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Connacht 1 or Connaught ( or Cúige Chonnacht) is one of the provinces of Ireland, situated in the west of the country. Up to the 9th century it consisted of several independent major kingdoms ( Lúighne, Uí Maine, and Iarthar Connacht). Between the reigns of Conchobar mac Taidg Mór (died 882) and his descendant, Aedh mac Ruaidri Ó Conchobair (reigned 1228–33), it became a kingdom under the rule of the Uí Briúin Ai dynasty, whose ruling sept adopted the surname Ua Conchobair.
At its greatest extent, it incorporated the often independent Kingdom of Breifne, as well as vassalage from the lordships of western Mide and west Leinster. The Kingdom of Connacht collapsed in the 1230s because of civil war within the royal dynasty, which enabled widespread Norman settlement under Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught.
The province of Connacht has the greatest number of Irish language speakers at between 5–10% (40,000–55,000) of the population. There are Gaeltacht areas in Counties Galway and Mayo.
Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial purposes. In later centuries, local government legislation has seen further sub-division of the historic counties. The province of Connacht has no official function for local government purposes, but it is an officially recognised subdivision of the Irish state. It is listed on ISO-3166-2 as one of the four provinces of Ireland and "IE-C" is attributed to Connacht as its country sub-division code. Along with counties from other provinces, Connacht lies in the Midlands-North-West constituency for elections to the European Parliament.
Connacht or Connaught is a western province in Ireland.
Connacht or Connaught may also refer to:
Usage examples of "connacht".
For the lord Art of Connacht has naught of the fool about him, and knew what the sound of that name he gave his son would be, in the ears and minds of all men of Eirrin.
King, the information comes from one in my service, and him of Connacht, close to Lord Art.
The beast emitted such a fierce growling that it might have been heard through all Connacht, and he moved on the youth as if he had a mind not to stop and tear him up at all, but to swallow him at the one mouthful.
And indeed his name became thereafter, greater than any in all Eirrin, in Emain Macha or Uladh or Laigen that was Leinster, or Cruachan Ai to become Connacht, or Tuathmumain that was become Munster.
Was Art too had told him that Eirrin had need of weapon-men, that Connacht did, and so he must observe Midhir, and listed to Midhir, and practice with him.
Companions most of their adult lives, Art and Midhir had served the King of Connacht willingly and well.
No war came on Connacht, and the constant necessity of beating off the incursions of Pictish raiding parties brought Art mac Comail no great fame or honour.
More than once had Art recounted the history of their land, enumerating the kings of Connacht and the High-kings in Meath.
Then their cries rose higher with their ire, those men of Connacht, for the house was splashed with gore and the door stood open to the night.
Behind them along the broad path they followed this time, those triumphant men of Connacht dragged seven and twenty Pictish corpses.
That southeastern kingdom was shrouded by a long history of rivalry with both Connacht and Meath where lay Tara.
Thus did Cormac mac Art depart Rath Glondarth, and Connacht, like a thief in the night.
The youthful rider of the black horse did that which he would pause to consider, in years to come: Cormac of Connacht spurred down the slope to the aid of a stranger, presumably a weaponman of Leinster.
This, he and Art of Connacht had agreed with laughter, was why the Greeks were governed from Rome!
And here was Cormac of Connacht, self-exiled lest he be slain and the truth never be got at, bearing an assumed name.