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Cen?l nE?gain, a royal dynasty from Inishowen in Donegal, defeated its previously more successful opponent, Cen?l Conaill - also from Donegal - at the battle of Cl?itech in AD 789. All changed following that battle. From then on, the Cen?l nE?gain kingdom, known as ' Ailech', spread across Counties Derry, Tyrone (giving that territory its name), into Armagh, and dominated the whole territory of Ulster. It also attained, alternately, the higher kingship of Tara. After surnames appeared c.1000, the Mac Lochlainns and O' Neills became Cen?l nE?gain's leading families. Meanwhile, the defeated Cen?l Conaill struggled to maintain some degree of prestige following the emergence of a previously minor, upstart kingdom, originally from west Donegal, the S?l Lugdach. By c.1200 the O' Neills and the leading S?l Lugdach family, the O' Donnells, were in position to rule the whole of Ulster until the English conquest c.1600. This book outlines in detail how that situation came about.
