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From: Pat Traynor <>
Subject: Re: What is hEochadha?
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 07:40:57 -0800

Quoting.....Lyn McLeavy <>
>Can someone put me in the picture please?
>Many thanks,
>Lyn in Tasmania, Australia
>

Put you in the picture???? What picture?
Has someone called you that name?
Do you carry a weapon when you ride? 8-)

Eoch, or each = horse
Chadh = warrior, I think.

I found no "CHADA" word so it may be a phonetic mispelling of CHADH.
I find many names with the "chadh" at the end of them.
Finnchadh = "Red warrior" for instance.
Murchadh = "Sea warrior".

So, I assume that Eochchadh would mean a mounted warrior or maybe a knight?

Usually the "h" as you show it, would be preceeded with "O', and
followed by a hyphen, as in O'h-Eochagain, which name was
anglicised as HAUGHION.

EOCHAIDH was a popular name in Irish legends.
I think it would be difficult to pin that onto one particular
surname, if that is what you are trying to do.

Patrick Traynor, in California's gold-rush country.

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