Ultimately, six hundred years after the time of Fiacha, the territories of the Uí Fidgenti divided into two principal factions or septs, the Uí Chairpre Áebda and Uí Chonaill Gabra.O'Donovan 1856BegleyMac Spealáin 1960Mac Spealáin 2004 The latter were more often the stronger power. By 1169, the Uí Chairpre had further divided into the Uí Chairpre and the Uí Dhonnabháin.,MacCarthaigs Book, 1177.2 though comparing the genealogies set forth in Rawlin and the Book of Munster, the lines diverged with Cenn Faelad, four generations before Donovan (died 974), reflecting that specific family's alliance with the Danes of Limerick and Waterford.
