Show CHANGES IN IRISH NAMES keely comes from and kennedy from CrineS dieh kiely or keely and sometimes the name is written cayley but according to the boston post more correctly OKe iiley or OK icly is a name derived from caoile an individual of the same blood as the ODon of munster and is written ilc and Mac Caoile pronounced like OKe okelley eley and mackeel ay mac tire was chief of li mac cacilo at the time of alie english invasion of ireland and ic cording to old annalists anna lists slew raymond le gros his name still mil vivas in the name of the village baile mac tire now castlemartyr Castle martyr in county cork the name kennedy or more correctly written is derived from Cri or pronounced kennedy the king of munster and father of brian brien boru the depts of in anali cited OC mcasey asey and or atoo mey in irish ama are also descended from donchian Don chuan pronounced like donnagan the name macneill or aneil MN eil originated with buo ouo of the progenitors of alie now written prince of breeney family it signifies bon of neill formerly written niall the name has been anglicized to neilson and nelson this name is different from oneill which is derived from niall of the nine hostages king of ireland in the fourth century coyle MacCaw mel and carmil arc derived from Fc arach a brother of murtagh mor MacE arca marta more mcganka Mc Garka the one hundred and thirty first monarch of ireland this had a son named in irish pronounced caw mill whose son took the name mac signifying son of cath mh the clan campbell of ireland had the same common progenitor and the name is pronounced to the present day cammell in many parts of ireland the name is derived from the irish word cath a battle and madill a heap is from the same root BO also is the name bagh and several other corruptions corrupt ions of the old clan the clan were located in ulster where many representatives yet remain the name OHa garty and is of irish origin and written pronounced allag arty the name desmond has its origin in the irish word deas pronounced chieh was afterward anglicized to desmond and means south munster some of the owners of the name have tried to it into desmond dillon lc dillon and dillane is traced back in irish history to an individual named lochan loghan delwinn Dil winn who bcd to france in ancient times and one of whose descendants robert le dillon or dillion returned wit dermod macmurrough at the time of the norman conquest of ireland he was afterward given a large territory in leinster which his descendants held until the reign of queen elizabeth the dillon family have been famous in irish history for the past three hundred years A number of them were chiefs of the irish brigade in the service of france in which there was a dillon regiment |