O'Dea
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O'Dea (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; Template:Langx, formerly Script error: No such module "Lang".), is an Irish surname derived from Script error: No such module "Lang"., the name of a tenth-century clan chieftain.[1] According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Deas were one of the chiefly families of the Dal gCais or Dalcassians who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC.[2]
O'Dea clan origins
The O'Dea clan, also found as O'Day or just Day, came originally from County Clare in Ireland where there is a fortified tower house over 500 years old known as O'Dea Castle[3] at the Template:Convert townland of Dysert O'Dea (Template:Irish place name).[4] The ruins of the Dysert O'Dea Monastery, round tower, and St. Tola's high cross are 265 metres to the south-southwest of the castle in the adjacent Template:Convert townland of Mollaneen (Template:Irish place name),[5] near Corofin.[6] (Template:Coord)
Edward MacLysaght, the former Chief Herald of Ireland, writing in his book, Irish Families, began his discussion of the O'Dea family as follows:
In another book, The Surnames of Ireland, MacLysaght describes the O'Deas as "one of the principal Dalcassian septs", and about the name itself, he remarks, "The prefix O is now almost always used, but a century ago Dea was quite usual and the surname Day was regarded as synonymous."[7]
Ancestry
The O'Deas – together with the O'Quinns (Template:Langx) and the O'Griffins (Template:Langx) – belonged to the Script error: No such module "Lang". group, which was a branch of the Dalcassian tribe.[8]
See also
- Day surname
- O'Day surname
- List of people with surname O'Dea
- O'Dea Castle
- Dysert O'Dea Monastery
- Battle of Dysert O'Dea
- Irish clans
References
Further reading
- O'Dea: Ua Deághaidh: The Story of a Rebel Clan, by Risteárd Ua Cróinín (Richard Cronin), Ballinakella Press, Whitegate, Co. Clare, Ireland, 1992. Template:ISBN.
- Irish Battles – A Military History of Ireland, by G.A. Hayes-McCoy, Appletree Press, 1990, Template:ISBN
External links
- O'Dea Clan website
- ↑ Cathréim Cellacháin Caisil, Alexander Bugge, page 88, https://archive.org/details/caithreimcellach00norsuoft/page/88/mode/2up
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- ↑ Dysart O'Dea Castle, Co. Clare by Risteard Ua Croinin and Martin Breen, The Other Clare, Volume 9, page 17. Shannon Archaeological and Historical Society, April 1985.
- ↑ Dysert townland at the Irish Placenames Database, logainm.ie. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
- ↑ Mollaneen townland at the Irish Placenames Database, logainm.ie. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
- ↑ Map of Dysert and Mollaneen at Ordnance Survey Ireland Template:Webarchive. Select Historic 6" option to see old townland boundaries. maps.osi.ie. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
- ↑ Surnames of Ireland, by Edward MacLysaght. Shannon: Irish UP 1969.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".