42 SO:ME ANGLICISED SURNAMES I~ IRELAND. Ayrshire, of the family of Gilchrist l'lfuro of Rowallan previously referred to. The Moores of Moore's Hall, County of l\Iayo, claim descent from the family of Blessed Thomas J\fore, and in the Memoirs of Blessed Thomas J\fore, published in London in 1727, the family is described of the 0 'J\fores who came out of Ireland. The Moores of the I.0.J\I. are of the same clan, and the name J\fore was the common form down to the encl of the 16th century. l\Ioore, the Historian of the I.O.J\L, who is not ashamed to write his name 0 'Mordha, says: ''The 0 'Mores were a powerful sept in Ireland.'' J"enkin Moore is given as Breive (Breatheamh) or Deemster of the I.O.J\f. in 1499, in the J\Janx Statute Law Book. Masterson, Masterman, Masterton.-These three names are the anglicised forms of M' Kernan in S.W. Ulster, in South Fermanagh and in Co. Cavan. It is also rendered McMasters. In the second case it is in N.E. Ulster and Scotland the anglicised form of Mac Master (Mac Mhaighis· tir), a sept of the Mac Farlanes in Dumbarton Co., Scotland. Merry.-This name is one of the anglicised forms of Houlahan (0' h·Uallachain). Meickle.- This name is an anglicised form of Mac J\Iicheal (Mac Micheil), a clan Lamond sept. Melland.-This name is the Manx anglicised form of 0 'Malion. The pronounciation of this name comes nearer to the way 0 '::Yfallon (0 'Meallain) '\\'as pronounced up to the last decades of the 19th century, i.e., 0 'Mellan. Milne, Milling.- These two names are the anglicised forms of McMillan, the former mostly found in Aberdeen Co., and the latter form in the Ulster Counties of Antrim and Down. Mac Maoilein correctly. Mines, Moynes.- These two names are the anglicised forms of 0 'Muidhin, and are found in the Count~, of Armagh and those adjoining southwards. Munroe, Monroe.-These two names are the angliciscc1 forms of Mac An Rothaich, a clan located ·in Cromarty in the North of Scotland, and descended from Donald 0 'Kane and his sept who went from the bankR of the> River Roe, in Derry, and settled at Fcrindonald (F<'arr an Domhnuill), in that
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