SO.MB ANGLIC!S.t;D SURNAMES IN lRE:LAND. 31 ce6il) and of the 0 'Sheehans in North Cork. Whooley is another anglicised form assumed by the 0 'Driscolls in the same district. See Whooley. Hatton.-This name in South Derry, parts of Antrim, and in North Down, is a shortened anglicised form of the Sept name Mcllhatton (Mac Giolla·Chatain)- the Son of the Gille of St. Catain. Hayes.- This name in :Munster and the adjoining counties in Connacht and Leinster is the anglicised form of 0 'Hea (0 h-Aodha). Holland, Howland.- These two names are the anglicised forms of 0 'Houlahan in the I.O.J\1., and both names are found in the maritime counties on the adjoining .E:nglish Mainland, in Gaelic 0 ' h-Uallachain. Hill.-This name in Ulster is the anglicised form of 0 'Boyle (0 'Baoghail) in many instances in the north-west districts in particular. Bole and Boal are forms of the name in the north-eastern districts. Holly.- This name in South·Eastern Ulster is the anglicised form of M' Quillan, the County Louth sept, from Cuileann, holly, and I believe Hollywood comes from the same name, though said to come from 0 'Cuileanain. Hollywood is found in Armagh. Hollywood.- See Holly. Hughes.- The name Hughes is both of Welsh and Irish origin. In Ireland we have four septs of th\) name recorded. The first sept of O'Hughes (0' h-Aodha) occupied the district of Ballintubber, Co. Roscommon; the second sept occupied a district on the borders of the present counties of Donegal and Fermanagh, and O'Dugan, the Topographer, writes of them: '' 0 'Hugh governs the prosperous cataract,'' i.e., the Falls of Assaroe. The third sept occupied a district in Iveagh, in South Down, and of this sept 0 'Dugan writes that 0' h-Aodha ''governs the men of Fearnrnuighe. '' In the Charter granted to Newry by Muratach Mac Loughlin, Kiug of Ireland in or about the year 1160, Donald 0 'Heda (0' h-Aodha), King of O'Neach (Iveagh), is referred therein as one of the nobles of Ulster. This sept was either of the Pictish nation or of the Clan Rury, bnt I think of the former. Ulster was then circumscribed to tb:e present counties of Down and Antrim, the Pictish nation ruling in the latter along with Louth from the Plains of Murhevne to Lame in Antrim. The fourth sept occupied a district in the Western parts \
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