Gabrán mac Domangairt (

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: ''Gawran map Dinwarch'''' Annales Cambriae'' B Text) or Gabrán the Traitor (''Gwran Wradouc'') was king of

Dál Riata Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada) () was a Gaels, Gaelic Monarchy, kingdom that encompassed the Inner Hebrides, western seaboard of Scotland and north-eastern Ireland, on each side of the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North ...

in the mid-6th century. He is the

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ancestor of the Cenél nGabráin. Gabrán was the son of Domangart Réti and the father of

Áedán mac Gabráin Áedán mac Gabráin (; ), also written as Aedan, was a king of Dál Riata from 574 until c. 609 AD. The kingdom of Dál Riata was situated in modern Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and parts of County Antrim, Ireland. Genealogies record that Áe ...

. The historical evidence for Gabrán is limited to the notice of his death in the Irish and Welsh annals. It is possible that Gabrán's death should be linked to a migration or flight from Bridei mac Maelchon, but this may be no more than coincidence.See under Bridei mac Maelchon.

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* Adomnán of Iona, ''Life of Saint

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'', tr. & ed. Richard Sharpe. Penguin, London, 1995. * Bannerman, John, ''Studies in the History of Dalriada.'' Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1974. * Coleman, Keith (2022), ''Aedán of the Gaels: King of the Scots'', Pen & Sword,

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, * Lane, Alan & Campbell, Ewan, ''Dunadd: An early Dalriadic capital'', Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2000. * Sharpe, Richard, "The thriving of Dalriada" in Simon Taylor (ed.), ''Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland 500–1297.'' Four Courts, Dublin, 2000. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gabran mac Domangairt 6th-century births Kings of Dál Riata 6th-century Scottish monarchs 560s deaths 6th-century Irish monarchs

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