Uí Bairrche

Uí Bairrche (Modern Irish: Uí Bhairrche, pronounced [iː ˈwaːɾˠəçə]) was an Irish kin-based group that originally held lands in the south of the ancient province of Leinster (or Cóiced Laigen "the Fifth of the Laigin").

The result was that one Uí Bairrche branch persevered in the Barrow valley; and another was forced to move south towards the Wexford coast.

[2] Following the medieval genealogies, the Uí Bairrche descend from Dáire Barrach, a son of Cathair Mór, and are thus of Laigin origins.

T. F. O'Rahilly, however, believed them to have originally belonged to the Érainn, being descendants of an ancestor figure Dáire (*Dārios), and the historical representatives of the Brigantes, who are located in Co. Wexford in Claudius Ptolemy's Geography.

[3] Among the monasteries in Leinster controlled by the Uí Bairrche are Cell Auxili, Slébte (Sletty), Glenn Uissen (now Killeshin), Banba Mór, Cell Mo Lappóc and Tech Mo Shacro.