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From More Irish Families by Edward MacLysaght
*Both the forms of Slevin and Slavin are found today in equal numbers, chiefly in Ulster, 18 of the 25 births registered for the name in 1890 being from that province. O'Sleibhin, which is said to be derived from the Irish word (sliabh) a mountain was the name of a branch of the Cenel eoghain in Ulster, famous in the early medieval times as poets. Giolla Comhgaill O' Sleibhin, chief bard of Ulster, was associated with King Malachy in the northern resistance to Brian Boru; other Ulster poets of the name about the same time are mentioned by the Four Masters, as well as one who was chief poet of Oriel in 1168. Though seldom met with historical records of that that time they evidently did not sink in to obscurity since as late as 1514 we find in the Ormand Deeds a judgement of the Liberty Court of Tipperary in which Terrelagh O' Slevin, together with an O' Donnel is described as "pure Irish of the Irish Nation" when charged with acquisition of lands contrary to statute; and again in the Survey of County Fermannagh made in 1603, Munter Slevine are cited as "carbes" (coarbs) of Kiltierney in barony of Lurg.
* It would appear that by the middle of the next century families of the name had become established in the midlands since Slevin is included in the principal Irish Names in the barony of County Farbill, County Westmeath in the 1659 "Census". The name occurs at approximately the same date in the Hearth Money Rolls for County Armagh, County Donegal, and County Tyrone. The forms of are O' Slavin, O' Sleaven, O' Sleivan, O' Sclevin and O' Slamman.
*Slamon is occasionally used in County O' OFally in the neighborhood of Birr, as a synonym of Slavin.
*The second Chief Herald Of Ireland, Gerard Slevin retired in 1981.
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