Lyons Hill
Original Data: N 976 276 Height: 189 m
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One of the greatest battles of the Viking Age was fought close to Lyons Hill when the celebrated Brian Boru destroyed a combined Leinster-Viking army in the battle of Glenmama, enabling Boru to capture Dublin City on New Year’s Day 1000.[xvi] Three years later the last of the Uí Dúnchada kings of Leinster was deposed by Máel Mórda of the Uí Fáeláin.[xv] Máel Mórda would die in the epic battle with Boru at Clontarf in 1014 and his son Bran mac Máelmórda was, in turn, the last of the Uí Fáeláin kings of Leinster. https://www.intokildare.ie/story/ancient-kildare-the-kings-of-leinster/ 
LYONS HILL
LYONS HILL
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One of the greatest battles of the Viking Age was fought close to Lyons Hill when the celebrated Brian Boru destroyed a combined Leinster-Viking army in the battle of Glenmama, enabling Boru to capture Dublin City on New Year’s Day 1000.[xvi] Three years later the last of the Uí Dúnchada kings of Leinster was deposed by Máel Mórda of the Uí Fáeláin.[xv] Máel Mórda would die in the epic battle with Boru at Clontarf in 1014 and his son Bran mac Máelmórda was, in turn, the last of the Uí Fáeláin kings of Leinster. https://www.intokildare.ie/story/ancient-kildare-the-kings-of-leinster/
LYONS HILL
LYONS HILL
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760 Cellach mac Dúnchado succeeded to the kingship of Laighin (Leinster) and established his base in Cnoch Liamhna (Lyons Hill, coordinates: 53°17′26″N 6°32′06″W) until his death in 776, the first king of Laighin to come from the Uí Dúnchada dynasty, commencing an elaborate three-way alternating kingship in among three Uí Dúnlaigne dynasties over a 300 year period with, according to UCD historian Francis John Byrne “astonishingly few disputes.” https://ardclough.wordpress.com/an-ardclough-timeline/
LYONS HILL
LYONS HILL
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