SOME ANGLICISED SURNAMES IN IRELAND. 23 Free.-This name is the anglicised form of 0 'Froighthigh. North Connacht. Fields, Feelding. -These two names are the anglicised forms of O'Fihclly (O~Fithcheallaigh) in the South-West. Fullerton, Fullarton.-These names in Ulster and the West of Scotland are the anglicised forms of M' Cloy and McLoy an Isle of Bute sept; in Gaelic Mac Luaidh. Fortune, Farshfo.--These two names in the districts surrounding Dungarvan, and in S.E. Cork, are sobriquets and anglicisations of the name McCarthy (Mac Carthaigh). Fenton.-This name in the districts surrounding Killarney, Co. Kerry, and of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, is respectively the anglicised form of Fenaghty (O'Fionnachta) and Fieghney (0 'Fiachna). Fagan, Fegan.- ·In the district of Armagh the name Feighan has been changed to Fagan in some cases. Fagan is of a different origin. Feighan in Gaelic is 0 'Fiachain. Flood.-This name is the anglicised form of about four Irish sept names in the Five States of Ireland. The McTullys (written Mac Taithligh) which are also McAtilla, ruled over'' Hy Leary of Lough Lir,'' Co. Fermanagh, which district appears to have been near Lough Erne, in the barony of Lurg. Several of the name are mentioned as Abbots and Erenachs of Devenish. They changed the name to Flood in latter days (Mac An Tuile). Another sept who wrote their name Mac Taichligh were chiefs of tho district which comprised the greater part of the parish of Drung, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan. This sept as well as anglicising the name Tully have also anglicised it Flood. The first name referred to, M' Atilla (Mac An Tuille), in the districts of Kilmacrenan and Innishowen, as well as in all parts of Ulster, has changed the name to Flood. Another name, 0 'Maoltuile, in Cavan, Westmeath, Kilkenny. Tipperary and Waterford has assumed the name of Flood. Thina (O'Tuine), a sept that formerly occupied a district in Lower Connello, Co. Limerick, have in the ·western parts of Mayo and Galwny, eepeciallv in th.c cliRtrict of nong, ch~ngccl their name to Flood. Golden.-In East Down the McGolclricks (Mag Ualghairg) have in some cases assumed the name of Golden; likewise MC?Golrick in the district of Carrick-on-Shannon; and Magorlick
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