ÃÂengus mac Nad FroÃÂch (430-489) was an Eoganachta and the first Christian King of Munster. He was the son of Nad Froich mac Cuirc by Faochan, a British lady (called daughter of the King of Britain). In Geoffrey Keating's History of Ireland, Oengus is given a reign of 36 years which would place the start of his reign as early as 453.
He was baptized a Christian in the royal seat of Cashel by Saint Patrick himself and imposed a baptismal tax on the Christian converts of Munster for St. Patrick. It is mentioned that half of his numerous progeny were given into the church. St Patrick baptized him in blood by driving his crozier through the king's foot. The king became very devout and surrounded himself with clerics.
In 489, the battle of Cenn Losnada in Mag Fea was fought in which he was slain. His wife Eithni Uathach ingen Cremthainn, called "the hateful", was also killed. She was a member of the UàCheinnselaig sept of the Laigin. The victors included Iollann mac Dunlaing, and Oilill, his brother of the UàDúnlainge sept of Laigin, and Eochaidh Guinech of the UàBairrche sept of Laigin, and, according to the Annals of Tigernach, Muirchertach Mac Ercae, the Ui Neill king of Ailech. ÃÂengus' head was given to Iollan. The reference to Muirchertach Mac Ercae as king of Ailech is unique to the Annals of Tigernach. A second entry in the Annals of Ulster with reference to the battle mentions Mac Ercae as victor, without reference to Ailech. According to Cormac McSparron, the reference to Muirchertach Mac Ercae as king of Ailech in the Annals of Tigernach probably arises from an insertion made after 913. The reason for its insertion may have been an attempt to push the expansion of the UàNeill and their taking of Aileach further back into antiquity than was the case.
ÃÂengus appears in the 9th-century literary text The Expulsion of the Déisi, in which he grants land to the wandering Déisi horde. The story is set in the time of Cormac mac Airt, who is said to have lived 200 years before ÃÂengus. He also appears often in the varying vitae of St. Ciarán of Saigir as a major patron of the saint.
He was the ancestor of three major septs of the Eóganacht including the Cashel, Arithir Cliach, and Glendamnach lines.