 Within the same year as Mac Lochlainn's demise, Ua Conchobair and his allies expulsed Mac Murchada from not only Dublin, but Ireland altogether.As such, Ua Conchobair was duly recognised as High King of Ireland.According to the seventeenth-century "Annals of the Four Masters", he had secured the cooperation of Dublin, and perhaps gained the kingship of the town itself, through a stipend of 4,000 cows.