Loarn mac Eirc

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title: "Loarn mac Eirc" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["kings-of-dál-riata", "5th-century-irish-monarchs", "5th-century-scottish-monarchs"] description: "King of Dál Riata" topic_path: "geography/ireland" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loarn_mac_Eirc" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary King of Dál Riata ::

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 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 the Historia Brittonum, and in the tenth- to twelfth-century tale Aided Muirchertach mac Erca. In these tales, mac Erca spends time with Loarn, his grandfather, before murdering him by setting him aflame.

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References

• Bannerman, John, Studies in the History of Dalriada. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1974.
• Pestano, Dane, King Arthur in Irish Pseudo-Historical Tradition - An Introduction. Dark Age Arthurian Books, 2011.
• Broun, Dauvit, The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Boydell, Woodbridge, 1999.
• Menzies, Gordon (ed) (1971) Who are the Scots: A search for the origins of the Scottish nation. BBC.
• Woolf, Alex, From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

References

1. J. M. P. Calise, Pictish sourcebook, Greenwood Press, 2002.

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