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| | Manx Note Book No 7 pp114/9 - Manx Surnames chII ptII - 1886 |
 | | MAC CAISIN, 'CAISIN'S SON.' (CAISIN IS A DIMINUTIVE OF CAS 'CROOKED.'THE NAME CAISIN MUST ORIGINALLY have meant a crooked eyed,crooked legged, or metaphorically stupid, person. |
 | | Ceallach MAC CURTIN, historian of Thomond,' A.D. It is almost confined to the parish of Maughold, and is a purely Manx name. |
 | | , contracted from Mac Gilroy, a corrupted form of Mac Giolla-ruaidh, Glolla-ruadh's son,' or the red-haired youth's son.', When an adjective, signifying a colour or quality of the mind or body, is postfixed to Giolla, then it has its ancient signification-namely, a youth, a boy, or a man in his bloom ; Giolla-ruadh, i.e. |
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