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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Coileáin or Mac Giolla Cuilinn, both of which Woulfe believes originally referred to St. Caillín, i.e. ‘son of the servant of St. Caillín’. Compare Kilgallon.

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