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Ó Rothláin
Ó Rothláin ( ) is an Irish surname. The name is a patronym meaning "descendant of Rothlán." It is suggested that it is a possible variant of Ó Raghalláin, or Ó Roghallaigh. It is, according to O'Riain the pre-anglicised, Irish form of the names Rowlan, Rowland, Rowlands, Rollan, Rollin, Rolan and Rowley, although O'Donavn notes in 1844 that the name is "now always anglicised Rowley." The name can also be spelled as Ó Rothlán, Ó Rothlain, O'Rothlain, Rothlán, and Rothlan. Overview The Ó Rothláin families have a strong link with County Mayo, and Country Sligo in the province of Connacht, and belong to the Uí Fiachrach. Historically, the family held the role of chieftain (titled as "Taoiseach"). History Chieftains of the Principality of Coolcarney Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh states in a poem written in 1417 that, Coolcarney "embraced the territory between Beel Lasa (or Foxford) and the Brosnach river in Castleconnor." William Gregory Wood-Martin wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland (surname)
Rowland is an English surname. Notable people with the surname "Rowland" include A * Adele Rowland (1883–1971), American actress * Albert Rowland (1885–1918), New Zealand race walker * Alf Rowland (1920–1997), English footballer * Alfred Rowland (1844–1898), American politician * Andy Rowland (born 1954), English footballer * Andy Rowland (footballer, born 1965) (born 1965), English footballer * Austen Rowland (born 1981), American basketball player B * Barrington Rowland (born 1980), Indian cricketer * Barry Rowland (born 1961), British administrator * Bart Rowland (born 1977), American politician * Beryl Rowland (1918–2003), Scottish-Canadian scholar * Bo Rowland (1903–1964), American football coach * Brad Rowland (born 1928), American football player * Brian Rowland (born 1980), Canadian soccer player * Bruce Rowland (born 1942), Australian composer * Bruce Rowland (drummer) (1941–2015), English drummer C * Cameron Rowland (born 1988), American artist * Caroli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rollin (name)
Rollin is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Anita Rollin, Sri Lankan snowboarder * Bernard Rollin (1943–2021), American philosopher, ethicist and author * Betty Rollin (born 1936), American journalist * Charles Rollin (1661–1741), French historian and educationist * Dominique Rollin (born 1982), Canadian cyclist * Henri Rollin (1885–1955), French essayist * Jean Rollin (1938–2010), French film director, actor and writer * Kenneth Rollin (born 1937), English rugby league player * Louis Rollin (1879-1952), French politician * The Rollin Sisters, five African-American sisters who were influential in politics in the Reconstruction Era Given name * Rollin V. Ankeny (1830-1901), American Civil War Union brevet brigadier general * Rollin Cook (1890–1975), American baseball player * Rollin M. Daggett (1831–1901), American politician and diplomat * Rollin Dart (1925–2016), American banker * Rollin Josiah Dutton (1884-1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annals Of The Four Masters
The ''Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland'' () or the ''Annals of the Four Masters'' () are chronicles of Middle Ages, medieval Irish history. The entries span from the Genesis flood narrative, Deluge, dated as 2,242 Anno Mundi, years after creation to AD 1616. Publication delay Due to the criticisms by 17th-century Irish historian Tuileagna Ó Maol Chonaire, the text was not published in the lifetimes of any of the participants. Text The annals are mainly a compilation of earlier annals, although there is some original work. They were compiled between 1632 and 1636, allegedly in a cottage beside the ruins of Donegal Abbey, just outside Donegal (town), Donegal Town. At this time, however, the Franciscans had a house of refuge by the River Drowes in County Leitrim, just outside Ballyshannon, and it was here, according to others, that the ''Annals'' were compiled. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sept
A sept () is a division of a family, especially of a Scottish or Irish family. The term is used both in Scotland and in Ireland, where it may be translated as Irish , meaning "progeny" or "seed", and may indicate the descendants of a person (for example, , "the descendant of Brian MacDermott"). The word may derive from the Latin , meaning "enclosure" or "fold", or via an alteration of the English-language word "sect". Family branches ''Síol'' is a Gaelic word meaning "progeny" or "seed" that is used in the context of a family or clan with members who bear the same surname and inhabited the same territory,"Septs of Ireland" Irish Septs Association. as a manner of distinguishing one group from another; a family called ''Mac an Bháird'' ( |
John O'Donovan (scholar)
John O'Donovan (; 25 July 1806 – 10 December 1861), from Atateemore, in the parish of Kilcolumb, County Kilkenny, and educated at Hunt's Academy, Waterford, was an Irish scholar of the Irish language. Life He was the fourth son of Edmond O'Donovan and Eleanor Hoberlin of Rochestown. His early career may have been inspired by his uncle Patrick O'Donovan. He worked for antiquarian James Hardiman researching state papers and traditional sources at the Public Records Office. Hardiman had secured O'Donovan a place in Maynooth College which he turned down. He also taught Irish to Thomas Larcom for a short period in 1828 and worked for Myles John O'Reilly, a collector of Irish manuscripts. Following the death of Edward O'Reilly in August 1830, he was recruited to the Topographical Department of the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland under George Petrie in October 1830. Apart from a brief period in 1833, he worked steadily for the Survey on place-name researches until 1842, unea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gregory Wood-Martin
Colonel William Gregory Wood-Martin (16 July 1847 – 16 November 1917) was an author and antiquarian, best known for his work as an archaeologist in Ireland. Early life William Gregory Wood-Martin was born in County Sligo in Ireland on 16 July 1847 in the midst of the Great Famine. His parents, James Wood and Anne Martin, were also both natives of County Sligo and, as their only child, he was the heir to both the Woodville and Cleveragh estates. Wood-Martin received his early education at home, and completed his academic training first in Switzerland, and then in Belgium. Military career Upon the completion of his education, in 1866 he joined the British Army and studied at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, after which he was commissioned into the 24th Regiment of Foot. He served as a lieutenant colonel in the 8th Brigade, North Irish Division, and spent the remainder of his career attached to the Sligo Artillery and the Sligo Rifles, where he was lieutenant colonel in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castleconor
Castleconor () is a mountain in County Laois, Ireland. Castleconor's summit is at an altitude of making it the fourth-highest point in Laois, the ninth-highest point in the Slieve Bloom Mountains and the 907th-highest summit in Ireland. See also *List of mountains in Ireland A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ... * Geography of Ireland References Mountains and hills of County Laois Townlands of County Laois {{Laois-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxford
Foxford () is a town 16 km south of Ballina, County Mayo, Ballina in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It stands on the N26 road, N26 roads in Ireland, national primary route from Swinford to Ballina and has Foxford railway station, a railway station served by trains between Manulla Junction and Ballina. Foxford lies on the River Moy, a salmon-fishing river, close to Lough Conn and Lough Cullin and between the Nephin and Ox Mountains. The Foxford Way is an 86-km waymarking, waymarked tourist trail that circles Foxford, taking in the Ox Mountains, bogland, archeological sites, lakeshores and river banks. Agnes Morrogh Bernard founded a convent and started a water-powered woollen mill here in 1892.Agnes Morrogh Bernard Towns Villages, Retrieved 6 June 2017 The Foxford Woollen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (), also known as Dubhaltach Óg mac Giolla Íosa Mór mac Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius ( fl. 1643 – January 1671) was an Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist. He was one of the last traditionally trained Irish Gaelic scholars, and was a member of the Clan MacFhirbhisigh, a leading family of northern Connacht. His best-known work is the '' Leabhar na nGenealach'', which was published in 2004 as '' The Great Book of Irish Genealogies'', by Éamonn de Búrca, more than 300 years after it had been written. Family and education Mac Fhirbhisigh was most likely born at the family castle, in the parish of Lackan, Tireragh, County Sligo, sometime in the first quarter of the 17th century. He was originally known as ''Dubhaltach Og'' ("young Dubhaltach") to distinguish him from his grandfather, ''Dubhaltach Mór'' ("big Dubhaltach"). He was the eldest of four sons born to Gioll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taoiseach
The Taoiseach (, ) is the head of government or prime minister of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The office is appointed by the President of Ireland upon nomination by Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas, Ireland's national legislature) and the office-holder must retain the support of a majority in the Dáil to remain in office. The Irish language, Irish word ''Wiktionary:taoiseach, taoiseach'' means "chief" or "leader", and was adopted in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland as the title of the "head of the Government or Prime Minister". It is the official title of the head of government in both English and Irish, and is not used for the prime ministers of other countries, who are instead referred to in Irish by the generic term . The phrase ''an Taoiseach'' is sometimes used in an otherwise English-language context, and means the same as "the Taoiseach". The incumbent Taoiseach is Micheál Martin, Teachta Dála, TD, leader of Fianna Fáil, who took office on 23 Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribal Chief
A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is a leader of a tribe, tribal society or chiefdom. Tribal societies There is no definition for "tribe". The concept of tribe is a broadly applied concept, based on tribal concepts of societies of western Afroeurasia. Tribal societies are sometimes categorized as an intermediate stage between the band society of the Paleolithic stage and civilization with centralized, super-regional government based in Cities of the Ancient Near East, cities. Anthropologist Elman Service distinguishes two stages of tribal societies: simple societies organized by limited instances of social rank and prestige, and more stratified society, stratified societies led by chieftains or tribal kings (chiefdoms). Stratified tribal societies led by tribal kings are thought to have flourished from the Neolithic stage into the Iron Age, albeit in competition with Urban area, urban civilisations and empires beginning in the Bronze Age. In the case of tribal societies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Sligo
County Sligo ( , ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region and is part of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht. Sligo is the administrative capital and largest town in the county. Sligo County Council is the Local government in the Republic of Ireland, local authority for the county. The population of the county was 70,198 at the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census. It is noted for Benbulben Mountain, one of Ireland's most distinctive natural landmarks. History The county was officially formed in 1585 by Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, but did not come into effect until the chaos of the Nine Years' War (Ireland), Nine Years' War ended, in 1603. Its boundaries reflect the Ó Conchobhair Sligigh confederation of Lower Connacht () as it was at the time of the Elizabethan conquest. This confederation consisted of the tuatha, or territories, of Cairbre Drom Cliabh, Cairbre Drumcliabh, Tír Fhíacr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
