Breasal mac Maine Mór

Breasal mac Maine Mór, 2nd king of Uí Maine, fl. 4th-century/5th-century.

John O'Donovan remarked that "Bresal, son of Maine, thirty years, when he died a natural death, which the poem states was surprising, as he had been much engaged in wars." He participated in the war that led to the foundation of Ui Maine with his father and grandfather.

Preceded by
Maine Mór		 King of Uí Maine
c.407?– c.437?		 Succeeded by
Fiachra Finn

References

  • http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/uimaine.htm
  • Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
  • Annals of Tigernach at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
  • Revised edition of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin.
  • Irish Kings and High-Kings, Francis John Byrne, Dublin (1971;2003) Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9
  • History of the O'Maddens of Hy-Many, Gerard Madden, 2004. ISBN 0-9529511-7-7.
  • The Life, Legends and Legacy of Saint Kerrill: A Fifth-Century East Galway Evangelist by Joseph Mannion, 2004. ISBN 0-9547698-1-3
  • http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G105007/index.html
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