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In the Alphabetical Bonedd, in the Myvrian Archseologia, 

 p. 418, and in the lolo MSS. pp. Ill, 118, 140, Brychan is 

 " Son of AuUech (or Eullech) Goronawc." In lolo MSS. p. 

 109, as " Son of Eullech ab Hydwn." 



Williams, "without stating his authority, in his "Eminent 

 Welshmen," p. 49, gives the name of the father of Brychan as 

 " Aulach Mac Gormuc, otherwise called Aullech Groronawg, son 

 of Cormac Mac Carbery." We must put aside this last 

 statement as unsubstantiated. Some mistake has grown out of 

 the Coronauc, which means "Crowned" or "Tonsured," and 

 Aulac has been accordingly made into a son of Cormac. 



There are several theories that have been proposed : — 



1. That Aulac stands for Hua Lagh sons of Lugh, a 

 Leinster family. 



2. That Aulac is Cailbadh, who had a son Braccan, and 

 was a king of Ulster for one year and was slain in 358. This 

 is the pedigree given by Shearman, in his "Loca Patriciana." 



Cailbadh had a son Braccan, who was the father of 

 Braccanoc, father of Brychan. But this is mere guess work, and 

 there is no collateral evidence to substantiate it. Braccan was 

 an Irish name not uncommon. Dalaraidia was most unlikely to 

 furnish colonists for South Wales. 



3. There is another possibility, that Aulac stands for 

 Amalgaidh, (pronounced Awley) ; Amalgaidh was son of Fiachra 

 of the Flowing Locks, younger brother of Dathi who succeeded 

 Niall of the Nine Hostages, as King of Ireland, in 405 ; where- 

 upon Dathi surrendered to Amalgaidh the crown of Connaught. 

 He reigned till 449, and had at the least three wives, and 

 twenty-one sons are attributed to him besides daughters. He 

 had a son Cormac by his wife Tresi, daughter of Nadfraich, 

 another of the same name by his wife Erca, daughter of 

 Eochaid. Of neither of these Cormacs do the Irish Historians 

 know anything, nor do they give their descents. 



4. There is yet a fourth suggestion. In the curious story 

 of S. Gairnech we learn that his brother was Brecan or Becan, 

 and that his half-brother Muirtach crossed into Britain where 

 he had his arms blessed by Cairnech, and in Britain he 

 became the father, by a foreign princess, of Constantino and 



