Conor na Siudane Ua Briain

Tomb effigy in Corcomroe Abbey where he was buried.

Conor na Siudane Ua Briain was a King of Thomond. He was the son of Donnchadh Cairprech Ua Briain and the grandson of Domnall Mór Ua Briain. He was killed in battle in 1267-8 when he invaded the Corcomroe and Burren districts to enforce his authority among some rebellious local chiefs, who encountered him at a place called “Siudaine,” near Bealaclugga (or Bell Harbour), close to the abbey, and defeated and slew him. The “Annals of the Four Masters” thus note his death:—
“The age of Christ, 1268. Conor Roe O’Brien, Lord of Thomond, Seoinin, (i.e. little John) his son, his daughter, his daughter’s son, i.e., the son of Rory O’Grady, Duvloughlin O’Loughlin, Thomas O’Beollan, and a number of others, were slain by Dermot, the son of Murtough O’Brien, for which he himself was afterwards killed; and Brian, the son of Conor O’Brien, then assumed the lordship of Thomond.” [1]
He was buried in the nearby Corcomroe Abbey where an effigy of him is present.

Family and issue [2]

He married Mór, daughter of McNamara, Lord of Hy-Coileann and had issue:

  • Brian Ruadh Ó Briain
  • Murtogh Ó Briain
  • Tadg Caeluisce Ó Briain, Tanaiste of Thomond

References

  1. ↑ Article by the Clare County Library
  2. ↑ John O'Hart,"Irish Pedigrees or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation", Volume 1, 1892, p.159, https://archive.org/stream/irishpedigreesor_01ohar#page/158
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