Editing Shannon (given name) (section)

==Namesake==
The name ''Sionainn'' alludes to Sionna, a goddess in [[Irish mythology]] whose name means 'possessor of wisdom'. She is the [[namesake]] and matron of Sionainn, the [[River Shannon]]. The Shannon is the longest river in [[Ireland]]<ref name="behindthename">{{cite web |last=Campbell |first=Mike |title=Shannon |url=http://www.behindthename.com/name/shannon |access-date=7 October 2012 |work=Behind the Name}}</ref> and in the [[British Isles]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The River Shannon: A Journey Down Ireland's Longest River |first=Aiveen |last=Cooper |publisher=Collins Press |location=[[Cork (city)|Cork]] |date=2011 |isbn=978-1-84889-107-4 |oclc=751791624 |page=6 }}</ref>

Sionainn is one of seven rivers of knowledge said to flow from [[Connla's Well]], the well of wisdom in the [[Celtic Otherworld]] (the realm of the dead). Legends vary about the creation of the river, but they all recount the drowning of the Sionna, granddaughter of the great sea god [[Ler (mythology)|Lir]], usually at an undersea well. <ref>Bulik, Mark. The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War. Fordham University Press, 2015. Print.</ref>

According to the legend, nine sacred [[hazel]] (or, by some accounts, [[rowan]]) trees grow near the well, and drop their bright red fruit in it and on the ground.<ref>Domhnaill, Fadó. ''Tales of Lesser Known Irish History''. Leicestershire, UK: Matador, 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Land/Scape/Theater |editor-last=Fuchs |editor-first=Elinor |editor2-last=Chaudhuri |editor2-first=Una |year=2002 |publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]] |location=[[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]] |isbn=0-472-06720-6 |oclc=49618732 |page=65 |access-date=7 October 2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d3HxzFOvLCcC&pg=PA65}}</ref> In the well live the [[Salmon of Knowledge]], whose wisdom comes from eating this fruit. By eating the fruit or one of the salmon, one can share in this wisdom.<ref>{{cite book |title=History of Ireland: The Heroic Period |last=O'Grady |first=Standish |author-link=Standish James O'Grady |year=1878 |publisher=Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington |location=London |oclc=28088025 |series=Library of English Literature }}</ref>