The Kings of Brega took their name from Mag Breg, the plain of Brega, in modern County Meath and County Dublin, Ireland. They formed part of the Uí Néill kindred, belonging to the Síl nÁedo Sláine branch of the southern Uí Néill. The kingdom of Brega included the Hill of Tara, the site where the High King of Ireland was proclaimed. Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Navan Code: MH Area: 2,342 km² Population (2006) 162,621 Website: www. ... Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Dublin Code: D Area: 921 km² Population (2006) 1,186,821 County Dublin (Irish: Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath), or more correctly today the Dublin Region[1] (Réigiúin Átha Cliath), is the area that contains the city of Dublin, the capital and largest city... The Uí Néill (Irish for descendants of Niall Uí pronounced Ee: ) were an Irish dynasty who claimed descent from Niall Noigiallach (Niall of the Nine Hostages), a semi-historical High King of Ireland who died about 405. ... Síl nÁedo Sláine is the name of the seed or descendants of Áed Sláine (Áed Sláine mac Diarmato), son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill. ... The Hill of Tara (Irish Teamhair na Rí, Hill of the Kings), located near the River Boyne, is a long, low limestone ridge that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Leinster, Ireland. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ...

Annexed in the 6th century by the Uí Néill, the kingdom was by the 8th century divided into parts, South Brega, or the Kingdom of Lagore, and North Brega, or the Kingdom of Cnogba/Knowth. Despite this, many kings of Brega ruled over both areas, and thus Brega as a whole, until the kingdom's extinction in the early years of the Norman conquest. Loch Gabhair meaning Lake of the Goats (Lagore in English) ... Knowth is the site of a neolithic passage grave, one of the ancient monuments of the Brú na Bóinne complex in the valley of the River Boyne in Ireland. ... Bayeux Tapestry depicting events leading to the Battle of Hastings The Norman conquest of England initiated by the invasion of the Kingdom of England by William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy) in 1066 and his success at the Battle of Hastings resulted in the Norman control of England. ...

Kings of Brega

Persons in bold considered to be High Kings of Ireland

1. Áed Sláine (died 604) son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill
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3. Congal (died 634) son of Áed Sláine
4. Ailill (died 634) son of Áed Sláine
5. Blathmac (died 665) and Diarmait (died 665), sons of Áed Sláine
6. Conaing Cuirre (died 662) son of Congal
7. Sechnussach (died 671) son of Blathmac
8. Cenn Fáelad (died 675) son of Blathmac
9. Finsnechta Fledach (died 695) son of Dúnchad son of Áed Sláine
10. Congalach (died 696) son of Conaing Cuirre
11. Irgalach (died 702) son of Conaing Cuirre
12. Amalgaid (died 718) son of Congalach
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14. Fogartach (died 724) son of Niall son of Cernach Sotal son of Diarmait
15. Cináed (died 728) son of Irgalach
16. Conaing (died 742) son of Argalaid
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18.  ?Cairpre (died 771) son of Fogartach
19. Congalach (died 778) son of Conaing
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Diarmait mac Cerbaill (died c. ...

Kings of Cnogba/Knowth

List incomplete: see Mac Shamhráin, 2004.

1. Congal mac Áed Sláine, died 634
2. Conaig mac Congal (a quo Uí Chonaing), d. 662
3. Congalach mac Conaing, d. 696
4. Amalgaid mac Congalach, d. 718
5. Conaing mac Amalgaid, d. 742
6. Congalach mac Conaing, d. 778
7. Cináed mac Coinaing, d. 851
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9. Flannacan mac Cellach (descendant of Congalach), d. 896
10. Máel Finnia mac Flannacán, d. 903
11. Máel Mithig mac Flannacán, d. 919
12. Congalach mac Mael Mithig (rí Cnogba), d. 956

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Kings of Lagore/Deiscert Breg(south Brega)

List incomplete: see Mac Shamhráin, 2004.

1. Fergus mac Fogartach mac Niall mac Cernach Sotal (a quo Clan Chernach Sotal) mac Diarmait mac Áed Sláine, died 751
2. Máel Dáin mac Fergus, d. 785
3. Ailill mac Fergus, (rí Deiscert Breg), d. 800
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5. Beolln mac Ciarmac (descendant of Máel Dáin ?), d. 979
6. Gilla Mo Chonna mac Fogartach mac Ciarmac (rí Deiscert Breg), d. 1013

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Reference

• Byrne, Francis John, Irish Kings and High-Kings. Batsford, London, 1973. ISBN 0-7134-5882-8
• Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin, Church and dynasty in Early Christian Brega: Lusk, Inis Pátraic and the cast of Máel-Finnia, king and saint, Table 8.1, Lineages of Síl nÁedo Sláine, p.127; in The Island of St Patrick: Church and ruling dynasties in Fingal and Meath, 400-1148, (ed.) Mac Shamhráin, Four Courts, 2004.