SOME A~GLICISED SURNAMES IN IRELAND. 13 Comerford.-At Granartl, in North Longford, antl in Co. Cavan and other parts of Southern Ulster the Irish sept name, Cumisky, and its other forms, in Gaelic Mac Cumascaigh, has been changed to the Norman name, Comerford. Creagh.-'l'his name seems mysterious in its origin to some of us. The name is, therefore, derived in origin from a branch of the 0 'lVfulcrePvy sept that occupied the district in Co. Down now known as Groomsport, east of Bangor, and this branch referred to went south to Munster about 500 years ago, assuming the name of Creagh (O'Maol-chraoibhe). Those of the name who remained in Ulster have, in latter clays, anglicisccl the name Mulcreevy, Mulgrew, Mulgroo in 'l'hc Fews, Co. Armagh; ancl to Rice in N.E. Ulster Coun· tics. Dr. Richard Creagh, PTimate of Armagh in the clays of Seain 1f6r 0 'Neill, was also called Richard 0 'Melcrebus, a Latinised form of the name, :incl he belonged to the principal family of the name in North Munster. Sec Rice. Cox.-This name is the anglicised form of some few Irish sept names, in the first case being the anglicisecl form of 11' Gilly (Mac Concailleaclha). M' Gilly is found in the northern parts of Co. Armagh, and southern Co. Tyrone. This is the older form of Mac Conchoille, and is also anglicisecl Woods. It is an Orghiall sept name, ancl Cox in the district of Clones, Co. Monaghan, is one of its angliciscd forms. Father Woulfe quotes the following from Dr. 0 'Donovan: Mac Coiligh, in Co. Roscom· mon; O'Coiligb, in Co. Donegal ancl North Connacht; Mac Conchoillc, in Fermanagh and Monaghan, referred to above; and Mac Coilgin, in Co. Corle Sec Woods. Craig.-'l'his name is found in Scotland and Ulster, ancl, according to :Moore, was fouucl in the I.O.M. in the form of Carraigc in 1599. According to ''Mac An T-Sionnaigh,'' in the ''Celtic Monthly,'' a Scottish publication, the surname is of early origin in Ayrshire and in Abercleeshire. I am of the strong opinion that its origin was, in Gaelic, Mac Con· charraige, the Gaelic form of the north-cast Ulster surname of Carrick and M' Carrick, which name has been anglicised Rocks in the Lower Fews, Co. Armagh. In the case of ·t being found in Aberdeen, a great number of various West of Scotland septs migrated, it seems, at one period to Aber· cleenshire as Innes, Milne, Allan, angliciscd forms of Mcin· ncs, M'Millin, am1 McAJlan. Cammaish.·-This name in the J.0.1\f. is principally found in the northern part of the Island, in Gaelic MacThomais.
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