- prominence. His father,
GilleBride, of
royal Irish ancestry,
appears to have
conducted a
marriage alliance with Máel
Coluim mac Alaxandair, son of Alexander...
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Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin (Modern Gaelic:
Lughlagh mac Gille Chomghain,
known in
English simply as Lulach, and
nicknamed Tairbith, "the Unfortunate" and...
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surname Mac Lennacháin or
Mac Gille Onchon. The New
Dictionary of
American Family Names translates Mac Lennacháin as "the son of
little Leannach" and
Mac Gille...
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MacGillivray is a
surname and
given name
derived from the
Gaelic language. The name can be
written in
modern Scottish Gaelic as Bràigheach,
MacGille, MacGilleBhràth...
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fuller form such as
MacGille 'son of the
servant of', i.e.
MacGilleBhàin,
MacGilleRuaidh,
MacGilleD****bh,
MacGilleD****nn,
MacGilleB****dhe. Most varieties...
- Scotland. The
surname MacLennan in
Scottish Gaelic is
Mac Gille Fhinnein,
meaning the son of the
follower of St Finnan. The
MacLennans
settled around...
- origins. One
origin of the name is from the
Scottish Gaelic MacGilleUidhir, and
Irish Mac Giolla Uidhir,
which means "son of the pale one" or "son of...
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Martin Martin (Scottish Gaelic: Màrtainn
MacGilleMhàrtainn) (c. 1660–9
October 1718) was a
Scottish writer best
known for his work A
Description of the...
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built between 550 BC to 560 AD
during the Iron Age. The
renowned warrior Mac Gille Riabhaich would take
refuge there in
times of war.
Close to the north...
- and
sometimes included animal sacrifice. The
Scottish writer Màrtainn
MacGille Mhàrtainn
describes three different ways of
consulting spirits common in...
