An early Irish dynasty and kingdom in Munster, southern Ireland, whose rulers and descendants influenced medieval Irish politics.
From Old Irish, possibly from eo (yew tree) or from the personal name Eoghan. A proper historical term for an actual medieval Irish kingdom.
The Eoghanacht were so powerful in early medieval Ireland that their successors, the McCarthy and O'Brien clans, shaped Irish history for centuries—medieval surnames literally trace back to this ancient dynasty.
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