34 SOJ\lB ~'l.NGL1Ul8.ED 81.JRNA~!Bi::i IN IRELAND. of M' Keon in Connacht, needs explaining. This name in Connacht has no connection it seems with the Ulster septs of that name. The M' Keowns of Co. Antrim and Co. Derry are a Gaelicised sept of the Scottish sept of Bisset whose district was principally in the Glens of that part of Antrim occupiecl later by the f,.icDonnells, the sept taking its name of Mac E6in from one, E6in Bisset, of that Scottish family. The other sept of the M' Keowns, located in Co. Armagh, are of a quite different origin. The M' Keowns were identified as Erinach of the Parish of Derrynoose, Keady, Co. Armagh, for centuries, and another sept was identified as Erinachs of Creggan-' ' Creggan of the Green Bushes''- about which Art McCovey, the Co. Armagh Gaelic bard has sung. This name in Gaelic is Mac Eoghain-the ''Son of Owen.'' Other forms are M' Geown and M' Guone; in Gaelic Mag Eoghain, substituting "Mag" in place of "Mac," which is a common feature of several names in Northern Ireland, the Southern part of Argyle, and in Galloway in Scotland. Jn the district of Pointzpass, Co. Armagh, where many of the inhabitants are of Scottish origin, the name M' Cheyne, an equivalent to the Irish McShane, has been anglicised Johnston and Johnson. The name M' Cheyne is a shortened form of )lcilcheyne, a sept found in Bute, Galloway and Glenshee; in Gaelic Mac Giolla-Seain. It is the anglicised form of McShan in North Tyrone, and McShane in the districts adjoining Armagh City, and in the Fews in Co. Annagh; also in the districts surrounding Cavan it is the angli<lised form of McShane; in Gaelic Mac Seain. Some of the :r.f' Keans, a McDonald sept, have assumed the name of Johnston. Several families of the Johnstons of Dumfries are found in the Counties of Armagh, Antrim and Fermanagh, and it is reckoned these families are of Gaelic origin, having changed the name from Mac Iain to Johnston at an early period, as many Scottish septs assumed anglicised names previous to the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Kegg, Keig.-These two names in the I.O.M. are the anglicised forms of }\{ac Thaidhg. Kewis.-This name in the I.O.M. is the anglicised form of Mac Uais, meaning the "Noble's Son." Hence Colla Uais, or Colla the Noble, the 12lst King of Ireland and the ancestor of numerous Srottish clans. Keillips.-This name in Ulster and Scotland is a later anglicised form of M' Killop (Mac Fhilib), a McDonald sept. Kewley.-This name in the I.O.M. is one of the anglicised forms of McAuley (Mac Amhalghaidh). See Cowley.
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