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  Dalriada - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dalriada or Dál Riata (as it was called in Ireland) was the kingdom of the Scots who migrated from County Antrim in Ulster to Argyll[?] and eventually gave their name to Scotland.
Dunadd, in Argyll, was probably the seat of the kings of Dalriada.
Dalriada was conquered militarily by the Picts but eventually overwhelmed them culturally.
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 The Heroic Age: Artúr mac Aedan of Dalriada, N/B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The royal court of Strathclyde was the closest foreign power center to Dalriada and relations must have been strained due to this proximity and Dalriadic control of the entry into the Firth of Clyde, a vital communication and trading route for Strathclyde.
According to a poem on the birth of Brandub mac Echnach and Aedan, "Aedan was born near the Forth and [it] refers to him as the king of the Forth" (Bannerman 1974:85).
Brude son of Maelchon was probably the overlord of Dalriada during the reign of Aedan's predecessor Conall and he severely defeated Aedan's father in battle in the year of his death, 558 (Bannerman 1974:78–79).
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 The Dalriada Pipe Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dalriada refers to a Gaelic kingdom dating from, at least, the 5th century AD.
Scottish Dalriada was confined to the western coast of modern Scotland, including Arran, Jura, Islay, Mull, and numerous other smaller islands, with its seat at Dunadd in Argyll.
From 574 to 606/8, Dalriada was ruled by one of its most dynamic and successful kings, Aedan mac Gabran.
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 The Ancient Kingdom of Dalriada
Dalridia is the Gaelic kingdom that, at least from the 5th century AD, extended on both sides of the North Channel and composed the northern part of the present County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and part of the Inner Hebrides and Argyll, in Scotland.
Irish Dalriada gradually declined; and after the Viking invasions early in the 9th century, it lost all political identity.
The area of Argyll and Bute, where the migrant Scots settled, became known as the kingdom of Dalriada, the counterpart to Dalriada in Ireland.
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 Dalriada Circuit Pro Putter
Dalriada is a Scottish company based in the West of Scotland, in the heart of "Silicon Glen" and only 30 miles away from the home of golf.
The members of the Dalriada team have a common love of the sport, more than 30 years experience in the electronics industry and recognised the need to take care of the environment.
Dalriada was one of the Dark Age Kingdoms of Scotland (400AD to 1050AD).
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 BBC - h2g2 - Dalriada - or The Highlands of Scotland. (work in progress)
BBC - h2g2 - Dalriada - or The Highlands of Scotland.
Dalriada is one of the few areas of Europe never to be subjugated to Roman Rule.
Dalriada is the traditional name for the Highlands of Scotland, and is split from the rest of the scotland through the Caledonian Canal which stretches from Inverness in the East to Fort William in the West.
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 The Heroic Age: Oswald and the Irish
According to the Annals of Clonmacnoise, the battle was fought to revenge the death of Fiachna son of Beatain, king of Dál nAraide[5], at the battle of Lethet Midind (Bannerman 1974:97-98).
With a seventeen-year exile in Dalriada, Æbbe would have approached marriageable age in Dalriada no matter what age she was at the time of her father's death in 616 [9].
The battle of Mag Rath was fought by a coalition led by Conal, king of the Dál nAraide, accompanied by Cenél nEógain of the Northern Ui Neill and Dalriada against Domnall son of Aed of Cenél Conaill, a member of a rival branch of the Northern Ui Neill and high-king of Ireland (Bannerman 1974:101).
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 DALRIADA - LoveToKnow Article on DALRIADA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Irish Dalriada was the district which now forms the northern part of county Antrim, and from which about AD.
For a time Scottish Dalriada appears to have been dependent upon Irish Dalriada, but about 575 King Aidan secured its independence.
One of Aidans successors, Kenneth, became king of the Picts about 843, and gradually the name Dalriada both in Ireland and Scotland fell into disuse.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DALRIADA.htm   (115 words)

  
 Irish Dalriada/Ossain's grave
The word `Dalriada' therefore signifies 'the territory of the descendants of Cairbre Riada.
As early as the 6th century Dalriada was divided among three tribes: the Cineal Gabran (son of Fergus), the Cineal Loth and the Cineal Angus.
Due to politics to be part of the lineage of the kings, later chronicles and poets created the "tripartite brotherhood" to explain the relation between the three.
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 King Kenneth I - Part I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The dark age fortifications on top of the isolated crag of Dunadd, on the edge of the Crinan Moss, were probably the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dalriada.
Dalriada was established by Irish immigrants, or raiders, from county Antrim, Ireland around 500 AD.
Now Kenneth's sovereignty of Dalriada was regarded as an obstacle to his becoming Ard-righ (High King) of Alban just as there is was sometimes a tendency to prevent the merging of two ancient noble families or houses.
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 Welcome To Dalriada Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The aim of this web site is to make available online the resources of Dalriada Celtic Heritage Trust to our world wide membership.
Dalriada has over 20 years involvement within Celtic Studies and is recognised as an authority on Celtic resources by academic bodies in Scotland and Ireland.
Dalriada members have access to our large archive of essays on Celtic mythology, culture, folklore, customs and history of our ancestors.
www.dalriada.co.uk   (457 words)

  
 The Heroic Age: Artúr mac Aedan of Dalriada
Scottish Dalriada was confined to the western coast of modern Scotland, including Arran, Jura, Islay, Mull, and numerous other smaller islands, with its seat at Dunadd in Argyll (Nieke and Duncan 1988:7).
From 574 to 606/8, Dalriada was ruled by one of its most dynamic and successful kings, Aedan mac Gabran (Bannerman 1974:80–91), the probable father of Artúr.
It is difficult to believe that a prince of Dalriada could be the seed for the Arthurian legend without bringing some reflections of his homeland and his powerful and popular father, Aedan, with him.
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 Famous Scots - Fergus Mor Mac Erc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fergus was the first Scottish based King of Dalriada, a country split by the sea, with a base in Ireland (the area of now County Antrim, Ireland) and territory also in the western portions of what is now Scotland.
The reasons for this are sketchy, some claim it was due to pressure that forced the move to protect his kingdom.
While others say that Scottish Dalriada was beginning to feel its oats and Fergus moved to maintain control of his kingdom.
www.tartans.com /articles/famscots/fergusmor.html   (526 words)

  
 Did You Know? - Dalriada
King Aidan of Dalriada attempted to extend the boundaries of his realm to the east across central Scotland but the Northumbrian King Aethelfrith defeated him at the battle of Degsastan around 603.
The stronghold of Dunadd was captured and by 741 Dalriada was under the control of King Oengus.
In 839, a combined force of Picts and Scots were defeated by the Vikings in a battle in Fortrui, with many of the royal household killed.
www.rampantscotland.com /know/blknow_dalriada.htm   (751 words)

  
 Scottish History: The Decline of the Picts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Picts used a matrilineal system to choose their rulers and by the time Rome left Britain in the 4th Century AD the bloodlines of the seven tribes were deeply entwined, leaving the Kingdom intact.
It was on one of these occasions in 739 AD when Oengus (Angus) Mac (Son of) Fergus laid waste to the Scottish capital of Dunnadd and then proceeded to Ireland where he won two large battles in 741 AD.
As a king of Dalriada he is listed as Eoganan, as a king of Picts he is shown as Eogan, and in other places he is shown as Eoghann or as Uven.
www.tartans.com /articles/pictdecline.html   (922 words)

  
 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH King Aidan Edhan SCOTS DALRIADA ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
Scottish Dalriada soon extended its cultural as well as its military sway east and south, though one of its greatest kings, Aidan, was, in 603, defeated by the Angles as Degsastan near the later Scottish border...
The origin of the kingdom of Dalriada, itself the embryo of the kingdom of Scotland, lay in the settlements of comparatively small groups of Scots who had crosses from north-eastern Ireland towards the middle of the fifth century.
This direct conflict between the Scots of Dalriada and the English of Bernicia, between whom there lay a wide expanse of British territory, is not easily explained unless upon the supposition that Aedan's easterly advance had coincided with a northerly advance by Aethelfrith towards Lothian.
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 About Dalriada - Doctor on Call is a Cooperative of general practitioners covering the Northern.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
About Dalriada - Doctor on Call is a Cooperative of general practitioners covering the Northern.
Dalriada Urgent Care is a Cooperative of general practitioners who came together to form a companylimited by guaranteethe purpose
Dalriada Urgent Care is divided into four main areas Bannside with a centre in Ballymena and the facility to also see patients in Antrim.
www.dalriadadoc.org.uk /dalAboutus.asp   (312 words)

  
 King Of Dalriada
In the 4th century Ireland was inhabited by the Scoti people, under the leadership of Niall of the Nine Hostages, who was said to have been based on Rathlin, the Scoti carried on extensive sea-raids on the fading Roman Empire in Britain.
From the fifth to the eighth century Rathlin was part of the ancient Kingdom of Dalriada which bridged north-east Ireland and south-west Scotland.
Dalriada was established in 470 A.D. by King Fergus MacArt and his three brothers, who were Princes of the original Dalriada in County Antrim.
www.the-session.com /King_Of_Dalriada/king_of_dalriada.html   (880 words)

  
 The Heroic Age: Arthur of Dalriada Revisited
Ziegler (1999) examined the first, Artur of Dalriada, but presented convincing objections.
The dates concur with her view: both these individuals lived at the very end of the sixth century, and are unlikely to be the historical Arthur.
Dalriada is generally held to be a compound of dal (or dail, 'portion', 'meeting' or 'tribe') with Riada (Riadda/Riata), as Bede opined, but this latter may also be a compound of ri- (rig, righ, rix; 'king'), with Adda/Ata.
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 Minister Visits Dalriada Hospital, Ballycastle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Minister also highlighted the spirit of partnership between Dalriada Hospital and the MS Society in managing the hospital’s Multiple Sclerosis respite centre.
The Minister was met on arrival at Dalriada Hospital by Mr William Tweed, Chief Executive of the Causeway Health and Social Services Trust.
Dalriada Hospital provides a range of services for Ballycastle and the surrounding area, including ENT, midwifery and gynaecological, physiotherapy, X-ray, limited casualty, midwifery, hearing aid and eye clinics, a head injury clinic, and speech and language therapy.
www.nics.gov.uk /press/hss/010228j-hss.htm   (266 words)

  
 Royal Navy: HMS Dalriada
HMS Dalriada, Greenock serves Inverclyde, Glasgow and the west coast of Scotland.
Dalriada was the name given to the old kingdom of Scotland established in 500ad.
HMS Dalriada was commissioned as a RNR Headquarters in Navy Buildings Greenock
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 The Irish Kings of Dalriada
Very little is known about the kings of Dalriada apart from their names.
It is on a hill in County Meath, Éire, and its mention in a list of Kings of Dalriada implies that the Dalriada, or "race of Riada," are descended from the High Kings.
The Dalriada crossed the North Channel from Ireland to Kintyre in Scotland, eventually establishing a kingdom around Argyll.
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 Dalriada; About Dalriada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dalriada was a Scots-Irish kingdom in the first millenium, stretching along the west coast of Scotland and the north-eastern corner of Northern Ireland.
When Dalriada was founded in 1991, many computer companies were naming themselves and their products after Greco-Roman names and terms (Zeus, Apollo, Alpha, Delta, etc), and we wanted to be different.
As Dalriada was founded by a Scots-Irish person, it seemed sensible to break out and emphasise the creative Celtic traditions.
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 Argyll and Bute Council - DALRIADA MAP CELEBRATES LINKS
Astonishingly, the newly commissioned map will be the first to chart in full the boundaries of the Kingdom of Dalraida, one of the most significant and influential of the ancient Celtic maritime kingdoms.
At its height, Dalriada stretched from Bushmills in the East, across to Saddell Abbey in the West; from Armoy in the South and up to the Isle of Mull in the North.
Councillor MacMillan, on behalf of Argyll and Bute Council was presented with a framed copy of the Dalriada map.
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 Dalriada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Dalriada has so many good features she has a perfect flow in the pattern and no rib stripes.
Dalriada has been mated with Taurus, She is due in the middle og July.
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 Dalriada Labs - Products for type 2 diabetics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dichromatin from Dalriada Labs is your key to smart glucose level management.
Information on this site is provided for informational purposes only, and is not meant to substitute for the advice provided by your own physician or other medical or nutritional professional.
Keep in mind that we are all different - actual results will vary widely among users of any of these products.
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