3-665: The Cenél Loairn , the descendants of Loarn mac Eirc , controlled parts of northern Argyll around the Firth of Lorne , most probably centred in Lorne but perhaps including the islands of Mull and Colonsay , Morvern and Ardnamurchan . The boundary to the east was the Druim Alban mountain ridge that separated Dál Riata from Pictland. The chief places of the kingdom appear to have been at Dun Ollaigh , near Oban , and Dunadd , near Crinan . The chief religious site may have been on Lismore , later
6-558: Is as the eponymous ancestor of Cenél Loairn , a kindred whose name is preserved in Lorne . The Duan Albanach and the Senchus Fer n-Alban and other genealogies name Loarn's father as Erc son of Eochaid Muinremuir . Loarn appears in Irish traditions as 'King of Alba' in the eighth- to twelfth-century tale "Of The Miracles of Cairnech Here" in the Lebhor Bretnach , the Irish version of
9-506: The seat of the high-medieval bishop of Argyll . Several kings of Dál Riata were members of the Cenél Loairn, and thus claimed descent from Loarn: In high-medieval times, the Mormaers of Moray claimed descent from Loarn: Loarn mac Eirc Loarn mac Eirc was a possible king of Dál Riata who may have lived in the 5th century. He was buried on Iona . Loarn's main significance
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