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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Fhailghigh ‘son of the poor man’.
  • Irish : in Ulster more probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Con Uladh ‘son of the hound of Ulster’.

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