The Surnames of Ireland by Edward MacLysaght

Author:Edward MacLysaght [MacLysaght, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, Ireland, General, Great Britain
ISBN: 9781911024644
Google: hiGyDgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 1988-12-01T16:14:00+00:00

HayburnSee Heyburn.

HaydeSee Haide.

(O) HaydenÓ hEideáin. This name of a Co. Carlow sept, sometimes anglicized as Headon, which is also that of a family of Norman origin settled in Co. Wexford but now very rare. MIF Map Carlow. See Hedian.

HaydockSee Haddock.

HayesThis name is very numerous in Munster. It is usually an anglicized form of Ó hAodha. Septs of that name belong to the counties indicated in Map. In Co. Wexford Hayes is Norman, i.e. la Heise or de la Haye as in England. IF Map Donegal, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan and Tyrone. See also O'Hea.

HaylesA common name in England and Scotland sometimes used as a synonym of Healy and MacHale. As Hales as well as Hayles it has been in Co. Cork since early seventeenth century.

HaynesThis English name is occasionally used for Hynes in Munster.

HazeltonAn English toponymic found in Co. Armagh. Haselden in Co. Down is a synonym. Woulfe says this and Hazelwood are anglicized forms of Mac Conchollchoille but I have found no evidence of this.

HazlettTwelve variant spellings (e.g. Heslitt) or synonyms (e.g. Heazley) of this locative name (hazel copse) are recorded, all in Ulster. It is numerous in that province, especially in Co. Monaghan, since the middle of the eighteenth century.

(O) HeaÓ hAodha. The name of a sept of the Corca Laoidhe where it is very seldom anglicized Hayes as it is elsewhere. Bibl. IF Map Cork.

Head(e)This is occasionally a surname of nickname type, but usually it is a locative name denoting dweller at the head of a valley or source of a stream. It appears as a 'principal name' in the 'census' of 1659 in Cos. Meath and Tipperary and in that century was of some note in Waterford and Co. Cork. Though of English origin, families of this name were largely Catholic and transplantation as papists under Cromwell no doubt accounts for their presence today in east Galway. References in seventeenth-century documents to Ballyhead in Co. Kildare (now Ballyhade) have no relation to the surname Head, but commemorate a family of Aide in that area. Ade is a diminutive of Adam.

HeadonSee Hayden.

(O) HeafySee Heaphy.

(O) HeagneySee Hegney.

HeagueMac Thaidhg in Connacht. See MacTeige.

(O)HealihySee Healy.

(O) HealionA variant of Heelan.

(O) Healy, HelyThis is Ó hÉalaighthe in Munster, sometimes angli cized Healihy, and Ó hÉilidhe in north Connacht, derived respec tively from words meaning ingenious and claimant. Ballyhely on Lough Arrow was the seat of the latter. The Munster sept was located at Donoughmore, Co. Cork, whence was taken the title conferred on the Protestant branch. Bibl. IF MIF Map Cork and Sligo.

(O) HeanahanSee Henaghan.

(O) Heaney, HeeneyThe principal sept of this name is Ó hÉighnigh in Irish, important and widespread in Oriel, formerly stretching its influence into Fermanagh. Hegney is a variant. Another family of the name in Ulster were erenaghs of Banagher in Co. Derry. Minor septs of Ó hÉanna (Éanna, old form of Enda), also anglicized Heaney, were of some note in Clare, Limerick and Mayo up to the seventeenth century. MIF Map Armagh. See Bird.

(O) HeanueÓ hÉanadha. This is seldom found outside Connemara where it is fairly numerous.

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