Cairbre Lifechair mac Cormaic King of Ireland

• Preferred Name: Cairbre Lifechair mac Cormaic King of Ireland^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1 APR 284 in Battle of Gabhra Aichele, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.6162 LONG: E6.6911
  
• Birth: ABT 210 in Tara, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.5823 LONG: E6.6249
  
• Burial: 284 in Tara, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.5823 LONG: E6.6249
  
• FSID: L666-GMM
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Cairbre-Lifeachar, 117th Monarch of Ireland was born circa 220 at of Clogher, Tyrone, Ireland; He had 3 sons (Eochaidh Dubhlen, Eocho, & Faicha Srabhteine (120th Monarch of Ireland, ancestor of the O'Neill family, Princes of Tyrone).1 He died in 284 at Battle of Gabhra (Gaura), Garristown, Dublin, Ireland.1

• m. in Ireland

1. Eochaid Doimlén mac Cairbre of Ireland , b. ABT 245 in Ireland     d. 340 in Ireland
2. Fiacha Sraibhthine mac Cairbre High King of Ireland, b. ABT 240 in Munster, Ireland     d. ABT 322 in Battle of Dubchomar, Munster, Ireland

1. 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
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2. Title: Wikipedia - Cairbre Lifechair
   Author: R. A. Stewart Macalister (ed. & trans.), Lebor Gabála Érenn: The Book of the Taking of Ireland Part V, Irish Texts Society, 1956, p. 339-341 Geoffrey Keating, Foras Feasa ar Éirin 1.47 Annals of the Four Masters M267-284 James MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 63-64
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairbre_Lifechair;
   Note: Cairbre Lifechair ("lover of the Liffey"), son of Cormac mac Airt, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He came to the throne after the death of Eochaid Gonnat. During his time Bresal Belach was king of Leinster, and refused to pay the bórama or cow-tribute to the High King, but Cairbre defeated him in the Battle of Dubchomar, and from then on exacted the bórama without a battle. Reign According to the 8th-century text known as The Expulsion of the Déisi, Cairbre takes the throne when his father Cormac is blinded by Óengus Gaíbúaibthech of the Déisi, it being against the law for the king to have any physical blemish. The chronicles indicate that Eochaid Gonnat succeeded Cormac, but was soon succeeded by Cairbre following his death in battle. According to Cath Gabhra (The Battle of Gabhra), a narrative of the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, Cairbre married Aine, daughter of Fionn mac Cumhaill. During his reign, his sons Fiacha Sraibhtine and Eochaid Doimlen killed Óengus Gaíbúaibthech. To make peace, Cairbre betroths his daughter, Sgiam Sholais, to a Déisi prince. However, the fianna demand a tribute of twenty gold bars, which they claimed was customarily paid on such occasions. Cairbre decides the fianna have become too powerful, and raises a huge army from Ulster, Connacht and Leinster against them. They are joined by Goll mac Morna and his followers, who turn against their comrades in the fianna, but Munster and the Déisi side with the fianna. Cairbre's army wins in the Battle of Gabhra, but Cairbre himself falls in single combat against Fionn's grandson Oscar, who dies of his wounds shortly afterwards. Fionn himself either dies in the battle, or had been killed on the River Boyne the previous year. The only survivors of the fianna are Caílte mac Rónáin and Fionn's son Oisín. Cairbre had ruled for seventeen, twenty-six or twenty-seven years. He was succeeded by Fothad Cairpthech and Fothad Airgthech, sons of Lugaid mac Con, ruling jointly. The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 245–272, the Annals of the Four Masters to 267–284.[1][2][3][4]
   
3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. 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.
   
7. Title: Roman Influence in Ireland during the Late Iron Age (C. a.d. 100 TO C. 550 a.d.)
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8. Title: Dictionary of Irish Biography
   Author: Bk Leinster, i, 93; vi, 1503–15; O'Brien, Corpus geneal. Hib., 121, 124, 130; M. C. Dobbs, ‘The Ban-Shenchus’, Rev. Celt., xlviii (1931), 177, 214; Keating, Forus feasa, i, 244, 246–7, 267, 271–2; O'Rahilly, Early Ir. hist., 139–40; Byrne, Ir. kings, 145, 280; T. Ó Cathasaigh, The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt (1977), 74–80; McCone, Pagan past, 120, 122; Smyth, Celtic Leinster, 17; Bhreathnach, Tara bibliog., 6, 94–5, §§243–4; Ó hÓgáin, Myth, 70–71; A. Mac Shamhráin & P. Byrne, ‘Prosopography I: kings named in Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig and the Airgíalla charter poem’, E. Bhreathnach (ed.), The kingship and landscape of Tara (2005), 159–224; A. Connon, ‘Prosopography II: a prosopography of the early queens of Tara’, Bhreathnach (ed.), Kingship and landscape, 225–327
   Publication: Name: https://www.dib.ie/biography/cairpre-corpre-lifechair-a1384;
   Note: Cairpre (Corpre) Lifechair , son of Cormac and putatively king of Tara, is a pseudo-historical character and an ancestor-figure of the Connachta and Uí Néill. He is represented in genealogical tradition as a son of Cormac (qv) son of Art, supposedly king of Tara, and Eithne Thóebfhota, daughter of Cathaír Már (qv), ancestor of the main dynasties of the Laigin. The Leinster connection here is almost certainly significant: Cairpre's sobriquet Lifechair means ‘lover of the Liffey plain’, and it is possible that both he and Cormac were absorbed from Leinster (or, indeed, from earlier Érainn) tradition by the emerging Uí Néill dynasties in the early historical period. The tale ‘Esnada tige Buchet’, in which Cormac and Eithne beget Cairpre, seems to reflect a transfer of the Tara kingship from the Leinstermen to the Uí Néill. Cairpre is assigned two brothers or half-brothers, Dáire and Cellach, and ten sisters. There is no mention of his wife (or wives), but he was reputedly the father of Fiachu Sraiptine and of Eochu Domplén – from whom, respectively, the Connachta–Uí Néill dynasties and the rulers of the Airgialla federation claimed descent. Cairpre is said to have succeeded to the kingship of Tara after the abdication of his father; Middle Irish lists accord him a reign of seventeen or twenty-seven years. The importance accorded to him, as the doctrine of Tara kingship took shape, is illustrated by the dialogue ‘Tecosca Cormaic’, in which he is advised by his father concerning the qualifications for kingship. Credited with many battles, in Middle Irish literature he is associated with the bóruma (cattle-tribute), levied by the kings of Tara on the Laigin, which he supposedly remitted after his defeat by Find (qv) son of Cumall. Cairpre is said to have been slain by a king of the Fothairt in the battle of Gabair. His relevance to history lies in his alleged ancestral role. Contributed by Mac Shamhráin, Ailbhe