Ó Lomáin

Ó LOMÁIN—I—O Loman, O Lymon, Loman, Lomand, Lomond, Lemon, Lemmon; 'descendant of Lomán' (diminutive of lom, bare, lean); the name (1) of an Ulidian family, once a clan of note, but now scarcely known; and (2) of a branch of the Ui Maine in Co. Galway. This family, though now almost extinct, must have been once powerful, for we learn from the Annals of the Four Masters, at the year 949, that Ó Lomáin of Gaela (in Co. Galway) in that year defeated the people of Ormond. In the 16th century, the name was most common in Co. Wicklow. It is now everywhere very rare.

Alphabetical Index to Irish Surnames