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- ↑ Whitelock, Dorothy; McKitterick, Rosamond; Dumville, David (1982). Ireland in Early Medieval Europe: Studies in Memory of Kathleen Hughes. Cambridge University Press. p. 112. ISBN 9780521235471.
- ↑ Early Sources, p. cxxvii.
- ↑ In the case of Alpín, Uuroid is read as Feradach.
- ↑ Early Sources, p. 266, note 2.
