Óengus mac Nad Froích
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Óengus mac Nad Froích was an Eoganachta and the first Christian King of Munster. He was the son of Nad Froich mac Cuirc by Faochan, a British lady. In Geoffrey Keating's History of Ireland, Oengus is
Baptism of Óengus by Saint Patrick, stained glass, St Ailbe's Church, Emly.
Déisi
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The Déisi or Déise were a social class in Ireland between the ancient and early medieval period. The various peoples listed under the heading déis shared a similar status in Gaelic Ireland, and had li
Óengus mac Nad Froích
…into antiquity than was the case. Óengus appears in the 9th-century literary text The Expulsion of the Déisi, in which he grants land to the wandering Déisi horde. The story is set in the time of Cormac mac Airt, who is said to have lived 200 years before Óengus. He also appears often in the varying vitae…
Roman era Irish settlements in Britain.