Melaghlin

O'Donnell, the successor of Melaghlin, avenged the defeat at Ballyshannon, in the sanguinary battle of Credran, near Sligo, where engaging Fitzgerald in single combat, he gave him his death-stroke.

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Melaghlin, or Malachy II., fifth in direct descent from

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At this conference they divided Meath into east and west, between two branches of the family of Melaghlin.

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The military events of this last reign are so intimately bound up with the more brilliant career of the next ruler -- Melaghlin, or Malachy I. -- that we must reserve them for the introduction to the next chapter.

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At this conference they divided Meath into east and west, between two branches of the family of Melaghlin.

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In the same year, or the next, Turgesius was captured by Melaghlin, Lord of Westmeath, apparently by stratagem, and put to death by the rather novel process of drowning.

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Of these heads of new houses, by far the ablest and most famous was Melaghlin, who dwelt near Mullingar, and lorded it over western Meath; a name with which we shall become better acquainted presently.

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O'Donnell, the successor of Melaghlin, avenged the defeat at Ballyshannon, in the sanguinary battle of Credran, near Sligo, where engaging Fitzgerald in single combat, he gave him his death-stroke.

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Melaghlin, or Malachy II., fifth in direct descent from

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

Melaghlin complained, and the remedy for which his visitor suggested to be "to cut down the trees and the rooks would fly," has a suspicious look of the "tall poppies" of the Roman and Grecian legend; two things only do we know for certain about the matter: _firstly_, that

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