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Raghnailt

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7282972 ↗
Source-derived summary

Raghnailt is a Norse-Gaelic female given name.

People

Raghnailt ingen Amhlaibh, Princess of Isle of Man, fl. 12th century.

Raghnailt Ní Conchobair, Princess of Connacht and Ireland, died 1211.

Raghnailt Ní Fhergail, died 1255.

Raghnailt Bean Uí Madadháin, died 1268.

Raghnailt Ní Raghallaigh, died 1325.

Raghnailt Ní Bradaigh, died 1381.

Raghnailt Níc Aodha Uí Choncobhair, died 1393.

Raghnailt Ní Birn, died 1417.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1211, 1255, 1268, 1325—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Raghnailt, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Raghnailt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.