Ui Cheinnselaig

The Cheinnselaig Ui (recte Uí Ceinnselaig), Old Ireland "son of Cennsalach grandchildren, were a dynasty of Leinster Irish, who claimed descent from Énnae Cennsalach contemporary supposed Niall of the Nine Hostages. Enda has been told a small son of Bressal Bélach and a cousin of Enda Mac Dúnlainge Niada, eponymous ancestor of the rival Dúnlainge UI. The first associations of the UI are Cheinnselaig with the region around Rathvilly, County Carlow, and the headwaters of the River Slaney, but in time the center of their power has been thrust southward before to be found around Ferns, County Wexford, the website of the Monastery of Saint Máedóc († 626 or 632). In the early days of the kings of Leinster came from the Uí Cheinnselaig Dúnlainge and unemployment insurance, but Dúnlainge Uí came to dominate the kingship of the province, and after Áed Colggen mac (d.738) it was three hundred years until the next Uí Cheinnselaig King of Leinster, Dermot Mac Mail na MBO. See Kings of Uí Cheinnselaig. Kings of significant unemployment insurance and related tribes Cheinnselaig including: