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Fedelmid mac Crimthainn

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After his returne to Munster ye next year, he was overtaken by a great disease of the flux of the belly, which happened in this wide. As King felym (soone after his return to Mounster) was taking his rest inn his bed, St. Wueran appeared to him with his habit and bachall.. & there gave him a push
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In 836, Fedelmid took the oratory in Kildare against Forindam, the abbot of Armagh, and had him and the congregation of Patrick imprisoned. In 837, Fedelmid is recorded as taking the abbacy of Cork, and also plundering the Cenél Cairpri Cruim. In 838, there was a great royal meeting in
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AI838.1 A great assembly of the men of Ireland in Cluain Ferta Brénainn, and Niall son of Aed, king of Temuir, submitted to Feidlimid, son of Crimthann, so that Feidlimid became full king of Ireland that day, and he occupied the abbot's chair of Cluain
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AI840.1 Kl. Feidlimid harried Leth Cuinn from Birra to Temuir, and he was checked at Temuir, and he seized Gormlaith, daughter of Murchad, king of Laigin, together with her female train, and Indrechtach, son of Mael Dúin, was killed by him at
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of his Bachall in his belly whereof he tooke his disease and occasiontion of Death, and notwithstanding his great irregularity and great desire of spoyle he was of sum numbered among the scribes and anchorites of Ireland.
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Fedelmid does not appear to have recovered from this defeat and died in 847. Although the cause of his death is not noted in the Annals of Ulster, the majority of the other sources place the cause of his death on
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The year 840 was probably the high point of Fedelmid's rule, when he ravaged the east midland kingdoms of Mide and Brega and is recorded as having rested in Temhar (Tara), and the annals have a short poem on
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has been used, even though it is not cited. Only events that do not occur in the Annals of Ulster, edited by Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Nocaill,
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AFM 824. The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland (AFM), Edited and translated by John O'Donovan, Volume 1, New York: AMS Press, 1966.
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to the doors of their churches. In 835, the Munstermen are recorded as having slain Fergus, son of Bodbchad, the King of
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However, this triumph was short-lived and, in 841, he was defeated in battle by Niall Caille at Magh-Ochtar in
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was burnt by Fedelmid in 825. In 827, there was the first of a number of royal meetings between Fedelmid and
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AI847.1 Kl. The seventh feria , tenth of the moon. Feidlimid, son of Crimthann, fell asleep.
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In 830, Fedelmid was back burning monasteries--this time it was probably that of
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Cluain-Conaire-Tommain (north modern Kildare) between Fedelmid and
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between 820 and 846. He was numbered as a member of the
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Index

Feidlimid mac Crimthainn
King of Munster
Céli Dé
Cork Abbey
Clonfert Abbey
martyrologies
Eóganacht Chaisil
Eóganachta
Armagh
Law of St. Patrick
Dealbhna Breatha
Conchobar mac Donnchada
Southern Uí Néill
High King of Ireland
Fore Abbey
County Westmeath
Uí Briúin
Slane
Offaly
Clonmacnoise
Clann Cholmáin
Durrow
Carraic-Brachaidhe
Inishowen
Niall Caille mac Áeda
Northern Uí Néill
Annals of Inisfallen
Kildare
St. Kieran
Annals of Clonmacnoise

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