20 SOME ANGLICISED SURNAMES IN IRELAND. Eddie, Eddy.-MacAdaidh, See Adie. Finlay, Findlay, Finlayson.-These names are the anglicised form& of Mac Fhionnlaigh, derived from fionn, fair and laich, a warrior. The Norsemen assumed the name in the form of Finnleikr. M 'Kinlay and M 'Ginlay are forms of the name, the latt;r name being assumed by a branch of the sept who settled in Donegal. They are a sept of the Clan Farquharson. Fivey.-This name is the anglicised form of Quigley in the Northern parts of Ulster, in Gaelic 0 'Coigligh. See Quigg and · Twiggley. Free, Freeman.- In the districts about Castlerea and Tubbercurry, in North Connacht, the names Seery and Seerey (O'Saoraidhe) have been anglicised Free and Freeman. Fletcher.-This name, in Ulster and Scotland, is the anglicised form of Mac an Leastair. This sept were chiefs of the districts of Auchallader and Baravurich in Glenarchy, and occupied Drimfearn in the 10th century, and migrated to Glenarchy where they became arrow-makers to the Clan McGregor. In all documents previous to the Scottish Rising of 1715, the name is written Macinleister, after which time it was changed to Fletcher. The name has also been changed to Lister and M' Lester, confusing it with McAllister. Ford.-There are about five Irish septs who have changed their names to Ford. The first is M'Kinnawe and Kineavy (Mac Conshnamha), a sept that ruled in Muinntirkenny, Co. Leitrim or Clan Cionnaith, which lay near Lough Allen, in the parish of Innismagrath. 0 'Dugan writes of this sept that they ruled ''a country sheltered from the wind, Mac Conshnamha rules over Clan Kenny. '' The sept shortened .the name to Mac an Atha, and is mostly found in N. Connacht taking in N. Co. Galway. The other names that have been anglicised Ford are McAneave (Mac Giolla-na-Naomh), which name in South Tyrone has become Gildernew, and other parts of Tyrone, Agnew. In 1\fayo and Galway Mac Giollarnath and O'Giollarnath have been anglicised Ford. In Co. Cork 0 'Foran (0 'Fuartbain) has been likewise anglicised. Fox.-This name is the anglicised form of several Irish sept names. The most prominent of these are 0 'Caherney (0 'Catharnaigh), or " An Sionnach,'' i.e., "The Fox,'' an old Sept
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