J 4 SOME AXGLlClSED SURNAMES IN IRELAND. Bronte-0 PRONNTAIGH. See Prentice and Prunty. Bain, Bayne.-'l'his name in Tulloch, Scotland, appears also as Baine. Acronling to Dr. McBain, one of Scotland's best historians an<l antiquarians, a John l\fakferquhar Mac Gillebane livc<l near them in 1555, which evidently shows that the names are anglicisations of l\foGilvanc (Mac Giollabhain). The other anglicised forms are l\follwaine, l\fc Gilbane, and ·white. See White. Barnes.-Barnes is the anglicised form of 0 Bearain in :X. Connacht, and has been also assumed by some of the 0 'Byrne sept. Barnes itself is of Norse origin, am1 is found in Cumberland, \Yestrnorcland, and Lancashire, and was written in Norse, Bjorn. Barrington.-Barrington in South Connacht is the anglicised form of 0 Bead.in. Bridson, Bridgetson, Bridges, Brydson.-Thesc names are the anglicised forms of Mac Giolla-Brighde, contracted to Mac Brighde in Scotland and the Isle of l\fan.. These three or four anglicised forms are found mostly in the I. 0. J\L ; Bridges and Bridge in Wcstern Lanes.; McBridge in S. Scotland; and McBride in most other parts of Scotland, and in Ulster. Brodie.-Brodie is the anglicised form of a sept called 0 Brollochan in Kintyre, Scotland, and may be a branch of the 0 Brollaghan sept of Co. Derry, many of whom wcrr identified w·ith the Columbian establishment at Iona. The Chin Brodie, in the North of Scotland, is chiefly found in th<J districts of Naim. Brown.-'l'his name in N.E. Ulster and in the North and ·west of Scotland is of Gaelic origin, written in that language l\fnc A' Bhriuthainn, derived fnnn the Gaelic "britheamh " -a judge; hence McBrayne being its ncar('st form to the ori· ginal Gaelic. It is written l\I ac Abhriuin in the Gaelic Chartrr of the year 1408, when Brian Yi.car Mag Aoidh (Magee), the great ancestor of the Magees of N. E. Ulster, Lord of Rhinn~ in Kintyre, had a deed drawn up between himself and the McDonnells of the Islrs. 'l'hr Brownes nnr1 Browns of the West and Routh of Ireland, nn<l some familirs in the Lothians, Scotlanrl, arc of Norman origin, the families of that name settling in Wexford, Limerick. and Galway. Dominick being a very common name in the Galway families. The most notable of the Connacht fami· lies was Admiral Browne, born in Foxford, Co. l\Iayo.
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