Anglicised Surnames

t:>011E ANGLIClSED t:>URNAMEt:l lN lRELAND. 19 etc., in Ulster, the sept has no origin or connection with the McDermott sept in North Connacht. It is also anglicised Dormer in Co. ]\[oath. The Diarmids of N.E. Ulster belong to the clan Campbell, Argyle. Elligood.- This is one of the anglicised forms of McElligot (Ma.c Giollagh6id). Elmore.- 'rhis is the anglicised form of 0 'h-Iomna in Omeath and other parts of S.E. Ulster. Edmundson.--This name in Ulster is tho anglicised form of McAimon, the other forms being McE<lmond and M' Keeman, in Gaelic Mac Eamoinn, and the sept is a branch of the Clan .Mac Gregor. English, Englishby.-'l'hese two names are the anglicised forms of Goligly in The Fews, Co. Armagh; and of Golagley more south, in Gaelic Mac An Ghall6glaigh, the ''Son of the Galloglass,'' or Auxiliary soldier. Tho other anglicisations are Golightly in Co. Louth, and Ingoldsby, the latter name and Englishby being the anglicised forms in the districts surrounding Ardee. Eason, Essie, Eassie.-These three :names are the anglicised forms of a l\[clntosh sept called McAy, but have no connection with MacKay, though' written the same way in Gaelic, Mac Aoi.dh. Ayson is a form. Ewing, Ewings, Ewan.-'rhese three names are another form of }J cEwen, in Gaelic Mac Eoghainn. J\f' Ewing is a form. Eunson.- l\rac Eoghainn. An anglicisecl form of McEwen. Erskine.-Erskine is the name of the Earls of :Mar, Aberdeen. Domhnull, High Stewart of Mar, son of Eimhin, and Chief of the Eoghanacht Clans of Mar in Abenloon, was descended from Leamha Maino, the ancestor of tho 0 'Moriartys and other septs of Wost Munster. He and tho High Stewart of Leamhna (Lennox), now partly in StirHng county, descendants of Core, king of Munster, with several other chiefs of the Albanian Scots, came to the assistance of Brian Boru, at the Battle of Clontarf, in 1014, in which engagement they foll. Early.-This name has been assumed by some members of two Irish septs. The first is Loughran in Co. Tyrone, especially in the disti·icts about Dungannon.- 0 'Luchaireain. The second is Maghory (0 'Maolmochairghe) which name itself seems to be very rarely found and only in a few districts.

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