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Among Todays Topics at the Irish Roots Cafe:
1)
Family of the Day: Conlon
2) Irish
County of the Month:
Roscommon
3)
Searching For: McMahon,
Smith, McKiernan
4)
Curious News: Coldest Irish in awhile
5) Web
Page of the Month: online dictionary & origins
6) Curious
Note: How the Irish
Postman predicts
7) One minute podcast: Mo Ghille Mear
This
Weeks Audio Timeline
Todays Topics: 1:00
Notes from
Mike: 2:00
One Minute Podcast: 4:00
Book of the Month: 6:30
The Magnificent Seven: 9:30
Irish
Name of the Day: 11:30
Sources: 15:30
Websites of the
Week: 16:30
Curious
News and Notes: 18:30
Book of the Month:
County Roscommon, Ireland, genealogy and family history notes.
http://www.irishroots.com/id4519
.htm
Most Numerous
Names in the
19th Century:
(as given in the Roscommon book above)
Kelly...
..Kelley.....Kellie
McDermott.....MacDermot.....
Dermott
Beirne.....Burne.....Byrne
Regan.....
Reagan.....
Ragan
Flanagan.....Flannigan.....Flanigane
Connor.....
Conner.....Conor
McDonagh.....MacDonough.....McDonaugh
Quinn.....Quinne.....Quin
Murray.....Murry.....Murrie
Brennan.....
Brenan.....Brannan
Higgins.....Higgens.....Higins
Towey.....Tuohey.....Tuohy
Kenny.....Kinney.....Keny
Flynn.....Flinn.....Flyne
Most of the old
Irish names can have the
Mac or 'O' before
the name dropped or added at will. Additionally many old
Irish names were translated or 'mistranslated' into
English
from the original gaelic.
Irish
Family Name of the Day: Conlon
Todays family history in honor of member:
Kathleen Fulcher
I am researching my father's family, Conlon.
I believe my
great-grandfather,
Michael Dillon Conlon was born in
Boyle,
Roscommon, Ireland (abt 1890
Related Spellings of the Name
Connellan, Conally, Conla, Conland, Conlen, Conlin, Conneally....
Varient Spelling Groups: #314, #317, #319, #
2166
From
The Guide to the
Various Spellings of Irish Family Names
http://www.irishroots.com/id4918.htm
History of the Name
We find the name used as a variant spelling of Connellan in
some instances, and the main location for the name in more
modern times is in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is also
found in
Mayo and
Sligo, and throughout
Ireland in smaller
numbers.
Spellings
There are several spellings of names connected to Conlon.
Notably the surnames of ‘Size’, Kenelly, and M’Ineely, all given
in the
Guide to the Various Spellings of Irish Surnames.
MacConlena
For fans of Irish names, the name of Mac Conlena is given as
obsolete in the ‘
Tribes and
Customs of the Hy Fiachra’ by
O’Donovan.
There is an obituary of Redmond P. Conlon in the
Journal of
the
Irish American Historical Society....
copyright
2010,
IGF, based in part upon
The Book of Irish
Families, great and small
http://www.irishroots.com/id4098.htm
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