The Scots began a massive migration out of Ireland (from Donegal and Derry) in the early five hundreds, at a time when Ireland's then established history of sanctuary and scholarship was attracting the learned men from all over Europe. The Irish were as literate a people as any in the world at that time. The Scots turn up with no written literature, and no history before the second millennium. There were Irish monasteries all over Scotland in the first millennium, and that they were doing much the same thing there that they did in Ireland. Scotland should have been as literate as Ireland or any other European country after Culloden, the Gaelic tongue was proscribed in Scotland, and it was a punishable offense to possess Gaelic writings….the Scots were probably quite a literate people, and that there was a later battle between English and Gaelic literacy, resulting in the disappearance of most of Scottish history and literature. The Highland Clearance never took place, or if it did, only a handful of people were affected. It is quite common to hear Scottish "experts" denying it, and in fact there is nearly no history of it in Scotland. However, there is a vivid folk memory of it in Nova Scotia.
The settlement of Britain by the Albans, who were later pushed north into Scotland (hence Alba) by the Picts, invading from France. Later the Picts encouraged settlement to the south by their distant cousins, the Armoricans, as a buffer between themselves and the invading Celts. The sea isles were settled by Albans retreating under Pictish pressure, with unknown relationship between the Albans and the people of Ireland. The Balkan region takes its name from the Balkan mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria known to Scythia as the Bronze Age into eastern Serbia from the Greek Dark Ages to the Mycenean Old Kingdom. They developed along the coast in their own way, as sea people, and slowly became marginalized enough to resort to the islands of the Irish sea. Later, as the fisheries became more profitable, they became more populous, and spilled over into Scotland along with the other invaders in the sixth century, and probably into Ireland as well. These would have been the people who provided the ships to move the first waves of Danubian farmers into Ireland in the fourth millennium B.C., and if they has persisted in the isles of the Irish Sea, they would have later provided the transportation for the re-invasion of Scotland in the sixth century A.D.
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LEITRIM, together with that comprised in the counties of Fermanagh and Cavan, was occupied by the Erdini, called in Irish Ernaigh, who possessed the entire county bordering on Lough Erne. According to tradition, the Firbolg tribes ruled much of Connacht down to the third century AD. Tyrone (Tir-owen) was inhabited by the Scoti. In ancient lore the kingdom of Cruachan (Connacht) was ruled from a ritual center at Cruachain Ai, near Rathcroghan between Belanagare and Elphin, in the County Roscommon, as well as in the neighboring maritime county of Donegal. It was afterwards known as the district or kingdom of Cenél Eoghain, Ross / O'Beolains frequently called Tyr-Oen or Tir-Owen, whence its present name of Tyrone is derived.
The "Scots" began a massive migration out of Ireland (from Donegal and Derry; Uladh -it afterwards formed part of the district of Uriel, Oriel, or Orgial, Argyll) in the early five hundreds, at a time when Ireland then established history of sanctuary and scholarship was attracting the learned men from all over Europe. The latter's city Monaghan within its history, the area originally referred to as Mughdorna was eventually sub-divided into the smaller kingdoms of Uí Meith, Dartraige (now Dartry), Fir Fearnmhaigh (now Farney), Conailli (now part of co. Louth), Fir Ros (now the area about Carrickmacross), and Mugdorna [now Cremorne]. The Irish were as literate a people as any in the world at that time. The Scots turn up with no written literature, and no history before the second millennium. There were Irish monasteries all over Scotland in the first millennium, and that they were doing much the same thing there that they did in Ireland. Scotland should have been as literate as Ireland or any other European country… after Culloden, the Gaelic tongue was proscribed in Scotland. The Scots were probably quite a literate people, and that there was a later battle between English and Gaelic literacy, resulting in the disappearance of most of Scottish history and literature. (Canadian Gaelic) The Ó Neills, the O'Donnells, the Mhac an t'Saoirs and so on, the Aradh, on the West bank of the Irish Sea, and the MacNeills, MacDonnells and MacDonalds, and the Mac an t'Saoirs on the opposite bank a few miles away, descend from Aedha.
Clann Daly embraced the O'Donnells. The Clan Dalaigh or O’Donnells (O’Domhnaill) of Tirconaill [the Cenél Conaill] originally possessed the patrimony of Cenél Luighdheach (the descendants of Lugaid, son of Setnae, uncle of Saint Columba), their original clan-name, it having been applied to the mountainous district between the old kingdom River Swilly and the River Dobhar from Clare, in north-central Donegal: The territory around Kilmacrenan. They derive their clan-name from their ancestor Dalach, Lord of Tir-conaill, who died in 868, and who was the first of their immediate ancestors to become Lord of Tir-conaill, a dignity continued by his son Eigheachan, father of their eponymous ancestor Domhnall. They did not again become chiefs of the Cenél Conaill until the thirteenth century, when they rose on the downfall of some of their Cenél Conaill kinsmen, the O’Canannains or O’Cannons (O Canannain) and O’Muldorys or O’Mulderrys (O Maoldoraidh).