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The broad agreement of generally pro-UĂ NĂ©ill sources that Ailill was High King is offered as proof that this was the case. Although the chronology of 5th century High Kings has been the subject of manipulation, it is seen as unlikely that later historians and genealogists would have added a non-UĂ
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suggests that the inclusion of Nath Ă and Ailill Molt was a means to reinforce links between the UĂ NĂ©ill and the other branches of the
Connachta in the late 7th or 8th centuries, when he presumes the king lists and the annals related to
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to have been collected and edited. This is offered without giving undue support to any contemporary claims by the other
Connachta kindreds, the UĂ Ailello and, in particular, the powerful UĂ BriĂșin, to the High Kingship.
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Connacht. Ailill's son Mac Ercae may have been an important historical figure, but the record conflates Mac Ercae mac Ailello Muilt and the UĂ NĂ©ill king
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338:Eochaid mac Domnaill
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