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213:) found attached to some northern UĂ NĂ©ill who were not reckoned high kings and means that Murchad had acted as High King Fergal's deputy among the southern UĂ NĂ©ill.
257:. Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Vol. 20/21 (2000/2001), pp. 64-85 Published by: Department of Celtic Languages & Literatures, Harvard University,
94:, and were counted among the southern branches of the UĂ NĂ©ill. In the 7th century, the dominant kin group among the southern UĂ NĂ©ill, who shared the title of
185:, and others say that he himself been High King. Fogartach was probably expelled from the kingship of the southern UĂ NĂ©ill, and Murchad drove him from power.
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was killed in the second. Clann CholmĂĄin had an old feud with the SĂl nDlĂșthaig sept of the SĂl nĂedo SlĂĄine, and Flann's father
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Revision in the Early Irish Annals: The Death-Notices of Muirchertach mac Ercae and Finsnechta mac Cellaig
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Shortly afterwards the chief of SĂl nĂedo SlĂĄine, Fogartach mac NĂ©ill, was "expelled from the kingship and went to
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Adamnain: An Old-Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnan
403:, pp. 479–480 & 572; Charles-Edwards, "Domnall".
82:, reputed to be the centre of Ireland. They belonged to
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Uisnech ruled a kingdom centred in modern
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