Talk:Ímar mac Arailt

Ancestral figure
Per the Wikipedia entry for Ímar mac Arailt, king of Dublin and the Isles (attached below).

If Goffraidh mac Arailt is the son of Haraldi nigri de Ysland as per the Chronicle of Mann and if Haraldi nigri de Ysland is the same man as Harallt Ddu in mediaeval Welsh genealogical tract Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru.

Then Goffraidh mac Arailt grandfather Ifor Gamle is known in Irish as Sin Imhair, as found in the MacLeod pedigrees, i.e., Arailt mac Asmainn mac Sin Imhair.

Remembering the MacLeod story of ‘inheriting’ Dunvegan Castle from a MacRaild Armann (i.e., Mac Arailt Armainn). Arailt mac Asmainn seems likely to be scribal error for Arailt Armainn.

If so, this would mean that Ealgo of the beautiful locks, mother of Gille Mhuire (probably the son of Sealbhaigh) and so ancestor to ‘Clantalvigh’ (Clan tSealbhaigh) and in-turn ancestor the Nicolsons and in-turn ancestor to the MacLeods, is a sister (or more likely aunt, given AT's missing generation between Goffraidh and Mac Mhic Arailt (surname formation?)) to Goffraidh mac Arailt, king of Dublin and the Isles.

Further, the Annals of Tigernach gives his relative Goffraidh, rí Atha Cliath (d.1091) the patronym of "... mac Maic Arailt", suggesting that the MacRaild Armann of Skye may be the descendants of Ímar mac Arailt’s father Harallt Ddu [of the Island] m. Ifor Gamle (or in Irish Arailt Armainn mac Sin Imhair).