[antir-heralds] More on name: Fialan

[Darlene Edvall]

Greetings,

I posted the following on March 22nd and haven't seen a response.  Could 
someone help me with this, please and thank you?

Brigit


Greetings unto the list,

About a month ago, I asked about the name "Fialan" as a given name (the
submitter would like "Fialan mac Tuathail"). Fialan is the name of Finn
MacCumhail's son in the Irish legends, but it seems it was never used as
a given name in period.  

I have done some digging, and come up with these:

http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Fergal.shtml
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/GiollaIosa.shtml

According to these examples, "Ua Fialan" was used in 1452 and "O'Fialan"
was used in 1510. Is it reasonable to conclude that if there was a son
of Fialan, there had to be a Fialan? Could this be used as documentation?

Thank you :)

Brigit
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