EIRINN –BIRTHPLACE OF SOMERLED AND CLAN DONALD – CLANN CHOLLA.
“The pedigree of the MacDonalds is laid out in about fifteen Irish and Scottish sources, some of which are reproduced in the accompanying table. Though lacking some eight or nine generations before Fergus, these all agree that the MacDonalds’ ancestors were descendants of Colla Uais. The presence of Carthend in the genealogies makes it perfectly clear that they originated among the Ui Mac Carthend of Loch Foyle, that is, of Tir Keeran”. ['The Ancestors of McDonalds of Somerset'; Donald M Schlegel; 1998.]
The land of Cenél Meic Cárthind (or Ui Maic Cairthainn), descended from Colla Uais, of Tir-Keeran, ie, territory of Carthend, Nth Airghialla, on the east side of River Foyle, is only four miles to the contemporaneous Colmcille’s Derry and his first monastery on the other side.
“The pedigree of the MacDonalds is laid out in about fifteen Irish and Scottish sources, some of which are reproduced in the accompanying table. Though lacking some eight or nine generations before Fergus, these all agree that the MacDonalds’ ancestors were descendants of Colla Uais. The presence of Carthend in the genealogies makes it perfectly clear that they originated among the Ui Mac Carthend of Loch Foyle, that is, of Tir Keeran”. ['The Ancestors of McDonalds of Somerset'; Donald M Schlegel; 1998.]
The land of Cenél Meic Cárthind (or Ui Maic Cairthainn), descended from Colla Uais, of Tir-Keeran, ie, territory of Carthend, Nth Airghialla, on the east side of River Foyle, is only four miles to the contemporaneous Colmcille’s Derry and his first monastery on the other side.
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