 Abt 0195 - Abt 0266 (71 years)
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| Name |
mac AIRT Cormac |
| Birth |
Abt 0195 |
Éire |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Abt 0266 |
Éire |
| Notes |
- Cormac mac Airt ("son of Art"; also known as Cormac ua Cuinn, "grandson of Conn") was the son of Art Óenfer.
Cormac Ulfhada "long beard", Cormac (also known as or Cormac ua Cuinn) began his reign in the year 0226 and was the 115th monarch in the line of Heber, the wisest, most learned and best of any that ruled the Kingdom of the Milesian race in Ireland before him. He ordained very good laws, wrote several learned treatises, amoung which his treatise of Kingly government dictated to his son Carbre is yet extant and extraordinary. [1] [2]
Cormac's wife, Eithne, was the daughter of Dunlong, King of Leinster.
He had three sons, Darius, Cairbre and Ceallach, but no issue is recorded from any but Cairbre. He had also ten daughters, but no account of them, only two, Grace or Grania and Ailbhe, who were both successively the wives of the grand champion and general of the Irish Militia, Finn, the son of Cubhall.
During the latter part of his reign, he resided at Sletty on the Boyne, being, it is said, disqualified for the occupation of Tara by the personal blemish he had sustained in the loss of an eye, by the hand of Angus "Dread-Spear," chief of the Desi, a tribe whose original seats were in the barony of Deece, in the county of Meath. [3]
Some versions of the Lebor Gabála Érenn synchronise his reign with that of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (161–180)
Keating dates his reign to 204–244
The Annals of the Four Masters date his reign to 226–266.
An entry in the Annals of Ulster dates his death as late as 366.
He was succeeded by Eochaid Gonnat.
Sources
↑ assigned no: 115 in Library Ireland : Roll of the Monarchs of Ireland from Irish Pedigrees or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation by John O'Hart
↑ there are various alternative dates for his timeline Celt : The Burial of King Cormac by Samuel Ferguson
↑ Celt : The Burial of King Cormac by Samuel Ferguson
See also:
Wikidata: Item Q1133072, en:Wikipedia help.gif
Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation part ll chap. ll page 59 by O'Hart, John; pdf
Bart Jaski Genealogical tables of medieval Irish royal dynasties Table-1 Early Irish Kingship Succession by Jaski Bart, Published by Four Courts Press, 2013, ISBN 1846824265 ISBN 9781846824265
Albert F. Schmuhl, The royal line : chart prepared for the New York Stake Genealogical Board, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints centennial exhibition, March, 1936 (Salt Lake City: self published, 1929) https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/239856?availability=Family%20History%20Library. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 7 June 2015). Revised 1980. Purports to go back to Adam, "Genealogical lineages shown on the chart may not always be from father to son, especially in the reigning houses of Kings; some ancient connections are based on legends, believed to be true."
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| Person ID |
I58519 |
Freeman-Smith |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
| Family |
OLLAMHDHA Eithne, b. Abt 0195, Tara, County Meath, Ireland |
| Children |
| | 1. LIFFEACHAIRE Cairpre, b. 0230, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland d. 0284, Gabhra, County Meath, Ireland (Age ~ 54 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F26075 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
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