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Lóegaire (Loeguire, Láegaire, Laoghaire, sometimes anglicised as Leary), son of Niall Noigiallach or Niall of the Nine Hostages, semi-historical King of Ireland, thought to have flourished in the first half of the 5th century. Said to have being the fourth and youngest son of Eochaid Mugmedon, an Irish King, and Cairenn or Carina, a British slave]. Said to have...
Niall of the Nine Hostages.
Lóegaire was a semi-legendary The office of High King of Ireland (Irish: Ard Rí Érenn) was in origin a pseudohistorial construct of the eighth century that placed a king of all Ireland atop the fragmented pyramid of kingship that actually existed at that time. This notion of a high kingship acted as a spur...
High King of Ireland and succeded his father Niall Noigíallach. Four years into this reign Statue of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick (died March 17, 462, 492, or 493), is the patron saint of Ireland. He was born somewhere along the west coast of Britain in the little settlement or village of Bannavem of Taburnia (vico banavem taburniae in his Confession), which has never been securely...
St. Patrick appeared in Ireland. He is believed to have died about 463 or 464 after a reign of about ten years.
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7th century Life of Patrick, Loeguire is described as "a certain great, fierce, pagan emperor of the barbarians reigning in Tara." He is said to have being killed by a lightning flash at Greallach Dabhaill beside the The River Liffey flows through Dublin, the capital city of the Republic of Ireland. It rises in the Sally Gap, near to Kippure, a mountain in County Wicklow, and flows for around 75 miles (125km) through counties Wicklow, Kildare and Dublin before entering the Irish sea in Dublin Bay. There...
Liffey. He was the father of the High King Lughaid mac Loeguire.
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Dathí | The High Kingship of Ireland was a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century projected into the distant past that did not become political reality until the ninth century. The traditional list of High Kings of Ireland is thus a mixture of fact and fiction, the individuals appearing prior to the...
High King of Ireland
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FFE 418-448 | Succeeded by:
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