Finn-Ros: Tri-Tuatha

clipped from generation13.com Finn Ros, aka The Rosses, in Tirconnell, the land of the O Forananes and O Carnahanes, according to O'Brien's Irish Dictionary. O'Donovan in his notes to O'Dugan's Poems cites Fionn-Ros, now the Rosses, was situated in the barony of Boylagh. The Rosses are marked on a modern map of Ireland in the civil parish of Templecrone, in the far north of the barony of Boylagh. The Rosses extends from Crolly Bridge in the north to Gweebarra Bridge in the south, embracing all the intervening coastline and islands, penetrating inland as far as the Derryveagh mountains and the alpinesque village of Doochary. The territory of Trián Íochtair Baoighellach is described by O'Donovan (Four Masters) in "The Rosses", between Aranmore Island and the Gweedore river, in county Donegal. At least a portion of the Rosses region, if not all, was connected with the O'Boyles, near of a portion of the Tri Tuath Niall O'Domhnaill was made king by a number of the chieftains of Tir-Conaill.