Dál nAraidi
Dál nAraidi (sometimes latinised as
Dalaradia — which should not be confused with
Dál Riata, latinised as Dalriada) was a kingdom of the
Cruithne in the north-east of
Ireland in the first millennium. The lands of the Dál nAraidi appear to correspond with the
Robogdii of
Ptolemy's
Geographia, a region shared with Dál Riata.
It was centred on the northern shores of
Lough Neagh in
Antrim. Dál nAraidi was the second kingdom of
Ulster, and its kings contended with the
Dál Fiatach for the high-kingship for some centuries. It is doubtful whether the Dál nAraidi kingdom existed, except as a loose confederation of small kingdoms, until the 8th century, long after the Cruithne kings had ceased to have any real control over the high-kingship of Ulster.
Among the most important kings of the Dál nAraidi, most of whom predate the formation of a kingdom, are:
*
Áed Dub mac Suibni (died c. 588)
*
Fiachnae mac Báetáin (died c. 626)
*
Congal Cáech (died at the
battle of Mag Rath c. 637)
*
Ulaid*
Cruithne (people)*
Uí Echach Cobo* Byrne, Francis John,
Irish Kings and High-Kings. Batsford, London, 1973. ISBN 0-7134-5882-8
* Duffy, Seán (ed.),
Atlas of Irish History. Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 2nd edn, 2000. ISBN 0-7171-3093-2
* " Cróinín, Dáibhí,
Early Medieval Ireland: 400–1200. Longman, London, 1995. ISBN 0-582-01565-0
