Dál Riata
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Dál Riata or Dál Riada was a Gaelic kingdom that encompassed the western seaboard of Scotland and north-eastern Ireland, on each side of the North Channel. At its height in the 6th and 7th centuries,
Dunadd Hillfort
9th-century St Martin's Cross on Iona
Saint Matthew, folio 28v in the Book of Kells
Footprint (replica) used in king-making ceremonies, Dunadd
Óengus I
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Óengus son of Fergus was king of the Picts from 732 until his death in 761. His reign can be reconstructed in some detail from a variety of sources. The unprecedented territorial gains he made from co
Escomb Church, County Durham. The stone churches built for Nechtan, and perhaps Óengus's church at St Andrews, are presumed to have been similar.
St Andrews Sarcophagus