Background

Cairbre Crom is regarded as the last of the semi-historical kings of Uí Maine, his floruit estimated to be the second quarter of the 6th century.

He was a descendant of Máine Mór

Máine Mór

-Biography:Máine Mór descended from Colla da Chrioch of Oirghialla/Oriel, which became overpopulated. Máine Mór, his father Eochaidh Ferdaghiall and his two sons Breasal and Amhlaibh, travelled to Connacht to seek new lands...

, who founded the kingdom of Uí Maine about the middle years of the 4th-century A.D. In the king-lists, he is recorded as the 10th (inclusive) in succession to Máine Mór.

Genealogy

Cairbre is listed, along with Cairpri Mac Feithine and Nadsluaigh as the three sons of Feradhach mac Lughaidh. His pedigree

Pedigree chart

A pedigree chart is a diagram that shows the occurrence and appearance or phenotypes of a particular gene or organism and its ancestors from one generation to the next, most commonly humans, show dogs, and race horses....

 is given thus:

Cairbre Crom mac Feradhach m. Lughaidh m. Breasal m. Dallán m. Maine Mór m. Eochaidh

Descendants

Cairbre's notability is as the ancestor of almost all subsequent rulers of both Uí Maine and Síol Anmchadha, from the early historic period into the early modern era, a period of over one thousand years.

Cairpri Crom en mac lais, .i. Cormac. Da mac la Cormac, .i. Eogan Finn, ocus Eogan Buac. Eogan Finn, dia ta tuaiscert O Maine, ocus Eogan Buacc, a quo deiscert O Maine. Ceathrar mac la h-Eogan Finn, .i. Dicholla, ocus Fithchellach, ocus Maelanfaid, ocus Scannlan, ocus Scannall. Maelanfaid eisidi, a quo h-Ua Duibgind./Cairpri Crom had one son, namely, Cormac. Cormac had two sons, viz., Eoghan Finn and Eoghan Buac. From Eoghan Finn, the Northern Ui Maine are descended, and from Eoghan Buac, the Southern Ui Maine. Eoghan Finn had four sons, namely, Dicholla, Fithchellach, Maelanfaidh, Scannlan, and Scannall. From this Maelanfaidh O'Duibhginn is descended.

Uí Maine tuaiscert ocus deiscert

Cairbre Crom's descendant Anmchadh mac Eogan Buac

Anmchadh mac Eogan Buac

Anmchadh mac Eoghan Buac, Prince of Síol Anmchadha, died c.757.Anmchad was a son of Eoghan Buac , who was of the Uí Maine and a descendant of Maine Mór, who founded the kingdom some centuries previously....

 (died c. 757

757

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), founded the kingdom of Síol Anmchadha

Síol Anmchadha

Síol Anmchadha was a sub-kingdom or lordship of Hy-Many, and ruled by an off-shoot of the Ui Maine called the Síol Anmchadha , from whom the territory took its name....

, which was referred to as deiscert O Maine (southern Uí Maine). Families descended from Cairbre via Anmchadh include Colahan and Madden

Madden

Madden may refer to:People* Madudan mac Gadhra Mór ancestor of the Madden family of County Galway* Benji and Joel Madden of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte* Bill Madden , columnist for the New York Daily News...

.

Eoghan Finn was the ancestor of King Tadhg Mór Ua Cellaigh

Tadhg Mór Ua Cellaigh

-Background:Ua Cellaigh was the first King of Uí Maine to bear the surnmae Ua Cellaigh, derived from his grandfather, Ceallach mac Finnachta, who was in turn a sixth-generation descendant of Eoghan Finn, a descendant of the first king, Maine Mór...

 (d. 1014), from whom descend the Clann Ó Cellaigh or Kelly

Kelly

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 of County Galway

County Galway

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, who were referred to as tuaiscert O Maine (northern Uí Maine).

Finn and Buac

The two Eoghan's shared the same name because they likely had different mothers, hence the use of epithet

Epithet

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s. They were sons of Cormac mac Cairbre Crom.