Neasa

Hi, my name is Neasa and I would like to say that it means "not gentle" (rough). It is an Irish name and the name comes from Ness or Neas, then becoming Nessa who was the princess of the Ulaid and mother of Connor Mac Nessa. Originally called Assa ("easy, gentle"), because she was such a pleasure to foster. Cathbad, who was a leader of a band of the Fianna (landless warriors) as well as a druid, attacks her foster-fathers' house, killing them all. Because the culprit cannot be identified, Eochaid (Nessa's husband) is powerless to do anything about it, so Nessa forms her own band of 27 fianna to track him down, and becomes known as Ní-assa ("not easy, not gentle"), or Ness.