Dúnchad mac Conaing

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Dúnchad mac Conaing (died 654) was king of Dál Riata (modern western Scotland). He co-ruled with Conall Crandomna until he was defeated and killed by Talorcan, king of the Picts, in the Battle of Strath Ethairt.

Dúnchad is named in Senchus fer n-Alban and the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Tigernach as the son of Conaing, almost certainly Conaing son of Áedán mac Gabráin (died 622). One source names him Dúnchad mac Dubáin, which may be an error, or his father may have been known by the epithet Dubán, or it may refer to a foster-father. He is assumed to be the Dúngal who ruled with Conall Crandomna according to the Duan Albanach.

He is known to have had at least one son, Conall Cáel (died 681), and it is possible that he was the grandfather (or great-grandfather by some readings) of Fiannamail ua Dúnchado and an ancestor of Dúnchad Bec.

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Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D. 500 to 1286, volume one. Reprinted with corrections, Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1990. ISBN 1-871615-03-8
Bannerman, John, Studies in the History of Dalriada. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1974. ISBN 1-7011-2040-1