SO}lE ANGLICISED SURNAl\[ES IN IRELAND. 5 Bole, Boal.-These names are mostly fouml in N.E. Ulster, and are some of the anglicised forms of the 0 'Boyle sept, in Gaelic 0 Baoighill. 0 'Dugan, the topogrnphrr, styles the 0 'Boyles the ''haughty hosts,'' and of the ''ruddy lips.'' 'l'hey rnled early in Old Tirconnell. Boyd.-J\f.\_C BUIDEACH.-Boyd is the family name of the early Earls of Kilmarnock, in Ayrshire. The name is common in N.E. Ulster. The nmne is found also in the Isle of Man, ''here, according to ~Ioore, it was formerly written Boddagh and McBoyd. He says it may be derived from Buadach (yictorious), but its correct derivation is "Son of the Butemun,'' as :1fcBratney, an old Galloway name, a form of Galbraith, means "Son of the Briton" (Mac A' Bhreatnaich, the Gaelic also of Galbraith), of Strathclyde, the ancient Picto-Cymric Province of S.W. Ncotland, extending to near the Ribble in Lancashire. Bigger, Biggar.-In the district of Pointzpass, Co. Armagh, and in the adjoining border districts of Co. Down, some of the nicGiverns (Mag Uidhirin) haYe assumed the name of Big· ger, Bicker, and Bickerstaff, while in the <listricts of Downpatrick and those to the :'forth they have assumed thn name of Montgomery. The names Bigger ancl Biggar are derived from the placename of Biggar, in the County of Lanark, Scotland. Blighe.-An Irish sept of the name of 0 'Blighe in Co. }Iayo have confqsecl the name with the Nortlrnmbrian name of Bligh. Bones, Bownes.-Father Wolfe gives the Gaelic respectively of these names as l\[ac Cnaimh and l\[ac Cnamhaigh, in Co. Mayo. Bone is found widely distributed from the banks of the Clyde, in Scotland, to Land's Encl, in Cornwall, and the name is of undoubted Picto-Cymric origin, ancl founa as I said, and mostly confined to the western districts of Britain. Bell.-The name is common in Southern Scotland, especially in Dumfries County. .·\clams, in his "Scottish Clans," say~ it is the anglicisecl form of McGilveil (Mac Giolla-Mhaoil), a brnnch·off from the Clan McMillin which I believe it to be 'l'he name is found all over Ulster, arnl is of Scottish ongrn. Father ·wolfc, in his work, gives us for its Gaelic form Mac Gaolla-~. n-Chloig, but doPsn 't identify any locality for this n:1me. Bird.-The names Heany, in North Connacht; H0nnghan and Henahan. in South J\fayo and districts surroun1ling Tuam, Co. Galway; and }frBneany. J\fcEncney, and ~rc~enry. in Rth.
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