ANSTHRLD - Gaelic Name

[Seamus MacInnerighe]

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Seamus


On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:27:26 -0500 Doug Bell <debell at txcyber.com> wrote:
>This is what I found on the name.  There is another poem
>from the 1400s that is supposed to mention the last name.
>It may take some searching for me to find it.
>
>Magnus
>
>
>Séamus
>
>OCorrain & Maguire page 163 under Séamus states the name 
>is common among Anglo-Norman settlers.
>
>Morgan, Scottish Gaelic Names for Children, under Seumas 
>gives it as brought to Scotland by 12th century pilgrams.
>
>Black, Surnames of Scotland, page 719 under Seumas gives 
>it as the Gaelic spelliong of James. 
>
>Withycombe, page 171 under James gives it as Seumas in Gaelic.
>
>Woulfe, Irish Names and Surnames, page 404 under Mac Séamuis - 
>son of James.
>
>December 1999 LoAR - ATENVELDT acceptances
>Seamus McDaid. Name.
>The submitter should be informed that Seamus is a Gaelic 
>spelling and McDaid is a Scots spelling, and the two forms 
>of spelling were generally not combined in a single name.
>
>mac Innerighe
>
>The closest spelling is:
>October 1994 LoAR - MERIDIES Acceptances
>Ian MacIneirie of Inverary. Name.
>Submitted as Ian MacInneirghe of Inverary, the patronymic 
>was Gaelic while the remainder of the name was Englished. 
>As no examples have yet been adduced for combining fully 
>Gaelic forms with Englished forms, we have made the smallest 
>change possible and Englished the patronymic.
>
>MacLysaght, The Surnames of Ireland, page 99 under Eniry 
>Mac Innéirghe denotes easily roused early, one of the 
>Uí Cairbre group.  modernized MacHenry.
>
>Woulfe, Irish Names and Surnames, page 384 under Mac Inneirghe 
>son of Inneirghe (the rising, early riser); the name of an ancient 
>family in county Limerick who for many centuries were chiefs of 
>Corca Muicheat, now Corcomohide, an extensive district to the 
>south of the county.  The chief resided at Castletown MacEniry, 
>where the ruins of his castle are still to be seen.  Though 
>greatly encroached upon by the Anglo-Norman settlers, the 
>MacEnirys contrived to retain a considerable portion of their 
>ancient patrimony down to the revolution of 1688.
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