The Battle of Confey or Cenn Fuait was fought in Ireland in 917 between the Vikings of Dublin and the Irish King of Leinster, Augaire mac Ailella.
The Annals of Ulster report that "Sitriuc, grandson of Ímar, landed with his fleet at Cenn Fuait on the border [airiur, airer] of Leinster.
[2] Tech Moling is St Mullin's, an ecclesiastical settlement in the extreme south of County Carlow, on the western boundary of Leinster, and accessible by ship via the River Barrow.
This led the historians John O'Donovan and Bartholomew MacCarthy to identify Cenn Fuait with Confey or Confoy, near what is today Leixlip, County Kildare, on the border between Leinster and the Kingdom of Mide.
[5] The Annals of Ulster record the battle and the events that led to it thus: Sitriuc, grandson of Ímar, landed with his fleet at Cenn Fuait on the border of Leinster.
Niall son of Aed, king of Ireland, led an army of the southern and northern Uí Néill to Munster to make war on the heathens.
[7] The former text describes Sitric's capture of Dublin thus: There came after that the immense royal fleet of Sitriuc and the family of Ímar, i.e. Sitriuc the Blind, the grandson of Ímar; and they forced a landing at Dublin of Ath Cliath, and made an encampment there.The Battle of Confey took place during a time of increased Viking attacks.