Máel Mórda mac Murchada

Malachy MacMurrough (Middle Irish: Mael Mórda mac Murchada; modern Irish: Máel Mórda mac Murchada; died 23 April 1014 AD) was King of Leinster, Ireland in the late 10th and early 11th century. Son of King Murchad mac Finn and brother of Gormflaith, he belonged to the northern Leinster dynasty of the Uí Dúnlainge, and in particular the branch of the Uí Fáeláin whose lands lay around the town of Naas, anciently Nás na Rí, "the Assembly Place of the Kings" or Nás Laighean "the Assembly Place of the Leinstermen" on the middle reaches of the River Liffey, in modern County Kildare. Máel Mórda is best known as an enemy of Brian Boru, King of Munster, they fought at the Battle of Glenmama on 30 December 999 and both men died in the Battle of Clontarf, fought on Good Friday in 1014.