[antir-heralds] name help - Eilionoira de Carrighow

[Ursula Georges]

> The link Ursula provided says:
> "Further information about the name Eilionora, may be found in:
> 
>     * OCM
>       <http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Common/Sources.html#Sources>
>       (p. 18 s.n. Ailionóra)."
> 
> The footnote lists OCM = Donnchadh Ó Corráin and Fidelma Maguire, Irish 
> Names.
> Could someone who has this book please look up this entry and send me 
> the information.  It would be greatly appreciated.

This name was probably introduced to Norman England through Eleanor of 
Aquitaine . . .  Norman influence introduced it to Ireland, where, among 
others, it was borne by the daughter of the Earl of Kildare, wife of 
Conn O/ Ne/ill, Early of Tyrone (d. 1497) and by a daughter of the Earl 
of Desmond, wife of O Rourke (d. 1589).  The normal English forms in use 
in Ireland are <Eleanor> and <Eleanora>.

Ursula Georges.