24 SOME ANGLIClSED t:lURNA::\JES IN IRELAND. at Lisnaskea, Co. l<'ermanagh, have assumed in many cases the name of Golden. Gattin.- In the districts surrounding Donegal town, and Kilmacrenan. l'lf' Gettigan (l\Iag Eiteagain) has been changed to Gattins and Gaitens. Gunn.-In the districts surrounding Clones in Co. }f onnghan, and Lisnaskea and other parts of Fermanagh; the name McElgunn has been further anglicised to the namC' Gunn (Mac Giolla-dhuinn), its other forms being }folldoon nnd McEldoon. Goff, Gough.- '.l'hese two names in Ulster are the anglicised forms of Mag E6chaidh. See Hackett. Gillies, Gillis, Gillison.-Thesc threG names are three of the many anglicised forms of the name Mac Giolla-Iosa, the other anglicised forms being McAleece, i\[cAlish, McLeish, McLees Leishman, Leish, Lees anu Leece; the two latter forms being met with in the I.O.i\L and on the mainland in the North-West of England. The name in Scotland and in Ulster is of the same origin. It is descended from the i\IcPhersons, through one of that clar: calleu Gilli-Iosa }foe Pherson, and for centuries the sept was known as the ''Sliochd Gille-Iosa. '' Gilliger.-'rhis name is an Americanised form of Gallag'1er (0 'Gallchohhairy. Golightly.-i\fac Galloghlaigh. See English for particulars ab'>ut this name. Galbraith.-This name is the representative of an ancient Strathclyde sept of Picto-Cymric origin, who afterwards became powerful in the Lennox country, in Stirling County, where· they held the lands and castles of Craig Maddier, Gartconnell, and Culcruich. They were commissioned to hunt the Clan McGregor in the reign of, James VI., and later they were outlawed themselves on the advic.e of the Earl of Argyle, thus the two clans sharing the same severity, and they, like the McGregors, were not allowed to use their own name, hence we read of similar tyrannical laws against the clan Lamond. The name was written Galbreit in the Lennox in the 13th century. The name is common in PC'rthshire, and its Gaelic form is Mac A' Bhrentnaich. The meaning of the namC' is the "Stranger Briton," and its other form, M:cBratney (M'ac A' Bhreatnaich) which means the ''Son of the Briton or WelRhm:rn. '' In Galloway the name is written McBratney and ::vr cBretney.
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