General Notes

Devastated Meath in 798 and Leinster in 804; punished the Ulaid in 805 for profaning St. Patrick's shrine; drove the Connaught invaders out of Meath in 808 "as if they were goats and sheep"; sent ambassadors to Charlemagne; was prevented from celbrating the Fair of Taltiu in 811 by the monks of Tallaght, whose territory had been violated, but made ample reparations; defeated the Cenel Conaill in 815.