THE NAME BEAL ATHA SEANAIGH 31; 24 P 12, 123; 24 P 27, 55), sea.nuig'h (A v 2, 45lb); (b) sen- (H I 14, 166b), sean-- (H I 16, 132}; (c} seannaid (23 E 14, 16·5; 23 M 28, 287; 24 M 43, 3). Thie Book of the- O'Conor Don, a ve·ry good M'S., has seandh on, page 186a. A copy of this poem fro·m an MiS. of O'Curry's colle:ctfon, printed in th3 Trarnsactions Of the Ossianic Society, V 1857 0860), 298, shows Seannaidh. 5. Cath Atha senaigh (no date), Annals of Tiigeroach, Revue Celtique XVII (1896), 240. 6. C:ath Atha S;eannai.gh (no date), Kea.ting, Foras Feasa ar Eirinn (ed. Comyn and Dinneen), III 148, line 2350. IV In the light of the information given in thie' above three sections, I su:ggrest that the Ul'Ster name was III orlgdnally Ath Seanaith, or Ath In add!Ltfonr toi the Ul;gtJe:r Beal Seanaidh, a topographic d.escripAtha Seanaigh, we· have MS. evid- tion evoked by the n:atur1e of the ence for a .sl!lmdlar name elsewhere, slite:. Further, in the· course of time, as the name of th•e mte where the the name became changed tq Ath ba1ttle of Uc:h.bhadh took pla.ce, in Seana.igh in MSS. by reason of one the eighth century. Th:is wa·s idienti- or more of the following: (a) the acfiied in 1848 by O'Donovan1 . (Annals ceptan.c.e· of the story glvmg the of the Four Masters, A.D., 733; I 332, death :amd burial of Seanach as the foqt:.note), as Ballyshannon, near Kil~ ord.gin of. the plaee· nam1ei; (b) th€ cullen, Co. Kildare, but the identifi- unfamiHarity of the obsolete, or obcatt:on ha.s 'beenr d!ispu.t;ed by T. F. solescent, word seanath6, and the O'Raihtillry, in.1 Herrnathena XLVIII substituUon for it of the fam,iJiar (1933), 201, who paints .out that the Seanach, a personal name which is old·er forms of the nam-:~, derlvin.g· found quite commonly thro'Ughout from a putat~ve Baille *Sadhonnain, Irish history; (c) the confusion, have· no reisemfb1anoe to the name since the thirteenth century, of -igh given for the place in early so.uroes.4 and- idh in Irish; cf. T. F .. O'RahilIt is noteworthy that O'Donovan did Jy, Iris~ Dialects Past and Present, not m1ention Ballyishannon or its p. 53; (d) the tendency towards uni- :i!dien U~f·iic:a:tlion in his Ordnance Sur- formity and modexnli.za.Mon of orthovey Letters for C<>. Kiildare, wrltten graphy, noticea:b1e· dn th.e1 writin:gs in 18385. of Michael 0 C'ledrigh and other Wha.tiever the locati:on of .. the se-ven:teenth c•entury scribes; cf. J. s:1e1cond Ballyshanru}n~ the following H. Todd, CO'(Jadh Gaedhez re Galexa.mp1es of the name show a fluctu~ laibh, . intro. xvi. ation betwe1en the dental. and palatal As a. p·ertinent in.stance of a endJ:ngs, S'im"Har to that detailed in scribal change in the very word, the forms givien in § II abo\Ve. seanadh, here discussed, s-ce S. Pen1. Ath seanaith (A.D. 733), Annals der',s -edition of the O'Clery Book· of of tihe Four Masters (Stowe, . C iii 3, Genealogies (Analacta Hibernica1, No. 276h). 18) § 1616, whdch ~ves· Genezach M. 2. Ath Seanaith (A.D. 733), the Magn:µsa an tseanaigh,7 for a famO'Ci1ecy redac1ti:·on of Lebor Gabla ily whiQ.Se1ha:bttat lis alrways. wr.itErenn (23 K 32, 197). ten Se(a)nadh dn the· many l'€'fer3. Cath Atha . Senaith (AD. 735), enc-es to a 1n1 the Annals; the dental Annals O:f Boyle, Revue Celtique XL! ending :is vemfi:a:ble in the Lat:m (1924), 324, § 230. title of tbe Annals of Ulst-er, named 4. Bell:U.m atho· senaich . (A.D. from that v~ry place Annales Sen737), Annals of.Ulster l 194. atenses... 500.
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