Scannlán mac Fearghal, ancestor of the Ó Scannláin family of County Galway, fl.10th century.

Scannlán was a member of the Uí Fiachrach Aidhne dynasty of south County Galway, and is listed in the genealogies as a seventeen-times great-grandson of King Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin of Connacht, who died in 663. His immediate descendants would use his name as their surname, and for a time be of some prominence in Aidhne, but were pushed out of power by their kinsmen and remained only a minor family, some moving to Thomond/County Clare.

Scannlán was a kinsman of a number of other men whose descendants also took their surnames from them, such as

Though in many cases the relationship between these men was quite distant, Scannlán would have been a contemporary or near-contemporary of almost all of them.

References

  • The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, Dublin, 1978.
  • Irish Kings and High Kings, Francis John Byrne, 2001 (second edition).
  • The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, 257.9, pp. 586-87, volume one, Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh; edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle, 2003-2004. ISBN 0-946130-36-1.
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