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Celebrating Westmeath’s High King – Malachy II

By Topic.ie
‘The fort’ on Lough Ennell, the location of where King Malachy had his base of power in the late 10th and early 11th century; inset, an artist’s impression of how he could have looked during his reign.

By Dick Hogan

Exactly 1,000 years ago this week according to the annalists, on September 2, in 1022AD, the death occurred on the island crannóg of Cro-Inis, or Cró Incha, at the south western corner of Lough Ennell, in what is now the parish of Dysart of one of the most notable and famous of the High Kings of Ireland, and Kings of Mide.

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