BROWSE
townland
Seimhdile
genitive: Sheimhdile
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Shivdilla
(English)

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Explanatory note

  • English

    [like a] beetle (for beetling clothes)?

Centrepoint

53.9672, -7.84627latitude, longitude
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Historical references

ˈʃivələ/<br/>/ˈʃɛvələ
"I think"
Áit.
ˈʃivdïlə
Áit.
ˈʃivdələ
Áit.
Nóta
Nóta
(Shivdelagh) p: Inishmagrath b: Drumahaire
Nóta
n/a
"Pinkman: Seimhdile = A beetle Seimhdile means a beetle for beetling clothes and, by extension, the place where this work was done. Heavy clothes were soaked with water and beaten on a large flat stone with a wooden beetle or mallet, until they were at least partially clean. It was a common way of washing clothes, heavy clothes particularly, in former times. In his Supplement to O’Reilly’s Dictionary, O’Donovan gives seimdille, seindile, a beetle for beetling clothes, and also the form sidhdille. Dinneen has seimdille with the same meaning. And Joyce gives seimhdile as the Irish form of Shivdela. Compare Kinatevdilla, the western point of Clare Island, off Co. Mayo, Ceann-a’-tSeimhdile, beetle head. (Joyce). Another name for a beetle of this kind is ‘slis’. The Four Masters used the word at AD 1288, when they write Áth-Slisean, ford of the beetles."
Nóta
<s>1696<s>
<s>Shindallaght <s>
<s>(Shivdelagh p:Inishmagrath, b:Drumahaire)<s>
Inq. Leathanach: 191
1834
Shivdella
TAB Leathanach: 74, Nóta: (61:16/16)
1834
Shivedella
TAB Nóta: (61:16/16) recap.
1836
Shivdella
Rec. Name:AL
1836
Shivdela
BS:AL
1836
Shivdilla
HCons PR:AL 
1836
Shivdella
Norris, B.:AL
1836
Sruhallagh
S&V:AL
1836
Sibh dilla, seaibh dilla
pl:AL
1836
Síbhdílle
'means a beetle, i.e. for beetling clothes'
OD:AL
1836
Shivdillă
OD:AL

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