Cenél Conaill In Alba/Scotland

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David Im just starting to gather some Cenel Conaill data. This is all very tentative but Im looking at the ZZ36? McKee/MCGee's as possibly belonging to this (need to look at how the SNPs are situated here)
Larkin says:
MULGEEHY MAGEE, WIND, WYNNE
ÓMaelgaethe -a Cinel Sedna sept, Chief Poet of Donegal Erenagh of Clondahorky, Kilmacrennan, Donegal; and seated at Lissymulgee, Swinford, Mayo
Dugan says:
O'MAOLGAOTHE, chief of Muintir Maoil-gaoithe. Some of this name have been anglicised to Mac Ghee, and others to 'Wynn

Also, from the Life of St Columba, Founder of the Hy (I just found this and may contain some valuable info)
'Line 14— Tir Aedha.—That is, "the land of Aedh," so called from Aedh,
son of Ainmire, who, in common with Adamnan, was of the Siol Sedna, or
descendants of Sedna, grandson of Conall Gulban (Gen. Table annexed to
Introduction). ' *Adamnan being Columba

There are also notes regarding Cinel Sedna here but in a different location from above (subjugation of Scotland as noted below?), I believe that some Clans followed Columba to Scotland. I have to soak it all in but interestingly, the Rinns of Islay belonged to the monastery of Derry (founded by Columba/Colmcille)
The mention of Cinel nAengusa is also interesting here due to the McGinnis names under ZZ36 -
'Cinel Sedna, in Islay, 273
llea. — Now Islay, the large island west of Cantyre. Ilea is an adjective
form of the name lie. lie, Four Mast. 565, 1444 ; Keating, Hist. (vol. i. p.
192, Ed. Haliday.) II, in Haco's Exped. pp. 54, 56 ; Lodbrochi Epiced. pp.
23, 107, 108. It was occupied by the Picts as a temporary resting-place in
their [migration from Ireland to subdue the north of Scotland. See the
ancient poem in the Irish Nennius, p. 146. Subsequently it came into the
possession of the Dalriadic colony, and early in the sixth century Muiredh-
ach, son of Aengus Beg, son of Ere, settled in it, being, as the tract on the
Men of Alba states, the one "who first," that is, of the Scoti, "inhabited
He." See the passage cited in note on cap. 13 (p. 270) supra. " Muredachus
jEnese films primus Ileae Hebridum insulse [Scoticus] colonus." — O'Flaherty,
Ogyg. p. 470. Fearghus beag mac Ere (geagna no geaga na brathair) eun mac
les .i. Seudna a quo Cineul Concride in lie, no Cineul Concraige .i. Concriath no
Concrige mac boUg mic Seudna mic Fearghusa big mic Ere mic Eachdach Muin-
reamhair. "Fergus the Little, son of Ere (who was slain by his brother), had
one son, viz. Seudna, a quo Cinel Concridhe in He, or Cinel Concraige, i.e.
Concriath or Concrighe, son of Bolg, son of Seudna, son of Fergus the Little,
son of Ere, son of Eochaidh Muinreamhar." — (Book of Lecan, fol. 118 b a •
Mac Firbis, p. 401.) The parallel place in the Book of Ballymote calls this
family of Islay the Cenel Setna (84 b a). From Aengus, son of Fergus Mor,
and father of Muiredhach, the family called Cinel nAengusa derived its name.
In 568 Colman Beg, son of Diarmait Mac Cerbhail, in company with Conal,
son of Comgall, Lord of Dalriada, invaded this island, and carried away much
booty (Four Mast. 565). The island consists of the three parishes, Kilarrow
[rect6 Gill Maolrubha], Kildalton, and Kilchoman. See C. Innes, Orig. Paroch.
ii. pt. i. pp. 260-275. It appears from the Scotch Retours that the lands of
Nerrabolfada [now Nerabols] in the Rinns of Islay, together with the Woull
[now Vaull] in Tiree, belonged to the monastery of Derry. (Inquis. Spec.
Vic. Argyll. No. 67, 83, 93.) This supplies the information required in the
Orig. Paroch. Scot. ii. pt. i. p. 266. '

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Undoubtedly there were Cenél Conaill descendants as well as other Dál Cuinn who migrated to Alba/Scotland. The Venerable Bede wrote about this. If you can figure out which lines did, great. But that is a hard road to travel since Scottish genealogies did not begin in earnest until the 1100s AD, so I have read.

A point of clarification is that Adomnán was NOT Columb Cille/Columba:

Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona (Old Irish pronunciation: [ˈaðəṽˌnaːn], Latin: Adamnanus, Adomnanus; c. 624 – 704), also known as Eunan (/ˈjuːnən/ YOO-nən; from Naomh Adhamhnán), was an abbot of Iona Abbey (r. 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of Columba (Latin: Vita Columbae), probably written between 697 and 700. This biography is by far the most important surviving work written in early-medieval Scotland, and is a vital source for our knowledge of the Picts, and an insight into the life of Iona and the early-medieval Gaelic monk.

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Regarding Adamnan, Ty

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Tim,

You are welcome.

FYI, here is a link to some Cenél Conaill genealogical tables that may be useful:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200424025 ... naill1.htm