Tullyconnaught

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Tulaigh Chú Chonnacht 'Cú Chonnacht's hillock'

Tullyconnaught in the south-east corner of Seapatrick was part of Shankill precinct, the only such townland in the parish. Until the 19th century the forms did not have a final -t (e.g. Ballitullyconnagh 1611) However the present form looks likely to contain the personal name Cú Chonnacht 'hound of Connaught', which is attested in Co. Down among the O'Roneys in the 17th century (CPR Jas I 195b) and in the parish of Drumgath (Lurgancahone, PNI i 124). Maybe the place-name was written down before Ulster Irish dropped ch before t, and -t was only restored to the spelling when ch had gone. One would also expect some evidence for the first syllable of the personal name, whether cú undeclined, as in later usage in such names, or its genitive form con. In the earliest spelling of Lurgancahone, Lurganconnaght (1609), the element as shown in Lurgancoconaght in 1611 had dropped out by haplology. However subsequently Lurgancahone had a very different development, as shown by the current form.