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Encyclopedia entry: Uí Dúnlainge
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- The Oxford Companion to Irish History
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Uí Dúnlainge,
a population group and ruling dynasty in Leinster claiming descent from Dúnlaing, son of Énna Nia. Fáelán mac Colmáin (d.c.645 or 666) was the first of the Uí Dúnlainge dynasty to seek the kingship of Leinster. He exercised influence in the monasteries of
Glendalough
(Co. Wicklow) and Kildare (Co. Kildare). His brother Áed Dub mac Colmáin (d. 639) was abbot and bishop of Kildare. On the death of the king of Leinster, Cellach Cualann of the Uí Máil, in 715, Murchad mac Brain, Fáelán's great‐grandson, asserted the Uí Dúnlainge claim to the kingship of Leinster. Murchad's sons, ...
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Dictionary definition: sídh
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology;
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...s&xED;dh, s&xED;dhe , s&xED;odh , s&xED; , s&xED;d (OIr.), s&xED;th (OIr.), s'th (ScG), side (gen.), shee (Manx, ang.); the form s&xED;dhe, commonly cited in English, is the unreformed ...
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