I want to post this message because there has been a question about an earlier post that I made on this thread. I learned about Keating's History from this mailing-list a few months ago. I understood the passage from Keating's History as saying that during the time of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the Ui Neill had raided and settled in what is now known as SW Scotland. I learned from a more recent post that it can not really be known for sure what happened during the time of Niall because the Irish did not start recording history until possibly 700 AD. I have learned a lot from John McLaughlin's posts but I do not always get it right.