Editing Conall Cernach (section)

===Later years===
After Conchobor and his son, [[Cormac Cond Longas]], had been killed, Conall was offered the kingship of Ulster, but he refused it, putting forward instead his foster-son, Conchobar's younger son [[Cúscraid]], who was proclaimed king.<ref>R.I. Best, "The Battle of Airtech", ''Ériu'' 8, 1916, pp. 170-190</ref> In his declining years he contracted leprosy and went to stay with Ailill and Medb of Connacht, who were best placed to look after him, since they had the resources to satisfy his enormous appetite. Ailill was seeing another woman behind Medb's back, so Medb incited Conall to kill Ailill, something he was happy to do as Ailill had killed [[Fergus mac Róich]]. Ailill was killed on 1 May, [[Lá Bealtaine]], which was on a Tuesday.<ref>'Flannacán mac Cellaig rí Breg hoc carmen. His poem on the death of some Irish heroes', by [[Kathleen Mulchrone]], in "Journal of Celtic Studies", Vol I (1949-50), pp. 80-93, stanza 12.</ref> Conall fled, but the men of Connacht pursued and killed him at a ford on the following Monday, 7 May.<ref>Kuno Meyer (ed. & trans.), "The Cherishing of Conall Cernach and the Deaths of Ailill and of Conall Cernach", ''Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie'' 1, 1897, pp. 102-111</ref> Both oral tradition and old textual sources place this at the town of [[Ballyconnell]], [[County Cavan]].<ref>James MacKillop, ''Dictionary of Celtic Mythology'', Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 87</ref><ref>"[https://www.academia.edu/13072981/The_Death_Of_Conall_Cernach_At_Ballyconnell_County_Cavan The Death of Conall Cernach at Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan]", by Tom Smith, in ''Breifne Journal'' 2012</ref>