Suibne mac Cináeda
King of the Gall Gaidheil · Died 1034
Suibne mac Cináeda was an eleventh-century ruler of the Gall Gaidheil, a population of mixed Scandinavian and Gaelic ethnicity. There is little known of Suibne as he is only attested in three sources that record the year of his death.
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![Suibne's title as it appears on folio 39r of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 489 (the Annals of Ulster).[20]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Suibne_mac_Cin%C3%A1eda_%28Bodleian_Library_MS_Rawlinson_B_489%2C_folio_39r%29.jpg/500px-Suibne_mac_Cin%C3%A1eda_%28Bodleian_Library_MS_Rawlinson_B_489%2C_folio_39r%29.jpg)
Suibne's title as it appears on folio 39r of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 489 (the Annals of Ulster).[20]![The name of Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, Suibne's contemporary and possible rival, as it appears on folio 17r of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 488: "Eachmarcach".[28]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Echmarcach_mac_Ragnaill_%28Oxford_Bodleian_Library_MS_Rawlinson_B_488%2C_folio_17r%29.jpg/330px-Echmarcach_mac_Ragnaill_%28Oxford_Bodleian_Library_MS_Rawlinson_B_488%2C_folio_17r%29.jpg)
The name of Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, Suibne's contemporary and possible rival, as it appears on folio 17r of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 488: "Eachmarcach".[28]![The name of Amlaíb mac Sitriuc, a nearby contemporary of Suibne, as it appears on folio 16v of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 488: "Amlaim mac Sitriuca".[44]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Amla%C3%ADb_mac_Sitriuc_%28Oxford_Bodleian_Library_MS_Rawlinson_B_488%2C_folio_16v%29.jpg/500px-Amla%C3%ADb_mac_Sitriuc_%28Oxford_Bodleian_Library_MS_Rawlinson_B_488%2C_folio_16v%29.jpg)
The name of Amlaíb mac Sitriuc, a nearby contemporary of Suibne, as it appears on folio 16v of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 488: "Amlaim mac Sitriuca".[44]![Excerpt from folio 131v of GKS 1005 fol (Flateyarbók): "Gaddgedlar".[73] The excerpt refers to eleventh-century Galloway. The Old Norse Gaddgeðlar is derived from Gall Gaidheil.[74]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Galloway_%28GKS_1005_fol%2C_folio_131v%29.jpg)
Excerpt from folio 131v of GKS 1005 fol (Flateyarbók): "Gaddgedlar".[73] The excerpt refers to eleventh-century Galloway. The Old Norse Gaddgeðlar is derived from Gall Gaidheil.[74]
![The name of Boite mac Cináeda, a man who may have been a brother of Suibne, as it appears on folio 39r of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 489.[92]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Boite_mac_Cin%C3%A1eda_%28Oxford_Bodleian_Library_MS_Rawlinson_B_489%2C_folio_39r%29.jpg/500px-Boite_mac_Cin%C3%A1eda_%28Oxford_Bodleian_Library_MS_Rawlinson_B_489%2C_folio_39r%29.jpg)
The name of Boite mac Cináeda, a man who may have been a brother of Suibne, as it appears on folio 39r of Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 489.[92]About this person
He seems to have ruled in a region where Gall Gaidheil are known to have dwelt: either the Hebrides, the Firth of Clyde region, or somewhere along the south-western coast of Scotland from the Firth of Clyde southwards into Galloway.