The Convention of Drum Ceat near Limavady was a major assembly convened by Áed mac Ainmuirech. St Columba participated. It resolved the question of whether the Dál Riatan kingdom of Argyll owed military service to Ireland. The assembly demonstrates the complex political and ecclesiastical governance of early medieval Ireland.
Diplomatic assembly; no pitched battle (Convention of Drum Ceat).
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