Niall of the Nine Hostages Noígillach, King of Ireland and Tara

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• Name	Niall of the Nine Hostages Noígillach  [1]
  Suffix	King of Ireland and Tara
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	445
  Name	Niall Noígíallach
  Death	453
  Notes	Noígillach, Niall of the Nine Hostages, King of Ireland & Tara Acceded: 445 «b»http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal08087 «/b» «b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_of_the_Nine_Hostages Niall «i»Noígíallach«/b»«/i» («u»Old Irish «/u» "having nine «u»hostages «/u»") (pronounced «u»[ni?'?l no?'ji??lax] «/u»)«u»[1]«/u», or in English, «b»Niall of the Nine Hostages«/b», son of «u»Eochaid Mugmedón «/u», was an «u»Irish «/u» king, the «u»eponymous «/u» ancestor of the «u»Uí Néill «/u» kindred who dominated Ireland from the 6th century to the 10th century. The rise of the Uí Néill dynasties and their conquests in «u»Ulster «/u» and «u»Leinster «/u» are not reliably recorded but have been the subject of considerable study and attempts to reconstruct them. «b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Boyle_Donegal «u»«/b»Niall of the Nine Hostages <«/u»«b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_of_the_Nine_Hostages«u»«/b»>«/u» (Niall I Noigíallach/Naoighiallach) King 379-405
  Person ID	I4968	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Eochaidh Mugmedón, King of Connacht,   b. Abt 287   d. Abt 365, Tara/Teamhair, Ireland (Age ~ 78 years)
  Mother	Cairenn   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F551617625	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Children	1. Conall Gulban   d. Abt 464   2. Eógan MacNéill   d. 465   3. Coirpre MacNéill, King of Ireland   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Lóeguire MacNéill, King of Ireland   d. 463   5. Conall Cremthainne MacNéill   d. 480
  Family ID	F1506	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

• Photos

  Niall Noígíallach Fanciful depiction of Nial Noigiallach, wearing among others a Bronze Age helmet

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).