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Lóegaire Birn Búadach
Loegaire Birn Buadach
(pronunciation) (fl. 1st or 2nd century AD) was the second king of
Osraige
after the death of his father,
Óengus Osrithe
. His epithet "
Búadach
" means "
Victorious
". His name became the appellation of his later descendants the
Dál Birn
who ruled Osraige until the
Norman Invasion of Ireland
, and even remained landed gentry in
Upper Ossory
until the death of
Bernard FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown
in 1937.
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