Gilleoin of the Aird

Gilleoin of the 
Aird. | +------------------------------+------------------+ |Clan 
Anrias. | Mackenzies. | +------------------------------+------------------+ 
| Crinan | Cristin | | Kenneth | Kenneth | | Ewen | Murdoch | | Crinan | Duncan 
| | Kenneth | Murdoch | | Paul | Duncan | | Martin | Murdoch | | Gillanrias | 
Gilleoin Mor | +---------|--------------------| Gilleoin Og | | | Kenneth | +-------------------+------------------+ 
| Angus Crom | | earls of Ross | Rosses | | Kenneth 
| +-------------------+------------------+ | John | 
 

As St. Maelrubha of Armagh and Applecross was himself connected on his mother's side with St. Comgall, founder and first abbott of Bangor of the Irish Picts in the Ards of Ulster, the right to the abbeylands may at first have passed in the Pictish mode, and the O'Beollans acquired the abbacy by a female descent in the transitional ninth century. Grey's abbey was situated in Co. Down, the Ards Peninsula, seven miles from Newtownards, at the confluence of a small river and the Strangford Lough in Ulidia. The Latin name of the abbey is Iugum Dei, which means ‘Yoke of God’ and which later became the deanery of Newtownards. Reeves' Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore places the Cenél Maelche, a sept of the Ulidians of Dal-Araidians or Dál Fiatach, near Moira (Mag Rath), county Down, or in Antrim, alias Monach. The Monaigh Uladh in the region of Downpatrick, which is located in Co. Down, the barony of Lecale (Leth Cathail, Galway). By Ptolemy, Downpatrick or ancient Saul was called ‘Dunum.’ As tradition has it the ancient Manaigh or Monaigh occupied the area near Lough Erne, giving their name to the modern county of Fermanagh. The Monaig are often associated with the Manapioi (Menapii), a maritime Belgic tribe of Northern Gaul (Cassel) who are noted on Ptolemy's 2nd century map of Ireland in southeast Ireland. They spread northwards as the Fir Manach, or Monaig in Irish.