Mac Ruaidhrí

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

Surnames which are in some cases derived from Mac Ruaidhrí include: 'Creery, Creary, McCreary, McCrery, McCrorey, McCrorie, McCrory, McGroary, McGrory, McRorie, McRory, McRury, Roger, Rogers, Rorie, Rorison, and Rory.

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

One particular family that has borne the surname Mac Ruaidhrí is Clann Ruaidhrí. 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. A family bearing forms of the name produced herenachs for the parish of Ballynascreen.

People

Ailéan mac Ruaidhrí (died ×1296)
Dubhghall mac Ruaidhrí (died 1268)

Mac Ruaidhrí

Lachlann Mac Ruaidhrí (fl. 1297–1307/1308)
Raghnall Mac Ruaidhrí (died 1346)
Ruaidhrí Mac Ruaidhrí (died 1318?)

Citations

^ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1777.
Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1777; Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 355.
^ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) p. 610.
^ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1755.
^ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1756.
^ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1806.
Hanks; Hodges (1991) p. 455.
Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c) p. 2273.
^ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c) p. 2281.
Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1755; de Bhulbh (1997) pp. 166, 267.
Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1754.
Ó Cuív (1988) p. 84.
Nicholls (2007) p. 89.
O'Laughlin (1992) p. 129; O'Donovan (1862) pp. 22–23, 43, xvii n. 82.

References

de Bhulbh, S (1997). Sloinnte na h-Éireann: Irish Surnames. Limerick: Comhar-Chumann Íde Naofa Teo. ISBN 0-9530560-0-7. OL 316008M.
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.
Hanks, P; Coates, R; McClure, P, eds. (2016b). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879883-5.
Hanks, P; Coates, R; McClure, P, eds. (2016c). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Vol. 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879884-2.
Hanks, P; Hardcastle, K; Hodges, F (2006) . A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
Hanks, P; Hodges, F (1991) . A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-10-211502-8. OL 2044914M.
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.
O'Laughlin, M (1992). The Book of Irish Families Great & Small. Kansas City: Irish Genealogical Foundation. ISBN 0-940134-08-X. OL 1326957M.

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