Where does the name Slamon come from? The name is from the Irish word, Sliabh, meaning mountain. The earliest spelling of the name was OSleibhin. The Hearth Money Rolls for County Armagh, County Donegal, and County Tyrone, lists the following spellings of the name: OSlavin, OSleavin, OSleivan, OSlevin, OSlammon, OSclevin, Slamon, Slavin, Slevine, and Slevine. The first Anglicization of the name, Sleiven or Slieven appears in the names of certain mountains in Ireland: Viz Slievanamuck, Slievenanee, and Slievensnaught. The last meaning snow mountain. The OSlevin family is listed as one of the ancient clans and the Slevin family descended from Colla De Chrioch, one of the very early Irish Kings. Many members of the family, in medieval times, were bards and poets. Source internet February 2000 OSlevin, Slavin Mac Sleyne, Sliney Both the forms Slevin and Slavin are found today in about equal numbers, chiefly in Ulster, 18 of the 25 births registered for the name in Matheson s test year being in the province. Ó Sléibhin, which is said to be derived from the Irish word sliabh (a mountain) was the name of a branch of Cenel Eoghain in Ulster, famous in the early mediaeval period as POETS. Giolla Comhghaill Ó Sléibhin, chief bard of Ulster, was associated with King Malachy in the northern resistance to Brian Boru; other Ulster poets of the name about the same time are mentioned by the Four Masters, as well as one who was chief poet of Oriel in 1168. Though seldom met with in historical records after that time, they evidently did not sink into obscurity since as late as 1514 we find in the Otmond Deeds a judgment of the Liberty Court of Tipperary in which Terrelagh OSlevin, together with an ODonnell, is described as pure Irish of the Irish nation when charged with acquisition of lands contrary to statute; and again in the Survey of County Ferrnanagh made in 16m Munter Slevine are cited as carbes (coarbs) of Killtyerman in the barony of Lurg. It would appear that by the middle of the next century families of the name had become established in the midlands since Slevin is included among the principal Irish names in the barony of Farbill, County Westmeath, in the 1659 census. The name occurs at approximately the same date in the Hearth Money Rolls for County Armagh, County Donegal and County Tyrone. The forms used are OSlavin, OSleaven, OSleivan, OSclevin and OSlamman. Slamon is occasionally used in County Offaly, in the neighbourhood of Birr, as a synonym of Slavin. The present Chief Herald of Ireland is Gerard Slevin. It has been stated that Sleyne is basically the same as Slevin. I think this is not the case. ODonovan states that this name was a Gaelic patronymic (Mac Sleimhne) assumed by the County Cork Norman family of Fitz Stephen, one of whom was Bishop of Cork from 1701 to 1709. Gams gives his name as Skyne, which is an error for Sleyne. Gerald MacSleyney (1568) and David MacSleyney (1584) are among the County Cork Elizabethan pardons. Synonyms of this name found today are Sliney, Slyne and occasionally MacSliney. They are all rare. From More Irish Families by Edward MacLysaght OGormanlid Galway&Dublin Ó Sléibin Slevine, O Slevan, Slevin, Sleavin Sleevin, Slevan, Slavin, Slamon: from the diminutive form of the Gaelic sliav; a mountain. This surname was first established in the 7th century by a branch of Cinel Eoghain. Giolla Co(mg)aill O Sleivin was chief bard of Ulster in the reign of Malachy, King of Ireland before Brian Born. The Gaelic motto is translated Uppermost. Bard is a Celtic Poet. Source Irish Family Names by Captain Patrick Kelly copyright 1939 republished by Gale Research Co. Book Tower, Detroit 1976. Blazon of Arms SLAMON Arms: Gules a Lizard passant in fess or, in chief a trefoil slipped between two-holly leaves argent in base a garb of the second. Crest: An arm erect coupled below the elbow vested vert cuffed argent holding in the hand proper a holly leaf vert. Motto: An Üachtar Foremost
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