Donnchad mac Cellaig

King of Osraige

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 976.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Baldwin and by Jaski (p. 127).

Relationships

Father: Cellach mac Cerbaill, king of Osraige.

This relationship is given by Baldwin, by Jaski (p. 127), and by A New History of Ireland (9:135).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Aife ingen Fáeláin.

This relationship is given by Baldwin (KO).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Diamait (died 974).

Muiredach.

Gilla Pátraic (died 996) married Echrad ingen Carlusa.

Dúngal.

Tadg.

Evidence

from the Annals of Ulster (s.a. 976):

Donnchad son of Cellach, king of Osraige, and Domnall son of Congalach, king of Brega, died.

References

The Annals of Ulster (Mac Airt & Mac Niocaill trans., Pádraig Bambury, Stephen Beechinor, compilers) (CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College, Cork, 2000).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Eve of Leinster and Radnaillt of Dublin”, a posting (26 February 1998) to soc.genealogy.medieval.

Baldwin, Stewart. “Kings of Osraige”.

Dobbs, Margaret. “The Ban-Shenchus” in Revue Celtique (1930, pp. 283-339; 1931, pp. 163-234; 1932, pp. 437-489).

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

A New History of Ireland. Moody, T.W., F.X.Martin, and F.J. Byrne (eds.). Volume 9 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984)