of Leinster to this battle, fought by the Militia of Ireland, who were called the Fiana Erionn (or Fenians), and arising from a quarrel which happened between the; in which the Monarch, taking part with one side against the other, lost his life. This lineage is taken from the Geoghegan histories and their web site merely because the author and editor is interested in the history and traces his ancestry through the Geoghegans among other P and Q Brithonic- speaking or Celtic people and from the Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and Norman tribes or people. O'Hart's work is of great interest. It is much maligned in these later years partly because it accepts as fact the Bible characters and their genealogy. ‘Irish Pedigrees or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation', by John O'Hart (born in Crossmolina, County Mayo 1824) is one of the best known Irish genealogical publications in the world
   Page: Documents life and relationships of Caibre Lifeachar
   
5. Title: From the Preface to the First Edition of Irish Pedigrees by John O'Hart
   Author: https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor_01ohar/page/n19/mode/2up?view=theater
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/145090400;
   Note: Verifies John O'Hart's research and extrapolation of information from the Annals of the Four Masters of Ireland to document his pedigrees.
   Page: Verification of John O'Hart's research and extrapolation of information from the Annals of the Four Masters of Ireland to document his pedigrees.
   
6. Title: Irish Pedigrees Or The Origin and Stem Of The Irish Nation volume 1 Part 3 Chapter 4 Line of Heremon Page 540
   Author: Irish Pedigrees Or The Origin and Stem Of The Irish Nation volume 1 Part 3 Chapter 4 Line of Heremon Page 540
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/141146218;
   Note: 83. Cairbre Liffeachar
   Page: Documented Pedigree
   
7. Title: Irish Pedigrees; or The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation https://archive.org/details/cu31924092516297/page/n57/mode/2up?q=Cormac+Ulfhada
   Author: Irish Pedigrees; or The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation https://archive.org/details/cu31924092516297/page/n57/mode/2up?q=Cormac+Ulfhada
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/143393729;
   Note: Shows Cairbre Liffeachar is Great, Great Grandfather to Niall Mor
   Page: Documents Cairbre Liffeachar as the Great, Great Grandfather to Niall Mor
   
8. Title: markfisherauthor.com/2016/06/ancientcelticlifespans/
   Author: Publisher location https://markfisherauthor.com/2016/06/ancientcelticlifespans/
   Publication: Name: https://markfisherauthor.com/2016/06/ancientcelticlifespans/;
   Note: Ancient Lifespans Were Short The dangers of living in the ancient world were legion: warfare, disease, childbirth, childhood itself, starvation and famine, accidents and hunting, and travel. Given all that, what was the average life expectancy of a male child born in the Iron Age, the closest era providing us with statistics for the AD 400s? The best guess, per Wikipedia, is 26 years. Childhood was an especially dangerous time. What were the odds you’d live to the age of fifteen? About 60%. But if you made it to fifteen, you might live another 37 years to the ripe old age of 55. There were a few who lived longer, of course. But the odds were against you. “…what was the average life expectancy of a male child born in the Iron Age, the closest era providing us with statistics? The best guess, per Wikipedia, is 26 years. EDUCATION AND WORK Mark E. Fisher has degrees in Anthropology/Sociology (B.S., 1973), Computer Science (M.S., 1980), and Ministry (M.Min, 2013).
   Page: Supports birth, marriage and death calcutlations