Mike, That is highly possible. There are many different accents, not only among the English, but also among the Irish. The major variations on Cullinan appear to have come about as a substitute for nicknames as far as I can find, but some of the other variations do appear to be speech/accent related. It is also possible that later, post-Cromwell, Coleman becomes one of the anglicized versions of either Colman or "Cullinan" or both, used by those changing religions. Collins is the most usual anglicization, but we might slot Coleman in there tentatively also. In any event, I don't think we can completely ignore it. Soon I have to tackle the 82 St. Colman's, at least in part, and then maybe I can better place the Coleman surname around Tipp. Janet On Dec 13, 2007 4:11 AM, Michael J. McDonald <m.mcdonald@computer.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 12:29, Janet Crawford wrote: > > but I > > suspect there is also a corruption here corresponding to the other parts > of > > Tipp. > Janet, > I'm not really qualified to weigh in on this , but my comment is more of > a > question anyway. I was wondering about how the name Coleman is typically > pronounced in Ireland. My American-English ears hear it as two syllables, > Coal-Man; might a Gaelic tongue speak it as three syllables, Col-le-man? > I've hear Liam Clancy recite passages of Joyce and the sound helps in > getting the puns in a way that text on a page doesn't allow; might be > a related phenomena going on if an an English scribe were recording names. > > Mike > GGGrandson of Cornelius Callanan of Thurles > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >