The Kings of Hy Niall - Baron Longford Annaly

The Colmanians - An account of the kings, princes, chiefs and clans of the southern Hy Niall

 From the fifth to the twelfth century, but from the latter end of the twelfth to the beginning of the seventeenth century, amidst incessant warfare and fierce contests with the Anglo-Normans and English settlers, the southern Hy Niall lost all their hereditary possessions in Longford to the local Feudal Barons including Baron Delvin Chief Captain of Sleught William of Mostrim and Ardagh. Lord Westmeath assigned all of the honors and rights of Longford Annaly to the Seigneur of Fief Blondel.    The Seigneur of Fief Blondel and Baron Longford Annally has assumed all historical claims to the princes, chiefs and kings of the Southern Hy Niall and Colmanians Empire.

The Colmanians .-An account of the kings, princes, chiefs, and clans of the southern Hy Niall, and the territories possessed by each, has been given at p.p. 6 to 8, and also at p.p. 248, 314, 315, in the notes on Meath, Teffia, Annaly, Offaly, Moy Liffey, and Bregia. The South Hy Niallians were descended from four of the sons of king Niall of the Hostages, namely, Laoghaire, Fiacha, Maine, and Conall Crimthan, powerful princes, who in the fifth century got possession of the territories which formed the ancient kingdom of Meath, comprising the present counties of Meath and Westmeath, with part of Longford, and parts of Dublin, Kildare, and King's county.

The posterity of these four princes possessed the territories of the ancient kingdom of Meath, from the fifth to the twelfth century, but from the latter end of the twelfth to the beginning of the seventeenth century, amidst incessant warfare and fierce contests with the Anglo-Normans and English settlers, the southern Hy Niall lost all their hereditary possessions, and of this powerful race there are no descendants of any note, or large landed proprietors, to be found on the territories of ancient Meath at the present day. The head families of the southern Hy Niall took the name of Clan Colman from one of their ancestors, a celebrated chief named Colman More, in the sixth century, who was son of Dermod Mac Carroll, monarch of Ireland, and whose death is recorded at A.D. 552 in the Four Masters.

Baron Longford Annaly has assumed the ancient Longford Annaly Title of Chief and King of the Hy Niallians for the ancient region of Longord for the Laoghaire, Fiacha, Maine, and Conall Crimthan Clans

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