SOME ANGLICISED SURNAMES IN IRELAND. 37 was written McFingon in 1400, and is also written in Gaelic Mac Ionmhuinn, meaning ''Beloved Son,'' hence the anglicised forms of Love and Lovie. The name is derived from Fionngon, fair-born. They were connected with Iona in the Fifteenth Century, and one of the name, John M' Kinnon, was the last Abbot. The chief of the clan was at Iona in 1606 when the ''Statutes of Icolmkill'' were enacted. Lynas, Lyness.-!~ the vicinity of Downpatrick and Southern parts of Co. Down the name McAleenan (Mac Giolla-Fhionnain) has been anglicised Lynas and Lyness. Lynn, Lynd, Linn.-These three names are the anglicised forms of the Co. Antrim sept of 0 'Flynn (0 'Floinn) that occupied the ancient district of Hy-Tuertre in East of the present Co. Antrim. These three names are general throughout the North-Eastern Counties of Ulster, particularly in Co. An· trim and Belfast City. Loftus.-This name is the anglicised form of 0 'Loughnan (0 'Lachtnain) in the districts surrounding Gort and Mountbellow in Co. Galway, and Cong, Co. Mayo. It is also anglicisecl Loftis. Loftus and Lofthouse are of Yorkshire origin. Lundy, Lindie, Linden.-These three names are the anglicised forms assumed by some of the McAlinden in Co. Down, especially in the districts about Downpatrick and in the Southern parts of the county. In Gaelic Mac Giolla-Fhionntain. L'Estrange.- This name is the anglicised form, and a strange adventure as well, of the name Mac Conchoigcriche. Lyons, Lines, Lyne.-These three names have been assumed by many of the Lehanes and Lyhanes in the Co. Cork and parts of County Kerry; in Gaelic O'Liathain. The first name Lyons has also been assumed by the Co. Donegal sept, 0 'Liathain. See Lane. Lindsay.-'rhis name is the anglicised form of about three sept names. First, it has been assumed by some of the Co. Down sept Linchy ( 0 'Loingsigh), secondly by a McDonald sept, Mac Loingsigh, in Argyle, and thirdly by M' Clintock (Mac Giolla-Fhiont6g), and also said to be assumed along with Lynd, the anglicised form of 0 'Floinn in Antrim. See Lynd. iLecky, Leckie.-These two names are the anglicised forms 01' M'Cleery (Mac A' Chleirich), also anglicised McAlerj-,
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