High Point of His Rule
In 836, Fedelmid took the oratory in Kildare, against Forindam, the abbot of Armagh, and had him and the congregation of Patrick congregation imprisoned. In 837, Fedelmid is recording as taking the abbacy of Cork, and also he plundered the Cenél Cairpri Cruim. In 838, there was a great royal meeting in Cluain-Conaire-Tommain (north modern Kildare) between Fedelmid and Niall Caille mac Áeda, the King of the Northern Uí Néill, as a result of which the Annals of Inisfallen, presumably acting on Munster tradition, that Fedelmid became full king of Ireland that day and occupied the abbot’s chair of Clonfert.
The year 840 was probably the high point of Fedelmid’s rule, when he ravaged the east midland kingdoms of Mide and Brega and is recorded as having rested in Temhar (Tara), and the annals have a short poem on this:
"Feidhlimid is the King,
To whom it was but one day’s work
the pledges of Connaught without battle,
And to devastate Midhe."
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