Index of Names in Irish Annals: Descriptive Bynames: an Fhiona

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Version 2.1, updated 22 June 2006

Descriptive Bynames: Meadhónach

Meaning:

"Middle" (used for the father when a grandfather, father, and son all have the same given name - it is also possible that this byname is only applied postumously)

Spellings:

What we know as a set of Irish Annals are manuscripts that were each compiled during a particular time period, usually using older material as sources. For example, when the Annals of the Four Masters were written from 1632 to 1636, they covered events that occurred centuries and millenia before (including legendary history). So, when an entry in this set of annals refers to a person who lived in the year 738, the spelling used for that person's name is very likely not using the spelling that would have been used in 738.

Standard forms of this name (based on spelling systems of different periods) would be:

Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) nominative form:	Meadhónach
Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) genitive form:	Meadhónaigh

Frequency & Dates:

Number of men found in the annals with this name:	1
Found in Years:	1558, 1582

Research Notes:

[Answering a question about the meaning of this byname:]

"Middle, central, intermediate (in relations of time, space, or order); average, middling" [email from Talan Gwynek - 12 Jun 2006]

Bynames for Mac Uilliam Men in Different Annals Entries:

Person	Given Name	Byname shown in 1467 (D)	Byname shown in 1468 (D)	Byname shown in 1469 (D)	Byname shown in 1487 (D)	Byname shown in 1522 (LC2)	Byname shown in 1522 (E)	Byname shown in 1558 (D)	Byname shown in 1582 (D)
great-great-great-grandfather	Uilleac	an Fhiona	an Fhiona	an Fhiona	an Fhiona	an Fhiona	an Fhiona	an Fhiona	an Fhiona
great-great-grandfather (d. 1468)	Uilleac	[???]	[none]	[none]	[none]	[none]	[none]	Meadhónach	Meadhónach
great-grandfather	Uilleac	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[none]	[n/a]	Chnuic Tuagh	Chnuic Tuagh
grandfather	Riocard	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[none]	[none]	[none]
father	Uilleac	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[na gCeann]	[na gCeann]
son (d. 1582)	Riocard	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[none]	[Saxanach]

Bynames for Mag Uidhir Men in Different Annals Entries:

Person	Given Name	Byname shown in 1433 (D)	Byname shown in 1480 (D)	Byname shown in 1486 (D)	Byname shown in 1494 (U3)	Byname shown in 1498 (U3)	Byname shown in 1498 (D)	Byname shown in 1527	Byname shown in 1531 (U3)	Byname shown in 1531 (E)
great-great-great-grandfather	Matha	[n/a]	[none]	[n/a]	[none]	[none]	[none]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]
great-great-grandfather	Giolla Phádraig	[n/a]	[none]	[n/a]	[none]	[none]	[none]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]
great-grandfather (d. 1433)	Cathal	[none]	Mór	Mór	Mór	[none]	[none]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]
grandfather (d. 1480)	Cathal	[none]	Óg	Óg	Óg	[none]	[none]	Óg	Meadhónach	[none]
father (d. 1498)	Cathal	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[none]	Óg	Óg	Óg	Óg	Óg
son (d. 1494)	Cathal	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	Óg	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]
son (d. 1527)	Tomás	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]
son (d. 1531)	Cormac	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]	[n/a]

Death notation for Cathal (great-grandfather generation) [D, entry M1433.6]:

Mac Maghnusa Mhég Uidhir, .i. Cathal fear tighe aoidheadh coitchinn d'écc, & a mhac, .i. Cathal do oirdneadh ina ionadh lá h-Ua Neill & lá Mag Uidhir.

Mac Manus Maguire, i.e. Cathal, who kept a house of general hospitality, died; and his son, Cathal, was installed in his place by O'Neill and Maguire.

Sources:

Further information about the byname Meadhónach, may be found in:

The Sources page lists the Annals referenced below. Information about secondary sources is included on that page as well.

Raw Data

In the table below, I have separated individuals with a blank line. That is, when there are multiple entries in the annals that refer to a single person, those entries are grouped together.

Within the list of entries refering to a single person, I have sorted the entries primarily by orthography when it is obvious that what I am seeing is the same entry showing up in multiple annals. The entries that tend to use older spellings are listed first.

NOTE: The Annals referenced below under the code letters A, B, C, E, & F tend to use later spellings than the other Annals. In some cases, the spellings listed in these Annals may not be appropriate for the year referenced in the Annal entry.

In some Gaelic scripts, there is a character that looks approximately like a lowercase f, but without the crossbar. This character (represented by an underscored , e, in the entries below) sometimes represents e and sometimes ea depending upon the context of the text.

[Standardized form of this man's name]
Annals	Entry	Context	Citation (formatting preserved)
[Cathal Meadhónach mac Cathail Móir mhic Giolla Phádraig Mhic Mhaghnusa] (d. 1480)
D	M1480.2		Mac Magnusa Meg Uidhir, .i. Cathal ócc mac Cathail Mhóir mic Giolla Pattraicc mic Magnusa
D	M1486.38		Caitilin inghen Uí Feargail (Domhnall Buidhe mac Domhnaill mic Seain) ben Mec Maghnusa Meg Uidhir .i. Cathal ócc mac Catail Mhóir
U3	U1494.13		Mac Mic Maghnusa Meg Uidhir [unrelated], .i. Cathal Og, mac Cathail, mic Cathail Oig eile, mic Cathail Moir, mic Gilla Padraig ["The son of Mac Maghnusa Mag Uidhir, namely, Cathal junior, son of Cathal, son of another Cathal junior, son of Cathal Mor, son of Gilla-Padraig"]
U3	U1498.8		Mac Maghnusa Mheg Uidhir [unrelated]: .i. Cathal Og, mac Cathail, mic Cathail, mic Gilla Padraig, mic Matha & araile; ["Mac Maghnusa Mag Uidhir, died this year: namely, Cathal junior, son of Cathal, son of Cathal, son of Gilla-Padraig, son of Matthew, etc.;"]
D	M1498.1		Mac Maghnusa an t-Seanaidh, .i. Cathal ócc mac Cathail mic Cathail mic Giolla Patraicc mic Matha
E	M1527.10		Mac Maghnusa Még Uidhir .i. Tomás Ócc mac Cathail Óicc, mic Cathail Óicc
U3	U1531.2		Cormac Mac Maghnusa, mac Cathail Óig, mic Cathail Medhonaigh
E	M1531.11		Corbmac mac Cathail Óicc mic Cathail Mic Maghnusa
[Uilleac Meadhónach mac Uilliam an Fhiona Mhic Uilliam] (d. 1468)
LC2	LC1467.14	AN	la mac Uilliam Chloinne Riocuird, .i. Uilliog Ruadh mac Uilliog an Fhíona
D	M1468.3	AN	Mac Uilliam Uachtarach .i. Uillec mac Uillic an Fhiona
D	M1469.19	AN	Mac Uilliam Cloinne Riocaird (Uillecc mac Uillicc an Fhiona)
D	M1487.30	AN	Mac Uilliam Cloinne Riocaird (.i. Uilleacc mac Uillicc an Fhiona) ["Mac William of Clanrickard (Ulick, the son of Ulick of the Wine)"]
LC2	LC1522.4	AN	mac Uillíam Clainne Ricaird .i. Ricard mac Uilleg mic Uillig mic Uillig an Fhiona
E	M1522.2	AN	Mac Uilliam Clainne Riocaird, Uillec mac Uillic an Fhíona
E	m1558.5	AN	Riocard mac Uillicc na c-Cenn, mic Riocaird, mic Uillecc Cnuic Tuagh, mic an Uillicc Medhonaicch mic Uillicc an Fhíona
E	M1582.2	AN	Iarla Cloinne Riocaird, Riocard Saxanach mac Uillicc na c-Cend, mic Riocaird, mic Uillicc Chnuic Tuagh, mic Uillicc Medhonaigh, mic Uillicc an Fhiona

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