Niall 'Glundubh' (Black-Knee) 168th Monarch of Ireland, King of the Tir Eoghain
- Marriage (1): Gormflaith
- Died: 15 Sep 919, Kilmashoge, Co. Dublin, Ireland
General Notes:
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1 - King of the Tuadcert.
Niall Glundubh ('Black-Knee'), High King of Ireland from 916 until 919, was mortally wounded on the 15th of September 919 AD in battle near Dublin against the Norse King Sitric, King of Dublin, and later King of York, and left a wife, Gormthlaith, who died in 947 after accidentally falling on the sharp-pointed post of her bed.
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2 - The great O'Neills (O Neill) themselves descend from Niall Glundubh, High-King of Ireland, who fell fighting against the Vikings near Dublin in 919. (Note: Niall Glundubh was the son of Aed Finlaith and Mael Muire, daughter of Kenneth mac Alpin of Scotland.) His grandson, Domhanall was the first to bear the dynastic name of O'Neill. There were the chief family of the Cineal Eoghain.
The MacLachlans, Lamonts, and MacSweens descend from Niall Glundubh, High-King of Ireland (thus descend from Aed Finlaith, King of Ireland and Kenneth mac Alpin, King of Scots, through Kenneth's daughter, Mael Muire). The MacSweens descend from Suighne, son of Dunsleve O'Neill, Lord of Knapdale. They descend from Anrothan O'Neill, the Ulster prince who in the first half of the eleventh century married the joint heiress of the Cineal Comhgall (after whom Cowall is named) and their collateral kinsmen the Cineal nGabran of Knapdale.
His two grandsons, Donnshleibhe (Dunsleve) and Domhnall (Donald) O'Neill are the ancestors of the branches of this clan. From Dunsleve, lord of Knapdale, are descended the MacLachlans, Lamonts, MacSorleys, MacSweeneys, MacQueens or MacSweens, and the MacEwens.
[http://www.clanmactavish.org/documents/bloodline_of_chief_mactavish.pdf]
3 - The battle of Ath-cliath (i.e. of Cill-Mosamhog, by the side of Ath-cliath) was gained over the Irish, by Imhar and Sitric Gale, in which were slain Niall Glundubh, son of Aedh Finnliath, King of Ireland, after he had been three years in the sovereignty.
[http://www.clanmactavish.org/documents/bloodline_of_chief_mactavish.pdf]
Niall married Gormflaith. (Gormflaith died in 947.)
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