SOME ANGLIClSJ~D 8URNA1\lES IN IRELAND. 49 is Gaelic of Ulsterrna111 a11d it is very prob~tble, if there is no other information available, that Ultagh may be a shortened form of the Co. Donegal sept name ~1' Anulty · (1\foc An Ultaigh), the ''Son of the Ulsterman. '' The Co. Down Clan McDunlevy (Mac Duinnshleibhe) were known as "Ultagh"-a sobi·iquet, and were also called 0 'Haughy (O'h,Eachaidh). A sept of the name McAnulty occupied a. district in Co. Cavan. The Donegal sept occupied a district in 'l'ir Hugh, and the name is common in that County and about Gnllan, Co. Mayo. The name Ultagh would therefore belong to the Co. Cavan sept. Nugent.- This name is of Norman ongrn in Ireland, and the name is derived from John de Wynchedoun. The. first of tho Nugents came to Ireland with Henry II. in 1171, and the Marquis of Vfostmeath is descended from the Norman knight that came at that time. Enchidon was a form of Nugent in the 16th century, as we read that Mac Carthy More nnd James Fitzmaurice laid siege to the Abbey of Tracton on the 16th of June, 1569, and killed John Enchi· don and all his men. Afterwards we read the Nugents of Tr.acton tool' th~ Irish Confederation. side in the Rising of Tracton took the Irish Confederation side in the Rising of 1641, and strangely enough in the Fews district of Co. Armagh it takes the form of 1\Iac. Uinnseachain. The reason I refer to Nugent at n 11 is that the names Gilshenan and Gilsenan in the districts of Arclee, Drumconrath, and adjoining parts in Louth and Meath, in Gaelic Mac Giolla-t-Seanain, is synonymous with Mac Uinnseannain, the Gaelicised form of Nugent. Mac Giolla-t-Seanain has been anglicised Leonnrd in S.W. Ulster. Neight, Night.-These two names nre anglicised forms of the Scottish name M'Knight (Mac Neachtnin), other anglicised forms being Knight, M' Night, M' Nite, and McNeight. Also l'.rcNnught. Most of all these forms being found in Ulster and Galloway. Ould.-The name is an anglicised form of McAulcl, another form being Auld. It seems the Gaelic form of the name is Mac Cathail. Sec Hall. Omey.-0 'Meadhaigh. See May. Orr.- This name is an old Renfrew County name and was a sept of the Campbells. ·written early 1\fac Ure; in Gaelic Mac lomhaire. Oman.-This name is an anglicised form of McOman, a Bute sept.
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