BROWSE
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Sráid Camden
genitive: Shráid Camden
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(Irish)
Camden Street
(English)

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  • Gaeilge

    Maítear ar uairibh gurb ionann Sráid Camden (Íochtarach) an lae inniu is an tseansráid Kevin’s Port, agus dá bharr sin gur cheart ‘Port Chaoimhín’ a thabhairt air as Gaeilge. Seosamh Laoide a chéadionannaigh iad, agus is é faoi ndear na seanchomharthaí sráide: cf. 1905 ‘Camden Street or Kevin’s Port, Dublin: Port Chaoimhghin, Baile Átha CliathPost-sheanchas I 41, ‘Kevin’s Port or Camden St., Dublin: Port Chaoimhghin, Baile Átha Cliath’ ibid. 79; 1911 ‘Port Chaoimhghin, Baile Átha Cliath: Kevin’s Port or Camden Street, Dublin’ Post-sheanchas II 100. Bhí dul amú ar an Laoideach, áfach, agus é ag iarraidh an t-ainm gallda Camden a sheachaint — ní do Shráid Camden a thagair an t-ainm Kevin’s Port ó cheart ach do Shráid Loch Garman (#1383468).

    Bhí an seanainm fós in úsáid ag muintir na cathrach sa 19ú haois: féach M‘Cready (1892) ‘Wexford-str. … is still popularly called S. Kevin’s-portDublin Street Names 42. D’áirigh sé Kevin’s Port ar cheann de na ‘Obsolescent Names … which, having disappeared from our current Directories and Maps, still linger on the lips of many of our humbler fellow-citizens’ ibid., xxi. Is cosúil go bhfuil an ceart aige freisin nuair a dhéanann amach gur thagair Kevin’s Port do sheangheata cathrach in aice Theampall Chaoimhín (ibid., 42). Cuir i gcás an cur síos ar theorainneacha na cathrach sna meánaoiseanna:

    1192

    . . . from the eastern part of Dublin and the southern part of the pasture which extends so far as the gate of the church of St. Keivin, and thus along the way so far as Kilmerecaregan, and so by the mear of the land of Duuenolbroc as far as the Dother . . . (Calendar of the Ancient Records of Dublin I 2)

    1327

    On the eastern side of Dublin and on the south side: the pasture which extends as far as St. Kevin’s gate and so by the way as far as Kilmerecaregan and by the boundary of the land of Dovenachbrok as far as Dodir . . .

    . . . from the gate of St. Kevin’s church, by the way towards the north, so far as the stone cross where the old market was formerly (marg: Butter cross), towards the west. Thence by the lane near the church of the Holy Sepulchre . . . (ibid. I 156–7) [Butter cross = acomhal Shráid an Easpaig le Cnoc Réamainn; cf. 17ú haois ‘Butter Lane’ = 18ú haois ‘Boater Lane’]
    1488

    . . . by west Danabrooke and by the hy wey is side, and so forth the streyght wey till thei came to St. Kevynes gate, and from that northward unto the lane that the cros of stone ys in . . . throw the lane to the hy way be este Seynt Pulchris, and so left Seynt Pulcrys and all St. Patrikkes close over the lyfte hand . . . (ibid. I 493)

    [cf. *c.*1705 ‘. . .From thence [sc. Donnibrook Road] by the South End of the said House through the Garden, and across the Fields by the Back of Mr. Leeson’s, to the Corner House at St. Cavan’s-Port, on the East side thereof, and through the said House. From thence by the West side of Cavan’s Port, to big Butter-Lane. From thence through Bigg Butter-Lane to Bride-street. From thence along Bride-street to Bull-Alley. . .’ (‘A Survey of the Liberty and Franchises of the City of Dublin’ in Ware, Antiquities (aguisín))]

    Cf. freisin tagairtí déanacha ar nós 1747 ‘several suits . . . one against William Taylor and Catherine his wife, receiver of the customs at Kaven’s port, for taking and receiving custom due to the city’ Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin IX 232.

    Tá neart samplaí Angla-Normannacha de port(e) (< L porta) sa chiall “gate; large entrance-way to a walled city, castle” (m.sh. http://www.anglo-norman.net/D/porte[1]). Bhí sé in úsáid sa chiall seo i mBaile Átha Cliath freisin: ar léarscáil an Down Survey de bharúntachtaí an Chaisleáin Nua agus na Croise Uachtaraí (*c.*1655), gabhann an bóthar i dtreo Dhún Droma amach as an gcathair trí ‘Ke[.]uens port’; tabhair faoi deara go ngabhann an bóthar i dtreo Ráth Fearnáin amach trí ‘New Street porte’ (mar a bhfuil An tSráid Nua Theas (#1379409) sa lá atá inniu ann).

    Réitíonn an fhianaise a fuair M‘Cready ó mhuintir na cathrach i 1892 go beacht le léarscáil de Gomme (1673) (a thugann ‘Keavans Port’ ar Shráid Loch Garman agus ‘Road to Rathmines’ ar an mbealach tuaithe — ní raibh aon tsráid ann an uair sin, ar ndóigh — mar a bhfuil Sráid Camden Uachtarach inniu) agus le léarscáil Wilson (1801) (a thugann ‘Kevinsport’ ar Shráid Loch Garman agus ‘Cambden Street’ ar Shráid Camden Íochtarach). Ní raibh ceachtar den dá shráid seo léirithe ar léarscáil Speed (1610) agus níl ceachtar acu ainmnithe ar léarscáil Brooking 1728 (níl an tagairt ‘Camden Street, Lower: … Keavans Port 1728 (Brooking)’ in Irish Historical Towns Atlas II cruinn — sin é an t-ainm a thugann de Gomme (1673) ar Shráid Loch Garman).

    Is cosúil go raibh eolas míchruinn ag Rocque (1756) (‘An Exact Survey of the City and Suburbs of Dublin...’): tugann sé ‘St. Kevans Port’ ar dhá shráid ar leith, mar atá (1) Sráid Chaoimhín Uachtarach (‘Keavans Street’ ag de Gomme (1673)), agus (2) Sráid Loch Garman (‘Keavans Port’ 1673) & Sráid Camden Íochtarach (‘Road to Rathmines’ 1673) araon. Léiríonn Rocque tithe ar gach taobh de Shráid Loch Garman — tá sé an-iontaofa ó thaobh na bhfoirgintí de — ach tá Sráid Camden Íochtarach gan tithe den chuid is mó. Truailliú eile ar na hainmneacha céanna atá ar leagan 1757 de léarscáil Rocque (‘Survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin...’), mar atá ‘St. Kevans...’ ar Shráid Chaoimhín Uachtarach agus ‘...Port’ ar Shráid Loch Garman faoi mar a bheadh aon sráidainm amháin ar an dá shráid seo atá dronuilleach le chéile. Cloíonn Wilson (1760) agus Harris (1766) le hainmneacha seo Rocque (1757).

    Ar leagan leasaithe Scalé (1773) de Rocque (1756) tá tuilleadh tithíochta léirithe mar a bhfuil Sráid Camden Íochtarach inniu ach fágann sé seanainm Rocque mar a bhí .i. ‘St. Kevans Port’ scríofa ar feadh Shráid Camden Íochtarach agus Shráid Loch Garman araon. Ach tá fianaise againn i ngníomhas dar dáta 1779 (Clárlann na nGníomhas) go raibh stádas ag an ainm Camden Street faoin am sin; ar léarscáil Faden (1797) tá an t-ainm ‘Cambden Street’ scríofa ar feadh Shráid Camden agus Shráid Loch Garman araon.

    Mar achoimre, dhealródh sé gur do Shráid Loch Garman an lae inniu, in aice le seangheata darbh ainm St. Kevin's (Church) Gate (1192, 1327, 1488), a thagair an sráidainm stairiúil Kevin’s Port (1673, 1801, 1892, srl.). Is cosúil go bhfuil leagan amach na sráidainmneacha seo ag Rocque agus lucht a chóipeála siúd truaillithe (1756, 1757, 1760, 1766, 1773). Fiú más fíor go dtugtaí Kevin’s Port ar feadh scathaimh san 18ú haois ar na tithe nua a bhí á dtógáil laisteas de Kevin's Port freisin, is cinnte gur Camden Street a bhí ar an tsráid nua sin féin faoin mbliain 1779; deimhnítear é seo ar léarscáil 1797. Choinnigh Sráid Loch Garman a hainm stairiúil Kevin’s Port go háitiúil ar feadh an 19ú haois; níor thug muintir na háite an t-ainm sin ar Shráid Camden in aon chor (1892).

    Mar leis an leagan Gaeilge de, aistriúchán de chuid an Laoidigh ab ea ‘Port Chaoimhghin’ agus níl fianaise dá laghad gurbh ann dá leithéid riamh mar shráidainm dúchasach Gaeilge. Is é an focal AN port(e) (< L porta) ‘geata (cathrach)’ atá mar aicmitheoir sa sean-sráidainm Kevin's Port de réir gach dealraimh agus ní luaitear an bhrí sin leis an bhfocal Gaeilge port de ghnáth (eDIL, Dinneen, FGB). Díol mór spéise, áfach, an tsolaoid seo a leanas i mBíobla Bedell (1685), atá comhaoiseach leis an tagairt is sine dá dtagann anuas chugainn do ‘Keavans Port’ (ar léarscáil de Gomme (1673)): ‘Atá sí ag eígheadh ré táobh na ngeatadha a bport an bhaile, mar a ttigthear a steach annsna doirsibh’ (Seanfhocail 8:3) = ‘She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors’ [Bíobla Shéamais 1611] (= ‘Ag na geataí os comhair na cathrach; glaonn sí go hard ar an mbealach chun na ngeataí’ [An Bíobla Naofa 1981]). Ar ndóigh níl aon ghaol teangeolaíochta idir Caoimhín (< Caoimhghin) agus Camden: sloinne Sasanach é sin a thagann ón logainm Campden (< SBrl. camp ‘talamh imfhálaithe’ + denu ‘gleann (fada caol)’, Mills 1991).

    Sráid Loch Garman agus Sráid Camden (Íochtarach, Uachtarach) na leaganacha Gaeilge de Wexford Street agus Camden Street (Lower, Upper), faoi seach, atá le fáil in Sráidainmneacha Bhaile Átha Cliath (Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath, 2004).

    [leagan 11/9/2020]

  • English

    The Irish form on the old signage, ‘Port Chaoimhghin [Chaoimhín]’, was first proposed by the Irish scholar Seosamh Laoide in Post-sheanchas I (1905). However, the identification of Camden Street with the historical streetname Kevin's Port (1673, 1708, 1714, etc.) is mistaken. That name long predates the development of Camden Street (Lower or Upper) and referred to what is now Wexford Street (#1383468). It appears to derive from ‘St. Kevin's (Church) Gate’ near the junction of modern Wexford Street/Cuffe Street/Kevin Street Lower/Redmond's Hill (used as a city-boundary mark in the Riding of the Franchises in 1192, 1327, 1488, *c.*1705, etc.) — port(e) (< Lat. porta) is an attested Anglo-Norman term for a city gate. It was used in this sense in Dublin: the Down Survey map of *c.*1655 shows roads leaving the city to the south through ‘Ke[.]uens port’ and ‘New Street porte’.

    Until the second half of the 18th century what is now Camden Street (Lower and Upper) is shown on maps as a largely rural road leading to Rathmines. The name Camden Street is first attested in a legal document dated 1779, at which time building was underway along both sides of the new street. Faden's map of 1797 shows ‘Cambden Street’ along the modern Camden Street and Wexford Street. A map of 1801 names Wexford Street ‘Kevinsport’ and the almost fully-developed Camden Street ‘Cambden Street’. Wexford Street (not Camden Street) was still locally known as ‘Kevin's Port’ at the end of the 19th century.

    See the Irish note for further information and full references.

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