Celtic Families

John O’Hart

Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation

1892 (5th Edition)

IN page 412 ¾ of MacFirbis's "Irish Genealogies" the following Celtic names are designated Maghaidh Saxonta ("magadh:" Irish, mocking, jeering); meaning that it was only in jest these names were said to be of Saxon origin:

1. Auchinlek

2. Barclay

3. Barde

4. Biset

5. Blaire

6. Boyd

7. Cambell

8. Cleland

9. Crawfurd

10. Currie

11. Dasse

12. Dowglas

13. Dun

14. Foorde

15. Gordon

16. Grakane

17. Gray

18. Guthrie

19. Haliday

20. Hay

21. Ireland

22. Jardan

23. Johnston

24. Kar

25. Keith

26. Killpatrick

27. Lawder

28. Lennox

29. Lindesay

30. Little

31. Lundie

32. Murray

33. Newbigging

34. Oliphant

35. Ramsay

36. Ruther

37. Ruthven

38. Scot

39. Scrimager

40. Sebon

41. Tints

42. Wallace.

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