-
named after the
overkingdom of Ulaid, in the east of the province,
which was in turn
named after the
Ulaid folk. The
other overkingdoms in
Ulster were...
-
Irish royal families were the
dynasties that once
ruled large "
overkingdoms" and
smaller petty kingdoms on the
island of Ireland.
Members of some of these...
-
kingdoms or túatha,
Gaelic Ireland was also
divided into five
prime overkingdoms (Old
Irish cóiceda,
Modern Irish cúige).
These were
Ulaid (in the north)...
- Rí, or
commonly ríg (genitive), is an
ancient Gaelic word
meaning 'king'. It is used in
historical texts referring to the
Irish and
Scottish kings, and...
-
Regional overkingdoms and
major kingdoms in Ireland,
circa 1014 AD...
-
Georgie Laurie named the area for Dál Riata, a 6th-7th
century Gaelic overkingdom; a
subsequent misspelling in an adverti****t led to the
current spelling...
- kin-group.
Several túatha
formed a mór túath (
overkingdom),
which was
ruled by an overking.
Several overkingdoms formed a cóiced (province),
which was ruled...
- out of the
larger kingdom of Uí Chremthainn,
which was part of the
overkingdom of Airgíalla. By the late 11th
century it had
grown to
cover all of what...
- (Breffny), In
Tuaiscert (The North), and Airgíalla (Oriel). Each of
these overkingdoms were
built upon
lordships known as túatha (singular: túath). Law tracts...
- Bréifne (Irish: [ˈbʲɾʲeːfʲnʲə]),
anglicized as Breffny, was a
medieval overkingdom in
Gaelic Ireland. It
comprised what is now
County Leitrim,
County Cavan...
