Sullivan/Sullivant: Anglicized form of the Gaelic O'Suileabhain
, descendant of Suileabhan , a given name composed of the elements suil
= eye + dubh = black, dark + the diminutive suffix -an.
Then there is the story of an Irish chieftan that lost an eye in
battle and became known as One-Eye.
Sullivan - O Suileabhain, descendant of Suileabhain (suil means
"eye" and
Levan is a Celtic deity. Therefore, this is the "eye of the god")
A note on links to other sites. If you click on a link and get a "page not found" error, try deleting the file name from the address line. This should take to to the default home page. For example, if you delete the irish.html from the address line above, it will take you to my home page.
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~dsulliva/irish.html --->
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~dsulliva/
An alternative is to use the archive feature "The Wayback Machine" which keeps a copy of old web pages at: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.
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