Cíarraige

The Ciarraige were a population-group recorded in the early historic era in Ireland.

Origins

The word Ciarraige means the people of Ciar. Ciar was the illegitimate son of Fergus, the King of Ulster. After being banished from the Court of Cruachan, Ciar sought refuge in Munster. There he gained the territory for the first branch of Ciarraige, which he called Ciarraige Luachra.[1]

Branches of the Ciarraige

The Ciarraige were a people found scattered over much of Ireland. Known branches were:

  • Ciarraige Luachra, who gave their name to County Kerry
  • Ciarraige Cuirche, located in the barony of Kerrycurrihy, south of Cork city
  • Ciarraige Diurgi, located somewhere in Munster
  • Ciarraige Irluachra, located close to the Ciarraige Luchra
  • Ciarraige Sleibe Cua, in what is now County Waterford
  • Ciarraige Muman, situated in Munster
  • Ciarraige Choinchenn, location uncertain
  • Ciarraige Conmed, location uncertain
  • Ciarraige Maige Glas, location uncertain
  • Ciarraige Des Cechair, location uncertain
  • Ciarraige Oic Bethra, of Aidhne
  • Ciarraige Ai, based on the plain of Magh nAi in County Roscommon
  • Ciarraige Airtech, an obscure branch of the above, around Tibohine, County Roscommon
  • Ciarraige Loch Airned, based around Loch Airned, now Mannin Lake, County Mayo, close to the Roscommon border.

Notable People

See also

References
  1. Brash, Richard R. (1868). "On the Seskinan Ogham Inscriptions, County of Waterford". The Journal of the Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 1: 118–130 – via JSTOR.
  2. Harbison, Peter (June 1994). "Early Irish Pilgrim Archaeology in the Dingle Peninsula". Archaeology of Pilgrimage. 26 (1): 90–103 – via JSTOR.
  • Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, R.A.S. Macalister, p. 240. Dublin, 1945
  • The Carneys of Connacht, Nollaig O Muraile, in Sages, Saints and Storytellers:Celtic Studies in Honour of Professor James Carney, Maynooth, 1989
  • Irish Kings and High Kings, p. 160, 236, 247, Francis John Byrne,3rd edition, Dublin, 2001
  • Some Early Connacht Population-Groups, Nollaig O Muraile, in Seanchas:Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis John Byrne, pp. 156–174. Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2000.
  • "Early Irish Pilgrim Archaeology in the Dingle Peninsula", Peter Harbison, Vol. 26, No. 1, Archaeology of Pilgrimage (Jun., 1994), pp. 90–103
  • "On the Seskinan Ogham Inscriptions, County of Waterford", Richard R. Brash, The Journal of the Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1868), pp. 118–130
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