Óengus Osrithe

Óengus Osrithe son of Criomthann Mór (son of Iar mac Sétnai) and his wife Cindnit, daughter of Dáire mac Degad and Morand, was the semi-legendary first king and eponymous ancestor of the Osraige people of Ireland.[1] His supposed floruit lies in the late first or early second century AD.[2]

Legacy

As the founder of the kingdom, it has been regarded that his descendants took their name from him; but scholars have more recently suggested that perhaps the tribal name "Osraige" which means "people of the deer" may pre-date him and instead became his appellation.[3] He wedded Side, daughter of the druid Delbath, brother of Mogh Ruth, and is buried in the tumulus in Kilcullen, Co. Kilkenny.[4] His son and heir was Loegaire Birn Buadach, whose ruling descendants bore the tribal name "Dál Birn".

Texts

He appears in a number of surviving tribal genealogies, notably in MS Rawlinson B 502. He is named with his father, mother and maternal grandfather in the Banshenchas: "Oengus Ossory son of Cremthand, his mother was blameless Cindnit daughter of Daire Dord son of Dedad. There was a king of bloody struggles."[5]

References
  1. Stewart Baldwin: http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/Ireland/Osr/lists/tribal.htm
  2. The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory by William Carrigan. (1905)
  3. Stewart Baldwin: http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/Ireland/Osr/lists/tribal.htm
  4. Carrigan, William (1905). The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory. Sealy, Bryers & Walker.
  5. "Banshenchus".


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