Talk:Máine Mór

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Older pedigrees have Maine so Eochaid so Domnaill so Fiachrach Sroptine (not Colla da Chrioch!)[edit]

Laud 610 (11th century pedigrees)

Cond, trí maic laiss .i. Condla Coém, Crinna, Art Óenfer. Óenmac Airt .i. Cormac. Cethri maic Cormaic .i. Carpri, Muredach, Cellach, Dáre. Trí maic Corpri .i. Fiacho Sroptine, Eochaid, Eocho Domlén, a quo Airgialla. Dá mac Fiachach Sroptine .i. Muredach Tírech, Domnall, sen Ó Maine. Óenmac Muredaig Eocho Mugmedón.

Rawlinson B.502 (12th century pedigrees)

ITEM ÚI MAINE.

¶1008] Áed mc Diarmata m. Taidgcc m. Murchada m. Áeda m. Cellaich m. Fínnachta m. Ailella{facsimile page & column 145f} m. Indrechtaich m. Dlúthaich m. Fidchellaich m. Dícolla m. Coirpre m. Cormaicc m. Feradaich m. Lugdach m. Dalláin m. Bressail m. Maine a quo Úi Maine m. Echdach m. Domnaill m. Fiachach Sraiptine.

[932] Maine m. Echdach m. Domnaill m. Fiachach Sraiptine m. Carpri Lifechair in tres Connacht.

[760] Dá mc Fiachach Sraiptene: Muiredach Tírech ocus Domnall a quo Úi Maine Connacht secundum quosdam.

Even the secular genealogies in the Book of Leinster define the Ui Mhaine as a branch of the Dal Cuinn. It is only the genealogy of the Saints do we find variation, either becoming Cenel Maine or Clann Colla da Chrioch. By the 14th century the Book of Ballymote, Great Book of Lecan and the Life of St Gellan, define the Ui Maine as descendants of Clann Colla da Chrioch.

Maine's other sons[edit]

Form the poem ‘Can a mbunadus na nGáedel?’, assigned to Máel-Mura (d.887) of Othain, co Derry:

Fir Da Gial o Gréin co Coraid

cen nach n-dímess,

deg meic Maine Bresail Fiachraig Dallán,

acus Domlen diles.

Translates to:

Fir da Ghiall, who dwell from Grian to Coradh,

Without contempt,

The good sons of Maine, Breasail, Fiachra, Dallan,

And Domhlen the faithfull.