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North Channel, are to be found abundantly in Argyie and the 

 Western Isles. Thus we find MacRorys, MacNeills, MacConnells, 

 MacLochlanns, MacEvins, MacAuleys, Doughall or Doyle, and so 

 forth, both in the Western Highlands and the same names current 

 among the septs of Ulster. The Dalriadic invasion of Scotland in 

 the 5 th century is thus borne witness to in a marked manner, and 

 the Highland immigrants who, under the leadership of the Mac 

 Donnells, found at various times permanent homes in the glens and 

 along the shores of Antrim, brought to Ireland with them, not 

 only a language, but also surnames which proved them kin to the 

 former possessors of the very soil they came to occupy. 



Some of the Christian names which they imported, such as 

 Torquil, Somerled, Ranald, prove them to have been subjected to 

 a strong Danish influence while resident in the Isles and in the 

 Argyleshire Highlands. There is the same tendency to confusion in 

 these names, from the laws of the language, as we find among those 

 of Ireland. The prefix Mac modifies the initial consonants in a 

 similar manner, and we have thus from a few original names a 

 great many apparently different ones. Thus the name Finnon 

 (fair) becomes, with Mac, MacKinnon, the F becoming silent and 

 the K sound belonging to the C in Mac ; the same is the case with 

 MacFinlay, which becomes MacKinlay ; MacPhillip, which be- 

 comes MacKillop ; MacParlan, MacPharlan ; MacPeter, Mac 

 Pheters; MacPaul. MacFaul; MacDonnaghie, MacConnaghie, 

 or M'Conkey; MacDuffie, MacAfee and Mehaffey; MacGillean, 

 MacClean and MacAlinn, M'Killen, and even Gillen and Killen • 

 MacGilvain, Macllwaine; MacGilpatrick, Macllfatrick ; MacGil- 

 gorm, Macllgorm; MacGilroy, Macliroy; MacGilmurray into 

 MTlmurray and Mac Murray; MacGilbride, into Macllbride, and 

 finally MacBride; &c. 



I shall notice only one other branch of the Celtic family with 

 regard to their name system, viz., the Welsh. Here, as among 

 the Irish and Scoto-Irish, terms which were used at first simply as 

 marks of office or physical appearance, became, at the time of the 

 adoption of fixed surnames, the distinguishing and peimanent 



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