Domnall mac Áedo

Domnall mac Áedo (death in January 642) laughed Ard Érenn of 628 with 642.

Domnall mac Áedo is the son D Áed mac Ainmerech laughed Ard Érenn resulting from Cenél Conaill of the Uí Neill of North and his wife Lann girl of Áed Guaire Uí Meic Cáirthinn.

Domnall is a remote relative of Saint Colomba the founder of the monastery of Iona and its biographer and 9th successor Adomnan. According to this last it would have, still child, assisted with his father with Convention or synod of Druin Cett in 575 and would have been blessed there by Saint Colomba itself.

Domnall becomes the chief of Cenél Conaill after demolishing it and the death of his brother Máel Coba mac Áedo in front of Suibne Menn the representative of Cenél nÉogain chalk-lining conceived Uí Neill of North

He becomes Ard laughed Érenn after the death of Suibne Menn killed with the combat by Congal Clóen mac Scannal king of Ulaid. Domnall mac Áedo must face, in its turn, the hegemonic claims of powerful king d' Ulaid resulting from the Dál nAraidi which it demolishes with the battle of Dun Ceithirn in 629.

In 637 Congal Clóen constitutes a vast alliance against the laughed Ard Érenn and its clan which includes in addition to the traditional rivals of Cenél nÉogan, the double irlando-Scottish kingdom of Dál Riata which following the convention of Druin Cett was regarded by Cenél Conaill as vassal.

Domnall mac Áedo profits the support without fault from Cenél Conall and its nephew Conall Cóel mac Máel Coba mac Áedo which takes the command of its armies.

The forces of united are beaten on sea at the time of a naval action to broad of Sailtir (Kintyre) in Scotland then on ground with the battle of Magh Roth (Moired) (Comté of Down) during which Conall Clóen is killed and his/her brother-in-law Domnall Brecc king de Dál Riata put in escape.

The consequences of this combat are very important since it marks at the same time:

  • final end of the influence of the kingdom of Ulaid in the northern half of Ireland (Leth Cuinn) of the fact in particular of assembled in power of the federal kingdom of Airgíalla.

  • the loss for Dál Riata of its provinces Irish and the beginning for the Scottish part of the kingdom of a weakening which will last until the reign of Ferchar Fota at the end of the century.

Domnall mac Áedo continues are reign peacefully and dies after a one year disease in Ard Fothadh in Shooting Aedha at the end of January 642. It will have as joint successors its two nephews Conall Cóel (death in 654) and Cellach (death in 658).

This natural death and the fact that the succession is exceptionally assured by two heir direct to Cenél Conail gives the dimension of the power acquired by the laughed Ar Érenn Domnall mac Áedo which Annals name besides " rex Hiberniae " instead of king of Temair.

Domnall had married certain Duinsech (dead in 639) whose origins remain obscure and a princess of Osraige. One does not know the name of the mother of the five wire which are allotted to him by the genealogies:

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