Dated Names Found in Ó Corráin & Maguire's
Irish Names

by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien)

Introduction

These names are taken from entries in Ó Corráin, Donnchadh and Fidelma Maguire, Irish Names, 2nd edition (Dublin, Ireland: Lilliput Press, 1990).

• I have only extracted names which were:
  • dated names.
  • names of people (not mythological figures)
  • not the names of saints. Since some saints are believed to be apocryphal, I did not include the names of saints in this list.

• In entries where the date given is for a relative of the full name I've listed, I have changed the date to a "circa" date. For example, under Cainnech on p. 43, Cainnech is listed as a daughter of the high-king Donnchad mac Flaind. Cainnech died in 929. The entry does not state when her father lived, but it had to be within a reasonable range of her lifetime. Therefore, I have given the date c929 for Donnchad mac Flaind. At this point, the date becomes more useful in identifying the century than in identifying an exact year. But it is an indicator of which era the name can be dated to.

• All of the full names listed in this index are men's names, except for Lerben Bán (listed in section 2.3) who was a woman. Ó Corráin and Maguire's Irish Names contains many dated women's names, but all of those names except Lerben Bán contain only the woman's given name rather than her full name.

• It is important to note that the spellings of these names appear to have been normalized, mostly to the standard early forms. They are not necessary the spellings used in the original medieval documents.

© 1999 by Kathleen M. O'Brien. All rights reserved.
Version 2.4, updated 20 July 1999

Table of Contents

1. Given Names:
   1. Feminine Given Names:
      • sorted by Alphabetically
      • sorted by Date

   2. Masculine Given Names:
      • sorted by Alphabetically (summary of names)
      • sorted by Alphabetically (full citations)
      • sorted by Date

2. Full Names that Appear in the Text:
   1. Patronymic Bynames using mac (son):
      • sorted by Given Name
      • sorted by Byname
      • sorted by Date

   2. Patronymic Bynames using Ua / ua / Ó (grandson/male descendant):
      • sorted by Given Name
      • sorted by Byname
      • sorted by Date

   3. Descriptive Bynames (single word):
      • sorted by Given Name
      • sorted by Byname
      • sorted by Date

   4. Descriptive Bynames (phrase):
      • sorted by Given Name
      • sorted by Byname
      • sorted by Date

   5. Combinations (phrase):
      • sorted by Given Name
      • sorted by Byname
      • sorted by Date

3. Bibliography

Editting & publishing by Arval Benicoeur