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- *calg-ac-os, 'possessing a blade', and is seemingly related to the Gaelic calgach (meaning 'prickly' or 'fierce'). Whether the word is a name or a title...
- "oak wood of Calgach", after an unknown pagan. John Keys O'Doherty, the Catholic Bishop of Derry from 1889 to 1907, sought to identify Calgach with Agricola's...
- takes its name after the monastic settlement originally founded at Daire Calgach and later known as Daire Colm Cille, Anglicised as Derry. In the Roman...
- from the settlement's earliest references, Daire Calgaich ('oak-grove of Calgach'). The name was changed from Derry in 1613 during the Plantation of Ulster...
- Church are cited as alternative possible locations of the monastery Daire-calgach; Doire-Choluim-Chille; Daire Duib-recles; Cella Nigra Derry Abbey Augustinian...
- the Latin for "Dove". Previously Daire Calgaich, "The Oak-wood of Calgach". Calgach may have been Calgacus. The name may come from Proto-Celtic *calg-ac-os...
- (the) oak', i.e. Kildare, and St Colum Cille favoured Doire Calgaich 'Calgach's oak grove', i.e. Derry; see also Durrow, darú, from dair magh, 'oak plain'...
- Seisd ’S e Fòghnan na h-Alba lus ainmeil nam buadh; Lus grinn nan dos calgach thug dearbh air bhi cruaidh; Sean-suaicheantas mòrail tir bhòidhich mo...
- Church are cited as alternative possible locations of the monastery Daire-calgach; Doire-Choluim-Chille; Daire Duib-recles; Cella Nigra 54°59′41″N 7°19′26″W...