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Maolanfaidh genealogy

In the second century, Ailill Olum (also known as Oilill Olum/Olomm) was said to have controlled all of Ireland, which he divided between his sons. According to this information culled from The Book of Munster (1703) the first Maolanfaidh appears to be a direct descendant of Ailill Olum — his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson:

1. Ailill Olum had two sons, Cormac Cas and Eoghan Mor.

2. Eoghan Mor had one son, by Muncha, daughter of the Druid Dil. Named Fiacha Muilleathan (Fiacha of the Flat head), he was destined to be king and his descendants a royal race. Known as Fiacha Fer da Liach or Fiacha the Man of two Sorrows, his father was slain the day after his conception, his mother on the day of his birth. This king wielded great power, thanks to the strength of his vast army and the power of his druids. As the poet Feidhlime mac Crimithann wrote:

Good was the king Fiacha Muilleathan
A great territory the Half over which he ruled
He brought hostages from Tara the Strong
To Rathfuim to Rath Naoi
Though he was great; Cormac Ua Cuinn
He bowed to the king of Tir Duinn (Munster).

3. Fiacha Muilleathan had three sons: Oilill Flann Mor, Oilill Flann Beag, and Deachluath. The eldest son had no children; the youngest is ancestor of the tribe called Ui Fiachach Eile (in north-east of Tipperary; Thurles and Roscrea).

4. Oilill Flann Beag had four sons: Lughaid, Fiodach, Daire Cearba, and Maine Munchaoin. These four divided Munster between them, with the area from Comar no dTre in Utsge (Waterford Harbour) to Belach Conglais (Cork Harbour) going to Lughaid, ancestor of all the Eoghanachta, and Fiodach, father of Criomthann.

5. Lughaid had four sons: Lughaid, Cathfaidh, Corclosadh, and Corc, "from whom the Eoghanachta and kingship of Munster".

6. Corc had eleven sons, among them Nad Fracich, Cas, MacBroic, Ciar, Cairbre Cruithneachan, Maine Leambna (Maine of Leven at Loch Leven in Scotland), Cairbre Luachra (Cairbre of Sliobh Luachra on the Cork-Kerry border), and Croanan. Their mother had a vision of four birds sitting in their nest in Cashel when two other birds flew to Ireland and fought with them; one of these went westwards and the other east. Of the four in the nest, three went to the southwest while one remained in the nest with the queen — Nad Fraoich was the one who stayed behind.

7. Nad Fraoich was king of Cashel.

8. Aonghus, son of Nad Fraoich, had 24 sons and 24 daughters. When St. Patrick came to Ireland (later half of the 4th century AD) Aonghus gave him 12 sons and 12 daughters, to devote to God. The 12 sons who remained in the lay life were Feidhlimid Dub, Cenel Failbe Flann, Eochaid, Seanach, Aodh Caoch, Mac Carthainn, Dubh Conaing, Dubhh Derainn, Aodh Colpa, Nad Frithridh, Loagann, and Nadgeid.

9. Eochaid, second (?) son of Aonghus, had two sons born the same night and both named "Criomthann": Criomthann Feimhin, usually called Criomthann Sreibh, and Criomthann son of Dearcon.

10. Criomthann Sreibh had five sons: Cairbre Crom, Fiacha, Aodh Cron, Fiachra Eidhsceach, and Fearadach.

11. Cairbre Crom (d. 580) "gave Cloyne to God and St.f colman Mac Lenin (first bishop of diocese of Cloyne, d. 604)."

12. Aodh Flann Cathrach, son of Cairbre Crom, had three sons: Cathal, Cellach, and Aonghus Liath (d. 645).

13. Cathal, who ruled the royal dynasty of Fermoy, had seven sons: Cui-gan-Mathair ("motherless hound", d. 664), Naolochtraigh, Cronmhaol, Maolanfaidh, Dubhda, Forannan, and Aonghus.

14. Maolanfaidh, of course, was a saint.