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Events from the year 1101 in Ireland.
Events
- Muirchertach Ua Briain of the Dál gCais proclaims himself High King of Ireland.
- At the Synod of Cashel, Muirchertach Ua Briain grants Cashel to the church as the seat of a metropolitan bishop.[1]
- Muirchertach Ua Briain destroys the ringfort at Grianan of Aileach.
- Sailors from overseas raid Scattery Island.[2]
- Gillafin mac Coulahan, King of Síol Anmchadha, is killed and succeeded by his predecessor's son, Diarmaid Ua Madadhan.
Deaths
- Gilla na Naemh Ua Dunabhra, Chief Poet of Connacht.[3]
References
- ↑ Foster, R. F. (1989). The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198229704.
- ↑ Power, Rosemary (2005). "Meeting in Norway: Norse-Gaelic relations in the kingdom of Man and the Isles, 1090-1270". Saga-book (Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London) XXIX (196): 15. ISSN 0305-9219.
- ↑ Annals of the Four Masters.