Hi SOME ANGLICISED SuRNXHES IK lRELAND. a dove, hence the anglicisation of above names (Mac Calmain). llicCalmont is a form. Douglas.-This name, rrccording to Wm. Buchanan, was early writ· ten MacDouglas, and the sept is descended from ::\[cDufl', Thanes of }'ife, Scotland, and tho origin of the name arose from the black complexion and grey green dress of the first owner of the name, dubh-black, and glas-grcy-green. (Mac Dubhglas). Downey, Downie, Dooney.-These names are the anglicisod forms of 0 'Dunadhaigh, a Co. Kerry Sept, the name being found in most parts of Munster, and in South Galway and Clare. It is also written Mac Dunadhaigh in Connacht, and we find it in the counties of central Lcinster under tho form of Muldowney (0 'Maol-Dhomhnaigh), which name is generally anglicised Mullovrncy, l\[oloncy, l\folloncy, and l\Iulldowney_ The Ulster sept name, Downey, has a different origin, and it is found differently anglicised as Downey in the d1~ tricts of Banbridge and Rathfriland, Co. Down. In Antrim we find it McGilclownoy and l\follclowncy, likewise it is widely distributed in the latter forms and as McEldowney in the district of Rwatcragh, and those adjoining. In the district of Pointzpass, and those adjoining in the counties of Do"-n and Armagh, which is inhabited by a population mostly descended from Scottish settlers, "·here we find such Korth of Scotland names as McGildowic, :i\Iclldowie, McNish, McRannal, McGilbridc, etc., we find it written there McGildowncy, 1\rcildowney, McEldowney and Downey. In the Korth of Scotland we find it in the form of Downie. The Scottish Gaelic form of the name is 1\Iac GhilleD6mhnaich. The Irish form being Mac Giolla Domhnaigh. The origin of this name goes back to Maoldomhnach, one of the Lords of the Buchanans of Lenny in Stirling County, from whom the sept sprang and got the name. The Rcottish sept occupied the districts of Strathearn anr1 Strathdon, the former on the southern banks of the River Tay between Perth and Abernethy, the latter place being the capital of the ancient Pictish kingdom; Strnthdon lying near the ancient district of Mar, in Aberdeen, the principal sent of the Eoghanacht clans of Scotland. The name was written in Perthshire, about two hundrc<l years ago, l\foAlclonich, and probably the sept came to Ulster in the early pnrt of the 16th century, as the !\I' Glades, M'Ycnghs, 1\fcFcC's, l\foDaicls, and several others of the septs of the Western Isles and Argyle came either as Auxiliary soldiers to the 0 'Donnells, or forced through religious disabilities accompanying the Scottish Reformation, etc.
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