Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1890-02-12
IRISH FAMILY NAMES.
Changes by Which "Mac'e" and
"O's" Have Become Lest.
The Transition of Patronymics from An
eient Irish Into the Present English
The Original of Murphy, Connolly
and Other Common Names.

Family names or hereditary surnames
hrst became fixed in ireland in the reign of
hrlan bofomha, between the years 1902 and
loit fof long time, says the Irish Times,
IL was a popular error that the prefix 20"
10 name signiiled that the bearer was of
royal descent while Mac had no special
Significance of high social standing This
error has been exploded by showing that
several Kings in Ireland have borne the
prefix of Mac to their names, while
some of the lowest and most obscure fam.
lies bore the prefix ''On When surnames
first became hereditary some families went
back several generations to select AN illus
trious ancestor from whom to take a name.
Mac signifies son, like the Anglo Norman
F1tz, acorruplion of the Latin flius, a son.
"O' was taken to signify that the name
was taken from grandfather or more re-
mote ancestor
Appended is a list of some of the populor
names to be met with every day, showing
the transition OF the name from the ancient
l"ish into the present English. In some in
stances several different names were made
from the same Irish name. Generally tho
change was made into something bearing
a similar sound to that Of the original
Mac and OGowan into Smith, MacIntyre
into Carpenter, MacSpallane into Spencer,
MacCongry into L'Estrnnge, MacCrossan
into Crosby, o Reilly into Ridley, ODonnell
INTO Daniels, O'Sulliva1 into Silvers and
Sllvan, MacCarthy into Carter, O'Neil into
Neil or Neel. MacConava was corrupted
into Conover, and Anglicised into Ford In
the same way y Marcachain was translated
into Ryder and Angliciscd Markham Mac
Conry was corrupted into Conroy, and er-
roneously translated into King Rogers is
an Anglcisation of the Irish name Mac.
Rory. Matthews is .the English Of Mac.
| Mahon. MaeCowan is the original from
which has been corrupted Camphill, Cam
bell, Howell and Caulield MacOscar in
like manner has been altered into Cosgrove
and Costello, MacMurtagh to Mortimer,
OClery to Clarke and Clerkin, OCindelan
TO Cunningham. Tho O'Dorcy's, of Galway,
altered their name to Darcy aud Orsay,
TO give the Impression that they were de-
scendants Of the Anglo Norman family of
Darcy. ODuiany is the original from
which is derived Delany and DeLani
Many Irish names have been abbreviated,
not through any desire on tho part of the
bearer to hide their origin, but IN order to
render the names more prmouncable in
English. Ofthese Mac l2ochaldh is only an
example and is now known as McKeogh
and Keogh, MacGllapatrick, to Fitzpatrick;
MacGilaroe, to Gilroy and kilroy; MacGilla
Brighde, to Mcbride; MacGllafinen, to Lin
den and Leonard; MacGennis, to Ennis and
Guinness; o Mulryan, to Ryan; MacMur-
ragh, to kavanagh.
The original of Murphy is O'Murchadha,
it was Augliciscd q Marcnoe and iatterly
Murphy. Connolly and Connolly are de-
rived from O'ConRhalaigh; Clancy is Mac
Fiannchadha in Irish, aad was Anglicised
MacClancy and then Cheney; the family
once owned tho barouy CT Rossclogher, in
the county of Letriln. Tgony comes from
Tuarh-da-Mhuighe; 1t was the name of two
barones in Kings County, ard was after
wards adopted by the family bearing the
Irish name 0 Aaoicheiu. Scully is derived
from OSeolaghe Quinn comes from
OCrinn, family once numerous and pow
crful in the County Tyrone. Phelan and
Whelan are each corruptions of O'Faolan;
O'roole in Irish is o Tuathail. Sullivan,
with and without the 0 preiixed, is derived
from O'Sulebhain.
The original Kelly, in Irish O'Cealaigh,
was descended from Aedh -Slaine, monarch
of Ireland. lis last representative was
Congalach o Kelly, Lord OF Bregia, who
died in 1902. The family afterwards became
scattered, SO that there are but few par
ishes in the country but has some Of these
kellys.
1t will be surprise to many to learn that
Byron is not an English name, but IL corrup-
ton of TIE ancient name of . Beirne, an
other corruption of Tho name being Bruin.
OBrolaghan is the original OF Bradley,
| while in Scotland it is made Brodie. Har-
rington is an Ang!ic,scd form of o Heraghy
| and o. OHennessy O'Hiomhair was changed
to Ivors BY the gentry and TO Howard by The
peasantry. . Aulhgun in the same way has
been changed TO Molyneaux and Baldwin.
| O'Honeen to Green, O'Rourke to Rookie,
| MacFirbis TO Forbes, o Cornain to Corbett,
O'Grieghan 10 Graham, = Heyne TO Hiudes,
Hyncs, Hne end Haynes or HaYne. o Bar
ran to Burlington ana Barron. Muvhughto
Hughes, MaeHilnmire to Gilmore, . OLeyue
| to Lyons, O'Houlahan to Holland q Drum
! to Drummond.
The Irish in early times also had distinct.
| i've Christian names and these have also uu-
| dergone Il change similar tothosein the sur
names, though frequently there nayo been
| no cause for tue Ang givsation; thus Cor
mack has been rendered into Charles, though
the latter is not translation and has little
| similarity in sound, Muhon was turned into
Matthew; I ige, into Timothy; ART, into
! Arthur; Donal, into Daniel; Goron, into
Jeoffry; Finghin, into Florence; Feradach,
| into Frederic; Eoghul, into Owen. aud
many others have undergone like changes
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