Dáire Ó Lochlainn

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Dáire Ó Lochlainn; The Plague Years
Information
Resides: Avacal Date Started: February 2021 Awards: Avacal Order of Precedence
Heraldry
Or, a boar's head erased proper atop a mount vert, a chief azure

Pronounced Darah O Lockluhn (He, Him) Alternate name: Derewyn Wodeward (registered February 2026)

Dáire Ó Lochlainn is late-10^th century Hiberno-Norse, born 966. Living in the northwest of Ireland, he is one of the many famuli in service to the Columban monastery at Derry. His primary roles are as a labourer in the adjacent monastic holdings, and to care for the pack animals of the Brothers when they travel. Being orphaned into the monastic community at an early age, Dáire can read some Gaelic and Latin, but has neither the knowledge nor skills to write. As an agricultural labourer; he is as likely to be laying a live-hedge, or taking the pigs for pannage, one day, as he is to be helping the Brother apiarist with his bees, the next.

Dáire lives in the Royal Lands between the Barony of Montengarde and the Shire of Ayresgarde, 'guarding' the Pass of the Kicking Horse against incursion from Tir Righ. Of late, he has been adopted by the bonny crew in Ayresgarde!

Still finding his feet within the SCA, Dáire very much enjoys partaking in, and delivering, classes as he explores the offerings of the Kingdom and the Known World.

Interests

• History of the Hiberno-Norse period of Ireland
• Travels by boat and on foot in the North Atlantic and on the Continent
• Current Middle Ages forester activity
• History of European forestry
• SCA-period medical and disability studies
• Reading, writing, teaching

Classes Taught

• Dubgaill, Finngaill or Laithlinn? Who (and when) were the Hiberno-Norse?
• The Loch Glashan 'Crannog Bag'
• The Sacred and the Profane: trees of Early Ireland
• Of Hunters, Heralds and Honours: The Boke of St Albans (1486)
• Accessorize your Garb on a Budget
• Silvopasture: a medieval forest management practice? (2x)
• Beekeeping in Early Ireland (2x)
• The Celtic Calendar
• Rituals of Power: Feasting in Early Ireland
• Teaching: Shoulda, woulda, coulda
• Documentation: Frankenstein's Monster, only prettier
• Personas, narratives and roles
• Trading Secrets: SCA-period codes, ciphers and concealments
• St Brendan's Voyage: echtrai or imramma?
• Columbus was not First: European exploration in the Atlantic and the 'Americas', pre-1492 (2x)
• Agriculture in Early Ireland (4x)
• Two mummies . . . and three big toes
• Ambroise Paré: the new breed of barber-surgeon
• Archery in Early and Medieval Ireland (4x)
• Improving Mobility: walking aids and prostheses in the Middle Ages (2x)
• The Irish Mether: a ritual drinking vessel

• Twenty-one different classes, twenty-six sessions, thirty-one total presentations, across ten different kingdoms

Projects

Promotion of Forestry in Avacal

• Company of the Hurst and Hounds - Household name and badge (LoAR August 2025)

The Æthelmearc Royal Foresters Guild

• Forester - in progress
• Underforester - in progress
• Novice (June 17^th, 2025)

Avacal Sergeantry

• 'Five-year plan' endeavouring towards Courtier - A&S
• 'Five-year plan' endeavouring towards Warden - A&S/Target Archery

Roles

• Æthelmearc Royal Foresters Guild Chronicler (February 17^th, 2026 - ongoing)
• Shire of Ayresgarde Web Minister (June 11^th, 2025 - ongoing)
• Shire of Ayresgarde Deputy A&S (2023-2025)

Awards

• Champion of Arts and Sciences, Emerald Rose (Montengarde, January 17^th, 2026)
• Masters Degree, University of Atlantia (Atlantia, June 14^th, 2025)
• Bachelors Degree, University of Atlantia (Atlantia, September 21^st, 2024)
• Fellow of the University of Atlantia (Atlantia, September 22^nd, 2022)
• Award of Arms (Avacal, September 3^rd, 2022)
• Order of the Sable Cinquefoil (Montengarde, November 6^th, 2021)
• Defender of Arts and Sciences (Sigelhundas, September 27^th, 2021)

Further Armory

Dáire Ó Lochlainn	Dáire Ó Lochlainn	Dubnus Lugotorix	Derewyn Wodeward (pending)

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