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The name of McGurn, McGurran, Maggurran, Magorrin or Magurn, derives from an anglicisation of the older name of Mac-Samhradhain which can be spelled MacGauran, Magauran or McGovern. The owners of this name were chiefs of Teallach Eachach (translated as the tribe or region of the Ecchy) who had their territory in the Barony of "Tullaghagh", County Cavan. This name is pronounced by some people as "Somers", or "Summers" from the word Samhradh, which means summer. [1]

Etymologist Edward MacLysaght has a different view and proposes that the name is also spelled as McGivern, McGurn, Geran, Gerin, or Guerin and is a derivation of an old Gaelic or Viking name. [2] During the 13th century there are references to the tribe of MacSamhradhain (Mac Guaran) who had territory in Teallach Eachdhach which was located in a northerly regions of an area known as Bréifne in topographical poems by O'Dugan. [3]

It is stated that in 1231 that Gilla-Isa Magauran, Lord of Tealach Eachdhach, which was also sometimes called The Kingdom of Glan, died. [4]
In the 13th century the church termoners of the area known as Boho or Botha were known as O Fialáin and Clann Mhe Garacháin over Both Ui Fhialáin. [5]

During the partition of Cavan into seven baronies (1584), two of the baronies are described as 'remotely situated territories in the mountains on the border of O'Rorke's country' going to the Septs of Mac Kernon and Mac Gauran." [6]

Census statistics of the border regions of Fermanagh, in 1610 mention a sept known as Clan McGarraghan in the Baronies of Magheraboy and Clanawley (Kinawley). [7] In the 1660 census of these lands there is also mention of the surname McGwyn and McGunn in Bohue (Boho)which also lies in this border region. [8]

The census of 1766 gives similar-sounding names in this region as spelled M'Gurren, Magorrin and Magorran [9] However, by the time of the Fermanagh census (1910), this name has metamorphosed into Magurn, Magurren, McGuran, McGurran, McGurn and McGurrin. [10] [11]

Notable people with the surname include:

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McGovern (name) Irish surname

The surname McGovern, is of Irish origin and is found predominantly in the counties of Cavan, Fermanagh and Leitrim.

Brian Breaghach Mág Samhradháin, was chief of the McGovern Clan of Tullyhaw, County Cavan from 1272 to 3 May 1294.

Samhradhán, son of Conchobhar, was the progenitor and chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from c.1082 to c.1115. The clan is named after him, Mág Samhradháin, meaning the son of Samhradhán.

Muireadhach mac Samhradháin, was the first person to bear the surname McGovern and was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from c.1115 - 1148.

Giolla Íosa Mág Samhradháin, was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from about 1181 to 1231.

Uaithne Mág Samhradháin was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from 1540 until his death.

Tomás mac Maghnus Mág Samhradháin was lineage head of the McGoverns and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from 1512 until his death in 1532.

Feidhlimidh Mág Samhradháin, the First was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from 1478 until his death on 15 February 1495.

Éamonn Mág Samhradháin was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from 1496 until his death in 1504.

Cathal mac Aodha Mág Samhradháin or Cathal Mág Samhradháin was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from 1504 until his death in 1512.

Tomás Óg na Fésóige Mág Samhradháin, the Third, was chief of the Irish McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan, Ireland, from 1408 until his death in 1458.

Tomás mac Brian Breaghach Mág Samhradháin, was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from before 1325 until his death in 1340.

Maghnus Mág Samhradháin, the First, was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from 1294 until his murder in 1299.

Fearghal Mág Samhradháin, was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from 1359 until his death in 1393.

Maghnus Ruadh Mág Samhradháin, the Second, was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from 1393 until his murder in 1408.

Gíolla Íosa Mór Mág Tighearnán was chief of the McKiernan Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhunco barony, County Cavan from c. 1269 until his death in 1279.

Matha Mág Tighearnán was chief of the McKiernan Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhunco barony, County Cavan from 1290 until 1311.

Tomás Mág Tighearnán was chief of the McKiernan Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhunco barony, County Cavan from 1314 until his death in 1358.

References

  1. ↑ O'Hart, John (1923). Irish Pedigrees; or The Origin and Stem of The Irish Nation. Volumes 1-2. Murphy & McCarthy New York.
  2. ↑ The internet surname database. "Surname McGurn". www.surnamedb.com. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  3. ↑ Ireland's History in Maps. "The Breifne Region Connacht Series" . Retrieved 2009-05-13.
  4. ↑ Pádraig Bambury; Stephen Beechinor (eds.). Annals of Ulster, Part 6.
  5. ↑ Dinneen, P. S. (1917). Me Guidhir Fhearmanach, the Maguires of Fermanagh .i. Maghnus agus Giolla Iosa, "dhá mhac Dhuinn Mhoir mic Raghnaill". M.H. Gill. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  6. ↑ A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Vol. i. S. Lewis & Co. 1837.
  7. ↑ Patent Rolls of James I p. 383 Pat. 16 James I (XXXI). 1610. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  8. ↑ Ireland Genealogy Project & Ireland Genealogy Project Archives (1659). "Census data Fermanagh 1659" . Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  9. ↑ Ireland Genealogy Project & Ireland Genealogy Project Archives (1766). "Census data Fermanagh 1766" . Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  10. ↑ Ireland Genealogy Project & Ireland Genealogy Project Archives (1910). "Census Data Fermanagh 1910" . Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  11. ↑ Ireland Genealogy Project & Ireland Genealogy Project Archives (1910). "Census Data Fermanagh 1910" . Retrieved 2009-05-12.
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