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From: (Hugh McKiernan)
Subject: Re: Local knowledge, generalities, etc (was Re: Marriage recognition)
Date: 10 May 2002 09:20:42 -0700
References: <qZBC8.12671$e5.87718@news.indigo.ie>, <T8EC8.6022$4b.30108@newscontent-01.sprint.ca>, <68FC8.12738$e5.87811@news.indigo.ie>


>
> The surname MacLochlainn crystallised from the patronymic nickname mac
> Lochlainn (meaning "son of Lochlainn") as follows.
>
> Lochlainn
> |
> X mac Lochlainn (nickname).
> |
> Y MacLochlainn (not literally true, therefore a surname).
>
> Lochlainn was a personal name based upon the name of an overseas Viking
> territory. The genealogies show tht the Lochlainn from whom the
> MacLochlainns of Inishowen, Co Donegal descend was not a Viking in his male
> line.
>
>

'Lochlainn' was not a word used overseas to denote a person or place.
It was an Irish word meaning 'Norsemen'. This has, however, nothing to
do with the genealogy of the Donegal MacLochlainns. These are a branch
of an O'Neill sept.

H.

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