- The Cenél
nÓengusa were a kin
group who
ruled the
island of Islay, and
perhaps nearby Colonsay, off the
western coast of
Scotland in the
early Middle Ages...
- nGabráin of
Kintyre and the Cenél
Comgaill of Cowal, thus
excluding the Cenél
nÓengusa of
Islay and the Cenél
Loairn of
middle and
northern Argyll.
Origins of...
- with
their own chief: the Cenél nGabráin (based in Kintyre), the Cenél
nÓengusa (based on Islay), the Cenél
Loairn (who gave
their name to the district...
- mac
Colmain is
mentioned as a
chieftain of this sept. "O'Moron". Cenél
nÓengusa,
meaning "kindred of Óengus",
descended from a son of Máel Cobo mac Fiachnai...
-
divisions of Dál Riata—the Cenél nGabráin, the Cenél Loairn, and the Cenél
nÓengusa—and
their obligations for
military service,
apparently at a time when the...
-
handful of regions,
controlled by
particular kin groups, of
which the Cenél
nÓengusa controlled Jura and Islay.[citation needed] The
kingdom thrived for a few...
-
Senchus fer n-Alban ("The
History of the Men of Scotland"), it was the Cenél
nÓengusa for
Islay and Jura. In 627, the son of a king of the
Irish Uí Chóelbad...
- father, who
should be
identified with the
eponymous ancestor of the Cenél
nÓengusa of Islay. Byrne,
Table 6; Charles-Edwards,
appendix XXI; Mac Niocaill,...
-
varied evolution eventually became the
Scottish region of
Argyll Cenél
nÓengusa, a kin
group who
ruled the
island of Islay, and
perhaps nearby Colonsay...
-
leading Gaelic kindreds including Cenél
Comgaill in Strathearn, Cenél
nÓengusa in
Angus and Cenél nGabráin in Gowrie. A
series of
campaigns under Onuist...
