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Annála Connacht (Author: [unknown])

Annal 1290

1290.1

1290 First of January on Sunday and the thirteenth day of the moon, A.D. MCCXC. Twenty-second year of the Solar Cycle; eighteenth year of the Lunar Cycle; third year of the Infliction. Common year. A.

1290.2

Cairpre O Mailsechlainn, king of Meath, was treacherously killed by Mac Cochlain and the Delbna.


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1290.3

Congalach Mag Eochacain, chieftain of the race of Fiachu son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, died.

1290.4

William Mac Feorais assumed the archbishopric of Tuaim.

1290.5

O Setachain, Bishop of Kilmacduagh, rested.

1290.6

Domnall son of Brian O Neill led an army into Cenel Eogain, forcibly ejected Niall O Neill and assumed the kingship himself by the might of his hand.

1290.7

Aed O Domnaill was deposed by his own brother Toirrdelbach, who assumed the kingship himself through the power of his mother's kin, the Clann Domnaill, and of many other Gallowglasses.