Dunadd

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | 641 words | Copyright

Dunadd [ScG, fort of the Add (valley)]. Rocky, isolated hill, 176 feet, in north Strathclyde (until 1974, Argyllshire), 4 miles N of Lochgilphead, near the hamlet of Kilmichael Glassary, in the valley of the River Add. Once an important fortified place, Dunadd was the capital of the early Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riada, c.500–843. The Picts captured Dunadd in 736 in a temporary victory over the Scots. Few visible remains from Dunadd's early glory survive, most notably an incised boar of Pictish design and a right-footprint-shaped depression, thought to be the spot where kings of Dál Riada were invested with royal power.

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