Identifier: celticscotlandh01sken (find matches)
Title: Celtic Scotland : a history of ancient Alban
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Skene, William Forbes, 1809-1892
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is called in chartersGlenlochy Alban, to distinguish itfrom the other. We have thereforethe term Alban applied to the country beyond the frontier of Dalriada, andthe term Eire to Dalriada as being acolony of Scots from Eire. The southpart of Morvern was called Kinelvadonor Cinelbhadon, from Badon, a son ofIjoarn, and therefore belonged to Dal-riada. On the shoulder of the hill inMull called Benmore, which formsthe pass from the northern to thesouthern part of the island and iscalled Mamchlachaig, there are twocairns. The one on the north is calledCam Cul ri Alban, or the cairn with itsback to Alban, and the other CamCul ri Erin, or the cairn with its backto Eire. There is a similar cairn onlona and another on Colonsay, bothcalled Carn Cul ri Eirin, which seemto mark the boundary. If lona wasexactly on the boundary which sepa-rated Dalriada from the Picts, it isobvious how Bedes statement that itwas given to Saint Columba by thePicts who inhabit the adjacent dis- w THEFOUR KINGDOMS 58
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Wt^X^U^atM^ I tMwyJL CHAP, v.) THE FOUR KINGDOMS. 229 The colouy was originally founded by Fergus Mor, son of Scottish -i-ii • 1 -I • 11T 1 A n kingdom of Ere, who came with his two brothers Loarn and Angus from Daiiiada.Irish Dalriada in the end of the fifth century, but the truefounder of the Dalriadic kingdom was his great-grandsonAedan, son of Gabran. It consisted of three tribes, the CinelGabran, the Cinel Angus, and the Cinel Loarn, which werecalled the * three powerfuls of Dalriada. The Cinel Gabranconsisted of the descendants of Fergus, whose son Domangarthad two sons, Gabran and Comgall, and their possessionsconsisted of the district of Cowall, which takes its name fromComgall, that of Cindtire or Kintyre, which then extended fromthe river Add, which flows into the bay of Crinan, to the Mullof Kintyre, and included Knapdale and the small islands ofthis coast. The Cinel Angusa settled in Isla and Jura, whilethe names of their townships which have been preserved em-brace th

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