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The Delbhna Tir Dha Locha were the most westerly branch, based in Iar Connacht .

The Delbhna Nuadat were lords of a large section of what is now County Roscommon , situated between the Suck and Shannon rivers. From the early historic era they were a subject people of the Ui Maine .

The Delbhna Bethra were located on the east bank of the River Shannon , in what is now County Westmeath . They may have once formed a single kingdom with the Delbhna Nuada until subjugated by the Ui Maine . By the late 5th Century they had fallen under the control of the Uí Néill .

The Delbhna took their name from Delbáeth who is stated as being a legendary High King Of Ireland but was more likely a god of the Tuatha Dé Danann ; he would have been their ancestor-deity in the same way that Woden was to the Anglo-Saxons .