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record Tigernach's revenge. Cináed met with Máel Sechnaill and Tigernach the following year where, in spite of promises of safe conduct guaranteed by the church, he was betrayed and "cruelly drowned in a pool by Máel Sechnaill and Tigernach".
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over which the Síl nÁedo Sláine had once ruled was, by the middle of the eighth century, divided into two or more parts. The Uí Chernaig were styled kings of Lagore, or of south Brega, named after
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lay within the kingdom of Lagore, and this may have given the otherwise minor kingdom a somewhat greater importance.
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During Tigernach's reign the Irish midlands were dominated by his distant Uí Néill kinsman, the High King
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to the sea". He attacked the crannog at Loch Gabair, which was burned, as was the nearby church at
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Cináed, who became king of north Brega in 849, allied with Vikings in 850 and, according to the
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In 848, probably as part of a broad alliance of Irish kings, Tigernach gained a victory over
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in Loch Gabhair suggests that the seat of the kings of Lagore was there. The
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Tigernach belonged to the Uí Chernaig branch of the once-powerful
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Charles-Edwards, T.M. (2004), "Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid (
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record a battle between Flann and Tigernach in 854, at
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Index

Lagore
Síl nÁedo Sláine
Uí Néill
Fogartach mac Néill
High King of Ireland
kingdom of Brega
Loch Gabhair
County Meath
Archaeological
crannog
Hill of Tara
Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid
Clann Cholmáin
King of Leinster
Ruarc mac Brain
Vikings
Cináed mac Conaing
Flann
Annals of Ulster
Shannon
Trevet
Irish annals
Donaghmore
County Laois

Tierney
County Meath
Byrne, Francis John
ISBN
0-7134-5882-8

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