Aurchad mac Murchada, king of Uí Briúin Seóla
King of Uí Briúin Seóla in west Connacht
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 945.
This date is given by Baldwin (LaI) and Duffy (ODNB). It is recorded in The Annals of Ulster (U945.4) and the Annals of Inisfallen (AI945.1).
Relationships
Father: Murchad mac Máenaig.
This relationship is given by Baldwin (LaI) and by Jaski (p. 144). It is recorded in The Annals of Ulster (U945.4) and the Banshenchas (Dobbs, 47:314, 47:338, 48:188-189, 48:227).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Osnad.
This relationship is given by Stewart Baldwin in a 2018 post to soc.genealogy.medieval, citing Silva Gadelica (2:488, 536, 573-4) and Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 7 (1910): 307-8. Osnad's father was Crechán mac Angaile and her mother was Cianóg ingen Cicharáin.
Children:
References
Annals of Inisfallen (Seán Mac Airt ed.). (CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College, Cork, 2002/2008).
The Annals of Ulster (Pádraig Bambury, Stephen Beechinor, compilers) (CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College, Cork, 2000).
Baldwin, Stewart. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ancestor table. (Hosted at Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Accessed 23 May 2014).
Dobbs, Margaret C. (ed. and trans.) “The Ban-shenchus [3 pts]”, in Revue Celtique 47:283-339 (1930), 48:163-234 (1931), 49:437-489 (1932).
Duffy, Seán. “Brian Bóruma [Brian Boru] (c. 941-1014)”, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Jaski, Bart. “The traditional rule of succession in early Ireland” (Ph.D. thesis, Trinity College Dublin, 1994). Appendix 2, Genealogical tables of medieval Irish royal dynasties. Online PDF:
https://www.academia.edu/4144299/Genealogical_tables_of_medieval_Irish_royal_dynasties
Silva Gadelica (I-XXXI.): A Collection of Tales in Irish with Extracts Illustrating Persons and Places (Standish H O'Grady ed.) (1892).
Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 7 (1910).