Donnchad mac Domnaill

King of Ui Cheinnselaig

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1089.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Baldwin

Relationships

Father: Domnall Remar mac Mael na mBo.

This relationship is given by Baldwin, by A New History of Ireland (9:134), and by Jaski (p. 122). Jaski shows two sons of Donnchad Máel na Mbó named Domnall Remar and is not sure which is the father of the Donnchad of this page.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Cailleach ingen Mac Faelain.

This relationship is given by Baldwin.

Children:

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

Máel Mórda (died 1090) married Luanmaisi ingen Ceile ua Nuallain.

Evidence

from the Ban Senchus (Dobbs ed, Revue Celtique XLVIII (1931):

(p. 193):

Cailleach ingen Meic Fhaelain, mathair Mail Morda (ob. 1024) hUi Domnaill ri hUa Cendselaig; 7 Dunlaing hUi Aeda rig hUa nDeaga.

from the Chronicon Scotorum (s.a. 1089):

Donnchad son of Domnall Remar, king of Laigin and the foreigners, was killed by Conchobor ua Conchobuir Failge.

References

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

Chonicon Scotorum (William M. Hennessy, Gearóid Mac Niocaill trans.). CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts (University College, Cork, 2010).

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)