Mac Ruaidhrí Explained

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?)

References

• Book: de Bhulbh, S . 1997 . Sloinnte na h-Éireann: Irish Surnames . Comhar-Chumann Íde Naofa Teo . Limerick . 0-9530560-0-7 . 316008M . D1.
• Book: Hanks . P . Patrick Hanks . Coates . R . McClure . P . 2016a . The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland . 1 . . Oxford . 978-0-19-879881-1 . H1.
• Book: Hanks . P . Coates . R . McClure . P . 2016b . The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland . 3 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 978-0-19-879883-5 . H2.
• Book: Hanks . P . Coates . R . McClure . P . 2016c . The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland . 4 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 978-0-19-879884-2 . H3.
• Book: Hanks . P . Hardcastle . K . Hodges . F . 2006 . 1990 . A Dictionary of First Names . Oxford Paperback Reference . 2nd . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 978-0-19-861060-1 . H4.
• Book: Hanks . P . Hodges . F . 1991 . 1988 . A Dictionary of Surnames . . Oxford . 0-10-211502-8 . 2044914M . H5.
• Book: Nicholls, K . Kenneth Nicholls . 2007 . Scottish Mercenary Kindreds in Ireland, 1250–1600 . Duffy . S . The World of the Galloglass: Kings, Warlords and Warriors in Ireland and Scotland, 1200–1600 . . Dublin . 978-1-85182-946-0 . 86–105 . N1.
• Book: Ó Cuív, B . Brian Ó Cuív . 1988 . Personal Names as an Indicator of Relations Between Native Irish and Settlers in the Viking Period . Bradley . J . Settlement and Society in Medieval Ireland: Studies Presented to F.X. Martin . Irish Studies . Boethius Press . Kilkenny . 79–88 . 0863141439 . O1.
• Book: O'Donovan . J . John O'Donovan (scholar) . 1862 . The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla na Naomh O'Huidhrin . . Dublin . 14045597M . . O3.
• Book: O'Laughlin, M . 1992 . The Book of Irish Families Great & Small . Irish Genealogical Foundation . Kansas City . 0-940134-08-X . 1326957M . O2 . registration .

Notes and References

1. [#H2|Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b)]
2. [#H2|Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b)]
3. [#H1|Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a)]
4. [#H2|Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b)]
5. [#H2|Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b)]
6. [#H2|Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b)]
7. [#H5|Hanks; Hodges (1991)]
8. [#H3|Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c)]
9. [#H3|Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c)]
10. [#H2|Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b)]
11. [#H2|Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b)]
12. [#O1|Ó Cuív (1988)]
13. [#N1|Nicholls (2007)]
14. [#O2|O'Laughlin (1992)]