BROWSE
townland
Seimhdileach
genitive: Sheimhdilí
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Shivdelagh
(English)

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    dirty place
    Féach A Dictionary of the Irish Language, www.dil.ie, s.v. seimdellech, 'an epithet applied to a dirty house'

  • English

    dirty place
    See A Dictionary of the Irish Language, www.dil.ie, s.v. seimdellech, 'an epithet applied to a dirty house'

Centrepoint

54.1961, -8.16789latitude, longitude
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Historical references

ˈʃivɪlə
Áit.
ˈʃivˌdilə
Áit.
ˈʃivdɪlə
Áit.
Nóta
Nóta
Shivdilla, p, b: Mohill Seimhdile
Nóta
n/a
"Pinkman: Seimhdile = A beetle. Seimhdile means a beetle for beetling clothes and, by extension, the place where this work was done. Heavy clothes were soaked with water and beaten on a large flat stone with a wooden beetle or mallet, until they were at least partially clean. It was a common way of washing clothes, heavy clothes particularly, in former times. In his Supplement to O’Reilly’s Dictionary, O’Donovan gives seimdille, seindile, a beetle for beetling clothes, and also the form sidhdille. Dineen has seimdille with the same meaning. And Joyce gives seimhdile as the Irish form of Shivdela. Compare Kinatevdilla, the western point of Clare Island, of Co. Mayo, Ceann-a-‘tSeimhdile, beetle head (Joyce). Another name for a beetle of this kind is ‘slis’. The Four Masters use the word at AD 1288, when they write Áth-Slisean, ford of the beetles. "
Nóta
"Arch. Inventory: Enclosure. On top of a drumlin in a coniferous forest (159). "
Nóta
1622
the 2 Seeveddillaghes
CPR Leathanach: 520b
1660c
?Sinedillaghkelly; Sinedillagheightragh
BSD Leathanach: 75
1696
Shindallaght
Inq. Leathanach: 191
1736
The two Slevedeloghs
CGn. Leathanach: 86.216.60068
1817
Shivdela
Larkin
1836
Shivdela
BS:AL
1836
Shivdela
Larkin (Li)
1836
Shevdellaugh
Peace, Clerk of:AL
1836
Sibhdeal:ach
'abounding in rushes, or bulrushes'
OD:AL
1836
Shivdelagh
OD:AL

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