ulster ireland surnames

In its modern form it occurs in the 1664 Hearth Money Rolls for Co. Armagh, and Samuel Ireland was one of the Poll-tax Commissioners for Co. Louth in 1660. It came into special prominence with the arrival of Sir John Norris, who was responsible for the terrible massacre at Rathlin Island in 1575. (Simon of Ramsay) who is found in Livingstone in 1153 Murphy (23511) 3. Another brother, Henry (d.1599), is favourably mentioned by the Four Masters. The most famous of the name in Ulster was a Presbyterian minister, the Revd James Porter, 1753-98, of Greyabbey, Co. Down. The Uí Méith Mara, meaning "Omeath by the sea", was seated in Cualigne in northern County Louth. Many in Ulster are of English stock The Uí Echach Beg and Uí Echach Mór are noted as two branches of this group, but are also placed as being in Dál nAraidi and thus maybe part of the Uí Echach Cobo. A common name in Tyrone, this family were from the Scottish Borders known for centuries as the “Bellis” of Annandale Dumfriesshire. The same man was also associated with the Abbey of Coldstream Campbell (11115) 5. Probably from the old English personal name Leodgeard or from the office of “legate” an ambassador, a delegate etc. Origins in Ulster : Plantation In Wales William was made Gwilym, which became the surname Gwilliams and Then Williams. For a time the Cenél Eóghain and Cenél Conaill alternated as kings of the Northern Uí Néill until the 8th century. Origins in Ulster : Plantation Scottish Gaelic O’Conaill  It is to be distinguished from Ó hOisín and Ó hOiseáin (see Hession and Hishon). However there is also an Irish name O’ hAodha “decendant of Hugh” which in County Armagh especially around Keady which has been anglicised as Hayes and even Haffy and Mehaffy. Fir Luirg survives in the present-day name of the barony of Lurg, County Fermanagh. In the fourteenth century a branch migrated to the Glens of Antrim and settled at Crebilly near Ballymena. Scottish family name also found as Dixon in England. As with many of the “Gille” names derives from “Servant or devotee of Mary”. The Annals of Ulster record that in the year 892 there was great confusion among the Norse men when “Sitriucc son of Imhar” was slain by another Norseman. Englishmen of the name began appearing in Ireland from the 14th century and one Forde family of Devonshire managed to become substantial landlords in Meath. Septs include the Ó Comhraidhe (O'Curry, Currie), Uí Meic Uais Breg, in the barony of Upper Kells and Lower Navan, county Meath. Here are the 100 most common surnames in Ulster for the 1901 census. “Twixt Wigton and the town of Air Derry-born Samuel McCurdy Greer (1810-1880), who ended as county court judge of Cavan and Leitrim, was co-founder of the Tenant League in 1850 with Charles Gavan Duffy. Outside of Dublin this name is found only in Ulster where it is most common in Co. Antrim. This “ Adams” family were early settlers in Cavan. All common Anglicised forms provided relate to usage in the province in Ulster and thus do not contain other Anglicised forms that relate to mirror Gaelic names from outside of Ulster. century. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Irish_clans_in_Ulster&oldid=962926352, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Uí Meic Uais Mide, in the barony of Moygoaish, county Westmeath. He also founded the Press Club. Williams is less common in Ulster than in Leinster and Munster. Origins in Ulster :Plantation Scottish Century), More properly MacClean. The Lowland Scottish names draw very heavily from the western seaboard counties of the Lowlands, with many families from Ayrshire, Wigtown, Kirkcudbright, and Renfrew (using the older county names). Mac Fionnmhacháin or Mac Fhionnmhacháin. The unusual name MacAragh  which is taken from Wade and McQuaide can be found only in Irvinestown County Fermanagh. Origins in Ulster: Plantation Scottish. Common in Fermanagh since the Plantation this family can be of either English or Scottish extraction. A brother of Daimhín called Cormac was ancestor of the Maguires and the O'Devines, Lords of Tirkennedy. Origins in Ulster: Plantation Scottish The name was originally spelt Ap’Corsan and this family were very prominent in Kilcudbrightshire and Dumfriesshire where Cosans were provosts for several generations. (The Scandinavians did not use the sound 'ch'.) In England the name Ross is found in 17th was very popular in 17th century Edinburgh. W G H P. 11 You will need an atlas or map of Scotland At the foot of the page you will find 8 Ulster-Scots surnames that are also places in Scotland. For example, the Irish name Ó Flaithbheartaigh is Anglicised as Flaherty, Flaffery and Flaverty in Connacht, however due to the aspiration of the 'F' in Ulster Irish, it is Anglicised and recorded as Laverty and Lafferty in Ulster thus the F variants have been excluded. De Bard also appears in the following century in Aberdeenshire and the Lothians. Cú Muighe Ó Floinn is cited as being king of the territories of Uí Tuirtri, Fir Lí, Dál Riata, and Dál nAraidi. Its origins in Old English refer to a “bunion” or a lump of dough from which it became the nickname for a pastry cook or baker. T.H. They are a branch of the MacMahons of Oriel, forst noted as Sliocht Ardghail Mhóir Mhic Mathúna, 'the stock of Ardghal Mór MacMahon', who was chief of the MacMahons from 1402 to 1416. This name is explained by several experts as being “hopper” from a dancer who performed at county fairs. century Yorkshire from the town of Roos . The principal families of the name came to Ireland in the seventeenth century, the earliest in the Plantation of Ulster and others a generation later. Ewing is quite a numerous surname in Ireland; in 1866 there were 27 births registered for it. century. Kelly (10965) 6. taking their name from the Parish of Keir near Sterling. All common Anglicised forms provided relate to usage in the province in Ulster and thus do not contain other Anglicised forms that relate to mirror Gaelic names from outside of Ulster. The two principal families of Uí Briúin Bréifne were the O'Rourkes and O'Reillys, who after a great battle in 1256, split the kingdom into East Bréifne and West Bréifne. The Leggat name continued to have strong connections with Sterling right up to 1600. In Co. Monaghan the name Kirke is thought to be a variant of Carragher, Gaelic Mac Fhearchair, through the seventeenth-century variants Kearcher and Kirker. Thousands stayed on in Ireland, replacing those who had departed thus expanding the Ulster gene pool to encompass families from all over Scotland. Their ferocity (they were known as “The gentle Johnstons)  made it possible for them together with their former fellow border reivers neighbours the Elliotts and the Armstrongs, to survive the 1641 rebellion which drove out other more faint hearted families. Many Morrisons choose to settle in Fermanagh where the watery landscape best suited the old skills they had learned in the Western Isles. John De Kelly was Abbot of Arbroath in 1373. The MacBaxters were also noted on the Highland Border and in the Isles. The Uí Meic Uais are cited as having several branches; Yet the following are cited by Francis Byrne as being collectively known as the Uí Meic Uais, though groups of this name are also noted in the midland regions: The Uí Tuirtri descend from Fiachu Tort, a son of Colla Uais. The name is also well known in Co. Sligo and other parts of Connacht. The Uí Echach descend from Echach the grandson of Fiachra Cassán. Niall of the Nine Hostages had seven sons, two of which, Owen (Eoghan) and Conall Gulban (Conaill) traveled north from the over-kingdom of Connacht and into the northern and western regions of the over-kingdom of Ulster, an area equivalent to modern-day County Donegal. Richard Jennings, a Londoner, is recorded as being “carpenter” to the Drapers Company entrusted with building the first houses in  Moneymore in 1616. The Loves arrived as tenants of the Hamiltons of Barnscourt in Newtownstewart. He was granted 1000 acres in Teemore in the barony of Oneilland West in Co. Armagh. By the 12th century, the Cianachta would be conquered by the Ó Cathaín. From the Hebrew “Dawidh” meaning “beloved one” (David) we get simply “son of David” while Davison means “son of Davy” The Clan Davidson decend from David Dhu fourth son of Muiriach of Kingussie chief of Clan Chattan. The Fernmag, or Fer Fernmaighe, is an area around Lough Ooney, aka Lock Uaithne near Smithborough in the barony of Dartry, Co. Monaghan. The Uí Tuírtri territory would expand into the lands north of Lough Neagh as they were driven eastwards by the Northern Uí Néill about the 10th century. and therefore a direct branch of the very ancient Clan Donald which can trace its origins back to Roman Britain. The name Adam, Hebrew for “red” was very popular in medieval England. It bears the insciption in Irish Gaelic “Oriot do Gillacrist doringne t”, “A prayer for Gilchrist who made this cross”. Another of the “Gille” names. McCarthy (9201) 7. It is not numerous. Robert Hopper received an acre of land in the territory of Coldingham in 1275 10 Irish surnames that are always mispronounced in America The MacRobbs of Duror in Argyll were a sept of the Stewarts of Appinn. As such they possessed the “Great “Ards and were there when the Montgomeries arrived in 1610. In Ulster, a Kelly sept, claiming descent from Colla, the 4th century King of Ulster, was based in south Derry. Jennings is a Breton name coming from “Jenyn” a town in Brittany in France. Portpatrick and the Cruives of Cree According to tradition he says the name derived from Robert Rule a man who saved the life of King Robert the Bruce by diverting away a ferocious bull about the gore the King to death. Like their compatriats the Nobles were scattered by James and fled to Fermanagh to rejoin the Elliotts, Armstrongs and Johnstons. Origins in Ulster :Early Plantation c 1615. The cognate Ó Branghail appears to be obsolete now;  it occurs as O'Branyll in a late sixteenth century Fiant relating to Co. Cavan. From the Gaelic clann which means literally 'children'. However, the name is still known in Fermanagh, although more common in counties Tyrone and Derry. The name is Scottish and more properly MacRobb from Robb the Scottish pet name for Robert. The family can also be found in Stirling, Dunfreiss, and East Lothian. The following terms are noted in the Annals to describe or group the clans and septs that would descend from Rochad: The Clann Nadsluaig descend from Nadsluag, one of the sons of Cairpre Dam Argait, and part of the Síl Daim Argait. In the mid-nineteenth century O'Haras were still found concentrated in the barony of Lower Glenarm. The family of Wade are McQuaids, sometimes also spelt as McQuade. The Loiges, another branch of the Cruitin, live in the midlands. Little is known about the origins of the name. The Highland name MacWilliam was also anglicised as Williamson (see MacWilliams). The Morrisons of Lewis and Harris,kinsmen of the McLeods, had for years fought a bitter feud with their neighbours the McAuleys of Lewis over water rights. Turnbull, becoming Trumbul and so on to Trimble. Bringing with them large numbers of their extended family and kinsmen the Hamiton name soon became one of the most commonly found names in Ulster. Other Dicksons made their way to Down and Antrim. Many of the Kilpatricks of Ulster especially in Fermanagh and Tyrone derive from East or West Kilpatrick in Dumbartonshire. MacBrearty has the same form in Gaelic but is most likely Irish. The family of Geddes of Rachan Pebblesshire were an official offshoot of this family. In Ireland very few of Blairs live outside Ulster where over half are from Co. Antrim and most of the remainder from counties Derry and Tyrone. Kirk was also noted as synonymous with Kirkpatrick around Coleraine and Limavady in Co. Derry at the start of the twentieth centry (see Kirkpatrick). Some of these surnames will appear in more than one county. Other MacRobbs of Callander and Kilmadock in Perthshire were also early settlers. The Hebrew name Elijah was made in Greek Elias and this personal name was very popular in medieval England. Woulfe makes this name Ó Fionnmhacháin and says it is a rare Munster name of which he can find no early form. Williams was never common in Scotland which retained the longer Williamson. See Lennon. Their territory was in County Monaghan. The kingdom of Bréifne region remained part of the kingdom of Connacht until the time of Queen Elizabeth I when it was shired into the modern counties of Cavan and Leitrim, with Leitrim remaining within Connacht and Cavan becoming part of Ulster. Origins in Ulster : English and Scottish Plantation. As such the O'Hamills claim descent from Binneach, son of Eoghan, son of the fifth-century Niall of the Nine Hostages, founder of the Uí Néill dynasty. Hughes is among the ten most commonly found names in Tyrone. The exact origins of this family are complicated when one takes into account the large numbers of both Irish and Scottish septs who share the names Johnston and Johnson. OBrien (8574) 8. The Highland Scottish surnames from Argyll, Lennox, and the Southern Hebrides; many of these families migrated to Ulster circa 1550-1600). On 29th December 1592 James Geddes “of Glenhigton” also fell victim to the treachery of the Tweedies in Edinburgh. In Donegal, where the name is most common, it is from Ó Corraidhín, giving Curran, Curren and Curreen. The prefix O' is now used only in Co. Derry, and there rarely. It is more common in Co. Antrim than elsewhere and most will be of English or Welsh origin. The Uí Briúin descend from Brion, son of Eochaid Mugmedon and Mongfind, and was an elder half brother of Niall of the Nine Hostages. Some didn’t make it the whole way and resettled on the island of Islay in the Western Isles where they can still be found in numbers. From the town of the same name in Roxburghshire. Ir. Doherty (12622) 2. They later migrated to Derry and Armagh. It is thought to be Flemish in origin and derives from the personal name Jenkin, a diminutive or pet form of Jan, Jen or Jon (John), originally spelt Janekyn. from Lanarkshire was a Planter who added the “s” in his lifetime. It is fairly common in both Scotland and Ireland from about the thirteenth century onwards but most in Ulster arrived in the post-Plantation period. MacCurdy and its variants are still found on Bute but have now disappeared from Arran, Kintyre and the Isles, having become Currie (see Currie). The Martins were early settlers in South Tyrone in the Ulster Plantation. This was very common in the Lowlands. A particular concentration of the name was noted north of Newry in Co. Down in the late nineteenth century. The Davidsons and McPhersons remained at feud thereafter. From the Irish Gaelic O’Maolchalann  “son of the devotee of St Calann”. Quigley is common in all the four provinces of Ireland but is most numerous in Ulster, particularly counties Derry and Donegal. Quigley. Strange though it seems Lynas or Lyness has been recorded in recent times as in use in the Newry area as a synonym of MacAleenan. It is the Scottish form of the English name Atkin, which comes from Adkin, a pet form of Adam. In Ireland Jenkins was gaelicised to Sincín or Seincín. Thompson (9026) 9. After the Conquest it became a very popular name and was pronounced and written as “Wauter”, hence the abbreviated form of Watt and Wattie. The Gilchrists in Tyrone are though to have originated in both Lanarkshire and Dunfriess. The first appearance of a Kennedy in Galloway can be found in the Annals of Ulster but this is a mistake. In Scotland were it was also popular it was used as a “pet” name for Aidy and Eadie. It is currently the third most numerous name in England, the first being Smith and the second, Jones. The territory of Airthir was centered in Ard Macha (Co. Armagh), along the eastern baronies of Orior. The word 'kirk' for 'church' is common in the north of England and in Scotland, areas where the Danes settled in the tenth century. Including a few for the synonyms Ewings and Ewin, while in 1890 the number was 24, in both cases almost entirely in Ulster. Ulster surnames making their mark from the Apollo to the White House From Neil Armstrong to Steven Bannon - the Irish literally are everywhere! At the beginning of the twentieth century the name was being used interchangeably with Haren in several parts of Co. Fermanagh and so some at least of the O'Haras of that county will be originally O'Harens, Gaelic Ó hÁráín. However, the family is not of Norse origin, but was a sept of the Cenél Eoghain based originally on the banks of the Foyle, near Lifford in Co. Donegal. Below is a list of other Irish septs in Ulster that can't be attached to any specific Cenél or Clann. “Famous “or Noble” This name was known in the home counties of England in the middle ages. the northman) is very frequent in Irish records since the thirteenth century. Variants of the name include Tonner, Tonra and Tonry. For example, the Irish name Ó Flaithbheartaigh is Anglicised as Flaherty, Flaffery and Flaverty in Connacht, however due to the aspiration of the 'F' in Ulster Irish, it is Anglicised and recorded as Laverty and Lafferty in Ulster thus the F variants have been excluded. An English family of the name settled in East Lothian in the 12th century and the name spead to Dumbartonshire. Ellison “ son of Ellis”  are a family from Berwickshire. Origins in Ulster : Scottish Plantation The name is also found as Rollstone and Rowlston. Some of the Irish sept of O'Hagan (see O'Hagan) may have further anglicised their name to Aiken. Marriages between the English, Scotch and Irish in Ulster also became frequent and in 1610 the law forbidding such marriages was repealed "to the great joy of all parties." However the Fermanagh South Tyrone Johnstons were of the Scottish border reiver family of that name. The Síl Fiachra Cassán, descend from Fiachra Cassán, a son of Colla Fochríth. The origin of the name is interesting. Reed and Reid is a name readily found in Tyrone. It is found in England as Jenyns as early as 1332. One of the principal chiefs of the Uí Tuírtri was the O'Lynns, who ruled from Lough Insholin, Desertmartin, County Londonderry - the name of which is preserved in the modern barony of Loughinsholin. In this case the name is territorial in origin, many of the Scottish Bairds descending from Normans who came to Scotland in the train of William the Lion in the twelfth century. The Morrisons were a Donegal family the O’Morrisons,from Clonmany in Inishowen, who migrated from Donegal to settle in the Scottish Isles in the 15/16th Smith (8314) 11. This name is equally common in Ulster, Leinster and Connacht, its main centres being Dublin, Co. Sligo and Co. Antrim. Later, the power of the leading family was broken by pressure from the O'Neills in the north and the Maguires in the south. 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