Enfant(s):
aka Righ-fada, Riada
prince of the Degads of Munster
At the battle of Cinefrebat (237), killed the murderer of his father.
ancestor of the Dalriads of the County of Antrim, and of the tribe of the same name in Scotland
led a colony of Scots out of what is now County Antrim into Alban or Caledonia.
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Cairbre Riada, a descendant of Tuathal, had settled his people first in Munster, but famine caused him to abandon this land. He established a petty kingdom between the Antrim Mountains and the sea. He obtained this territory between 254 and 273 AD. The word
Riada', or
Righfadna', means
the long-armed'. Cairbre Riada was a nobleman of high parentage. His father was Conaire II, King of the Province of Ulster from AD 212 to 220 and his mother was the daughter of the illustrious Warrior King, Conn of the Hundred Battles.
The center of his kingdom was the ancient Dunseverick Castle set on a great rock rising sheer from the Atlantic in the strongest defensive position of Ireland's northern coast. Dunseverick was linked to Tara by one of the Great Roads and was an old fortress even in Cairbre Riada's day. The
Annals of the Four Masters' dates its foundation as being between 1692 and 1525 B.C. but this is no doubt an exaggeration. The correct date may well be nearer to 500 BC it was
Dun Schbairche', named after its first chieftain and the land in front of the castle still forms part of the townland of Feigh. The word
feigh' means
the green or park of a dun or fortress' and here the clansmen encamped when they came to pay their dues to their chief. In the 3rd century A.D. Dun Schbairche became the fortress capital of the Kings of Dalriada.
Cairbre Riada's kingdom was a small and narrow strip of coastal land, lying along the northern channel looking east towards Kintyre and the mountains of Lorne. One part later called "The Route" is regarded as extending from the Bann to the Bush; the other part stretched from the Bush to the sea at Lame and was later termed "The Glynnes" or the Glens of Antrim. Cairbre Riada passed his territory on to his descendants and by doing so gave to it the name
Dahiada'.
Dal' means
descendants' and in a secondary sense
the territory of the descendant'. The word
Dalriada' therefore signifies 'the territory of the descendants of Cairbre Riada.
Cairbre Riada's heir, Eochach Dubhlein, married a Pictish princess, the daughter of the Albain King Obdaire. She bore him three sons, known in legend as the
three Collas'. The oldest, Colla Uais, aspired to the High Kingship of Tara but was defeated by a cousin. He and his brothers fled to Alba (possibly to Colonsay). In due time they returned to Ireland and they won swordland and founded a Kingdom called Oriel.
https://macinnes.org/dalriada/dalriada.html
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