Loch Gabhair
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Loch Gabhair (Lagore) meaning "Lake of the Goats" is a townland in the parish of Ratoath, Ireland. It is located between the villages of Ratoath and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Republic of Ireland.
Lagore is also home to the Lagore crannog, the Irish royal residence of the 7th to 10th centuries A.D.
During excavations of the site a number of bronze items, including weapons and brooches, (see the Lagore Brooch), which can now be found at the National Museum of Ireland in Kildare St., Dublin, Ireland.
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[edit] Kings of Lagore/Deiscert Breg(south Brega)
- List incomplete: see Mac Shamhráin, 2004.
- Fergus mac Fogartach mac Niall mac Cernach Sotal (a quo Clan Chernach Sotal) mac Diarmait mac Áed Sláine, died 751
- Máel Dáin mac Fergus, d. 785
- Ailill mac Fergus, (rí Deiscert Breg), d. 800
- ...
- Beolln mac Ciarmac (descendant of Máel Dáin ?), d. 979
- Gilla Mo Chonna mac Fogartach mac Ciarmac (rí Deiscert Breg), d. 1013
[edit] Reference
- Byrne, Francis John, Irish Kings and High-Kings. Batsford, London, 1973. ISBN 0-7134-5882-8
- Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin, Church and dynasty in Early Christian Brega: Lusk, Inis Pátraic and the cast of Máel-Finnia, king and saint, Table 8.1, Lineages of Síl nÁedo Sláine, p.127; in The Island of St Patrick: Church and ruling dynasties in Fingal and Meath, 400-1148, (ed.) Mac Shamhráin, Four Courts, 2004.
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