Irish name for a boy, really stuck!

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Help!

We are expecting our second child, Irish living in London. Our daughter has an Irish name and we are keen to give DS one too. But we can't find a single one we like or haven't had to rule out. I've googled and googled, need some serious inspiration!

Can't use the below for various reasons:
Sean
Oisin
Niall
Seamus
Conor
Liam
Ruairi
Fionn

Considering but not loving:
Tadhg
Conan

Roaring again 😂 😂

And never once have I associated the once lovely name Ronan with RK but thanks, now I will 😂

Also hadn’t heard of Cahir or Cashel as names! I suppose place names are far game…
Cahir is Cathaír or Cathaoir. It's a name. I've not heard it either but it's listed in "Irish Names" by Donnchadh Ó Corráin and Fidelma Maguire. They say it was widely used historically.
Cashel I have heard as a girl's name, spelt Caiseal, and I know a Kassel nn for Kathleen.

I love Macdara.

Love Tadhg!

It's surely not cathaoir 😂 but yes, it's Cathair, meaning city, Cahir was once a bustling and important trading centre (believe it or not!)

Macdara is super cool 😎

Oran?

Yeah! Weirdly, ten years of never having to explain it… all ruined one mumsnet thread later 🙈🙈🙈

Oh and if I had a third boy I would absolutely have gone for Einer if my husband hadn’t decided on Einer the whiner….
am still tempted to have another baby just to use it though and I love it

Einer?!? Never heard of that but your dh was right with that unfortunate rhyme!

Or to add to the cobfusion re Irish names and their spellings Donogh..... Though tbh most Irish people seem to convert it to Donnacha anyway
Dannan and Finian are lovely too imo

I love Shea.

It’s Scandi not Irish but I also have Swedish heritage so it fits for me 🥰

This has cracked me up 🐛

Quick pink pen for the spelling and grammar:
'Bheadh Mamaí sa chistin agus bheadh Daidí ag léamh an pháipéir..."

Are you going to be teaching your kids Irish , OP?

Ah, no need to overcomplicated things with bheadh!! 😂

Don't get all modh coinniollach on us @Mummyeyes

What's wrong with Tá @Mummyeyes?

Not in the primary school readers! It was always present tense.

Actually, maybe past tense too. Never bheadh though.

Did we have to mention the modh coinniollach...... Sent shivers right up my spine!!

I named my son Pádraig but you said you'd like to avoid the fada. To get it on your phone just hold down the a.

I don't like Cahir or Cashel as names they seem odd to me, but I am from Tipp. A bit like calling your child Brighton

Daithí
Micheál
Ciaran
Cillian
Cathal
Donnacha
Odhran
Peadar

Is it the spelling of Eoghan your DH doesn't like? Maybe Eoin?

Sorry! Just meant Mammy would be "sa chistin", with a séimhiú after "sa" and no fada in "cistin". Daddy would be "ag léamh an pháipéir", genitive case, with séimhiú after "an".
Lovely to see a bit of Irish in a sentence.

Daidí needs to get up off his arse and get into that cistin. Lazy fecker,

Ah im only messin, it is actually lovely to suddenly come across a bit of Irish and nostalgia of the primary school readers, I was just a bit thick when it came to the MC and tenses lol

Christy?