1101 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1101 in Ireland.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- Muirchertach Ua Briain of the Dál gCais proclaims himself High King of Ireland.[1]
- At the Synod of Cashel, Muirchertach Ua Briain grants Cashel to the church as the seat of a metropolitan bishop.[2]
- Muirchertach Ua Briain destroys the ringfort at Grianan of Aileach.[3]
- Sailors from overseas raid Scattery Island.[4]
- Gillafin mac Coulahan, King of Síol Anmchadha, is killed and succeeded by his predecessor's son, Diarmaid Ua Madadhan.
Deaths
[edit]- Gilla na Naemh Ua Dunabhra, Chief Poet of Connacht.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Moody, Theodore William; Martin, Francis X.; Byrne, Francis John; Cosgrove, Art (1976). A New History of Ireland: Prehistoric and early Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 914. ISBN 9780198217374.
- ^ Foster, R. F. (1989). The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198229704.
- ^ "Grianan of Aileach". donegaldiaspora.ie. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- ^ Power, Rosemary (2005). "Meeting in Norway: Norse-Gaelic relations in the kingdom of Man and the Isles, 1090-1270" (PDF). Saga-Book. XXIX (196). Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London: 15. ISSN 0305-9219. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2013.
- ^ Annals of the Four Masters.