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| name = Conchobar Ua Briain
| name = Conchobar Ua Briain
| title = King of Munster and Dublin
| title = King of Munster and Dublin
| reign = 1141–1142
| predecessor = [[Conchobar Ua Conchobair]]
| successor = [[Óttar of Dublin]]
| house = [[Uí Briain]]
| house = [[Uí Briain]]
| father = [[Diarmait Ua Briain]]
| father = [[Diarmait Ua Briain]]
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| death_date = 1142
| death_date = 1142
| death_place = [[Ireland]]
}}
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Conchobar Ua Briain
King of Munster and Dublin
Reign1141–1142
PredecessorConchobar Ua Conchobair
SuccessorÓttar of Dublin
Died1142
Ireland
HouseUí Briain
FatherDiarmait Ua Briain

Conchobar Ua Briain (died 1142) was a mid-twelfth-century ruler of the kingdoms of Munster and Dublin.

Conchobar was a son of Diarmait Ua Briain, King of Munster.[1] In 1138, Conchobar assumed the kingship of Munster.[2] The Annals of the Four Masters reveals that he gained the kingship of Dublin in 1141.[3] He died the following year.[4]

It is believed that Conchobar Ua Briain founded what is now known as [5] in the early 12th century. Cahir Castle was a state-of-the-art defensive fortress at the time, and continued to be in use for hundreds of years after being gifted to the [6] in 1154 by.[7]

Citations

  1. ^ Duffy (1992) p. 121; Ó Corráin (1971) tab. ii.
  2. ^ Duffy (1992) p. 121; Ó Corráin (1973) p. 59 n. 33.
  3. ^ Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1141.8; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1141.8; Duffy (1992) p. 121.
  4. ^ Duffy (1992) p. 121.
  5. ^ Cahir Castle
  6. ^ Butler family
  7. ^ Edward II

References

Primary sources

  • "Annals of the Four Masters". Corpus of Electronic Texts (3 December 2013 ed.). University College Cork. 2013a. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  • "Annals of the Four Masters". Corpus of Electronic Texts (16 December 2013 ed.). University College Cork. 2013b. Retrieved 7 May 2019.

Secondary sources