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Personal data EOCHAID IV "The Venomous" King of Dál Riata 34th GGF 

• He was born about 750 in Dùn Ollaigh Castle, Kingdom of Dál Riata.

  Eochaid IV (the Venomous) Koning van Schotland en Kintyre

• (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eochaid_mac_Áeda_Find) : Eochaid_mac_Áeda_Find.
• (Eochaid (MacÁeda Find) mac Áeda Find (abt. 0776)) : https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacÁeda_Find-1.
• (King of Scotland) in the year 780.
• He died about 819 in Kingdom of Dál Riata.
• A child of Æd Find "The White" MacECHACH King of Dál Riata and FERGINA Aodh Hugh Fionn, Queen of Dál Riata

Household of EOCHAID IV "The Venomous" King of Dál Riata 34th GGF

He has/had a relationship with FERGUSA MacÁeda of the Picts Urgusia Queen of Scotland.

Child(ren):

1. ALPIN mac Echdach King of Dál Riata  778-834 

Notes about EOCHAID IV "The Venomous" King of Dál Riata 34th GGF

Famous footprint on the inauguration stone at the Royal fortress of Dunadd, ancient Gaelic Dal Riata (6th-8th cent.), the 'cradle of Scotland', near Kilmartin, Argyll
"When kings of Dal Riata placed one foot in the footprint to be inaugurated, they were betrothing themselves to the land that fed their people. In Ireland, where 6 such royal footprints are known, records claim that the stone recognizes and proclaims the rightful king. According to one theory, Dunadd's Ogham script [a Gaelic script used until the 11th cent., one line near the footprint that's faint and hard to make out] is the voice of the rock during the inauguration. While its meaning is disputed, current research suggests some parts translate as 'People of...' and 'Men of the moss', a reference to the Moine Mhor."

- "Dunadd is one of the most important sites in Scottish and Irish history. Sitting proud in the raised bog of Moine Mhor, it was chosen as the royal capital of the earliest Scottish kingdom, home of the Dalriada. Medieval texts tell us that kings from Ireland came here in the early 6th cent. AD. Known as the Scotti, their descendants became the first kings of Scotland and their people became the first Scots. Their language, Gaelic [from Ireland], came to dominate much of Scotland. Although Scotti was applied by Latin writers to people who spoke Gaelic, it may also mean pirates [!]."

- But! "there's no archaeological evidence for the Gaels' legendary invasion of Argyll from Dal Riata in Ireland in @ 500 AD. The people on either side of the North Channel seaway shared a common language and culture." Many researchers now think the Gaels/Scotti were indigenous to Argyll. The distance between the outer Hebrides and Northern Ireland isn't much more than that between some of the islands.

- "St. Columba, an early Christian monk, crowned king Aidan as the first Christian king of Scotland. Christianity then spread across the region." (the plaque didn't say that the crowning happened here, but I guess it probably did?)

- "In legend, the hero Ossian leapt here from Rhudle Hill, 1 km. away. His foot gouged out the footprint, his knee the basin [behind me as I took this shot], while his outstretched hands left fingermarks - possibly the Ogham script." (plaque)

- It's too faint to make out here (or even up close looking for it) but there's a carving of a boar on this rock, "a Pictish emblem possibly symbolizing sovereignty."

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