Index of Names in Irish Annals: Íor

© 2000-2010 by Kathleen M. O'Brien. All rights reserved.
Version 2.0, updated 09 January 2010

Masculine Given Names: Íor

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:	Íor
Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) genitive form:

Frequency & Dates:

Number of men found in the annals with this name:	4
Found in Years:	1446, 1464, 1465, 1486, 1488, 1492, 1584

Research Notes:

Sources:

Further information about the name Ir may be found in:

• OCM (p. 117 s.n. Ír).

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.

Special factors which may affect name usage are marked in the context column.

AN	indicates a member of an Anglo-Norman family
AS	indicates an Anglo-Saxon
N	indicates a Norseman
P	indicates a Pict
R	indicates a person holding a religious office
S	indicates a person from Scotland

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)
(d. 1464-1465)
D	M1446.19		Diarmaitt mac Ir mic Cathail Ruaidh Mheg Raghnaill
U3	U1465.8		Ir Mag Raghnaill
Co	1464.45		Ir mac Cathail Ruaid Meg Ragnaill
LC2	LC1465.1		Ir Magranuill, .i. mac Cathuil Ruaid
D	M1464.15		Ir mac Catail Ruaidh Meg Raghnaill
U3	U1486.15		clainn Ir Meg Raghnaill
(d. 1465)
Co	1464.46		Ir mac Uilliam Meg Ragnaill
D	M1464.15		Ir mac Uilliam Meg Raghnaill
U3	U1486.3		Eogan, mac Ir Meg Radhnaill
D	M1486.9		Eoghan mac Ír
U3	U1486.26		Eogan, mac Ir Meg Radhnaill
U3	U1488.34		Eogan, mac Ir Meg Radhnaill
D	M1488.20		Eoghan mac Ir Meg Raghnaill
U3	U1488.34		h-Uilliam, mac Ir
D	M1488.20		Uilliam mac Ir
U3	U1488.34		Maghnus, mac Ir
D	M1488.20		Maghnus mac Ir
D	M1492.31		d'Uilliam mac Ir
(d. 1584)
LC2	LC1584.15		Cathal mac Rudhraidhi mic Ir Micc Radhnuill

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