The Gaelic surname Mac Ruaidhrí means "son of Ruaidhrí".[1] The personal name Ruaidhrí is composed of two elements: the first is ruadh, meaning "red"; the second is rí, meaning "king".[2]

Surnames which are in some cases derived from Mac Ruaidhrí include: 'Creery, Creary,[3] McCreary,[4] McCrery,[4] McCrorey,[5] McCrorie,[5] McCrory,[5] McGroary,[1] McGrory,[1] McRorie,[6] McRory,[6] McRury,[6] Roger,[7] Rogers,[8] Rorie,[9] Rorison,[9] and Rory.[9]

A variant of Mac Ruaidhrí is Mac Ruidhrí.[10] Surnames which are in some cases derived from Mac Ruidhrí include: Creary,[3] McCrary,[11] McCreary,[4] McCreery,[4] and McCrery.[4]

One particular family that has borne the surname Mac Ruaidhrí is Clann Ruaidhrí.[12] Members of this Scottish family settled in Ulster as gallowglass commanders in the Middle Ages, and are last recorded acting as such in the fourteenth century.[13] A family bearing forms of the name produced herenachs for the parish of Ballynascreen.[14]

People

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Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1777.
  2. ↑ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1777; Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 355.
  3. 1 2 Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) p. 610.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1755.
  5. 1 2 3 Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1756.
  6. 1 2 3 Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1806.
  7. ↑ Hanks; Hodges (1991) p. 455.
  8. ↑ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c) p. 2273.
  9. 1 2 3 Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c) p. 2281.
  10. ↑ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1755; de Bhulbh (1997) pp. 166, 267.
  11. ↑ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1754.
  12. ↑ Ó Cuív (1988) p. 84.
  13. ↑ Nicholls (2007) p. 89.
  14. ↑ O'Laughlin (1992) p. 129; O'Donovan (1862) pp. 22–23, 43, xvii n. 82.

References

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  • Hanks, P; Coates, R; McClure, P, eds. (2016a). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879881-1.
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  • Nicholls, K (2007). "Scottish Mercenary Kindreds in Ireland, 1250–1600". In Duffy, S (ed.). The World of the Galloglass: Kings, Warlords and Warriors in Ireland and Scotland, 1200–1600. Dublin: Four Courts Press. pp. 86–105. ISBN 978-1-85182-946-0.
  • Ó Cuív, B (1988). "Personal Names as an Indicator of Relations Between Native Irish and Settlers in the Viking Period". In Bradley, J (ed.). Settlement and Society in Medieval Ireland: Studies Presented to F.X. Martin. Irish Studies. Kilkenny: Boethius Press. pp. 79–88. ISBN 0863141439.
  • O'Donovan, J, ed. (1862). The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla na Naomh O'Huidhrin. Dublin: Irish Archæological and Celtic Society. OL 14045597M – via Internet Archive.
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