Turlough O\' Connor

Toirdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair (English Turlough O' Connor ) (1088 - 1156) king of Connacht and laughed Ard Érenn (1121 - 1156).

Turlough O' Connor was the son of Ruaidri mac Aed Ua Conchobair king of Connacht (1087 - 1092 (death in 1118) and of Mór the girl of Toirdhealbach mac Taidgh Ua Briain king of Munster and laughed Ard Érenn. It succeeds the head of Sil Muireadhaigh the clan of Ua Conchobair kings of Connacht in 1106 after his/her older brother Domnall mac Ruaidri king of Connacht was deposited by Muirchertach Mór Ua Briain.

After having carried out in 1111 successfully two forwardings in Ulster, he recognizes the supremacy of Domhnall MacLochlainn like laughed Ard Erenn in 1114 in Dunlo (Comté of Galway). The following year it makes profitable an attack of Munster against the Meath to carry out its first forwarding against this province. The weather is present at the monastery Clonmacnoise the parts of goldsmithery taken as spoils.

In 1116 it continues its war against the O' Brien and destroyed their residence of Cenncoradh close to Killaloe. The defeat, then the death of the king Dairmaid O' Brien in 1118 enable him to be turned over against Murchad mac Domnall O' Maelseachlainn king de Meath of 1105 to 1153. It concluded an alliance with the Leinster, the Ossory and the Danes of Dublin against him.

In 1118 it invades the Munster and proceeds to a division of the kingdom by allotting the Desmond to Eóganacht, Carthaigh ancestor éponyme of the Mac Carthy the Thomond with wire of Diarmaid Ua Briain.

In 1121 Turlough O' Connor asserted the title of Ard laughed Érenn confiscated by the O' Neill with the O' Connor since more than 600 years. It had to continue to deploy a very great warlike activity against the O' Brien of Munster], Murchad O' Maelseachlainn of Meath which it drives out several times of its throne and finally Muirchertach MacLochlainn O' Neill which disputed its authority permanently.

It must indeed conduct quasi annual campaigns against the Meath between 1137 and 1144. At the time of the latter it tries to impose as king his Conchobar son who is killed by a noble room.

It guerroie also against the Leinster and Breifne in 1145 and starting from 1151 again against the Munster. It must finally give hostages to Muirchertach MacLochlainn which claimed in its turn under laughed Ard Érenn the same year.

In 1156 it crossed the Lough Derg and obtains new hostages of O' Brien. It was the last of its multiple forwardings against Munster because he died shortly after and was buried close to the furnace bridge of Ciaran Saint to the abbey of Clonmacnoise.

Turlogh O' Connor contracted two political marriages with

1) Tailtin died in 1128 girl of Murchadh O' Maeleaschlainn king de Meath

Tadgh dies during an epidemic in 1144
Conhocbar killed in 1144 transitory king of Meath killed by O' Dubhlaich a chief of clan of Meath
Ruaidri Ua Conchobair its successor king of Connacht.
Brian Breifnach plugged by his/her Ruaidhrai brother in 1156.
Brian Luighneach
Muirchertach Muimhneach

2) Dearbhforgaill (dead in 1151) girl of Domhnall MacLochlainn.

Aedh plugged by his/her father in 1136 for rebellion
Cathal killed in 1152
Domnall Midheach
Cathal Crodhearg O' Connor king of Connacht (1189 - 1190) and (1202 - 1224).

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