> From: Maeve B. Callan [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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'He found him at the monastery called "Achadh Firghlais" (which
Plummer glosses as Aketh Arclayss), among the people U í Deona (? lit, Hua
Deona--I'm not familiar with that name), on the eastern bank of the river
Barrow.'
I think this was actually a reference to the Uí Drona, a people
whose territory was roughly coterminous with the modern barony of Idrone in
county Carlow. I think they were considered a Leinster tuath (territorial
group).
Francine Nicholson
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