page_title: Eóganachta
section_title: In Scotland
hierarchical_section_title: Eóganachta / Other kingdoms / In Scotland
caption_attribution_description: This is the royal figure on the St Andrew's sarcophagus. The figure is dressed like a late antique Roman emperor, baring what is probably a kaiserfibel on the neckline of his garment in the grandest tradition of imitatio imperii. It may therefore be taken as an indirect depiction of the king who commission it. en:Óengus I of the Picts?
context_page_description: The Eóganachta or Eoghanachta were an Irish dynasty centred on Cashel which dominated southern Ireland from the 6/7th to the 10th centuries, and following that, in a restricted form, the Kingdom of Desmond, and its offshoot Carbery, to the late 16th century. By tradition the dynasty was founded by Conall Corc but named after his ancestor Éogan, the firstborn son of the semi-mythological 3rd-century king Ailill Aulom. This dynastic clan-name, for it was never in any sense a 'surname,' should more accurately be restricted to those branches of the royal house which descended from Conall Corc, who established Cashel as his royal seat in the late 5th century.
context_section_description: It has been suggested that the Kings of the Picts were derived from a sept of the Eóganachta. If so, then the Eóganacht Locha Léin, and thus the ancestors of the O'Moriartys and others, are the most obvious candidates. Not only were they at one point expansive as the powerful Kingdom of Iarmuman, but they were also frustrated by their exclusion and forced isolation by the inner circle. Glaringly, they were said to descend from a Pictish woman, and this was sometimes given as the reason for their isolation. The inner circle exhibited peculiar attitudes from time to time and so this could have been the real story.
  Eóganacht Maige Geirginn. The plain of Circinn is thought to be the area of Angus and the Mearns in Scotland.
  Óengus I of the Picts, d. 761
  Bridei V of the Picts
  Talorgan II of the Picts, d. 782
  Drest VIII of the Picts
  Constantín mac Fergusa, d. 820
  Óengus II of the Picts, d. 834
  Drest IX of the Picts, d. 836 or 837
  Eóganan mac Óengusa, d. 839
caption: Royal figure, dressed like a late antique Roman emperor, on the St Andrews Sarcophagus, probably Óengus I of the Picts.
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