Second Generation

2. Bresal was born in Ui Maine Ireland.  It isn't clear what the borders of Ui Maine might have been in that time.  I suspect they began at the Irish Sea somewhere around and likely including Dundalk and extended all the way west to the sea at Galway.

Rick O'Kelley - My DNA results indicate that maybe 45 generations + or - 5 generations ago I share a grandfather with the O'Kellys of Hy-Many indicating that my ancestor Aedh Slaine the 141st Monarch of Ireland was a descendant of Maine Mor and not Niall of Nine.  It seems likely that one of these grandsons of Maine Mor was like the great grandfather of Aedh Slaine.  The mostly likely candidate in my opinion would be Conall and that is based upon my DNA matches to the McGonnells who I feel certain were The "Tigh-Chonaill or "Sta-Gonnell" means "House of Gonnell"  given in the Irish Annals in the 700s AD living in what became the Barony of Rathdown just southwest of Dublin.  Clearly this is a very old religious order.  I believe that in the time of 1st Earl of Tyrone Conn O'Neill when the Catholic houses were suppressed that the Sta-Gonnell being a religious house fled to Tyrone and build the Castle Ardgonnell on the River Corr near this union with River Blackwater as Ulster was the only place in Ireland at that time where Catholic houses were protected from the English.  Most Irish Castles were religious houses with defensive walls.  I suspect that those who came to call themselves McGonnell lived and farmed around the Castle and when the 2nd Earl of Tyrone Hugh "O'Kelley" O Neill died in exile that the McGonnell gave up their dream of Catholic restoration and abandoned their religious house but remained farming around it and the O'Neills took over the house and it became an the O'Neill Castle Ardgonnell. 

None of the grandsons can be ruled out.

Bresal had the following children:

3	i.	Fiachra Finn (private).
+4	ii.	Dallan .
+5	iii.	Conall was Chief of Hy-many for 22 years.  Might be the ancestor of Aedh Slaine the 141st Irish Monarch -> son Congall ancestor of the O'Kelley of Meath
6	iv.	Creamthann (private).
7	v.	Maine Mall (private).