Innis Fodhla [Island of Destiny]

an old name of Ireland.

“Long before the westerr districts of Innis Fodhla had any settled name … a powerful king reigned over this part of the sacred island. [The king referred to was Connedda, who gave his name to the province of Connacht],”—W. B. Yeats: Fairy Tales and Folk-Lore, pp. 306, 318.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.