THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 800–1172

Kingdom of Meath (Mide)

Mide, the midland kingdom of the southern Uí Néill (Clann Cholmáin), whose kings were often High Kings of Ireland. Its 12th-century extent (Meath and Westmeath with parts of Longford and Offaly) was granted by Henry II to Hugh de Lacy as the Lordship of Meath in 1172; north County Dublin (Fingal) belonged to the Norse kingdom of Dublin.

Brega in the east was a separate Uí Néill kingdom for much of the 8th–10th centuries.

See Kingdom of Meath (Mide) on the map in 800

On the map
800–1172
Capital
Tara (ceremonial); seats near Mullingar

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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