Turloch O'Connor

Turloch O'Connor

▪ king of Connaught
also spelled  Turlough O'Conor , Old Irish  Toirdelbach Ua Conchubair 
born 1088, Connaught, Ire.
died 1156

      king of Connaught and from 1121 the most powerful Irish prince. In 1118 he divided Munster into two coequal kingdoms; in 1125 he deposed the king of Meath and appointed three kings in his stead; in 1126 he made his son Conchobar king of Dublin and Leinster; and in 1129 he built Ireland's first castle, on the River Shannon at Athlone.

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