- portion/fifth/province of the Ol
nEchmacht, also
called the Fir Ol
nEchmacht ("Fir"
means "men"). The name
nEchmacht has been
linked by some scholars[who...
- Connachta. The old name for the
province was Cóiced Ol
nEchmacht (the
fifth of the Ol
nEchmacht). Ptolemy's map of c. 150 AD does in fact list a people...
- Fir Ol
nEchmacht was the name of a
group of
people living in pre-historic Ireland. The name may be
translated as 'men' (Fir) of the 'people' (Ol, possibly...
- The
Gamanraige were the main
branch of the Fir Ol
nEchmacht, a
people who
ruled much of
Ireland west of the
Shannon in the pre-historic era. The Gamanraige...
-
Connachta dynasty, the
province (cúige, "fifth") was
known as Cóiced Ol
nEchmacht. In
Modern Irish, the
province is
usually called Cúige Chonnacht, "the...
- Mayo and
County Sligo,
possibly linked with the Ol nÉcmacht; Cóiced Ol
nEchmacht was an
ancient name for Connacht.
Aidhne or Uí
Fiachrach Aidhne Breifne...
- Fir
Craibe is a
branch of the Fir Ol
nEchmacht, one of the
ancient peoples of Ireland. The
kingdom of the Fir
Craibe extended from
Limerick to the Palace...
- have
lived several centuries later.
Later stories use the name Cóiced Ol
nEchmacht as an
earlier name for the
province of
Connacht to get
around this problem...
- The
Tuatha Taiden were a
branch of the Fir Ol
nEchmacht, one of the
ancient peoples of Ireland. The
kingdom of
Tuatha Taiden extended from
Fidach eastwards...
-
century AD.
Later texts used the
supposedly earlier names of Cóiced Ol
nEchmacht (the
province of the Fir Ól nÉcmacht, an
ancient people of Connacht) and...
