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the Dal Riada of Ulster and Alba, the progenitor of the
present-day Scots.
In the fourth century there was famine in Munster and
its ruler Conaire took his people north into Ulster. He first
settled County Antrim where the kingdom of Dal Riada was
established. Later he and his followers quarrelled and he
crossed the Irish Sea into Scotland forming a second
kingdom in Airer Ghaidheal or “Argyll.” The first colonies in
this new place received military help from Tara in order to
put down the neighbouring Picts. In the following century, a
Munsterman, Lugaid mac Conn, fleeing from enemies, made
himself the chief power in this new land. From his son
came the ancestors of the lords of Argyle; the MacAllens,
Campbells and the MacCallums. A hundred years further on
Cabri Riata established kingdoms in both Ireland and
Scotland. The Picts were not enamoured of any of this and
would have driven the Scots from their land, except for the
efforts of the high-king Niall of the Nine Hostages. The
effect of all this was the establishment of a huge military
presence in Alba by the sixth century, when it became an
independent kingdom under Aedh ard-righ. For a time it was
powerful enough to hold Antrim, in Ireland proper, as an
appanage.
RIADH, a snare, hang, crucify; riadh-mhortair, a hired
assassin; raidrananach, cast-off mistresss, an old maid.
RIAGH, obs., religious, this is the same as riadh, above. obs.
, cross, gallows; riaghail, rule, govern, reign, regulate,
settle, order, direct, arrange. Riaghaire, the hangman, a
scape-gallows, rogue.
RIAGHLACH, obs., old maid, old woman. cast-off mistress.
RIANBIND. A piper out of Sidh Breg, reputed to be one of the
nine best in the world. The others musicians of note were:
Bind, Robind, Nibe, Dibe, Dechrind, Umal, Cumal and
Cialgrind.