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	Dalriada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dalriada was named for the clan known as the Dál Riata whose origins were in the coastal region of north-east Antrim.
		The earliest settlement from Dalriada in Ireland to Scotland was probably in the late Second Century when Cairbre Riada, Son of Conary, King of Ireland, and Grandson of Con of the Hundred Battles, established a presence on the west coast of Alba.
		In the early part of the Sixth Century Fergus moved the capital of Dalriada to Dunadd in Scotland and from this point forth, the Irish Dalriada was subservient to the Scottish kingdom.
	www.dalriada-restaurant.com /webpages/history.htm (1459 words)

	Dalriada Celtic Heritage Trust: Clans of Dalriada & Ui Neill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Under the rulership of Fergus Mor Mac Erc, they consecrated a new branch of the Dal Riata kingdom in the western isles of Scotland, absorbing the stone-fortress of Dunadd as their home point.
		Records indicate that Angus Mac Erc claimed the Isles of Jura and Islay as tribal territory, while Lorne absorbed what is now known as Lorne, the seat of the MacDougalls, descendants of the MacDonald dynasty.
		It is clear that this clan has very old roots in the Kingdom of Dalriada, evidenced not only by the previous name MacErchar and the tie with the original kingdoms of northern Ireland, but also from centuries old conflicts with the Clan Diarmaid, or Campbell (see Clan Campbell).
	www.droitsweb.com /Druids/clanofda.html (3322 words)

	Famous Scots - Fergus Mor Mac Erc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born in approximately 434 AD, Fergus Mor Mac Erc is considered the father of the Royal lines of Scotland and thus the father of Scotland itself.
		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.
	www.tartans.com /articles/famscots/fergusmor.html (526 words)

	Irish Scots of Dalriada or Dal Riata, Argyll. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Irish Scots of Dalriada or Dal Riata, Argyll.
		MacLauchlan, by contrast, claimed that these Scots were natives of the West of Alba.Fergus mac Erc, leader of the Dál Riata is recorded in the oldest surviving version of the Annals of Tigernach as having died in 501.
		Robertson, among others, in the 19th century argued on the basis of place-names that the Pictish peoples were, in fact, Q-Celtic Góidils and that the Scoti of Dál Riata formed an insignificant contribution in terms of numbers and language to the kingdom of Alba.
	www.glendiscovery.com /dalriada.htm (1542 words)

	Did You Know? - Dalriada
		There is even some evidence that the Scotti, as they became known, drifted in over a number of centuries and may have fought alongside the Picts against the Romans as far back as the 4th century.
		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.
	www.rampantscotland.com /know/blknow_dalriada.htm (751 words)

	The Tribe of Loarn
		The disadvantage, as the Scots learned throughout their history, is that it sometimes leads to assassination and to warfare between competing claimants to the throne.
		Amongst the kings of Dalriada, the succession alternated between the descendants of Erc, with those of Fergus dominating.
		At the time of Ferchar Fota's reign, Dalriada was a weakened kingdom; the throne was fleetingly held by the various claimants, and the Scots were dominated by the Picts.
	www.magma.ca /~mmackay/loarn.html (424 words)

	thegroup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The word `Dalriada' therefore signifies 'the territory of the descendants of Cairbre Riada.
		Erc had twelve sons, the youngest being Fergus, Lorn and Angus.
		This was the seat of Fergus Mac Erc and it is said that he brought with him from Ulster the Lia Fiall - Jacob's Pillow - later to be known as the Stone of Destiny.
	www.mcleanscotland.co.uk /thegroup.htm (1074 words)

	Irish Dalriada/Ossain's grave
		Another story is that on his last visit to Dunseverick Castle, St. Patrick found the twelve sons of Erc in the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Dahiada owing to the death of their father.
		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.
		The Senchus shows that the colonization was spearheaded by Fergus, son of Erc, the descendent of Nes (possibly a river Goddess), who came with his brothers and established control before dying in 501.
	macinnes.org /dalriada.html (2544 words)

	CHURCH OF IRELAND - LoveToKnow Article on CHURCH OF IRELAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eochaid, son of Erc, king of the Firbolgs, having declined to surrender the sovereignty of Ireland, a great battle was fought on the plain of Moytura near Cong (Co. Mayo), the site of a prehistoric cemetery.
		Mongan king of Dalriada in the 7th century is stated to have passed after death into various shapesa wolf, a stag, a salmon, a seal, a swan.
		Fintan, nephew of Partholan, is also reported to have survived the deluge and to have lived in various shapes until he was reborn as Tuan mac Cairill in the 6th century.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IR/IRELAND_CHURCH_OF.htm (22288 words)

	The Irish Kings of Dalriada
		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.
		With Erc we are on firmer ground: he was a king of Dalriada who died around 501 A.D..
		The Dalriada crossed the North Channel from Ireland to Kintyre in Scotland, eventually establishing a kingdom around Argyll.
	www.magma.ca /~mmackay/dalriada.html (547 words)

	Clan Info
		In the ensuing century, Dalriada gained influence and strength, and eventually the indigenous Pictish peoples and their culture were overwhelmed and the entire area became known as Scotland after the “Scotti” immigrants.
		The MacInneses, the sons of Angus, claim this Angus of Dalriada as the progenitor of Clann Aonghais, the Clan Angus.
		Fergus Mor, Loarn (Laurin) and Oengus (Angus), sons(?) of the deceased King Erc of Dalriada (in Dunseverick, Antrim) colonize Alba and establish an outpost kingdom.
	macinnes.org /info.html (2844 words)

	Kings of Dalriada
		13 February 858 in Forteviot, Perthshire, Scotland, He became King of Dalriada, 834 in Dungad, Scotland, United Pictish and Dalriada kingdoms 843 in Scotland, cause of death was a tumor.
		It is during his reign that Scottish Dalriada began to split from the Irish side.
		Up until that time Dalriada consisted of two halves: the area that is now County Antrim in Ireland, and what was called Scotia Minor, now Argyll, in Scotland.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Ranch/7834/kingsofdalriada.html (783 words)

	The Village of Dunlop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Picts were there before Fergus Mac Erc of DalRiada, the Angles came through occasionally, and the Vikings were known to have sent foraging parties inland.
		The fortified citadels of Dalriada were clearly linked with outlying smaller farmsteads, most notably the Duns and crannogs.
		Later in the century the Angles, a Germanic people similar to the Saxons took all the lands south of the River Forth (Firth of Forth being the estuary) and with parts of northern England established the Kingdom of Northumbria.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/ClanDunlop/village.htm (3272 words)

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		Colla’s descendants; Fergus, Loarn, and Angus (sons of Erc) were the principal foundation lines reestablishing the Scottish kingdom of Dalriada around 465AD, after it had been obliterated several times by the Picts.
		Thus the "Scottish" settlement in Argyll was founded by the three sons of Erc, who were all descended from Picts, and their mother was of a Royal Pict family.
		From the Ercs, came a Pict dynasty that ruled the southern Pict Kingdom (similar to what Alpin did 300 years later), until Domnhall Brecc lost the overlordship to Owain ap Urien, another claimant to the Pictish throne, (and a 100% Pict).
	members.tripod.com /Hal_MacGregor/gregor/extinction.html (13065 words)

	MacKinnons of Tiree, Scotland and County Bruce, Ontario
		The clan is tied to the Irish Saint Columba, who founded a monastery on the island of Iona in southern Scotland in 563, and to the Scottish King Alpin, who ruled from 831 until he was killed in a battle with the Picts in 841.
		Alpin's lineage can be traced back to Erc, king of Dal Riada (northern Ireland) in the 5th century.
		The tie to St. Columba is presumed because the abbots of the monastery at Iona were chosen from his kin.
	www.westgov.org /macweb.htm (3057 words)

	Netherlorn and its Neighbourhood - Chapter VI - The Holy Islands
		Fergus mor Mac Erc was succeeded by his son Domangart, who was succeeded by his son Comgal, who died in 539.
		These Kings of Dalriada are called in the Annalists Righ Albain (Kings of Alban), and they seem to have quietly and effectually extended their territory until it included the greater part of old Argyllshire.
		But greater misfortunes were to follow, until at the end of Conal's reign the territory of Dalriada was restricted to a portion of Kintyre and some of the neighbouring islands.
	www.electricscotland.com /books/netherlorn6.htm (3581 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He believed the Stone to have been quarried on the West Coast of Scotland near Oban, although it has to be said that he offered little proof.
		Erc was the first King of the Antrim Dal Riata tribe, and Antrim is, of course, in Ireland.
		Apart from a brief spell between 1649 and 1660, when the English refused to hold Charles II of Scotland as their monarch, the Scots have been the true descendants of what is now held to be the British royal family.
	avalon.gargoyles-fans.org /castle/magic/stonedestine.html (1378 words)

	generation 15 ('stamoudgrootouders')
		Donald Brecc [Domnall; Breco], king of the Scots of Dalriada 630-642/643, born 595, married:
		Eochaid Buide [Buidhe],[1] king of the Scots of Dalriada 608-629/630, born 565
		Gabhran MacDomangairt [Gabran, Gabràn], king of the Scots of Dalriada 537-559, born 500, died 559, married:
	www.mythopedia.info /ancestry-scots.htm (441 words)

	MacCorkill's Scottish - Dalriada - the Beginning
		It is for this reason that this the Trust carries the name of Dalriada.
		Dalriada was the name of the people who came here from Ireland and whom the Romans called the Scots.
		This remained the case until Fergus mor Mac Erc, King of Dal Riata, arrived with more of his people bringing his Kingship with him and in doing so shifting the emphasis of Dal Riata from Ireland to Scotland.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Parthenon/2897/celtic1.html (1033 words)

	Clan Livingstone - Dalriada
		It is generally accepted that Scots Dalriada was originally founded at the end of the fifth century by three brothers; Fergus Mor (sometimes called Mac Nisse Mor), Loarn and Angus.
		The Cenél nGabráin enjoyed the overlordship of Dalriada for the sixth and much of the seventh century.
		Columba was involved in the ordination of Aedán mac Gabráin as overking of Dalriada in 573.
	www.clanlivingstone.com /Dalriada.htm (499 words)

	Ancient Scotland - The Picts and Scots
		Summarizing several thousand years of the history of ancient Scotland is impossible in "25 words or less." If you like, skip Scotland's stone age, and click down to bronze age, iron age (the Celts), Roman Britain (the Picts), or Dalriada (early Scottish history).
		The ancient Irish kingdom of Dalriada (race of Riada) traces its legendary lineage from the High Kings of Tara.
		About 500 AD, the sons of Erc, King of Dalriada, Fergus, Loarn, and Angus, established kingdoms in the Western Isles and Argyll, with their seat at Dunadd.
	www.heartoscotland.com /Categories/History2.htm (1692 words)

	What Really Happened to the Druids
		In Ireland, Maewyn intervened in a dispute on inheritance between Fergus Mor Mac Erc and his brothers, and prophesied that Fergus would one day become a King.
		Fergus moved the throne of Dalriada from Ireland to Scotland in 490AD, becoming the first Scots King to reign over Dalriada in Scotland.
		Fergus belonged to a faction which opposed the High King of Ireland, and the tales of St Patrick's opposition and battles against the Druids are based on this fact.
	www.oakofrose.org /articles/whathappened.htm (1770 words)

	Dalriada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The chief kindreds of the Dal Riada of Argyle, the Cineal Loairn and the Cineal nGabrain, soon spread into much of Scotland with the uniting of their kingdom and the Kingdom of the Picts.
		The Ceneal Loarin derive their descent from Loarn, son of Erc, a king of Dal Riada in the fifth Century.
		They originally inhabited the present districts of Lorn (named for them) and Mull, with the adjacent mainland and island territory to the north and west.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/republic/PatAdams/research/argyllshire/mactavish/chiefmactavish/dalriada.htm (1249 words)

	ClanDonald-Heritage.com: Ancestry
		Most of the records were kept in the churches and most of the churches in Dalriada were raided by Vikings.
		Ancient Dalriada was centered in Antrim, Ireland with colonies across the Irish sea in what later became Argyll, Scotland.
		Since the kings of Dalriada were in Ireland it stands to reason the records would be there as well.
	www.clandonald-heritage.com /ancestrychart?id=5 (4296 words)

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		Scotti is a bastardization of an Irish word meaning ‘raider’ and this name stuck to the seafaring raiders as seen in the annals and chronicles of the Latin writers of the time.
		The MaGaurans/McGoverns were said to be composed of three Septs and Aedan of Dalriada belonged to one of the Septs, as did his father Gabhran.
		Aedan MacGabhran of Dalriada is considered one of the founders of the Scots monarchy, and one of his descendants MacAlpin was actually the first king of a united Scotland (Picts and Irish).
	www.mcgovernonline.com /aedan.htm (1537 words)

	Clan Fergusson. A history of Clan Fergusson, complete with motto, tartan, clan crest,
		The name Fergusson and its history spreads from Antrim in northeastern Ireland to the shores of Dalriada under Fergus mor Mac Erc, into the Highlands and to Dunkeld.
		The Fergussons of Argyllshire and Ayrshire, for example, claim descent from two different royal families.The Argyllshire Fergussons trace their origins to Fergus Mor mac Erc, a king of the Scots of Dalriada, their connection has been immortalised on their family shield in the form of a boar's head.
		The Fergussons of Argyllshire claim to be the descendants of Fergus Mór mac Erc, a Scots king from the times of Dalriada, and represent the connection with the boars head on their shield.
	www.angelfire.com /d20/sbrentfergusson/history.html (1115 words)

	We, the Gael
		Eventually, the Scotti pushed their borders beyond what we now know as "Dalriada" to include everything north of the Cheviot Hills.
		This remained the case until Fergus mor Mac Erc, King of Dál Riata, arrived with more of his people, bringing his Kingship with him, and in doing so, shifting the political center of the Dál Riata from Ireland to Scotland.
		Dalriada Heritage Trust Web Page: www.electricscotland.com/dalriada (now moved to www.dalriada.co.uk, but there’s a link).
	www.historichighlanders.com /wegael.htm (604 words)

	Definition - Clans - Knowledge Base, HouseofNames.com
		It was founded by the group of Scots who settled the west coast of Scotland in the early 6th century.
		This settlement, established by Fergus, son of Erc, along with his brothers Lorn and Angus, subsequently had its territory divided among four tribes: the Cinel Gabram and the Cinel Comgall, descended from grandsons of Fergus, as well as the Cinel Lorn and the Cinel Angus, descended from his brothers.
		Aside from the districts of Dalriada, the formation of the Highland clans was also heavily influenced by the seven large tribal districts into which Scotland had been already largely divided by the Picts.
	houseofnames.com /xq/asp/sId./kbId.51/qx/knowledgebase.htm (1007 words)

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