Baile an Chinnéidigh

The Irish toponym 'Baile an Chinnéidigh' means 'Town of the Kennedys,' deriving from the genitive form of the Kennedy family surname (Chinnéidigh in Irish, from Old Irish Ó Cinnéide meaning 'descendant of Cinnédidh'). The settlement's modern name dates to the mid-seventeenth century when Sir Robert Kennedy, a Chief Remembrancer of the Irish Exchequer, established Mount Kennedy as his principal ...