McGoyne

[W.M.Geraghty]

looking for origins of this name-McGoyne anyone?<br>Wm.M.Geraghty<br>williamm@4dcomm.com
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[Seosamh Mac Muirí]

: looking for origins of this name-McGoyne anyone?<br>: Wm.M.Geraghty<br>: williamm@4dcomm.com<p>You might like to consider Mc Geown, to be found in the Armagh region? One could describe this as a devoiced form of Mc Keown. Such change would be regular before a vowel : Mac Eoin > Mag Eoin;<br>Mac Eoghain > Mag Eoghain, these giving Mc Geown in place of Mc Keown. Such originals have formerly rendered Caulfield in Kilkeel (Down), Johnson & Johnston in Tuam (Galway), M'Cune in Tullamore (Offaly) and M'Kone in Castleblaney (Monaghan). <p>A stronger possibility would be Mac Sheáin > Mag Sheáin > Mc Goyne. Such is very realisable. The lenition, with 'h' in the Irish language form, is very possible. Not unrelated to all of these would be the name Mac Eáin > Mac Kean, providing a possible Mag Eáin > Mc Goyne. <p>Mac Seáin > Mc Shane > Johnson was widespread, some have returned to the preferable 'Mc Shane' form in Cavan whose families were recorded in Catholic Records as Johnson in the late 1800s. The same records may have been the only rendering of such a Johnson form for them, the Mc Shane form was perhaps their everyday usage down through the years. <p>Alternatively, can your name have been a mispelling of Mac Gloyne which was formerly found in Leitrim, but is now generally Mac Glone and Mac Gloin? <p>Ádh mór - Good Luck with it. <p>

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