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Sitric con.
of Leinster, 49), wins the battle
of Confey, co. Kildare, A.D., 918,
56 ; invades Mercia, 58 ; in his
absence Niall Glundubh advances
against the fortress of Ath Cliath,
ib. defended ; by the sons of Sitric
and Reginald, ib. named Imhar
;
and Sitric Gale, 59 the battle is
;
fought at Kilmashogue, near
Rathfarnham (17th Oct., 919),
Irish defeated and Niall
ib. the ',
Glundubh slain, ib. ; called by the
Irish the battle of Ath Cliath or
of Cillmosamhog, ib. ; goes to
Northumbria,
Edmund,
60 submits to
; ib. ; divides Northumbria
with his brother Reginald,
ib. allies himself with ; Athelstan,
illegitimate son of Edward, K. of
Anglo-Saxons, 64 ; marries Athelstan's
sister at Tamworth, A.D.
925, 65 ; is baptized, ib. ; but re-
lapses, ib. ; dies, A.D. 926, ib. ;
leaves three sons, Reginald, Godfrey,
and Aulaf, ib. ; K. Athelstan
ousts them from Northumbria,
ib.
son of Ivar, 45 ; with his
brother Godfrey ravages France,
46 ; slain by Godfrey, A.D. 885,
ib. ; marches to Boulogne, ib. ;
becomes
proceeds to Dublin, ib. ;
king at Dublin, ib. throne vacant
;
there by Cearbhall's death in A. p.
855, ib. ; Flann, Cearbhall's
nephew, claims it, 47 ; is defeated,
ib. ; Sitric twice ravages North-
umberland, 48 ; returns to Ire-
land, A.D. 894, ib. ; is slain in
fight with other Norsemen, ib. ;
his two sons, Aulaf and Godfrey,
ib. ; Aulaf slain in his father's
lifetime, ib. ; at Sitric's death
Cearbhall, son of Muiregan, K. of
Leinster, drives the foreigners
from Dublin, A.D., 897, 49.
son of Ivar, 44, n., 45, 46, 21.
Mac Ivar, 48.
INDEX. 295
Sitric grandson of Ivar, 47.
O'Himar, prince
and old Danes, 65.
of the new
of Limerick, 20, 21, 22.
Gale, 58, 71, n.
Sithfric, son of Sitrick Gale, 71,
n. 5
Sitric, founder of Christ Church,
Dublin, 92.
sons of, 62, 67.
K. of Dublin, 85, 87, 124,
128.
Skelig, Michel, xcix., liv.
isle, 12.
Skerries, IxviL, 138, 139.
Lighthouse dues, xxxvii.
rock near Holyhead, xxxvii.
near Balbriggan, ib., n.
Skiardbib'rn, 99, n.
8
Slane, 17, n.
Slaine (Slane\ 17.
Slighes (or roads), the Five, to Tara,
225.
Slighe Cualann, li., 225 crossed the
;
Liffey near Dublin, ib.
Slope of the Chariots (Fan-na-g-carbad)
at Tara, 225.
Smith, Horace and James, vi.
Smithfield, 232.
part of Oxmantown-green,
248, n.
enclosed, 1664, ib.
lots for, ib.
Smoothescourt (alias Symons-court),
232, n\
Smyth, Sir Samuel, cvii., n.
Snojbiorn, 100.
Snamh Eidneach (Carlingford), 19,
135, n*
Snorri, Iviii, 106.
Soarbes, 9.
Soder (Sudreyar), and f
Man, 114, n.
See Sudreyar.
Somerville, Sir William, bart., xliv.,
n.
South Bull, cxiv., 234, 236.
lots, 231, n., 248.
strand, sale of Sir J. Rogerson'a
lease of, 1744, 238, n.