Dalriada

Ancient name of part of Argyll, in the Strathclyde region, west Scotland, settled by the Dalriads of Ireland in about 498.

They were defeated at Magh Rath, County Down, Ireland, in 637 by the Irish royal dynasty of Uí Néill, but in 843 united with the Picts, under Kenneth MacAlpin, and formed the kingdom of the Scots of Alban in south and central western Scotland.

Dalriada

In Ireland, the ancient name of the northern district of County Antrim now known as the Route. The Dalriads were, by tradition, descendants of Riada of the Long Wrist, chief of the Gaelic Scots.