Maine mac Cerbaill
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Maine mac Cerbaill (died 537)[1] was a king of Uisnech in Mide of the [Ui Neill]]. He was the son of Fergus Cerrbél, grandson of Conall Cremthainne (died 481) and brother of the high king Diarmait mac Cerbaill (died 563).[2] He ruled from 520-537.[3]
Maine was defeated and slain at the Battle of Claenloch (near Kinelea,Co.Galway) by Goibnenn mac Conaill of the Ui Fiachrach Aidhne.[4] Maine was attempting to secure the hotages of the Uí Maine. This battle marked the division of the Ui Maine subject to Connacht and the Cenél Maine of Tethba, subject to the Southern Ui Neill.[5] It is also possible this battle took place at Clea Lake, near Keady in Armagh, which points to the orogins of the family of Diarmait mac Cerbaill in the territory north of the Boyne and Blackwater.[6]
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- Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
- Annals of Tigernach at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
- Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9
- Book of Leinster,Rig Uisnig at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
- Revised edition of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin.
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