Sloinnte Gaelacha i logainmneacha bharúntacht Chúil Raithin
- Submitting institution
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University of Ulster
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 89505623
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Scotha cennderca cen on: A Festschrift for Séamus Mac Mathúna
- Publisher
- Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
- ISBN
- 9789151309361
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Celtic Studies
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The Ulster baronies were created in the late 16th - early 17th cc. following the Plantation of Ulster. Current demographics reflect this change in the population’s religious and cultural make-up. Previously, the region was called Firnacreeve (Ir. Fir na Craoibhe ‘the men of the branch’) controlled by the Cineál Eoghain from the 9th century. By the early 12th century, the Ó Catháin family (Engl. O’Kane) had become dominant and controlled what would be known as “O’Cahan’s Country”. This article explains the derivations of the now anglicised townland names of the barony which come from Gaelic surnames of the pre-Plantation era.