Aidhne

Map of Ireland with tribes, AD 800; the Aidhne are circled.
Map of Ireland with tribes, AD 800; the Aidhne are circled.

Aidhne (Irish: [ˈəinʲə] EYE-nə), also known as Uí Fhiachrach Aidhni, Mag nAidni, later Maigh Aidhne ("Plain (of) Aidhne"), was the territory of the Uí Fhiachrach Aidhni, a túath (tribal kingdom) located in the south of what is now County Galway in the south of Connacht, Ireland. (Aidhne is nominative case, Aidhni genitive). Aidhne is coextensive with the present diocese of Kilmacduagh.[1]

  1. ^ Connellan, Owen (1860). The Proceedings of the Great Bardic Institution. Johnson Reprint Corporation.