600s in Ireland
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- This article is about the time period 600–609. For information on other years in the 7th century, see 7th century in Ireland.
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[edit] 600
- Death of Cainnech of Aghaboe at Aghaboe, (possibly in 599).[1]His feast day is commemorated on 11 October in the Roman Catholic Church[2] and on the 1 August or 14 August in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- Death of Uatu mac Áedo a king of Connacht from the Uí Briúin branch of the Connachta.[3]
[edit] 601
- Probable year in which Colmán mac Cobthaig, Uí Fiachrach becomes king of Connacht[4].
[edit] 602
- Death of Áed mac Diarmato or Áed Sláine (Áed of Slane), (also stated to have died in 604), was the son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Legendary stories exist of Áed's birth. Killed his nephew and was in turn slain by his grand-nephew.
[edit] 603
- Death of Brandub mac Echach[5] an Irish king of the Uí Cheinnselaig of Leinster. His father, Echu mac Muiredaig had been a king of the Ui Cheinnselaig. They belonged to a branch known as the Uí Felmeda.[6]
[edit] 604
- Death of Áed mac Diarmato or Áed Sláine (Áed of Slane), (also stated to have died in 602 and 600), was the son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Legendary stories exist of Áed's birth. He is said to have killed his nephew and was in turn slain by his grand-nephew.
[edit] 605
- Birth of Colmán of Lindisfarne (died February 18, 675) also known as Saint Colmán was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 661 until 664.[7] Colman resigned the Bishopric of Lindisfarne after the Synod of Whitby called by King Oswiu of Northumbria decided to calculate Easter using the method of the First Ecumenical Council instead of his preferred Celtic method. After his resignation he retired to live on the island of Inishbofin in Galway where he founded a monastery.[8]
[edit] 606
[edit] 607
- Áed Uaridnach or Áed mac Domnail' (died 612), ended his reign as High King of Ireland. He is sometimes also known as Áed Allán, a name usually reserved for the 8th century king of the same name, this Áed's great-great-grandson.
[edit] 608
- Death of Fiachra Cáech, brother of Fiachnae mac Báetáin king of the Dál nAraidi and high-king of the Ulaid in the early 7th century.[9]
[edit] 609
- Death of Saint Molua, [10] (also known as Lua, Da Lua),[10] was an Irish saint, and a Christian abbot.[10] He was the founder of Killaloe (Irish:Cill-da-Lua),[11] which bears his name Lua.[11]
[edit] References
- ^ Ulster.O'Donovan 1842.
- ^ Catholic Online
- ^ Byrne, Table 19.
- ^ The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Foster, RF. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1989
- ^ all dates per The Chronology of the Irish Annals, Daniel P. McCarthy
- ^ Byrne, Table 10.
- ^ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 237
- ^ Walsh A New Dictionary of Saints p. 127
- ^ Byrne, p.287
- ^ a b c The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, p.343
- ^ a b http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08641a.htm Retrieved June 14, 2007
[edit] Works cited
- Byrne, Francis John, Irish Kings and High-Kings. Batsford, London, 1973. ISBN 0-7134-5882-8.
