Domnall mac Murchada
{{Other people}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Domnall mac Murchada
| title = King of Leinster; King of Dublin
| image = Domnall mac Murchada (Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson B 489, folio 43v).jpg
| alt = Refer to caption
| caption = Domnall's name as it appears on folio 43v of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 489 (the Annals of Ulster).The Annals of Ulster (2017) § 1075.4; The Annals of Ulster (2008) § 1075.4; Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. B. 489 (n.d.).
| succession = King of Leinster
| moretext = (nominal)
| predecessor = Diarmait mac Máel na mBó
| pre-type = Predecessor
| successor = Donnchad mac Domnaill Remair
| suc-type = Successor
| reign = 1072–1075
| succession1 = King of Dublin
| predecessor1 = Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill
| pre-type1 = Predecessor
| successor1 = Muirchertach Ua Briain
| suc-type1 = Successor
| reign1 = 1075
| house = Meic Murchada (Uí Chennselaig)
| father = Murchad mac Diarmata
| death_date = 1075
}}
Domnall mac Murchada (died 1075),Byrne (2001). also known as Domnall mac Murchada meic Diarmata,Moody; Martin; Byrne (2005) p. 209. was a leading late eleventh-century claimant to the Kingdom of Leinster, and a King of Dublin. As a son of Murchad mac Diarmata, King of Dublin and the Isles, Domnall was a grandson of Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, King of Leinster, and thus a member of the Uí Chennselaig. Domnall was also the first of the Meic Murchada, a branch of the Uí Chennselaig named after his father.
In 1071, the year before his grandfather's death, Domnall and an Uí Chennselaig kinsman, Donnchad mac Domnaill Remair, battled for control of Leinster. Although Domnall is accorded the title King of Leinster in one mediaeval king-list, Donnchad was evidently a more powerful claimant, and Domnall appears to have held the Leinster kingship in name only.
Domnall's rise to power in the Kingdom of Dublin took place in 1075, after the expulsion of the reigning Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill, King of Dublin by the latter's overlord, Toirdelbach Ua Briain, King of Munster. The circumstances surrounding Domnall's accession are uncertain. He may have collaborated with Gofraid to wrench the kingdom from the grip of the Uí Briain, or he may have been installed in the kingship by Toirdelbach himself, and ruled under the latter's overlordship. Whatever the case, Domnall died within the year, and Toirdelbach placed his own son, Muirchertach, upon the throne.
Background
{{Chart top|collapsed=no|Simplified family tree of the Uí Chennselaig, displaying Domnall's degree of kinship with his immediate Uí Chennselaig predecessors, and his main rival, Donnchad mac Domnaill Remair.Byrne (2001) pp. xxxv, 290 tab.; Ó Corráin (1971) p. 20.{{#tag:ref|Domnall's father was the eponymous founder of the Meic Murchada branch of the Uí Chennselaig, whilst Donnchad mac Domnaill Remair's father was the eponymous father of the Uí Domnaill branch.Byrne (2001) pp. xxxiv–xxxv; Flanagan (1981) p. 6.|group=note}}}}
{{Tree chart/start|align=center|summary=Simplified family tree of the Uí Chennselaig, showing Domnall's degree of kinship with his rival, Donnchad mac Domnaill Remair.}}
{{Tree chart | | | | | | |D11| | |D11=Donnchad
died 1006|}}
{{Tree chart | |,|-|-|-|-|-|^|-|.| | | | | |}}
{{Tree chart |D21| | | | | |D22| |D21=Domnall Remar
died 1041|D22=Diarmait
died 1072}}
{{Tree chart | |!| | | |,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.| |}}
{{Tree chart |DON| |GLU| |MUR| |ENN| |GLU=Glún Iairn
died 1070|MUR=Murchad
died 1070|ENN=Énna Bacach
died 1092|DON=Donnchad
died 1089|boxstyle_DON = background-color: cornsilk}}
{{Tree chart | | | | | |,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.| |}}
{{Tree chart | | | | |D12| |D13| |E12| |D12=Donnchad
died 1115|E12=Énna|D13=Domnall
died 1075|boxstyle_D13 = background-color: cornsilk}}
{{Tree chart/end}}
{{chart bottom}}
File:Domnall mac Murchada (map).png
Domnall was a son of Murchad mac Diarmata, King of Dublin and the Isles,Hudson, B (2005a); Byrne (2001) p. 290 tab. 10; Duffy (1992) pp. 102–103; Ó Corráin (1971) pp. 20, 21. who was himself a son of Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, King of Leinster.Hudson, B (2005a); Hudson, BT (2004); Duffy (1992) pp. 102–103; Ó Corráin (1971) pp. 20, 21. Domnall was, therefore, a member of the Uí Chennselaig;Ó Corráin (1971) p. 20. as well as the first of the Meic Murchada, a branch of the Uí ChennselaigDownham (2018) p. 268; Zumbuhl (2005). named after his father.Duffy (1992) p. 102; Zumbuhl (2005). Domnall had two brothers: Donnchad, a later King of Leinster, and Énna.Byrne (2001) p. 290 tab. 10; Ó Corráin (1971) p. 20.
In 1052, Domnall's aforesaid grandfather conquered the Kingdom of Dublin from Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin and the Isles, and soon after appointed Murchad as King of Dublin. About a decade later, Murchad appears to have driven Echmarcach from Mann,Duffy (2006) p. 55; Hudson, B (2005a); Hudson, BT (2004); Duffy (2002) pp. 53–54; Duffy (1993b) p. 14. after which he gained the kingship of the Isles.Duffy (1993) p. 14. Diarmait's deep-rooted authority in Norse-Gaelic Dublin lasted for two decades, and was a remarkable achievement that no other Irish king had ever accomplished.Duffy (1993b) p. 14; Duffy (1992) pp. 100–101. Unfortunately for the Uí Chennselaig, two of Diarmait's sons—Murchad and Glún Iairn—unexpectedly predeceased their father in 1070,Hudson, B (2005a); Hudson, B (2005b); Hudson, BT (2004); Duffy (2002) p. 54; Hudson, B (1994) p. 149; Duffy (1993b) p. 14; Ó Corráin (1971) pp. 19, 20. and Diarmait himself fell in battle two years later.Hudson, B (2005a); Hudson, B (2005b); Hudson, BT (2004); Duffy (2002) p. 54; Ó Corráin (1971) pp. 19, 20.
Kingship of Leinster
Even before Diarmait's demise, the Uí Chennselaig began to fight amongst themselves in a struggle that was almost certainly an after-effect of Diarmait's sons' untimely deaths.Hudson, B (2005b); Ó Corráin (1971) p. 19. Specifically, the seventeenth-century Annals of the Four Masters,Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1071.12; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1071.12; Duffy (1992) p. 101. and the eleventh- to fourteenth-century Annals of Inisfallen reveal that Domnall battled against the forces of his own first cousin once removed, Donnchad mac Domnaill Remair, before Diarmait's ally, Toirdelbach Ua Briain, King of Munster, was able to intervene and restore order in the Kingdom of Leinster.Annals of Inisfallen (2010) § 1071.2; Annals of Inisfallen (2008) § 1071.2; Hudson, B (2005a); Hudson, B (2005b); Hudson, BT (2004); Hudson, B (1994) p. 149, 149 n. 22.
Up until about the time of his death, Diarmait had been the most powerful king in southern Ireland.Ó Corráin (1971) p. 19. In consequence of the void left by his demise, Diarmait's erstwhile ally Toirdelbach seized the initiative, and moved to enforce his own claim to the high-kingship of Ireland.Flanagan (2008) p. 900; Lydon (2005) p. 38; Duffy (1993b) pp. 14–15; Duffy (1992) p. 101. He immediately imposed his overlordship on LeinsterLydon (2005) p. 38; Duffy (1993b) pp. 14–15; Duffy (1992) pp. 101–102; Ó Corráin (1971) p. 19.—a task almost certainly expedited by the aforesaid infighting amongst the Uí Chennselaig—and took control of Dublin.Lydon (2005) p. 38; Bracken (2004); Hudson, BT (2004); Duffy (2002) p. 54; Duffy (1993b) pp. 14–15; Ó Corráin (1971) p. 19. Whilst the imposition of authority upon rival provincial kingdoms was a fundamental part in gaining the high-kingship, Toirdelbach's decision to march-on Dublin reveals that the acquisition of this coastal kingdom had also become an essential part of the process.Duffy (1993b) pp. 14–15, 18.
{{quote box
|quote =
It is to Domnall that the set of goblets is allotted.
|source = — a piece of eleventh-century praise poetry concerning Domnall's apparent kingship in Leinster.Mac Cana (2004) p. 27; Byrne (2001) p. 153; Mac Cana (1993) p. 83; Meyer (1919) p. 16 § 30.{{#tag:ref|The ale of Cuala, a so-called "drink of sovereignty", was an ancient symbol of kingship, and one of the prerogatives of the kings of Leinster.Charles-Edwards (2004) p. 95 n. 79; Mac Cana (2004) p. 27; Byrne (2001) p. 153; Mac Cana (1993) p. 83; Byrne (1971) p. 144. According to Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin, a ninth-century tale about a seventh-century prince,Charles-Edwards (2004) p. 141. no one shall become king of Ireland without attaining this ale,Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin (2010) §§ 452–453; Charles-Edwards (2004) p. 95 n. 79; Scowcroft (1995) p. 130. meaning that to attain the Irish kingship one must first gain the subjection of Leinster.Charles-Edwards (2004) p. 95 n. 79.|group=note}}
|width = 30%
|quoted = 1
|align = left
|bgcolor= cornsilk
}}
Toirdelbach's subsequent capture of Donnchad in Dublin suggests that the latter was not only the leading Uí Chennselaig dynast,Ó Corráin (1971) p. 21. but was also in the process of using the town as the capital of Leinster.Duffy (1992) p. 101. Although the list of Leinster kings in the twelfth-century Book of Leinster declares that Domnall had succeeded his grandfather as King of Leinster, it is apparent that Donnchad was indeed the more powerful claimant. In fact, the king-list of Uí Chennselaig in the same source makes no notice of Domnall, and states that it was Donnchad who succeeded Diarmait as King of Uí Chennselaig. Domnall, therefore, may not have reigned in Leinster, and could well have been King of Leinster in name only.Book of Leinster (2012) §§ 5405–5585; Ó Corráin (1971) pp. 9 n. 9, 19–21.
If the Annals of Inisfallen is to be believed, Toirdelbach acquired possession of Dublin when the Dubliners themselves offered him its kingship.Annals of Inisfallen (2010) § 1072.4; Annals of Inisfallen (2008) § 1072.4; Duffy (2002) p. 54; Duffy (1992) p. 102. Although this record may be mere Uí Briain propaganda, it could instead reveal that the Dubliners preferred a distant overlord from Munster rather than one from neighbouring Leinster. Within the year, the kingship was held by Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill.Duffy (2006) p. 57; Duffy (1992) p. 102. The latter appears to have been a kinsman of Echmarcach,Duffy (2006) p. 57. and may well have been handed the kinship by Toirdelbach,Forte; Oram; Pedersen (2005) p. 232. perhaps on account of the considerable distance between the kingdoms.Duffy (1993b) p. 15.
Kingship of Dublin
File:Domnall mac Murchada and Donnchad mac Domnaill Remair (Trinity College Dublin MS 1339, page 39).jpg) concerning Domnall and Donnchad, and the succession of the kingship of Leinster.Book of Leinster (2012) §§ 5491–5495; Trinity College Dublin MS 1339 (n.d.). Despite Domnall's inclusion here, it is uncertain how much authority he had in Leinster.]]
In 1075, Toirdelbach drove Gofraid from the kingship and Ireland itself.Duffy (2009) pp. 295–296; Flanagan (2008) p. 900; Duffy (2006) p. 58; Hudson, BT (2005) p. 167; Hudson, B (1994) p. 152, 152 n. 41; Duffy (1992) p. 102; Ó Corráin (n.d.) p. 34. There is uncertainty concerning the circumstances of Gofraid's expulsion, and of Domnall's accession.Hudson, B (2006) p. 116; Hudson, B (2005b); Hudson, BT (2005) p. 167; Hudson, B (1994) p. 152. On one hand, it is possible that Gofraid was involved in lending assistance to Anglo-Danish resistance against the Norman regime in the recently conquered Kingdom of England. If correct, Gofraid would appear to have been at odds with Toirdelbach, a monarch who appears to have cultivated close links with the Norman regime.Hudson, BT (2005) p. 167; Hudson, B (1994) pp. 152–153. Domnall, therefore, may have had Toirdelbach's consent to rule in Dublin as Gofraid's replacement.Mac Shamhráin (1996) p. 98; Duffy (1992) p. 103; Ó Corráin (1971) p. 21. In fact, Toirdelbach's placement of Domnall in Dublin, and his allowance of the latter's aforesaid cousin in Leinster, may have been a way in which the Uí Briain exploited the fractured Uí Chennselaig. Certainly, Domnall's cooperation would have been a valuable asset to Toirdelbach, considering the prominence of his father amongst the Dubliners, and the likelihood that Domnall himself may have lived most of his life there.Duffy (1992) pp. 102–103.{{#tag:ref|The Annals of the Four Masters preserve twenty lines of poetic verse in accompaniment to the record of Murchad's death in 1070. The first line reads: "Cumha áird-righ i n-Ath Cliath" ("There is grief for a chief king at Dublin").Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1070.7; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1070.7; Duffy (1992) p. 101.|group=note}} On the other hand, it is possible that Gofraid was driven from the kingship because he had aligned himself with the Leinstermen against the Uí Briain. If such a sequence of events is correct it could mean that, even though Gofraid was unable continue on with the revolt, it was his Uí Chennselaig confederates who succeeded in securing Dublin from the Uí Briain.
Whatever the circumstances of Domnall's accession, the Uí Chennselaig regime in Dublin was short-lived. The Annals of Inisfallen, the Annals of the Four Masters, and the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Annals of Ulster, all reveal that, within the year, Domnall died after a brief illness, with the latter two sources specifying that he succumbed after three nights of sickness.Annals of the Four Masters (2013a) § 1075.6; Annals of the Four Masters (2013b) § 1075.6; The Annals of Ulster (2017) § 1075.4; Annals of Inisfallen (2010) § 1075.3; Annals of Inisfallen (2008) § 1075.3; The Annals of Ulster (2008) § 1075.4; Hudson, BT (2005) p. 167; Duffy (1992) p. 103. The Annals of Inisfallen and the Annals of Ulster accord him the title King of Dublin, and make no mention of any connection with the Leinster kingship.The Annals of Ulster (2017) § 1075.4; Annals of Inisfallen (2010) § 1075.3; Annals of Inisfallen (2008) § 1075.3; The Annals of Ulster (2008) § 1075.4; Ó Corráin (1971) p. 21. Upon Domnall's demise, Toirdelbach had his own son, Muirchertach, appointed King of Dublin.Ní Mhaonaigh (2018) p. 154; Hudson, B (2005b); Mac Shamhráin (1996) p. 99; Duffy (1992) p. 103. In so doing, Toirdelbach reinforced his authority in Dublin,Flanagan (2008) p. 900. and followed a precedent started by Domnall's grandfather, in which a claimant to the high-kingship of Ireland installed his own heir to the kingship of Dublin.Duffy (1993a) p. 34; Duffy (1992) p. 103; Ó Corráin (n.d.) p. 34.
Ancestry
{{ahnentafel
|collapsed=yes
|align=center
|boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc;
|boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9;
|boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc;
|boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc;
|boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe;
|1= 1. Domnall mac Murchada, King of Dublin (died 1075)
|2= 2. Murchad mac Diarmata, King of Dublin and the Isles (died 1070)
|3=
|4= 4. Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, King of Leinster (died 1072)
|5=
|6=
|7=
|8= 8. Donnchad mac Diarmata, King of Uí Chennselaig (died 1006).Hudson, B (2005a); Hudson, BT (2004); Byrne (2001) pp. xxxv, 290 tab. 10; Ó Corráin (1971) pp. 17, 20.
|9= 9. Aífe ingen Gilla PátraicHudson, B (2005a); Hudson, BT (2004).
|10=
|11=
|12=
|13=
|14=
|15=
|16=16. Diarmait mac Domnaill, King of Uí Chennselaig (died 996)Byrne (2001) pp. xxxv, 290 tab. 10; Ó Corráin (1971) p. 17.
|17=
|18=18. Gilla Pátraic mac Donnchada, King of Osraige
|19=
|20=
|21=
|22=
|23=
|24=
|25=
|26=
|27=
|28=
|29=
|30=
|31=
}}
Notes
{{reflist|group=note}}
Citations
{{reflist|colwidth=30em}}
References
=Primary sources=
{{refbegin|colwidth=30em}}
- {{cite web |url=https://celt.ucc.ie//published/G100004/index.html |title=Annals of Inisfallen |year=2008 |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |edition=23 October 2008 |publisher=University College Cork |access-date=29 May 2015 |ref=A3 }}
- {{cite web |url=https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T100004/index.html |title=Annals of Inisfallen |year=2010 |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |edition=16 February 2010 |publisher=University College Cork |access-date=29 May 2015 |ref=A4 }}
- {{cite web |url=https://celt.ucc.ie//published/G100005B/index.html |title=Annals of the Four Masters |year=2013a |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |edition=3 December 2013 |publisher=University College Cork |access-date=29 May 2015 |ref=A1 }}
- {{cite web |url=https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T100005B/index.html |title=Annals of the Four Masters |year=2013b |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |edition=16 December 2013 |publisher=University College Cork |access-date=29 May 2015 |ref=A2 }}
- {{cite web |year=n.d. |url=http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=bodleian&manuscript=msrawlb489 |title=Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. B. 489 |website=Early Manuscripts at Oxford University |publisher=Oxford Digital Library |access-date=30 May 2015 |ref=B1 }}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G800011A/ |title=Book of Leinster, Formerly Lebar na Núachongbála |year=2012 |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |edition=14 February 2012 |publisher=University College Cork |access-date=30 May 2015 |ref=B2 }}
- {{cite book |year=1919 |editor-last=Meyer |editor-first=K |editor-link=Kuno Meyer |title=Bruchstücke der Älteren Lyrik Irlands |url=http://sulis.ucc.ie/cdi/wp-content/uploads/textarchive/Bruckstucke_der_alteren_Lyrik_Irlands_KMeyer0001.pdf |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |location=Berlin |ref=M2 |access-date=29 June 2019 |archive-date=14 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114035457/https://sulis.ucc.ie/cdi/wp-content/uploads/textarchive/Bruckstucke_der_alteren_Lyrik_Irlands_KMeyer0001.pdf |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100039/index.html |title=Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin |year=2010 |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |edition=1 April 2010 |publisher=University College Cork |access-date=29 September 2015 |ref=S2 }}
- {{cite web |url=https://celt.ucc.ie//published/G100001A/index.html |title=The Annals of Ulster |year=2008 |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |edition=29 August 2008 |publisher=University College Cork |access-date=29 May 2015 |ref=T1 }}
- {{cite web |url=https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T100001A/index.html |title=The Annals of Ulster |year=2017 |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |edition=6 January 2017 |publisher=University College Cork |access-date=28 October 2017 |ref=T2 }}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.isos.dias.ie/libraries/TCD/TCD_MS_1339/english/catalogue.html |title=Trinity College Dublin MS 1339 |website=Irish Script on Screen |publisher=Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |access-date=30 May 2015 |ref=T3 }}
{{refend}}
=Secondary sources=
{{refbegin|colwidth=30em}}
- {{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20468 |title=Ua Briain, Toirdelbach [Turlough O'Brien] (1009–1086) |last=Bracken |first=D |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/20468 |access-date=25 November 2014 |url-access=subscription |ref=B4 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Byrne |first=FJ |author-link=Francis John Byrne |year=1971 |title=Tribes and Tribalism in Early Ireland |journal=Ériu |volume=22 |pages=128–166 |issn=0332-0758 |eissn=2009-0056 |jstor=30007606 |ref=B5 }}
- {{cite book |last=Byrne |first=FJ |author-link=Francis John Byrne |year=2001 |orig-year=1973 |title=Irish Kings and High-Kings |url=https://archive.org/details/irishkingshighki00byrn_0 |url-access=registration |series=Four Courts History Classics |publisher=Four Courts Press |location=Dublin |isbn=1-85182-552-5 |ol=3544482M |ref=B3 }}
- {{cite book |last=Charles-Edwards |first=TM |author-link=Thomas Charles-Edwards |year=2004 |orig-year=2000 |title=Early Christian Ireland |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=0-511-03722-8 |ref=C1 }}
- {{cite book |last=Downham |first=C |year=2018 |title=Medieval Ireland |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-107-03131-9 |doi=10.1017/9781139381598 |lccn=2017034607 |ref=D7 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Duffy |first=S |date=1992 |title=Irishmen and Islesmen in the Kingdoms of Dublin and Man, 1052–1171 |journal=Ériu |volume=43 |pages=93–133 |issn=0332-0758 |eissn=2009-0056 |jstor=30007421 |ref=D1 }}
- {{cite thesis |last=Duffy |first=S |year=1993a |title=Ireland and the Irish Sea Region, 1014–1318 |hdl=2262/77137 |hdl-access=free |degree=PhD |publisher=Trinity College, Dublin |ref=D6 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Duffy |first=S |year=1993b |title=Pre-Norman Dublin: Capital of Ireland? |journal=History Ireland |volume=1 |number=4 |pages=13–18 |issn=0791-8224 |jstor=27724114 |ref=D2 }}
- {{cite book |last=Duffy |first=S |year=2002 |chapter=Emerging From the Mist: Ireland and Man in the Eleventh Century |chapter-url=http://www.ssns.org.uk/resources/Documents/Books/Man_2002/04_Duffy_Man_2002_pp_53-61.pdf |editor1-last=Davey |editor1-first=P |editor2-last=Finlayson |editor2-first=D |editor3-last=Thomlinson |editor3-first=P |title=Mannin Revisited: Twelve Essays on Manx Culture and Environment |publisher=The Scottish Society for Northern Studies |location=Edinburgh |pages=53–61 |isbn=0-9535226-2-8 |ref=D5 |access-date=17 September 2015 |archive-date=25 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925102801/http://www.ssns.org.uk/resources/Documents/Books/Man_2002/04_Duffy_Man_2002_pp_53-61.pdf |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite book |last=Duffy |first=S |year=2006 |chapter=The Royal Dynasties of Dublin and the Isles in the Eleventh Century |editor-last=Duffy |editor-first=S |title=Medieval Dublin |volume=7 |publisher=Four Courts Press |location=Dublin |pages=51–65 |isbn=1-85182-974-1 |ref=D4 }}
- {{cite book |last=Duffy |first=S |year=2009 |chapter=Ireland, c.1000–c.1100 |editor-last=Stafford |editor-first=P |editor-link=Pauline Stafford |title=A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland, c.500–c.1100 |series=Blackwell Companions to British History |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Chichester |pages=285–302 |isbn=978-1-405-10628-3 |ref=D3 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Flanagan |first=MT |year=1981 |title=Mac Dalbaig, a Leinster Chieftain |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland |volume=111 |pages=5–13 |issn=0035-9106 |jstor=25508795 |ref=F2 }}
- {{cite book |last=Flanagan |first=MT |year=2008 |orig-year=2005 |chapter=High-Kings With Opposition, 1072–1166 |editor-last=Ó Cróinín |editor-first=D |editor-link=Dáibhí Ó Cróinín |title=Prehistoric and Early Ireland |series=New History of Ireland |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |pages=899–933 |isbn=978-0-19-821737-4 |ref=F3 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Forte |first1=A |last2=Oram |first2=RD |author2-link=Richard Oram |last3=Pedersen |first3=F |year=2005 |title=Viking Empires |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-82992-2 |ref=F1 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Hudson |first=B |author-link=Benjamin Hudson |year=1994 |title=William the Conqueror and Ireland |journal=Irish Historical Studies |volume=29 |issue=114 |pages=145–158 |issn=0021-1214 |eissn=2056-4139 |doi=10.1017/S0021121400011548 |jstor=30006739 |ref=H3 }}
- {{cite book |last=Hudson |first=B |year=2005a |chapter=Diarmait mac Máele-na-mBó (Reigned 1036–1072) |editor-last=Duffy |editor-first=S |title=Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia |url=https://archive.org/details/medievalirelande00duff |url-access=limited |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/medievalirelande00duff/page/n159 127]–128 |isbn=0-415-94052-4 |ref=H5 }}
- {{cite book |last=Hudson |first=B |year=2005b |chapter=Ua Briain, Tairrdelbach, (c. 1009–July 14, 1086 at Kincora) |editor-last=Duffy |editor-first=S |title=Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia |url=https://archive.org/details/medievalirelande00duff |url-access=limited |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/medievalirelande00duff/page/n494 462]–463 |isbn=0-415-94052-4 |ref=H4 }}
- {{cite book |last=Hudson |first=B |year=2006 |title=Irish Sea Studies, 900–1200 |publisher=Four Courts Press |location=Dublin |isbn=9781851829835 |ref=H6 }}
- {{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50102 |title=Diarmait mac Máel na mBó (d. 1072) |last=Hudson |first=BT |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/50102 |access-date=16 February 2016 |url-access=subscription |ref=H1 }}
- {{cite book |last=Hudson |first=BT |year=2005 |title=Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North Atlantic |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-516237-0 |ref=H2 }}
- {{cite book |last=Lydon |first=J |author-link=James Lydon (historian) |year=2005 |orig-year=1998 |title=The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to Present |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=0-415-01347-X |ref=L1 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Mac Cana |first=P |year=1993 |title=IR. Buaball, W Bual 'Drinking Horn' |journal=Ériu |volume=44 |pages=81–93 |issn=0332-0758 |eissn=2009-0056 |jstor=30006879 |ref=M1 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Mac Cana |first=P |year=2004 |title=Praise Poetry in Ireland Before the Normans |journal=Ériu |volume=54 |pages=11–40 |doi=10.1353/eri.2004.a809138 |issn=0332-0758 |eissn=2009-0056 |jstor=30007361 |ref=M3 }}
- {{cite book |last=Mac Shamhráin |first=AS |author-link=Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin |year=1996 |title=Church and Polity in Pre-Norman Ireland: The Case of Glendalough |series=Maynooth Monographs |publisher=An Sagart |location=Maynooth |isbn=1-870684-68-0 |issn=0790-8806 |ref=M5 }}
- {{cite book |year=2005 |editor1-last=Moody |editor1-first=TW |editor1-link=Theodore William Moody |editor2-last=Martin |editor2-first=FX |editor2-link=F. X. Martin |editor3-last=Byrne |editor3-first=FJ |title=Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History |series=New History of Ireland |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780198217459 |ref=M4 }}
- {{cite book |last=Ní Mhaonaigh |first=M |year=2018 |chapter=Perception and Reality: Ireland c.980–1229 |chapter-url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/260284 |pages=131–156 |doi=10.1017/9781316275399.009 |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=B |title=The Cambridge History of Ireland |volume=1 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-107-11067-0 |ref=N1 }}
- {{cite web |last=Ó Corráin |first=D |author-link=Donnchadh Ó Corráin |year=n.d. |title=The Vikings & Ireland |url=https://www.ucc.ie/celt/General%20Vikings%20in%20Ireland.pdf |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |publisher=University College Cork |access-date=24 September 2015 |ref=O2 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Ó Corráin |first=D |year=1971 |title=Irish Regnal Succession: A Reappraisal |journal=Studia Hibernica |issue=11 |pages=7–39 |doi=10.3828/sh.1971.11.1 |issn=0081-6477 |jstor=20495982 |ref=O1 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Scowcroft |first=RM |year=1995 |title=Abstract Narrative in Ireland |journal=Ériu |volume=46 |pages=121–158 |issn=0332-0758 |eissn=2009-0056 |jstor=30007878 |ref=S1 }}
- {{cite book |last=Zumbuhl |first=M |year=2005 |chapter=Uí Chennselaig |editor-last=Duffy |editor-first=S |title=Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia |url=https://archive.org/details/medievalirelande00duff |url-access=limited |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/medievalirelande00duff/page/n518 486]–487 |isbn=0-415-94052-4 |ref=Z1 }}
{{refend}}
{{Commons category-inline|Domnall mac Murchada}}
{{s-start}}
{{s-hou|Meic Murchada|||||Uí Chennselaig|1075}}
{{s-reg}}
{{s-bef|before=Diarmait mac Máel na mBó}}
{{s-ttl|title=King of Leinster|years=1072–1075}}
{{s-aft|after=Donnchad mac Domnaill Remair}}
{{s-break}}
{{s-bef|before=Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill}}
{{s-ttl|title=King of Dublin|years=1075}}
{{s-aft|after=Muirchertach Ua Briain}}
{{s-end}}
{{Dublin Monarchs}}
{{Good article}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Domnall mac Murchada}}