Melaghlin
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- This article is about the chieften king Malachy also called Melaghlin. For other meanings, see Malachy (disambiguation).
- Melaghlin (or Malachy) also refered to as King Malachy a north Leinster local chieften who is acclaimed to have killed by drowning Turgesius the viking who took the rural community of Dublin during the middle ages.
Before the arrival of the vikings in Ireland, there were no towns as we know them to be today.
King Niall descendant of the same, had vanquished Turgesius on the lain of Moynith, and according to the Annals, a countless number fell in battle
In the same year, or the year that followed, Turgesius was captured by Melaghlin,(or Malachy) a local chieftan of now Westmeath, apparently a stratagist, and put to death by the rather novel process of drowning in Lough Owel near Mullingar in the year 843 or 844.
Melaghlin,(or Malachy) being a diplomatic chieftan, was in a position to govern under and the within the imposed limitations of Turgesius. When the opportunity arose, Melaghlin,(or Malacky) is believed to have sought advise from Turgesius, how best to rid the area of a reciently invading breed of damaging birds. Without a second thought, Turgesius, recommended destroying all their nests. This is exactly what Malachy set out to do from that day on concerning the vikings. Some of these 'Viking nests' are found as forts south west of Lough Lene, some 15km north of Mullingar.
