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Ciarán

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Ciarán ♂ Traditional Irish name, now popular elsewhere in the English-speaking world (usually without the accent). It was originally a byname, a diminutive form of ciar ‘black’, which was borne by two Irish saints: a hermit of the 5th century and the founder of the monastery at Clonmacnoise (d. 547).

Variants: Cieran; Kieran, Kieron (borne, for example, by the Irish actor Kieron Moore, b. 1925), Kieren, Keiran. (Anglicized forms)

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Ciarán

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Ciarán ♂ (Irish) Traditional: originally a byname, a diminutive form of ciar ‘black’. It was borne by two Irish saints: a hermit of the 5th century, and the founder of the monastery at Clonmacnoise (d. 547).

Also: Kieran (Anglicized form).

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Ciarán

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | | Copyright

Ciarán, Kieran [Ir., dark, black]. A name borne by at least twenty-six Irish saints, according to early sources, of whom St Ciarán (1), founder of Clonmacnoise, is the best known.

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JAMES MacKILLOP. "Ciarán." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

JAMES MacKILLOP. "Ciarán." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-Ciarn.html

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