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

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

© 2000-2006 by Kathleen M. O'Brien. All rights reserved.
Version 2.2, updated 22 June 2006


Descriptive Bynames: an Chomhaidh

Meaning:

"[of] the Coad"

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:

Frequency & Dates:

Number of men found in the annals with this name: 1
Found in Years: 1523, 1528, 1557, 1569, 1578, 1591

Research Notes:

FM (p. 1364, vol. 5, footnote "y"), in an entry for the year 1523, says of this byname that it means "of Coad, a townland containing the ruins of an old church, near Corofin, in the county of Clare".

FM (p. 1550, vol. 5, footnote "m"), in an entry for the year 1557, says of this byname that it means "of Coad, a townland containing the ruins of a small church, near Corofin, in the county of Clare".

Sources:

Further information about the byname an Chomhaidh, 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]
AnnalsEntryCitation (formatting preserved)
 
[Tadhg an Chomaidh mac Toirrdhealbhaigh mhic Bhriain Catha an Aonaigh uí Bhriain]
EM1523.7Brian mac Taidhcc An Chomhaid, mic Toirrdhealbhaigh mic Briain Catha an Aonaigh
FMvol. 5, p. 1364, 1523BRian mac taid.cc an c.om.aid, mic toirrd.ealb.aig. mic briain cat.a an aonaig.
EM1523.8Mac Uí Bhriain Tuadhmumhan .i. Tadhcc mac Toirdhealbhaigh, mic Taidhcc, mic Toirrdhealbhaigh mic Briain Catha an Aonaigh
EM1528.3Fionnghuala inghean I Bhriain (.i. Conchobhair na Sróna mic Toirrdhealbhaigh mic Briain Catha an Aonaigh) ben Uí Dhomhnaill Aodh Ruadh
FMvol. 5, p. 1550, 1557Toirrd.ealb.ac. mac conc.ob.air mic toirrd.eal.aig. mic taid.cc an c.omaid uí briain
EM1569.4Mór Phécach inghen Bhriain, mic Taidhcc, mic Toirrdhealbhaigh, mic Briain Catha an Aonaigh Uí Bhriain ben Uí Seachnasaicch .i. Diarmaid mac Uilliam mic Seain Buidhe ben dearsccaighthe ar deilbh
EM1578.8Sláine inghean Toirrdhealbhaigh, mic Taidhcc, mic Toirrdhealbhaigh, mic Briain Catha an Aonaigh
FM1591.2Murchadh mac Conchobhair mic Toirrdealbhaigh, mic Taidhcc, mic Toirrdhealbhaigh mic Briain Catha an Aonaigh Uí Bhriain
FM1591.3Mairgreg inghean Domhnaill mic Conchobhair, mic Toirrdhealbhaigh, mic Taidhcc, mic Toirrdhealbhaigh mic Briain Chatha an Aonaigh Uí Bhriain, ben Toirrdhealbhaigh mic Briain mic Donnchaidh mhec Mathghamhna
FM1591.4Donnchadh mac Murchaidh Ruaidh, mic Briain, mic Taidhcc, mic Toirrdhealbhaigh, mic Briain Catha an Aonaigh


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