Dindsenchas or Dindshenchas (modern spellings: Dinnseanchas or Dinnsheanchas or Dınnṡeanċas), meaning "lore of places"[1] (the modern Irish word dinnseanchas means "topography"),[2] is a class of onomastic text in early Irish literature, recounting the origins of place-names and traditions concerning events and characters associated with the places in question. Since many of the legends being related also concern the acts of mythic and legendary figures, the dindsenchas has been an important source for the study of Irish mythology.
^dind "notable place"; senchas "old tales, ancient history, tradition" - Dictionary of the Irish Language, Compact Edition, 1990, pp. 215, 537
so-called "prose dindsenchas" is often distinguished from the "verse", "poetic" or "metrical dindsenchas"). As a compilation the dindsenchas has survived...
considered here. The Rennes Dindsenchas The Bodleian Dinsenchas; the metrical Dindsenchas. Stokes says the Dindsenchas of Port Láirge matches the description...
Boyne: on Finns death. Two poems on the dindsenchas of Almu. Poem on the dindsenchas of Fornocht Poem on the dindsenchas of Ráith Chnámrossa Poem ascribed to...
healer for the Tuatha Dé Danann, and son of the Dagda according to the Dindsenchas. He was the father of Cu, Cethen and Cian. His other children were Miach...
The epithet Connla's Well is known from the Dindsenchas. Another well is described in the dindsenchas about Boann, in the text as ("Secret Well") mythologically...
Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine The Metrical Dindsenchas "Odras" Poem 49 "Dindsenchas "Fid n-Gaible"". Borlase, William Copeland (1897). The...
to come from a Proto-Celtic name meaning "true vigour". The medieval Dindsenchas derives it from "one desire", explaining that Boann gave him the name...
yet harsh and inhospitable. However, the poem Carn Hui Neit from the dindsenchas praises Bres' "kindly" and "noble" character and calls him the "flower"...
maintained by continuous trampling and grazing of livestock. In the Dindsenchas Macha is called Grian Banchure, the "Sun of Womanfolk" and is referred...
Dindsenchas "Boand II" Poem 3 The Yellow Book of Lecan “The Wooing of Etain” The Yellow Book of Lecan “The Wooing of Etain” The Metrical Dindsenchas "Cnogba"...
time. Meanwhile, nine months pass and Boann gives birth to Aengus. The Dindsenchas explains the name Aengus as meaning "one desire", because the Dagda had...
become joint High Kings of Ireland. Another figure mentioned in the Dindsenchas, Conan Honey-mouth, is described as the son of the Dagda and may be the...
Nemain implies that the two are one and the same personality. In the Dindsenchas, Nemain "of the wounds of war" is described as the "law-giver wife" of...
Óenach Tailten) in Co. Meath, site of the Óenach Tailten. A legendary dindsenchas "lore of places" poem relates a myth connecting the presumed goddess...
adjective noun derived from fúaimm "noise, sound". To cite one example, the dindsenchas poem on Nás speaks of fáidiud find-gel fúamnach Fáil ("the lamentation...
cruach meaning "stack" or "peak". Aigle was an old name for the area. The Dindsenchas (lore of places) says that Aigle was a prince of Connacht who was slain...
of journeys to the Otherworld (such as The Voyage of Bran), and the Dindsenchas ("lore of places"). Some written material has not survived, and many...
cognate with Gwenhwyfar, the original Welsh form of Guinevere). The Dindsenchas also mention a Findabair who is the daughter of Lugaid Laigde. Though...
tradition buried in the ringfort behind Colpe church. An alternative Dindsenchas tradition associates the name with the Máta, a massive aquatic creature...
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