Source: SINNOTT-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Ancient Irish Surnames
from Edd Sinnett
http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/igsi_published/namhart.htm
IGSI Provided Information
ANCIENT IRISH SURNAMES
As many of the ancient Irish sirnames are not recorded in O'Clery's or in
MacFirbis's Genealogies, or in the Linea Antiqua, or in the Betham
Genealogical Collections, we have collected from "The Topographical Poems
of O'Dugan and O'Heerin," "The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachra,"
and other
works published by the Celtic and Archeological Societies in Ireland, the
following Irish family names, and the modern anglicised forms which they
assumed;
-The Name- -Has been modernized as-
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O'Gathlaoich Gately, Keightley, Catley
O to be sure !! And on St George's Day too <grin> .... Erica
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