SOME ANGLICISED SURNAMES IN IRELAND. 33 Irvine.-This name in Scotland is the anglicised form of M'Irvine, mostly found in the latter form in A.berdeen Co. The name in S.W. Scotland is a sept of the Picts of the Solway, called the Selgovia by Ptolemy, and the name was later Gaelicised, its form being Mac Eireamhain. The name is confused with lrwin in Ulster. Ianson.-This name is the anglicised form of Maclain, a McDonald sept, also anglicised M' Kane, M' Kean, and M' Keand. Irwin.- This name in Ulster is an anglicised form of 0' h-Eireamhain. It is confused with Irvine and Irving. The pronounciation of the name in most parts of Ulster is Horan and Oran, and probably the name is a branch of the 0 'Horan sept that migrated to the county Kerry about six hundred years ago from the borders of the present counties of Derry and Antrim. Jamison.- This name is the anglicised form of McJames, a McDonald sept. It is also a sept of the Clan Gunn, and is also anglicised Jameson and Jamieson, in Gaelic Mac Sheumais. M'Keamish is a form found in the West and North of Scotland. Jennings.- This name is the anglicised form of Keoneen and 0 'Keoneen in the districts surrounding Tuam, Co. Galway, and in the most parts of Co. Sligo, in Gaelic Mac She6inin. The name means ''Son of Little John,'' an cl is of AngloN orman OTigin. Johnman.- 'l'his name in the County of Perth is the anglicised form of a sept of the Mac Iain, a McDonald sept who assumed this name about the end of the Eighteenth Century. Judge.-·This name is the anglicised form of McBrehony and Bre- . hony, especially in the districts surrounding Boyle in Co. Roscommon; Tubbercurry in Co. Sligo, and also in Ballymote; practically, I may say, in all parts of North Connacht. The name in Gaelic is chiefly written Mac An Breitheamhnaigh, from breitheamh, a judge. Johnson, Johnston.--These two names need a rather lengthy explanation. In the first case the name Johnson has been assumed by several of those bearing the names Makeon, M' Kean, McKeown, and Mac Eoin, in the districts surrounding Tuam, Co. Galway, and in several districts of Co. Sligo. The names referred to are various forms of the original Gaelic Mac E6in. The reference to M' Keown here, which is another form
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