Lugh Delbáeth is a legendary figure mentioned by

James Hardiman James Hardiman (1782–1855), also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway. Hardiman is best remembered for his '' History of the Town and County of Galway'' (1820) and '' Irish Minstrelsy'' (1831), one of the f ...

as a

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settler in what is now

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. Hardiman states:

''"About this period, some of the descendants of Luig Dealbhaodh, son of Cos, king of North Munster, settled in the territory of Delvin Feadha, in Tirdaloch, to the west of Galway."''

This refers to settlement by the Delbhna, an ethnic group in

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. They had a number of branches in central and western Ireland, including the

Delbhna Tir Dha Locha The Delbna or Delbhna were a Gaelic Irish tribe in Ireland, claiming kinship with the Dál gCais, through descent from Dealbhna son of Cas. Originally one large population, they had a number of branches in Connacht, Meath, and Munster in Irelan ...

were the most westerly branch, based in Iar Connacht. They may have originally spanned east and west banks of the two lakes. They fell into obscurity in the early Irish historic era. The royal dynasty of the Delbhna Tir Dha Locha adopted the surname MacConraoi, sometimes anglicised as Conroy, still found in Connemara and other parts of

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, but more often as King.

References

* ''History of Galway'',

, 1820 * ''Early Irish History and Mythology'',

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 ...

, Dublin , 1946 * ''Irish Kings and High Kings'',

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, 1973 * ''A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology'', James McKillop,

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University Press, 1998 * ''Galway-Gaillimh: a bibliography of the city and county'', Mary Kavanagh, Galway County Council, 2000 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lugh Delbaeth People from County Galway Fir Bolg Kings of Munster