Map of the tribes Ireland per Ptolemy's Geography (2nd century AD); the Cruithin are supposedly in the northeast. Yet the oldest copies of the map the cruthin are not mentioned by Ptolemy.
For the asteroid named for this people, see 3753 Cruithne.
The Cruthin (Old Irish:[ˈkruθʲinʲ]; Middle Irish: Cruithnig or Cruithni; Modern Irish: Cruithne[ˈkɾˠɪ(h)nʲə]) were a people of early medieval Ireland. Their heartland was in Ulster and included parts of the present-day counties of Antrim, Down and Londonderry. They are also said to have lived in parts of Leinster and Connacht. Their name is the Irish equivalent of *Pritanī, the reconstructed native name of the Celtic Britons, and Cruthin was sometimes used to refer to the Picts, but there is a debate among scholars as to the relationship of the Cruthin with the Britons and Picts.[1]
The Cruthin comprised several túatha (territories), which included the Dál nAraidi of County Antrim and the Uí Echach Cobo of County Down. Early sources distinguish between the Cruthin and the Ulaid, who gave their name to the over-kingdom, although the Dál nAraidi would later claim in their genealogies to be na fír Ulaid, "the true Ulaid".[2] The Loígis, who gave their name to County Laois in Leinster, and the Sogain of Leinster and Connacht, are also claimed as Cruthin in early Irish genealogies.[3]
By 773 AD, the annals had stopped using the term Cruthin in favour of the term Dál nAraidi,[1] who had secured their over-kingship of the Cruthin.
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The Cruthin (Old Irish: [ˈkruθʲinʲ]; Middle Irish: Cruithnig or Cruithni; Modern Irish: Cruithne [ˈkɾˠɪ(h)nʲə]) were a people of early medieval Ireland...
January 2024. Woolf, Alex (2012), "Ancient Kindred? Dál Riata and the Cruthin", academia.edu, retrieved 30 May 2023 "What makes Shetland, Shetland?"...
the Cruthin. Medieval Irish genealogists traced the descent of the Ulaid from the legendary High King of Ireland, Rudraige mac Sithrigi. The Cruthin on...
and genealogical records note the existence of major groups such as the Cruthin, Corcu Loígde, Dál Riata, Dáirine, Deirgtine, Delbhna, Érainn, Laigin,...
Eachach are the 'red hand' of Ireland". The Uí Eachach were one of the Cruthin tribes (known as the Dál nAraidi after 773) that made up the ancient kingdom...
name Cruithne is from Irish and refers to the early Picts (Old Irish: Cruthin) in the Annals of Ulster and their eponymous king ("Cruidne, son of Cinge")...
Adamson's favourite song. In his 1974 book, Cruthin: The Ancient Kindred, Adamson proposed that the Cruthin were a British people who spoke a non-Celtic...
inclusive. A number of well-known kings from the Laigin, Érainn, Ulaid and Cruthin, are missing. The chief rivals of Dál Cuinn after Conn's floruit (and others...
Nicolson. 1967. p. 5. He distinguished four successive immigrations: the Cruthin some time before 500 BC; the Érainn (Fir Bolg) perhaps in the fifth century;...
al (2007) p. 487. Woolf, Alex (2012) Ancient Kindred? Dál Riata and the Cruthin Archived 2 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Academia.edu. Retrieved...
the Érainn are regarded as an ethnic group, distinct from the Laigin and Cruthin. Population groups in Munster classed as Érainn include the Corcu Loígde...
orthographically orthodox in modern form but counterintuitively written Cruthin) (Q-Celtic) cognate forms. Under the Insular hypothesis, the family tree...
the first century AD, continuing until at least the fourth century AD. Cruthin (In Ireland; possible descendants, predecessors or relatives of the Caledonians)...
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