later gave their names to the placenames Dolphin's Barn and Ballyfermot.

The influence of the Uí Dúnlainge family helped secure place-myths for prominent Kildare landmarks in the heroic and romantic literature such as the Dindseanchas, Dinnshenchas Érenn as one of the "assemblies and noted places in Ireland".

After the death of the last Kildare-based King of Laighin,

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