Girl's name
Ailís
“AY-leesh”
the Irish form of Alice
The story behind the name
Norman Alice became Ailís in Irish mouths. Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny, the subject of Ireland's first witchcraft trial in 1324, bore the Norman form; she escaped, and her maid was burned in her place.
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