Deaths

• Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair
  Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair
  Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair , often anglicised Rory O'Connor, reigned as King of Connacht from 1156 to 1186, and from 1166 to 1198 was the last High King before the Norman invasion of Ireland .Ruaidrí was one of over twenty sons of King...
  
   (Rory O'Connor), the last High King of Ireland
  High King of Ireland
  The High Kings of Ireland were sometimes historical and sometimes legendary figures who had, or who are claimed to have had, lordship over the whole of Ireland. Medieval and early modern Irish literature portrays an almost unbroken sequence of High Kings, ruling from Tara over a hierarchy of...
  
  , as a pilgrim in Cong
  Cong, County Mayo
  Cong is a village straddling the borders of County Galway and County Mayo, in Ireland. Cong is situated on an island formed by a number of streams that surround it on all sides...
  
   (according to the Book of Leinster
  Book of Leinster
  The Book of Leinster , is a medieval Irish manuscript compiled ca. 1160 and now kept in Trinity College, Dublin, under the shelfmark MS H 2.18...
  
  ). He was buried in Clonmacnoise
  Clonmacnoise
  The monastery of Clonmacnoise is situated in County Offaly, Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone....
  
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