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Picts in Ireland

Mick M
Mick Nov 12, 2009 21:50:06
Replying to StewardsofGondor

StewardsofGondor wrote:
Never thought the Picts where very prevalent in Ireland, maybe a few small pockets in Ulster (come across from Scotland) but nothing worth taking much notice off. Just finished reading the Tain and they are alluded to as quite a sizable group and very obviously separate from the main culture/people of the time. Have I been wrong all along? Can anybody shed anymore light on the role of the Picts in Ireland for me?
Anita
My Gaelic name is O'Mainnin which is of Pictish origin and pre-Celtic according to my research. The name is found in Galway and Roscommon in the Barony of Tiaquin. There is a Mannin Bay north of Galway. So those Picts at least must have been in that area by the time the Celts arrived.

F Fraoch
Fraoch Nov 13, 2009 21:03:27
Replying to Mick

There is absolutely no evidence for the Picts in Ireland. They assimilated with the Gaels(Dal Riata) and are the descendants of todays Scottish people. They were thought to be a P Celtic speaking people, In Adomnáns Vita Columba he speaks of Colmcille using an interpreter to converse with one of the Pictish leaders when travelling through Pictland.The source of evidence for P-Celtic in Northern Scotland is placenames, these provide such P- Celtic elements carden(eg. Pluscarden, Kincardine)cognate with Welsh cardden thicket.

Good reference for the Picts is Languages of Britain and Ireland, edited by Glanville Price, published by Blackwell.

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