Aillil mac Dúngaile Eilni (died 690) was a

Dál nAraidi Dál nAraidi (; "Araide's part") or Dál Araide, sometimes List of Latinised names, latinised as Dalaradia or Anglicisation, anglicised as Dalaray,Boyd, Hugh AlexanderIrish Dalriada ''The Glynns: Journal of The Glens of Antrim Historical Societ ...

king of the

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, an over-kingdom in medieval

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. He was the son of Dúngal Eilni mac Scandail (died 681), a previous king. He ruled from 682 to 690. In the 6th and 7th centuries, the Dál nAraidi were part of a confederation of Cruthin tribes in Ulaid and were the dominant dynasty. Ailill belonged to a branch of this family settled in Eilne, a plain between the Bann and Bush rivers in modern-day

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. He is styled "King of the Cruithne" in the ''Fragmentary Annals' of Ireland''. The annals record that Ailill was killed, but the circumstances are not mentioned.''Annals of Ulster'', AU 690.1 His brother Cú Chuarán mac Dúngail Eilni (died 708) was also king of Dál nAraidi as well as of Ulaid as was his son Cathussach mac Ailello (died 749).

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* ''Fragmentary Annals of Ireland'' a

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* Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press,

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