mac CUINN Art Óenfher

Male Abt 0152 - 0195  (43 years)

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  • Name mac CUINN Art Óenfher 
    Birth Abt 0152  Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 0195  Magh Mucroimbe, Galway, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Art Óenfher (Art Eanfhear) succeeded his brother-in-law Conaire Cóem to become became High King of Ireland.

      Art Aoinfhear (Art mac Conn Aonfhir the Melancholy) the son Conn Ceadchathach, was the 112th Monarch of Ireland as listed by John O'Hart in his Roll of the Monarchs of Ireland Since the Milesian Conquest [1]

      Art ruled for twenty years after the death of Conaire Coem, son of Mog Lama.

      In the Battle of Mag Mucrama (Cath Maige Mucrama), Art was an ally of Eógan, king of Munster, against Lugaid Mac Con, foster-brother of Eógan. [2]

      Art was the father of Cormac MacArt who became a great high king of Ireland.

      He had two sisters - [3]

      Sarah or Serad , who was the wife of Conchobar, the 111th Monarch of Ireland, by whom she had three sons called the three Carbreys, viz., Carbrey alias Eochaid Riada, a quo Dal Riada in Scotland; Carbrey Bascon and Carbrey aliase Muscry.

      Sabina or Sadhbh was the wife of Marnicel, the King of Munster, of the sept of Lughaidh, son of Ith, the first discoverer of Ireland, by whom she had a son called MacCon and by her second husband, Oilill Olom, she had nine sons of whereof, were slain by their half-brother, MacCon, in the famous Battle of Magh Mucroimhe, where also the Monarch fell siding with his brother-in-law Oilill, against the said MacCon, after his reign of 30 years, A.D. 195.[4][5]

      Sources
      ↑ listed by John O'Hart in his Roll of the Monarchs of Ireland Since the Milesian Conquest published in Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation part ll page: 59 pub: J. Duffy and Co; Dublin 1892
      ↑ Timeless Myths : High Kings : Art Óenfher
      ↑ John O'Hart, Irish Pedigrees: Or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (Dublin:M. H. Gill and Son, 1881), p. 183, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=STYbAAAAYAAJ&vq=art&pg=PA183. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 31 May 2015).
      ↑ General History of Ireland (Google eBook), Geoffrey Keating, Seathrún Keating. James Duffy, 1865.
      ↑ Wikipedia, (http:www.wikipedia.com: acessed 24 May 2015), "Art mac Cuinn," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_mac_Cuinn.
      Bart Jaski Genealogical tables of medieval Irish royal dynasties Table-1 Early Irish Kingship Succession by Jaski Bart, Published by Four Courts Press, 2013, ISBN 1846824265 ISBN 9781846824265
      Albert F. Schmuhl, The royal line : chart prepared for the New York Stake Genealogical Board, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints centennial exhibition, March, 1936 (Salt Lake City: self published, 1929) https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/239856?availability=Family%20History%20Library. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 7 June 2015). Revised 1980. Purports to go back to Adam, "Genealogical lineages shown on the chart may not always be from father to son, especially in the reigning houses of Kings; some ancient connections are based on legends, believed to be true."
    Person ID I58521  Freeman-Smith
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2026 

    Father CEADCATHA Conn Cétchathach,   b. Abt 0095, Tara, Navan, County Meath, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 0157, Tara, Navan, County Meath, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother MÁR Landabaria,   b. Abt 0115, Leinster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Galway, Connaught, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F26077  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family ACHA Achtan,   b. Abt 0170, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Tara, Meath, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. mac AIRT Cormac,   b. Abt 0195, Éire Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 0266, Éire Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F26076  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2026 


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