BROWSE
civil parishtownland
Sléibhte
genitive: Shléibhte
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Sleaty
(English)

Glossary

English mountain, moor

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    Ní léir a bhrí.

    Téann an fhianaise Ghaeilge i bhfad siar, m.sh. 700c ‘o Sleibtiu’, 800c ‘Slebti’, ‘i Sleibti’, agus níl aon dabht faoi fhoirm cheart an logainm seo. É sin ráite, ní foirm iolra den fhocal sliabh “mountain” atá ann: s-thamhan ab ea an slíab sin sa tSean-Ghaeilge, slébe (.i. sléibhe) san iolra (féach www.dil.ie s.v. slíab). Thuairimigh T.F. O’Rahilly gur foirm uatha le foirceann atá sa logainm Sléibhte: ‘what the suffix is I cannot say … In Middle Irish slébte replaces O. Ir. slébe as plural of sliab (Already slebte, gen.pl., in LU 4022). Strachan has suggested that the new plural “is probably due to association with glenn and fán”; but it is more likely that the existence of O. Ir. slébte, sg., with collective (?) force, was responsible for the innovation’ Ériu 13 (1942) 137–8.

    Taispeánann an fhianaise traslitrithe 1197 ‘Slefta’, 1204 ‘Sleb[t]e’ rian den -bh- láir caol /βʹ/, /vʹ/. Rinneadh guta den chonsan áirithe seo i gcanúintí an deiscirt, áfach, agus tá fuaimniú an lae inniu le sonrú ar 1549 ‘Maydeslietye’ < Maide Sléibhte “the (crossing-)stick of Sléibhte” (ag tagairt don Ford SO nó do Sleaty Bridge SO, is dócha). Tá iarracht den ársaíocht nó den choimeádachas ag roinnt le litriú 1466 ‘Slebte’, is cosúil (sna Papal Letters atá sé sin le fáil, an foinse céanna arbh as 1204 ‘Sleb[t]e’ thuas); is é is dóichí ná go raibh an t-athrú fuaime seanbhunaithe faoin tráth sin.

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52.8563, -6.94841latitude, longitude
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Archival records

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Historical references

1549
Slietie
Carrigan MS Imleabhar: 46, Leathanach: 69 + 109
1549
Sliewtie
F Leathanach: 249
1549
Maiddeslitie
Carrigan MS Imleabhar: 46, Leathanach: 105 +107
1549
Mayddsliety
F Alt: 249
1563
Sleytye
F Leathanach: 529
1563
Sleytye
F Leathanach: 529
1564c
Sletey
Survey
1570c
Slade?
Lythe map
1590
Sleyty alias Skeltons rathe
Martin Lynte
F Leathanach: 5396
1616
Slety
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 5 J I
1623
Slety
CPR Leathanach: 570
1623
Slety
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 23 J I
1637
Sleaty
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 25 C I
1641
Sleaty
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 31 C I
1641
Sleaty
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 31 C I
1655
Sleati
DS
1659
Slety and Knockbegg
Cen. Leathanach: 500
1660c
Sleaty
BSD (La) Leathanach: 85
1669
Sleay
ASE Leathanach: 199
1685
Sleatie
Hib. Del.
2006
ˈsletiˑˈhous
Áit.
2006
sleːtiˑ
Áit.

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