BROWSE
townland
Tuaim an tSleamháin
genitive: Thuaim an tSleamháin
(Irish)
Tomoclavin
(English)

Glossary

English (grave-)mound, burial-place

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    the tumulus of the elm-tree?
    sleamháin — foirm eile de leamhán

    Tá an chéad eilimint éiginnte. Cuireadh tom “bush” (cf. #3393, #3447 i gCeatharlach), tóin “bottom(land)” agus tamhain “(tree)stump” san áireamh freisin.

    Is deacair an litriú Gaeilge 1560c ‘taom…’ ag scríobhaí an Leabhair Bhranaigh a mhíniú go sásúil i bhfianaise na bhfoirmeacha béarlaithe a thagann anuas chugainn. B’fhéidir gur fiú é a chur i gcomparáid leis an litriú -ao- ag Mac Eochagáin le haghaidh -adh- stairiúil in 1638 ‘Sliau-blaoma’ (sl Sliabh Bladhma (#125024)) (‘Descriptio Ecclesiae Kildariensis’, Dinnseanchas II 30). Pléann de hÓir forás an fhoghair seo sa logainm áirithe sin in Dinnseanchas II 88. Rinne /~uː/ de sa Bhéarla ar deireadh, faoi thionchar an /m/ déliopaigh is cosúil. Cf. na réaduithe seo a leanas ar an ainm pearsanta Cú Bhladhma a chuireann idir /əi/, /eː/ in úil: 1607 ‘Cooleymy … Culemy’, 1466 ‘Charles alias Culaima O Duynd’ LS Uí Dhuinn 20, 136.

    Forbairt chomónta is ea /tl/ > /kl/ atá le feiscint sa cháilitheoir (cf. 1560c, 1569 le 1655, 1712).
    Tabhair faoi deara an mionainm The Priest’s Park SO léirithe lámh le Tobernasaggart SO < Tobar na Sagart “the well of the priests”.

Centrepoint

52.9612, -7.11957latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1549
Tonatielaon
Carrigan MS Imleabhar: 46, Leathanach: 63 & 64
1551
Tonetielvan
F Leathanach: 741
1560c
taom in tSliomháin
LBran. Leathanach: 68, Líne: 1778
1569
Towintlevan
Francis Cosbie, gent
F Leathanach: 1376
1570
Townilevan
F Leathanach: 1624
1593
Towinlevan
Edw. Fitz Henry
F Leathanach: 5824
1623
Tomelevane
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 24 J I
1654-6
Famatlaven
CS X Leathanach: 21
1655
Thomaclevan
DS
1660c
Thomaclavan
BSD (La) Leathanach: 105
1680
Thomaclavan
?
ASE Leathanach: 269
1685
Thomaclavan
Hib. Del.
1712
Tomaclave
CGn. Imleabhar: 9.151.3408
1838
Tomoclavin
BS:AL Leathanach: La065,19
1838
Thomaclavin
HCSV:AL Leathanach: La065,19
1838
Tomelevane
Ecc. Reg.:AL Leathanach: La065,19
1838
Tomoclavin
pl:AL Leathanach: La065,19
1838
Tuaim Uí Chlamháin, 'O'Clovane's tumulus or mound'
OD:AL Leathanach: La065,19
1838
Tomoclavin
OC:AL Leathanach: La065,19
2006
tomoˈklavin
Áit.

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