Bressal mac Ailello Thassaig was an early king of the Uí Liatháin who may also have been King of Munster.[1] His sister, Angias, was the Queen of Lóegaire mac Néill, High King of Ireland.[2]
He was the son of Ailill Tassach, ancestor of the Uí Thassaig, an important sept of the Uí Liatháin.[3]
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edit- Francis John Byrne. Irish Kings and High-Kings. Four Courts Press. 2nd revised edition, 2001.
- Geoffrey Keating, with David Comyn and Patrick S. Dinneen (trs.), The History of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating. 4 Vols. London: David Nutt for the Irish Texts Society. 1902–14. Hosted elsewhere: The Keating Genealogies
- Michael A. O'Brien (ed.) with intr. by John V. Kelleher, Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. 1976. / partial digital edition: Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.), Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502. University College, Cork: Corpus of Electronic Texts. 1997.
- Whitley Stokes (ed. & tr.). The Tripartite Life of Patrick. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1887.