- Rí, or
commonly ríg (genitive), is an
ancient Gaelic word
meaning 'king'. It is used in
historical texts referring to the
Irish and
Scottish kings, and...
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named after the
overkingdom of Ulaid, in the east of the province,
which was in turn
named after the
Ulaid folk. The
other overkingdoms in
Ulster were...
- the Franks.
Conall mac
Comgaill becomes king of Dál Riata, a
Gaelic overkingdom on the
western coast of Scotland. Istämi,
ruler of the
Western Turkic...
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Irish royal families were the
dynasties that once
ruled large "
overkingdoms" and
smaller petty kingdoms on the
island of Ireland.
Members of some of these...
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during Dál Cuinn's era), two or
three of whom are listed, but
whose overkingdom in the
south of
Ireland collapsed in the 6th century. They were outmanoeuvred...
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Gaelic Irish territory,
ruled by the Uí
Echach Cobo and part of the
overkingdom of Ulaid. From the 12th
century the
Magennises (Mac Aonghusa) were chiefs...
- out of the
larger kingdom of Uí Chremthainn,
which was part of the
overkingdom of Airgíalla. By the late 11th
century it had
grown to
cover all of what...
- Bréifne (Irish: [ˈbʲɾʲeːfʲnʲə]),
anglicized as Breffny, was a
medieval overkingdom in
Gaelic Ireland. It
comprised what is now
County Leitrim,
County Cavan...
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Georgie Laurie named the area for Dál Riata, a 6th-7th
century Gaelic overkingdom; a
subsequent misspelling in an adverti****t led to the
current spelling...
-
leading family of the Uí
Chonaill Gabra, a sept and
small but
notable overkingdom of
medieval and
ancient Ireland,
based in
western County Limerick. Throughout...
