I 40 SO.\lE ANGLICISED SURNAMES lN IRELAND. thain). 'rhe name is also a shortened form of 0 'Lehane (O'Liathain) in Co. Cork. Lord.-This name has been assumed by some of the Teirney sept (0 'Tighearnaigh) in Co. Galway, and by 11' Kernan (:Mac Thighearnain) in Co. Cavan. See :Masterson. Lilly.-This name is the anglicised form of Mac Gailghil in the Western Counties of Ulster. Laughland.-This name is the Manx form of Mc:i:-achlan (Mac Lachlain). Leonard.-This name is the anglicised form of five or more Irish sept names. The Mac Giol1a-Fhionnain sept that ruled in Muintir Pheodachain, Co. Fermanagh, have mostly all anglicised their name LeonaTd, though some undeT name of McAlinion, McAlinan and McAlingin are found in the Southern part of the county. Lynane (O'Luineain), Lunneen (O'Luin'.in) and Lenane ( 0 'Luineain) in the districts about Mallow, Co. Cork, the Eastern parts of Roscommon; and at Listowel, Co. Kerry, respectively, have changed the name to Leonard. It has also been assumed by members of the 0 'Looney sept (0 'Luinigh) of Muintirloney, in N.W. Tyrone, and by Gilshenan and Mae Uinnsionnain (Nugent) in Co. Cavan; the Gaelic of G-ilshenan being written Mac Giolla-t-Seanain. In Fermanagh and Monaghan the name Lennon (O'Loinin) is also changed to Leonard. Little, Littleton.-The names Begg ( 0 'Beig), Beggan ( 0 'Beagain), and Beggedon (O'Beagadain) respe11tively, have been anglicised Little in the districts of North Sligo, Cootehill, in Co. Cavan; Monaghan and Drogheda; the name Biggane being changed to Littleton in the districts about Custlerea in North Connacht, and about Tulia. And of MacFingan, a Kintyre sept, the latter being the 01·igin of the N.E. Ulster ancl S.W. of Scotland Littles. May.-This name is the anglicised form in Ulster and tho West of Scotland of a sept in Kintyre. They were Lords of Keil. The Rev. Duncan 0 'May was minister of Keil in 1638, as as well as Lord of Keil. Donald 0 'Mey, a graduate of Glasgow University, 1622, had the Church of Keil, Southend, Kintyre, and was minister at Lochkead, Campbelltown, in 1639. Cornelius 0 '~fay was Dean of Kintyre in the 16th century. The name in Gaelic is 0 'Meadhaich, and the sept belongs to the McDonalds. The name is also anglicised Omey, like Adrain, another Kintyre sept.
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