Ogoman Clonfert
Archived: 2 November 2026
Abstract
In 662 CE, Irish annalists associated a cluster of political deaths, a battle within the southern Uí Néill and the passing of a celebrated church scholar with this year. The evidence is unusually revealing but not perfectly uniform. The Fragmentary Annals explicitly place the battle of Ogoman, the death of King Máenach of Munster and that of Cummíne Fota in 662; other annalistic compilations place some of the same notices under adjacent year-headings. This is a familiar problem in early Irish chronology, not a reason to discard the events. It does mean that no day, season or sequence within the