2M SOME ANGLICISED SURNAMES IN IRELAND. Hackett.- This name in the district of Clogher and those adjoin· ing is the anglicised form of M' Gaughy; in the districts of Lower Fews, Co. .Armagh, the anglicised form of ~I' Gaugy, those two names being forms of each other, in Gaelic Mag Eachaidh. In the districts surrounding Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Roscommon, the name Guckian (Mag Uiginn [']) has been anglicised to Hackett. Hunt.-This name is the anglicised form of Feighry (0 'Fiachra) in the districts surrounding Birr, and the districts that surround Sligo town and Tubbercurry in that county, likewise in Fermanagh and Southern parts of Donegal it is the anglicised form of Feighney (0 'Fiachna) and Feg· hany (0 'Fiachna) in North Sligo; of 0 'Foy (0 'Fiaich) in Limerick, Mayo and Galway; and according to Father Woulfe of Mac Confiaich in Co. U ayo. Bunter.-This name in thP Northern counties of Ulster is the anglicised form of 1\f' Keighry and M' Keefry (Ma0 Fhiachra) and synonymously with Hunt it is the anglicisecl form of Foighney in the district surrounding Fermoy, Co. Cork, and the districts mentioned in North Connacht after the name Hunt. (O'Fiachra and O'Fiachna). Some families of the name in Ulster are of Scottish ori· gin, mostly from Ayrshire, and were a sept of the Stewarts of Bute, the Isle of Arran being their old district. Hanley, Henley.-These names in the West of Scotland and the Isles are the anglicised forms of 0 'Hanley, a McDonald sept in South Uist Island. Hutchinson.-This name is the anglicised form of M' Cuteheon, and I have seen it written in Gaelic Mac Huisdean. Heron.-This name in Ulster, particularly in the North East, is a late anglicised form of M'Ilheron (Mac Giolla-Chearain), a form of McElharan. Bughson.- This name is the anglicised form of MacHuisclean, and they were a McLean sept. Huie, Howie.-These two names are the anglicised forms of Mac Ahuie and Mac Ilghuie (Mac Giolla-dhuibh) a McLean sept in Argyle, also anglicised Black like the Clan Lamond sept in Lanark County. See Black, White, and Gray. Hardiman, Harmon.-These two names are the anglicised forms of 0' h·Argadain; the first in the districts surrounding Gal-
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