Editing Timeline of Irish history (section)

== 3rd century ==
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| c. 220 AD ||  || The ''[[Annals of the Four Masters]]'', Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, and other semi-historical (non-contemporary) texts, place [[Cormac mac Airt]] as a longstanding [[High King of Ireland]].<ref name="FFE">[[Geoffrey Keating]], ''Foras Feasa ar Éirinn'' [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text052.html 1.42] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323223934/http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text052.html |date=2014-03-23 }}, [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text053.html 43] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015055830/http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text053.html |date=2012-10-15 }}, [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text054.html 44] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015055859/http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text054.html |date=2012-10-15 }}, [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100055/text055.html 45], [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text056.html 46] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928095822/http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text056.html |date=2013-09-28 }}</ref><ref name="byrne">Francis J. Byrne, ''Irish Kings and High Kings'', Four Courts press, 2001, p. 65-69</ref> (The Annals date his reign as 226–266, but scholars vary in their assessment of Mac Airt's reign as legend or historical fact)<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle=Cormac Mac Art |volume=12}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Welch |first=Robert |title=The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature |year=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780192800800 }}</ref>
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