The Delbhna were a race of Ireland. They had a number of branches in central and western Ireland.

The Delbhna Tir Dha Locha were the most westerly branch, based in Iar Connacht. Dealbhne Thíre Dhá Loch(a) (The Dealbhne of the Two Lochs) was a tuath (a tribal kingdom) of medieval Ireland, located in Iar Connacht in the west of Co. ... Iar Chonnachta (longer form - Iarthar Chonnachta) (alternative spelling- Iar Chonnacht) covers the portion of County Galway west of Loch nOirbsean (Loch Corrib) and the Gaillimh / Galway River (better known as the River Corrib) and the portion of County Mayo in the barony of Ross. ...

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 Nuadat were lords of a large section of what is now County Roscommon, situated between the Suca and Shannon rivers. ... County Roscommon (Ros Comáin in Irish) is a county located in central Ireland. ... The River Shannon (Irish: Sionainn), Irelands longest river, divides the West of Ireland (mostly the province of Connaught) from the east and south (Leinster and most of Munster). ...

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 River Shannon (Irish: Sionainn), Irelands longest river, divides the West of Ireland (mostly the province of Connaught) from the east and south (Leinster and most of Munster). ... County Westmeath (An Iarmhí in Irish) is a county situated in the Irish Midlands, in the western part of the province of Leinster. ... Europe in 450 The 5th century is the period from 401 - 500 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era. ... The Uí Néill (Irish for descendants of Niall Uí pronounced Ee: ) were an Irish dynasty who claimed descent from Niall Noigiallach (Niall of the Nine Hostages), a semi-historical High King of Ireland who died about 405. ...

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. In Irish mythology Delbáeth (or Dealbhaeth) was the son of either Aengus or Ogma of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and Ethniu of the Fomorians. ... Although the traditional list of those bearing the title High King of Ireland (Irish: Ard Rí Éirinn) goes back thousands of years, into the second millennium BC, most scholars believe that the earlier parts of the list, at least, are largely mythical. ... The Tuatha Dé Danann (peoples of the goddess Danu or erroneously tribe of Dan) were the fifth group of inhabitants of Ireland according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions) tradition. ... A god of the Anglo-Saxon /Early English tribes brought with them from continental Europe, around the 5th and 6th centuries until conversion to Christianity in the 8th and 9th centuries CE. Woden is the carrier-off of the dead, but not necessarily with the attributes of his Norse equivalent... The famous parade helmet found at Sutton Hoo, probably belonging to King Raedwald of East Anglia circa 625. ...