Finn-Ros: Enda

clipped from generation13.com The Cenél Enda (Énna or Eanna) Located in the southern Co. Donegal and northern Fermanagh region. About the 5th century Enda, the youngest son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, received territory in modern co. Donegal. The Book of Lecan places Cenél Enda mic Neill west of Lough Erne. Leitrim, together with that of Cavan and part of Fermanaghm afterwards formed the territory of Breffny, or Brenny, which was divided into two principalities, of which the present county of Leitrim formed the western, under the name of Lower or West Breffny, and Hy Briuin Breffny, from Brian, son of Eachod, and grandson of Muredach, first king of Connaught of the Scottish race. Hy Murragh, the modern barony of Rossclogher, of which the chiefs were the O'Murroghs or O'Murreys. O'Rourks maintained an independent authority in their territory until the middle of the 16th century.