THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 800–1169

Kingdom of Osraige (Ossory)

Osraige (Ossory), the kingdom between Leinster and Munster in what is now County Kilkenny and south Laois, at its height under Cerball mac Dúnlainge in the 9th century. Ends with the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169, after which Ossory became part of the Lordship of Ireland.

Western boundary on the Suir and the Slieve Bloom foothills is approximate.

See Kingdom of Osraige (Ossory) on the map in 800

On the map
800–1169
Capital
Kilkenny area (Achad Bó, later Kilkenny)

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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