Glaiséidí/Glashedy Island

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Glaiséidí

genitive: Ghlaiséidí

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(Irish)

Glashedy Island

(English)

Capitalise

Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Inis Eoghain Thoir/Inishowen East

municipal district

Inis Eoghain/Inishowen

civil parish

Cluain Maine/Clonmany

electoral division

Baile Lifín/Ballyliffin

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

(island of the) green covering

Oileán carraigeach le haillte ar gach taobh de is ea é seo. Tá barr an oileáin réasúnta réidh, agus tá brat glas féir ar a mhullach. Measaimid gurb é atá san ainm ná comhfhocal a chuimsíonn an aidiacht glas “of green or greenish hue”, (DIL) agus an t-ainmfhocal éide (étiud, éted sa tSean-Ghaeilge) “raiment, covering, garment” (DIL) agus gur ag tagairt don bhrat glas seo atá ar bharr an oileáin atá sé. (JÓG 09 Meitheamh 2025)
English

(island of the) green covering

This is a rocky island with cliffs on all sides. The top of the island is fairly flat and covered with grass. It seems likely that the name contains a compound of the adjective glas “of green or greenish hue”, (DIL) and the noun éide (étiud, éted in the older language) “raiment, covering, garment” (DIL), and that this refers to the grass covering on top of the island. (JÓG 09 June 2025)

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55.2661, -7.41613latitude, longitude

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Archival records

Historical references

1621	“seale-island" al’ Glasheidy	Inq. Ult. Leathanach: 11 JI Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum Repertorium Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Bliain: 1829
1621	Seale-Island al’ Glassiedy	Inq. Ult. Leathanach: 11 JI Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum Repertorium Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Bliain: 1829
1625	insul’ vocat’ Seals-illand al’ Glassneddy	Inq. Ult. 1 CI Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum Repertorium Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Bliain: 1829
1654	island of Glasseve	CS III Leathanach: 2 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1661	Seale Iland	Parsons Hollar Map (BM) Map of Inishowen, showing loughs Swilly and Foyle and the land around. 1661 Etching. Wenceslaus Hollar, Sir William Parsons. Leagan ó Mhusaem na Breataine / Copy from The British Museum. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Q-6-140
1669	Seal-Island alias Glashyedie The Island or Rock called Seal-Island alias Glashyedie in the Sea, near the Quarter of Land of Carrickeybrackey, with the Fishing for Seals there.	Chic. Pat. 136 'confirmation of the Chichester Patents enrolled 1669', in R. M. Young, Historical Notices of Old Belfast and its vicinity (Belfast, 1896) lgh. 127-138.
1767-1770	Island of Glashedy	Crow Inishowen D835/1/1/80 Plans of the Earl of Donegall's estates in the barony of Inishowen, Co. Donegal, surveyed and measured by James Crow. 1767-1770 Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) D835/1/1
1805	Glassidy	CGn. 570.223.380878 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1941	Oileán Glaiséidí	Béal. Leathanach: XI 85 Béaloideas (A Journal of Irish Folklore) Imleabhar 1- Bliain: 1930-
1969	ïl′ən gləˈʃeˑᴅ′e	LASID IV, 30 Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects I (1958), II (1964), III (1966), IV (1969) Údar: H. Wagner

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