Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Eidhean mac Cléireach, ancestor of the Ó hEidhin/Hynes family of County Galway, fl. 800.Eidhean was a member of the dynasty of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne, and a descendant of Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin (d. 663), Fiachrae mac Eochaid Mugmedon (fl. 5th century) and thus distantly related to the dynasty of Uí Néill. His descendants ruled Aidhne for a time, most notably in the 1090s when Flaithbertaigh Ua Flaithbertaigh seized the kingship of Connacht and installed an Ó hEidhin as a puppett-king for a time. Eidhean was a kinsman of a number of other men whose descendants also took their surnames from them, such as Comhaltan mac Maol Cúlaird - Ó Comhaltan, (Colton/Coulton Cathal mac Ógán - Ó Cathail/Cahill Giolla Ceallaigh mac Comhaltan - MacGiolla Ceallaigh/KilkellyThough in many cases the relationship between these men was quite distant, Eidhean would have been a contemporary or near-contemporary of almost all of them. He was killed in battle against Neide mac Onchu, about the year 800.. }
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- Eidhean_mac_Cléireach abstract "Eidhean mac Cléireach, ancestor of the Ó hEidhin/Hynes family of County Galway, fl. 800.Eidhean was a member of the dynasty of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne, and a descendant of Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin (d. 663), Fiachrae mac Eochaid Mugmedon (fl. 5th century) and thus distantly related to the dynasty of Uí Néill. His descendants ruled Aidhne for a time, most notably in the 1090s when Flaithbertaigh Ua Flaithbertaigh seized the kingship of Connacht and installed an Ó hEidhin as a puppett-king for a time. Eidhean was a kinsman of a number of other men whose descendants also took their surnames from them, such as Comhaltan mac Maol Cúlaird - Ó Comhaltan, (Colton/Coulton Cathal mac Ógán - Ó Cathail/Cahill Giolla Ceallaigh mac Comhaltan - MacGiolla Ceallaigh/KilkellyThough in many cases the relationship between these men was quite distant, Eidhean would have been a contemporary or near-contemporary of almost all of them. He was killed in battle against Neide mac Onchu, about the year 800.".