Ciarraí Aoi

Dream atá lonnaithe i gConnacht na meánaoise ba ea Ciarraí Aoi (Sean-Ghaeilge Ciarraige Aí).

Stair

Bhíodh ceithre ghéag na gCiarraí ann suite i gcúige Connacht, atá aithne orthu.

• Ciarraige Óic Bethra, suite i ríocht Aidne (Contae na Gaillimhe), i dteannta le dhá dhream eile siar tháinig Uí Fhiachrach sa 6ú haois.
• Ciarraige Aoi, Ciarraí Airtigh agus Ciarraí Locha na nAirní, suite ó thuaidh, in aice a chéile in oirthear Mhaigh Eo agus iarthar Ros Comáin. Meastar go raibh tuath abhainn acu téimh thrácht chun cinn Uí Bhriúin sna 8ú agus 9ú haoiseanna.

Meastar gurbh iad Ciarraí Aoi, lonnaithe ar Maigh Aoí, an dream is suntasaí acu. Bhíodh príomhráth ársa an chúige, Ráth Cruachan, suite lastigh a gcuid críoch.

Tagairtí Annál

• 791 – Duineachaidh Ua Daire, lord of Ciarraighe Aei, died. (Annála na gCeithre Máistrí)
• 845 – Connmhach, son of Cethernach, half chief of Ciarraighe, died.
• 997 – An army was led by Maelseachlainn into Connaught; and he plundered or burned Magh-Aei, and the son of the lord of Ciarraighe was lost by them.
• 1315 – As for Maelruanaid Mac Diarmata, when he heard that Diarmait Gall had established himself in the seat of dignity of his own family and on the Rock of Loch Key, and that he had been sent to be made king at Ráth Cruachan, and when his own cows had been slaughtered in Glenn Fathraim, he marched with his household troops and retainers to the Callow of the Rock and, turning his back to the Sionainn, he plundered from that river to Cara, where the eraghts of the Three Ciarraige were assembled with their flocks and herds, namely the Western Ciarraige, the Ciarraige of Mag nAi and the Ciarraige of Airtech; and it is not likely that there was made in that age a fiercer or a more booty-getting attack than this raid. (Annála Connacht)

Foinsí

• Mayo Places: Their Names and Origins, Nollaig Ó Muraíle, 1985
• The Carneys of Connacht, Nollaig Ó Muraíle, in Sages, Saints and Storytellers: Celtic Studies in Honour of Professor James Carney, ll. 342–357, eag. Ó Corráin, Breatnach and McCone, Maynooth, 1989. ISBN 1-870684-07-9.
• Some Early Connacht Population Groups, Nollaig Ó Muraíle, in Seachas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis J. Byrne, eag. Alfred P. Smyth, Four Courts Press, Baile Átha Cliath, ll. 161–177, 2000. ISBN 1-85182-489-8.

Naisc sheachtracha

• Connacht le Denis Walsh
• Annála Connacht, G100011 ar Corpus of Electronic Texts
• Dinnshenchas of Mag nAí ar CODECS