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was defeated and the authority of the Uí Néill re-established, and it is not implausible that all four ruled together. He ruled from 643-654. The king lists have Cellach and Conall reigning before Diarmait and Blathmac. Both Cellach and Conall are omitted from the earliest king list—a late 7th
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In 650, they successfully ended a challenge to their authority in the north by defeating and killing their cousin Óengus mac Domnaill at the Battle of Dún Cremthainn. Conall Cóel was killed by Diarmait in 654 while Cellach died in 658, perhaps at
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Here there is doubt as to who reigned after Domnall. Some historiographers say that four kings, namely Cellach and Conall Cóel and the two sons of
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All four putative successors to Domnall had been his allies at the great
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Byrne, Table 4; Charles-Edwards, Appendix IV; Mac Niocaill, pg.153
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Index

Irish
High King of Ireland
Máel Coba mac Áedo
Cenél Conaill
Uí Néill
Irish annals
Chronicle of Ireland
Conall Cóel
Domnall mac Áedo
Annals of Ulster
Áed Sláine
Diarmait
Blathmac
Battle of Mag Rath
Congal Cáech
Bru na Bóinne
Máel Dúin mac Máele Fithrich

University College Cork

University College Cork
Byrne, Francis John
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0-7134-5882-8
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0-521-36395-0
"Cellach mac Máele Coba (d. 658)"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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10.1093/ref:odnb/50091

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