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== Eponyms == The town of [[Enniskillen]] ([[Irish language|Irish]] ''inis Cethlinn'', "Cethlenn's island") in [[County Fermanagh]], [[Northern Ireland]] is named after her.<ref name="History of Irish Place Names">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2I_UAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA163 | title=The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, Volume 1 | publisher=Longmans, Green | author=Joyce, Patrick Weston | year=1901 | pages=163 | isbn=1143292944}}</ref> It has also been suggested that the name of Cethlenn may have influenced the name "Cathaleen's Fall(s)" used for the [[Assaroe Falls]] in [[County Donegal]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/111066 |title=Eas Chaitlín/Cathaleen's Fall |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=[[Placenames Database of Ireland]] |page=AN111066-3 |quote=Más ainm nua-chumtha é Cathaleen's Falls, b'fhéidir gur faoi thionchar KETHLEN – a d'éirigh an fhoirm seo.}}</ref> This name is now used for the [[Cathaleen's Fall Hydroelectric Power Station|hydroelectric dam]] built at that location.
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