Gartnait, son of Domelch, (died 595) was a

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from 584 to 595. The Pictish Chronicle king lists contained in the

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have Gartnait following Bridei son of Maelchon whose death ''c''. 584 is recorded by the Irish annals. Gartnait's death is noted in the ''

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'' c. 599 and the king lists have him succeeded by Nechtan nepos Uerb. Some versions of the king list associate Gartnait with the foundation of the

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, although other variants associate this either with Nechtan nepos Uerb or the similarly named pre-historic king Nechtan son of Erp. John Bannerman proposed that this Gartnait was to be identified with the son of

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found in the genealogies known as ''Cethri Primchenela dail Riata'' attached to the ''

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'', and furthermore with the Gartnait whose kin were active on the isle of Skye during the 7th and early 8th centuries.

T. F. O'Rahilly Thomas Francis O'Rahilly ( ga, Tomás Ó Rathile; 11 November 1882 – 16 November 1953)Ó Sé, Diarmuid.O'Rahilly, Thomas Francis (‘T. F.’). ''Dictionary of Irish Biography''. (ed.) James McGuire, James Quinn. Cambridge, United Kingdom: C ...

had earlier rejected the identification of "Gartnait son of Áedán" with the eponym of the Skye kindred who is called Gartnait son of Accidán in the Irish annals. The most recent study, by

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, rejects the existence of Gartnait son of Áedán outright, presuming this person to have been a genealogical fiction created in the early 8th century to bolster the ambitions of Cenél nGartnait, descendants of Gartnait son of Accidán, to rule in

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.Fraser, ''Caledonia to Pictland'', pp. 204–205 & 250.

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