Brodar mac Torcaill

Brodar mac Torcaill (1104 – 1 July 1160),^[1] also known as Brodar Mac Turcaill,^[2] was a late twelfth century King of Dublin. He was a member of the Meic Torcaill, a substantial landholding kindred in the kingdom.^[3] His death in 1160,^[4] at the hands of the Meic Gilla Sechnaill of South Brega, is revealed by the thirteenth-century Cottonian Annals, the seventeenth-century Annals of the Four Masters, the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Annals of Ulster, and the fourteenth-century Annals of Tigernach.^[5]

Brodar mac Torcaill
King of Dublin
Reign	1148–1 July 1160
Predecessor	Óttar of Dublin
Successor	Ascall mac Ragnaill
Born	1104
Died	1 July 1160 Brega
House	Meic Torcaill
Father	Torcall