Index of Names in Irish Annals: Descriptive Bynames: Cernach
by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien)
© 2000-2012 by Kathleen M. O'Brien. All rights reserved.
Version 2.4, updated 03 January 2012
Descriptive Bynames: Cernach
Meaning:
"[the] victorious"
Spellings:
What we know as a set of Irish Annals are manuscripts that were each compiled during a
particular time period, usually using older material as sources. For example, when
the Annals of the Four Masters were written from 1632 to 1636, they covered events
that occurred centuries and millenia before (including legendary history). So, when
an entry in this set of annals refers to a person who lived in the year 738, the
spelling used for that person's name is very likely not using the spelling that
would have been used in 738.
Standard forms of this name (based on spelling systems of different periods) would be:
| Oghamic Irish (pre-700) nominative form: | [unknown] |
| Oghamic Irish (pre-700) genitive form: | [unknown] |
Frequency & Dates:
| Number of men found in the annals with this name: | 1 |
| Found in Years: | 1st C A.D. |
Research Notes:
[Answering a question about the meaning of Cernach:]
Possibly "victorious, triumphant" in this sense it was an epithet of
Conall son of Amorgin (DIL). Another Conall, unidentified, bore a
homonymous epithet that may have meant "having an excrescence"." [email from Talan Gwynek - 15 Jul 2001]
FM (vol. 5, p. 1690, footnote "d")
identifies this person:
Conall Cearnach - He was the most distinguised of the heroes of the Red Branch
in Ulster, in the beginning of the first century and the ancestor of the O'Mores, and the
seven septs of Leix, in the Queen's County.
The meaning of this byname is identified in the index of another source:
"Conall (Conald R 15) Cernach, 'the victorious,' hero of Ulster, ..."
[Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó, p. 64]
Sources:
Further information about the byname Cernach, may be found in:
The Sources page lists the Annals referenced below.
Information about secondary sources is included on that page as well.
Raw Data
In the table below, I have separated individuals with a blank line. That is, when there are multiple
entries in the annals that refer to a single person, those entries are grouped together.
Within the list of entries refering to a single person, I have sorted the entries
primarily by orthography when it is obvious that what I am seeing is the same entry
showing up in multiple annals. The entries that tend to use older spellings are listed first.
NOTE: The Annals referenced below under the code letters A, B, C, E, & F tend to use
later spellings than the other Annals. In some cases, the spellings listed in these Annals
may not be appropriate for the year referenced in the Annal entry.
In some Gaelic scripts, there is a character that looks approximately like a lowercase f,
but without the crossbar. This character (represented by an underscored , e, in
the entries below) sometimes represents e and sometimes ea depending upon the
context of the text.
| [Standardized form of this man's name] |
| Annals | Entry | Context | Citation (formatting preserved) |
| |
| [Conall Cernach] |
| R | genealogy 57 | | Cenél Lugdach Laíchsig m. Conaill Cernaig |
| R | genealogy 408 | | Lugaid Loígsech Cennmár m. Conaill Cernaich |
| R | genealogy 410 | | Conall Cernach |
| R | genealogy 447 | | Lugaid Laíchsech Cennmár m. Conaill Cernaig |
| R | genealogy 449 | | Lugaid Loíchsech Cennmár [unrelated] m. féinnida .i. m. Conaill Cernaich |
| R | genealogy 937 | | Conall Cernach |
| R | genealogy 938 | | chlainn Conaill Cernaich |
| R | genealogy 938 | | Findchaid m. Óengusa m. Gáeth m. h- Ubláith m. Rochada m. h-Íréil Glúnmáir m. Conaill Cernaich |
| R | genealogy 939 | | Dáire mc Íréil Glúnmáir m. Conaill Cernaich |
| R | genealogy 1482 | | Iarél Glúnmár m. Conaill Cernaich |
| R | genealogy 1493 | | Conall Cernach |
| R | genealogy 1494 | | Clann Conaill Cernaich |
| R | genealogy 1658 | | Conall Cernach |
| R | genealogy 1688 | | Flaithbertach m. Echmílid m. Áeda m. Echmílid m. Áeda m. Echmílid m. Óengusa m. Aitíd m. Laigne m. Blaithmeic m. Domnaill m. Conchobuir m. Bresail m. Fergusa m. Áedáin m. Mongáin m. Sáráin m. Maine m. Fothaid m. Conaill m. Cóelbad m. Cruind Ba Druí cuius filius Eocho C[gap: illegible/extent: 3 letters] m. Fráechair F[gap: illegible/extent: 6 letters] m. Fergusa Fo[gap: illegible/extent: 3 letters] m. Lugdach m. Rossa m. Imchatha m. Feideilmid m. Caiss m. Fiachach Araidi m. Óengusa Goibnenn m. Fergusa Gall[gap: illegible/extent: 3 letters] m. Tipraite (qui occidit Conn Cétchathach) m. Bressail Bricc m. Briúin (qui subintrauit Loch Láeg) m. Feirbb m. Máil (qui occidit Tuathal Techtmar) m. Rochride m. Cathbath m. Ailchada m. Cuindchatha m. Findchatha m. Muiredaich m. Fiachach Findamnais m. Iaréol Glúnmáir m. Conaill Cernaig |
| Co | 1421.2 | | Conall Cernach |
| LC2 | LC1521.2 | | slechta Conaill Cernaigh ["the race of Conall Cernach"] |
| Co | 1521.3 | | Chlainni Conoill Cernaigh ["the Children of Conall Cernach"] |
| E | M1575.3 | | Clanna Conaill Cernaicch ["the descendants of Conall Cearnach"] |
| E | M1576.17 | | Conaill Cearnaigh ["the race of ... Conall Cearnach"] |
| F | M1600.37 | | Slechta Conuill Chernaigh ["the race of Conall Cearnach"] |
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