Cairbre LIFFEACHAIR

- Abt 268

• Name	Cairbre LIFFEACHAIR
  Gender	Male
  _UID	5A8705EAB0E04FD09C8F19AF633AD2D4B573
  Death	Abt 268
  Person ID	I20189	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Cormac MAC ART   d. Abt 227
  Mother	Eithne   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F9664	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Children	1. Fiacha SRABHTEINE,   b. Abt 235   d. Abt 260 (Age ~ 25 years)
  Family ID	F9663	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Second son of Cormac. Was so called from his having been nursed by the side of the Liffey, the river on which Dublin is built. His mother was Eithne, daughter of Dunlong, King of Leinster. He had three sons - 1. Eochaidh Dubhlen; 2. Eocho; and 3. Fiacha Srabhteine, who was the 120th Monarch of Ireland, and the ancestor of O'Neill, Princes of Tyrone. Fiacha Srabhteine was so called, from his having been fostered at Dunsrabhteine, in Connaught; of which province he was King, before his elevation to the Monarchy. After seventeen years' reign, the Monarch Cairbre Lifeachar was slain at the battle of Gabhra [Gaura], A.D. 284, by Simeon, the son of Ceirb, who came from the south of Leinster to this battle, fought by the Militia of Ireland, who were called the Fiana Erionn (or Fenians), and arising from a quarrel which happened between the; in which the Monarch, taking part with one side against the other, lost his life.