Colmán Macdiarmait O'Néill [4961] ²⁴

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Colmán Már mac Diarmato (died 555/558 ) was a King of Uisnech in Mide . He was the son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill (died 565 ), the high king of Ireland and also king of Uisnech.[1]
The annals do not refer to him as king but he is mentioned in the king-lists of the Book of Leinster. It is unknown when he acquired Uisnech; his father had acquired the high kingship in 544 .[2] He was killed in his chariot by Dub Sloit Ua Trena one of the Cruithne in 555 or 558.[3]
Colmán Már was ancestor of the Clann Cholmáin which later dominated the southern Ui Neill . His sons included two kings of Uisnech, Suibne mac Colmáin Már (died 600 ) and Fergus mac Colmáin Már (died 618 ). Colmán Már was possibly identical with Colmán Bec (died 587 ), the distinction arising out of 8th century politics.[4]
Notes
1. ^ Byrne, Table 3; Mac Niocaill, pg.80;Charles-Edwards, Appendix III
2. ^ The Laud Synchronisms give him a reign of four years in Uisnech.
3. ^ Annals of Ulster AU 555.2, 558.2; Annals of Tigernach AT 557.1, Mac Niocaill, pg.70-71
4. ^ Byrne, pg.xvii

References
Annals of Tigernach at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts <http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html> at University College Cork <http://www.ucc.ie/>
Annals of Ulster at *CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts <http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html> at University College Cork <http://www.ucc.ie/>
Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9
Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2000), Early Christian Ireland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-36395-0
Gearoid Mac Niocaill (1972), Ireland before the Vikings, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan
Book of Leinster,Rig Uisnig at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts <http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html> at University College Cork <http://www.ucc.ie/>
Laud Synchronisms at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts <http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html> at University College Cork <http://www.ucc.ie/>

Colmán married.