Mac Ruaidhrí

The Gaelic surname Mac Ruaidhrí means "son of Ruaidhrí".^[1] The personal name Ruaidhrí is composed of two elements: the first is ruadh, meaning "red"; the second is rí, meaning "king".^[2]

Surnames which are in some cases derived from Mac Ruaidhrí include: 'Creery, Creary,^[3] McCreary,^[4] McCrery,^[4] McCrorey,^[5] McCrorie,^[5] McCrory,^[5] McGroary,^[1] McGrory,^[1] McRorie,^[6] McRory,^[6] McRury,^[6] Roger,^[7] Rogers,^[8] Rorie,^[9] Rorison,^[9] and Rory.^[9]

A variant of Mac Ruaidhrí is Mac Ruidhrí.^[10] Surnames which are in some cases derived from Mac Ruidhrí include: Creary,^[3] McCrary,^[11] McCreary,^[4] McCreery,^[4] and McCrery.^[4]

One particular family that has borne the surname Mac Ruaidhrí is Clann Ruaidhrí.^[12] 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.^[13] A family bearing forms of the name produced herenachs for the parish of Ballynascreen.^[14]

People

mac Ruaidhrí

• 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

1. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1777.
2. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1777; Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 355.
3. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) p. 610.
4. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1755.
5. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1756.
6. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1806.
7. Hanks; Hodges (1991) p. 455.
8. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c) p. 2273.
9. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c) p. 2281.
10. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1755; de Bhulbh (1997) pp. 166, 267.
11. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1754.
12. Ó Cuív (1988) p. 84.
13. Nicholls (2007) p. 89.
14. O'Laughlin (1992) p. 129; O'Donovan (1862) pp. 22–23, 43, xvii n. 82.

References

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