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Comhaltan mac Maol Cúlaird, Irish dynast, fl. 10th century.
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Scannlán mac Fearghal, ancestor of the Ó Scannláin family of County Galway, fl. 10th century.
Eidhean mac Cléirigh, ancestor of the Ó hEidhin/Hynes family of County Galway, fl. 800.
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Mac Comhaltan Ua Cleirigh was King of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne, fl. 998.
Mac Comhaltan Ua Cleirigh, King of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne, fl. 964.
Comhaltan Ua Clerigh was King of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne, fl. 964/966-978.
Mael Fabhaill mac Cléirigh was the King of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne in Ireland.
Mael Fabhaill Ua hEidhin was King of Ui Fiachrach Aidhne.
Mhic Mac Comhaltan Ua Cleirigh was King of Ui Fiachrach Aidhne.
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The Uí Fiachrach were a royal dynasty who originated in, and whose descendants later ruled, the coicead or fifth of Connacht at different times from the mid-first millennium onwards. They claimed descent from Fiachrae, an older half-brother of Niall Noigiallach or Niall of the Nine Hostages. Fiachrae and his two full brothers, Brion and Ailill, were the collective ancestors of the Connachta dynasty that eventually became the new name of the province. Their mother was Mongfind.
References
- Irish Kings and High-Kings, Francis John Byrne (2001), Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9
- CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
