60 SOME ANGLICISED SURNAMES IN IRELAND. sandy-haired, though no way related. The name is written McEvallely in old records of the 17th century. Whitehead.-This name is the anglicised form of Canavan (0 'Ceanabhain) mostly found in Connacht. I~ - Windham.-This name is the anglicised form of Guihin (0 'Gaoithin) in Co. Galway. See Wynne. Wharton.-The name is one of the names assumed by some O'Harraghtons (O'h-Arrachtain), the other name being Harrington, both in West Munster. Woulfe, Wolfe.-Some of the Wolfes of Southern Munster anglicised their name from 0 'Cualltaigh. The Wolfes and vVoulfc of Co. Limerick arr of Norrnnn origin. Watson, Watt.-'l'hese two names are the anglicised forms of M' Quatt, McVitty, M' Quitty and M' Whatty in Scotland nnd in Ulster (Mac Bhiiididh). Other forms are M' What and M' Whattie. Woods.-'l'his name is the anglicised form of a number of Irish sept names. In the district about Castlederg aml other parts of North Tyrone the name McElhill (Mac GiollaChoill); Mcilhone in the districts about the Moy and Blackwatertown; Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, along with Mcilhun and J\foihone in the latter district, have been anglicised Woods (J\f ac Giolla-Chomhghain). Other names that have been anglicised Woods are:- Kilmet and Killameade (Mac Giolla-aithmcit) in Co. Longford; Mac Conchoille in Co. Monaghan (this latter name is also known as M' Gilly and anglicised Cox in S.W. Ulster); Quill (0 'Cuill) in Co. Cork; Mcilhenny. :\fcElhenny and Mcilhoncy (Mac Giolla-Chonnaidh), a sept of the Clan Colquhoun in the Northern Counties of Ulster; Mac Giolla-choillc in South-West Ulster and Northern Connacht; O'Coilligh in the Southern Counties of Connacht; 0' hUadhaigh in Central and Routh Leinster; and Mac Coilleadh in Armagh and Louth. Whin.-This name is a shortened anglicised form of M' Whin from M' Queen, found in Galloway; in Gaelic :!lrnc Shuibhne. Watterson, Walterson.-These two names are corruptions of M'Walter (Mac Uaiteir), a sept of the Buchanans. Whannell.- This name is the shortened ancl corrupted form of
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