- prominence. His father,
GilleBride, of
royal Irish ancestry,
appears to have
conducted a
marriage alliance with Máel
Coluim mac Alaxandair, son of Alexander...
-
Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin (Modern Gaelic:
Lughlagh mac Gille Chomghain,
known in
English simply as Lulach, and
nicknamed Tairbith, "the Unfortunate" and...
-
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...
-
fuller form such as
MacGille 'son of the
servant of', i.e.
MacGilleBhàin,
MacGilleRuaidh,
MacGilleD****bh,
MacGilleD****nn,
MacGilleB****dhe. Most varieties...
- 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...
- Scotland. The
surname MacLennan in
Scottish Gaelic is
Mac Gille Fhinnein,
meaning the son of the
follower of St Finnan. The
MacLennans
settled around...
-
Martin Martin (Scottish Gaelic: Màrtainn
MacGilleMhàrtainn) (c. 1660–9
October 1718) was a
Scottish writer best
known for his work A
Description of the...
-
Western Islands of
Scotland (1703 and 1716),
Scottish writer Màrtainn
MacGille Mhàrtainn
describes the ways of
consulting spirits in the
Hebrides during...
- all of
these have male and
female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all
Mac-
names become Nic- if the
person is female. Some of the
Scottish Gaelic surnames...
- Scotland, and is the
anglicized form of
Gaelic Mac Brighde, from
earlier Mac Giolla Bhrighde (Irish),
Mac Gille Brighde (Scottish) ‘son of the
servant of (Saint)...
