ANSTHRLD - Gaelic Name

Seamus MacInnerighe greenrose at zensearch.net
Sun Jul 16 21:55:19 PDT 2000


The mundane sources I found says that it is the Gaelicize very of son of Henry or one who is easily roused...but I am unsure of the accracy of this...

Seamus


On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:12:31 -0500 Kathleen O'Brien <kobrien at bmc.com> wrote:
>At 09:06 AM 7/15/00 -0000, you wrote:
>>Greetings all..
>>
>>I am having difficulty researching a name. I have no problem documenting
>the first name "Seamus" but the last name MacInnerighe I can not place.
>Through mundane sources I have found that the name dates back to the 1200's
>but I do not know how accurate it is. Any help on this subject would be
>greatly appriciated.
>>
>>Seamus
>
>I need to research this, but off the top of my head I think <MacInnerighe>
>is probably something like <mac ind rig> or "son of the king".  If that's
>the case, it would likely be considered presumptious and therefore not
>registerable.
>
>Just a second...
>
>From the Annals of Connacht:
>     1409.2   Tomas mac ind Rig  
>literally "Thomas son of the king".  
>
>I need to go home and look through my books to make sure I've guessed the
>etymology of this name correctly.
>
>Are you looking for Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, any particular year,
>something that sounds similar to this byname?
>
>Mari
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