Dál Riata - Wikipedia
Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada) (/ dælˈriːədə /) was a Gaelic kingdom that encompassed the western seaboard of Scotland and north-eastern Ireland, on each side of the North Channel.
Dalriada | Celtic, Scotland & Ulster | Britannica
Dalriada, 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.
Dalriada - Scottish History Society
Cenél nGabráin continue to dominate Dalriada, but rival groups are on the rise around them. In north Argyll Cenél Loairn (‘Loarn’s descendants’), from whom the district of Lorn (Latharna in Gaelic) around Oban takes its name, make a successful bid for the throne in the 690s.
Irish Scots of Dalriada or Dal Riata, Argyll.
Together with the Cenél Comgaill in Cowal and Cenél nGábrain in Kintyre, founded by the grandsons of Fergus, these groups formed the kingdom of Dál Riata, which would war with the Picts, Britons and Angles between the 6th and 9th centuries.
Kingdom of Dál Riata - HistoryMaps
Jun 16, 2024 · Dál Riata, also known as Dalriada, was a Gaelic kingdom that encompassed the western seaboard of Scotland and northeastern Ireland, straddling the North Channel. At its height in the 6th and 7th centuries, Dál Riata covered what is now Argyll in Scotland and part of County Antrim in Northern Ireland. The kingdom eventually became associated ...
Dál Riata - Encyclopedia.com
One of the peoples of early medieval Scotland, the Dál Riata (or Dalriada) were Gaelic speakers whose territorial base was in Argyll on the West Highland coast. They have provided some of the earliest indigenous historical sources for Scotland, and they participated in the development of the multicultural Insular art style.
Dalriada, kingdom of | Encyclopedia.com
Dalriada, or Dal Riata, started as an Irish kingdom on the coast of Antrim, but migrated to the west coast of Scotland in the 5th cent., settling Kintyre and Argyll. This brought it into contact with the kingdom of the Picts to the north-east and Strathclyde to the south-east.
Scotfax: Dalriada on Undiscovered Scotland
The Kingdom of Dalriada or Dál Riata occupied much of modern day Argyll as well as Arran and part of northern Ireland. The people of Dalriada were known as the Scoti and probably originated in north-east Ireland.
The Kingdom of Dalriada - Gaidhlig ann an Alba
From at least the 5th century the Kingdom of Dalriada was on both sides of the Straits of Moyle, and included the area in Northern Ireland which is called County Antrim today, and parts of the Inner Isles and Argyll. Gaels from Antrim in Ulster established the kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll.
Did You Know? - Dalriada - Rampant Scotland
The Scots spread over the islands of Islay, Jura and Arran off Argyll and beyond Dunollie (at present-day Oban) in the north. Their centre of power became the rocky hill fort of Dunadd (pictured above), at the southern end of Kintyre, in the centre of their territory.