Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and peopleSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and people
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
We have some information, too, regarding the _Finé_ or sept in
Connaught. Thus in the ‘Tribes and Customs of Hy Fiachraich’ we read
that Fiachra, son of Eochaidh Muighmheadhoin, _Ardri_ of Erin, colonised
this district, and had a son, Amhalgaidh, from whose son, Fedhlim,
sprang the _Cineal Fedhlimidh_, which consisted of ‘O Ceallachain, O
Caithniadh, Mac Coinin, O Muimhneachain, Mac Fhionain, O Gearadhain,
O’Conboirne. These are the _Cineal Fedhlimidh_ of Jorrus.’ The _Cineal
Feidhlimidh_ here is the tribe occupying a _Tuath_, and the others are
the _Finé_ or septs of which it was composed. Then from ‘Aongus, son of
Amhalgaidh, came the Cineal Aongusa in Hy-Amhalgaidh, viz., O
Muireadhaigh, _Taoisig_ of the Lagan.’ Here we have the _Taoisech_ at
the head of the _Cineal_ or tribe, and then we are told that ‘of the
descendants of Aongus are the people of _Dun Finne_, or fort of the
_Finé_, viz. O Cuinn, MagOdhrain, O Comhdhan, O’Duibhlearga, O Bearga, O
Blighe, O Duanma or Duanmaigh;’ and these were the _Finé_ or septs.
Amhalgaidh had other sons by Earca, daughter of Eochaidh, king of
Leinster, the eldest of whom was Fergus, and his son Muireadhach was
_Rig Ua n-Amhalgaidh_, or king of Hy-Amhalgaidh. The descendants of this
Muireadhach possessed ‘the _Triocha Ceud_ of Bac and of Gleann
Nemthinne, and the half _Triocha Ceud_ of Breudach. These are the
hereditary tribes (_Fineadhoigh Dudhchusa_) of Bac, viz., O Lachtna,
_Taoisioc_ of the two Bacs and of the Gleann, and of them O Dubhagain
and the Clann Firbisigh, O Maoilruaidh of Ardachaidh, and O’Cuimin of
Lios Cuimin on the Muaidh. These are the families or septs (_Fineada_)
of Breudach, viz., O Toghda, Taoiseach of Breudach, O Glaimin, O
Luachaidh, and O Gilin.’[220] Here we have two groups of _Finé_ or
septs, with a _Toisech_ at the head of each. Lastly, from Aongus Fionn,
another son of Amhalgaidh, are O’Gaibhtheachan, O’Flainn, and
O’Maoilhiona, chiefs (_Flaithe_) of Calraighe Muighe h-Eleag.
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