Echrad of Ulster

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1. Donnchad K of Ossory

1. Muirchertach O'NEILL* K of Meath

                                                                                                    _Eochaid K of Ulster_______
                                                                            _Aed __________________|___________________________
                                                _Eochocan Lethri of Ulster_|
                                               |                           |                        _Domnall K of Dal nAraidi__
                                               |                           |_Ablach of Dal nAraidi_|___________________________
                       _Aed K of Ulster________|
                      |                        |                                                    _Aed Oirdnide K of Ireland_
                      |                        |                            _Mael-Duin K of Ailech_|___________________________
                      |                        |_Inderb of Ailech__________|
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 _Matudan K of Ulster_|
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|                     |                                                     _Loingsech ____________|___________________________
|                     |                         _Lethlobar K of Ulster_____|
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|                     |_Barrdub of Dal nAraidi_|
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|--Echrad of Ulster
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Notes

Ireland", TAG 54:1 (1978). The basic argument is as follows:

In Ban Shenchus 337 and 227:3 Echrad is called daughter of Matudan m.

Aeda and mother of Muircertach m. Domnaill. But the entry at 188:8 reads

"Echrad, daughter of Matudan m. Cellaig King of Ossory, mother of

Donnchad m. Aeda; & mother of Muircertach m. Domnall hUi Neill." There

is not known any such person as Matudan m. Cellaig or Matudan of Ossory,

so it would appear that the "Matudan" rightly belongs with the "m. Aeda"

and that the fathers of Matudan and Donnchad have been accidentally

switched by some dyslexic scribe. The The emended entry would

therefore have read "Echrad, daughter of Matudan m. Aeda, mother of

Donnchad m. Cellaig King of Ossory...." The chronology is satisfactory (but

just barely).