TheKings of Uisnech were of theUí Néill and one of its major southern branches, theClann Cholmáin. The Hill ofUisnech is located in what is nowCounty Westmeath, and was in early historic Ireland considered as the area where all five provinces met.
A list of the kings of Uisnech is found amongst the regnal lists inThe Book of Leinster. The earliest kings of Uisnech were:
Diarmait mac Cerbaill (Fergus), died 565 | |____________________________________ | | | | Colmán Már, died 555/558. Colmán Bec, died 589. | |____________________________________________ | | | | | | Suibhne, died 600. Fergus, died 618. Óengus, died 621. | |___________________________________________________ | | | | | | Conall Guthbinn, died 635. Colcu, died 618. Máel Dóid, died 654 | | Airmedach Cáech, died 637. | |____________________________________________________ | | | | | | Sechnasach, died 681. Diarmait Dian, died 689 Fáelchú, died 637 | also King ofMide _________________________|_____________ | | | | | | | | Bodbchad Áed Colcu Murchad Midi, died 715 died 704 died 704 died 714 also King of theUí Néill | |Domnall Midi, died 763 King ofTara
Later kings of Uisnech included:
Domnall Midi mac Murchada (died 763; also king of Tara)
Niall mac Diarmata meic Airmedaig (?d. c. 768 or 826)
"Clann Cholmáin" (Table 3) in "The Kingship and Landscape of Tara", ed Edel Bhreathnach, Four Courts, Dublin, 2005, pp. 344–45.
'Ríg Uisnig', in R.I. Best, Osborn Bergin, and M.A. O'Brien (eds),The Book of Leinster formerly Lebar na Núachongbála vol. 1 (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954), pp 196–8.
