Caiseal

See also: caiseal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Caisel, from Latin castellum. Proper use of caiseal (“stone fort”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʃəl̪ˠ/, /ˈkaʃəlˠ/

Proper noun

(an) Caiseal m (genitive Caisil or an Chaisil)

1. (without the definite article) Cashel (a town in County Tipperary, Ireland)
2. (with the definite article) Cashel (a village in County Galway, Ireland)
3. (with the definite article) Cashel (a village in County Mayo, Ireland)

Declension

Declension of Caiseal (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Caiseal vocative a Chaisil genitive Caisil dative Caiseal forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Caiseal genitive an Chaisil dative leis an gCaiseal don Chaiseal

Mutation

Mutated forms of Caiseal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Caiseal	Chaiseal	gCaiseal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “Caiseal”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 108
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Cashel”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm