Scotland to Uí Néill Problem

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Scotland to Uí Néill Problem

Legg inn av siabair ~^~ » 26 okt 2004 22:20:38

A few weeks ago I cited 'Family Origins in Cowal and Knapdale', W D H
Sellar, Scottish Studies, volume 15, part one as supportive of a genealogy
tracing the ascent of several west of Scotland families (Lamonts,
MacSweeneys, MacLachlans, etc) into the Northern Uí Néill of Ireland. I
have since re-read the article and found that it fails to take account of
one very important consideration, the migration of the MacSweeneys from
Scotland to Ireland in the fourteenth century.

The genealogy in question first appears in the late fourteenth century
books of Ballymote and Lecan and is absent in proto-form from earlier works
and so has the appearance of a fabrication by which the Scottish family of
MacSweeney (then newly established in the north-west of Ireland) were taken
into the genealogy of the Northern Uí Néill among whom they lived.

So despite its chronological integrity (as established by Sellar) I would
no longer consider the genealogy to being authenticated by this article.

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SIABAIR (Old Irish) /shabba/ 'ghost', 'phantom', 'spectre'

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