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The Uí Fidgenti, Fidgeinti, Fidgente, or Fidgeinte ( or ;〔In the pronunciation, the -d- is silent, and the -g- becomes a glide, producing what might be anglicized ''Feeyenti'' or ''Feeyenta''.〕 "descendents of, or of the tribe of, Fidgenti") were an early kingdom of northern Munster in Ireland, situated mostly in modern County Limerick, but extending into County Clare and County Tipperary, and possibly even County Kerry and County Cork, at maximum extents, which varied over time. They flourished from about 377 A.D. (assumption of power of Fidgheinte) to 977 (death of Donovan), although they continued to devolve for another three hundred years. They have been given various origins among both the early or proto-Eóganachta and among the Dáirine by different scholars working in a number of traditions, with no agreement ever reached or appearing reachable. Genealogies deriving from the Ui Fidgheinte include O'Billry, O’Bruadair (Brouder), O'Cennfhaelaidh (Kenneally/Kenealy), Clerkin, Collins (Cuilen), O'Connell, O'Dea, Donovan, Flannery, O'Heffernans, Kenealyes, Mac Eneiry, O'Kealy (Queally), O'Quin, and Tracy.〔Book of Munster〕 Closely related to the Uí Fidgenti were the Uí Liatháin, who claimed descent from the same 4th century AD dynast, Dáire Cerbba (Maine Munchaín), and who in the earliest sources, such as ''The Expulsion of the Déisi'' (incidentally),〔ed. Meyer 1901〕 are mentioned together with them. The Ui Fidghente descend from Fiachu Fidhgeinte, the second son of Dáire Cerbba, whom, it is believed, became the senior line of the Milesian race upon the death of Crimhthann in 379 A.D. Fiacha himself, however, never becamse King of Munster, for he was killed by his reival, Aengus Tireach, great grandson of Cormac Cas, in a battle fought at Clidhna, near Glandore Harbor.〔Appendix to the Annals of the Four Masters edited by John O'Donovan, page 2434〕 As noted in the Book of Lecan, Fiacha received the designation because he constructed a wooden horse at the fair of Aenach Cholmain. Ultimately, six hundred years after the time of Fiacha, the territories of the Ui Fidgheinte divided into two principal dynasties or septs, the Uí Chairpre Áebda and Uí Chonaill Gabra.〔O'Donovan 1856〕〔Begley〕〔Mac Spealáin 1960〕〔Mac Spealáin 2004〕 The latter were more often the stronger power.〔 By 1169, the Ui Chairpre had further divided into the Ui Chairpre and the Uí Dhonnabháin.,〔MacCarthaigs Book, 1177.2〕 though comparing the geneaologies set forth in Rawlin and the Book of Munster, the lines diverged with Cenn Faelad, four generations before Donovan (died 974), reflecting that specific family's alliance with the Danes of Limerick and Waterford. Modern descendants of Daire Cerbba include the O'Connells of Derrynane,〔O'Hart, pp. 183–85〕〔Cusack, p. 6 ff〕 Daniel Charles, Count O'Connell having explicitly declared this to the heralds of Louis XVI of France. Also was Michael Collins, descending from the Ó Coileáin of Uí Chonaill Gabra,〔Coogan, pp. 5–6〕〔O'Hart〕 once the most powerful sept of the Uí Fidgenti. ==Size and extents== A variety of sources show that Uí Fidgenti was the most prominent of the non-(classical)-Eóganacht overkingdoms of medieval Munster, once the formerly powerful Corcu Loígde and distant Osraige are excluded as non-participating.〔Byrne, ''passim''; Charles-Edwards, ''passim''〕 By circa 950 a.d., the territory of the Ui Fidgheinte were divided primarily between the two most powerful septs, the Ui Cairbre and the Ui Coilean. The Ui Cairbre Aobhdha (of which O’Donovan were chief), lay along the Maigue basin in Coshmagh and Kenry (Caenraighe) and covered the deanery of Adare, and at one point extended past Kilmallock to Ardpartrick and Doneraile. The tribes of Ui Chonail Gabhra extended to a western district, along the Deel and Slieve Luachra, now the baronies of Upper and Lower Connello. Other septs within the Ui Fidgheinte were long associated with other Limerick locations; a branch of the Fir Tamnaige gave its name to Mahoonagh, or Tawnagh.〔Westropp, Ancient Churches in Co. Limerick, page 332-333〕 Feenagh is the only geographical trace extant today of ancient Ui-Fidhgeinte. Though the changes in the name of Ui-Fidhgeinte down to the modern Feenagh seem strange, they are quite natural when one takes into account the gradual change from the Irish to the English tongue with a totally different method of spelling and pronunciation and the omission of the "Ui" which was unintelligible to those acquainted only with the latter language. During 1750 to 1900, Fidgeinte had become FOUGHANOUGH or FEOHONAGH,〔Lewis, Topographical Dictionary, under the word Mahonagh〕 and finally FEENAGH—a name now confined to a single parish southeast of Newcastle in County Limerick.〔"Genealogical Memoir of the O'Donovans, formerly Kings of Ui Fidgheinte" C. L. Nono & Son, Printers and Stationers Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland 1902〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uí Fidgenti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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