Cian mac Máelmuaid

Cían mac Máelmuaid was a son of Máel Muad mac Brain, who was twice King of Munster. Cían's father had been killed by Brian Boru at the Battle of Belach Lechta. He was a member of Uí Echach Muman or Eóganacht Raithlind,^{[citation needed]} and an "ancestor of the family of O'Mahony".^[1]

Cían became a close ally of Brian,^[2] and reputedly married his daughter Sadb, according to later traditions and the antiquarian John O'Mahony.^[3][4] Several sources suggest that Cian lived at Enniskean in County Cork,^[5] and that the village derives its name from him.^[3][4]

He had a son, Mathghamhain mac Cian who died at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.

Further reading

• O'Mahony, John (1906–1910), "A History of the O'Mahony septs of Kinelmeky and Ivagha", Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Volumes 12–16, Second Series
• Todd, James Henthorn, ed. (1867), Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh: The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, London: Longmans
• Seán Mac Airt, ed. (1944). The Annals of Inisfallen (MS. Rawlinson B. 503). Translated by Mac Airt. Dublin: DIAS. Edition and translation available from CELT.