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Mac Naboe - Irish - Mheic Anabadha - anabaidh - premature. A Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne Sept - Family branch - who had their territory in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster and nearby in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster. Now also known as Victory. Ancestor *87.Brion.

Mac Naboola - Irish - Mheic Con na Buille - (Descended from a son of the hound - warrior of Boyle) A Sept - Family branch - who had their territory in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province. An English name Benbo - archer was also used as a synonym for it, which see.

Mac Naghten - See Mac Naughton.

O Naghten or O Naughton - Irish - Ua Neachtain - bright or pure. A Sept - Family branch - who were Chiefs in Co. Galway & Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province. Variants also used were Nocton, Knochton & Natton, which see. An English name - Norton was also used.

O Naghten or O Naughton - Irish - Ua Neachtain - bright or pure. A Heberian Dal gCais Sept - Family branch - who had their territory in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province. Variants also used were Nocton, Knochton & Natton, which see. An English name - Norton was also used.

Nagle or Mac Nogly - Irish - Mheic an Oglaich - (Descended from a son of the warrior) A Sept - Family branch - who had their territory in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province.

Nagle - de Nogla - Anglo Norman origins. They were in Southern Leinster. Also used in Co. Cork in Southern Munster for de Angulo - See also Nangle.

Nahane - A Sept - Family branch - who had their territory in Co. Cork in Southern Munster who could be a Sept from the Ulster Province family of Nawn - Nahane, which see, or a variation of Nihane, which see. See also Nyhan.

Mac Nair - Highland Scottish origins. A Sept of the Mac Naughtons, which see, who were in the Ulster Province.

Mac Nallen - Irish - Mheic Nailin . A Sept - Family branch - who had their territory in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster.

Mac Nally or Mac Anally - Irish - Mheic an Fhailghigh - failgheach - poor man. (Descended from a son of the poor man), a name given to their Chief. They were a Sept - Family branch - who had their territory originally in *Co. Roscommon & *Co. Mayo in Mid - Connacht Province where they dropped the Mac.

Mac Nally or Mac Anally - Irish - Mheic Con Ulaidh - (Descended from a son of the hound - warrior of Ulidia - Ulster) A Sept - Family branch - who had their original territory in the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn 3 Colla kingdom of Orghialla - Oriel in the south - east of the Ulster Province. Variants were Mac Anully, Mac Enolly, & Mac Knally also used there and in the surrounding Counties.

Nally - Norman or Welsh origins. They were also in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province where they became “More Irish than the Irish” after they Gaelicized their name.

Mac Nalty - Irish - Mheic Conallta - cu - hound or warrior / allta - wild. A Sept - Family branch - who had their territory in Northern Connacht and the surrounding regions in nearby Ulster Province. Mac Analty used as a variant.

Mac Nama - Irish - Mheic Connmeadha - con - cu - hound / meadha - place name. A Sept - Family branch - who had their territory in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht. Many now known also as Conway.

Mac Namara - Irish - Mheic Con na Mara - ( Descended from a son of Conn the warrior or hound of the Sea) A Heberian Dal gCais Sept - Family branch of the Ui Caisin Siol Aodha Tuath - Family region who were Princes in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province. They were the Dalcassian Chiefs of the Clann Caisin who had their territory in the Barony of Tullagh and were the second Family to the O Brians - Ui m Briains Sept, acting as their Lord Marshalls. Directly descended from *92.Caisin, the second eldest son of *91.Cas the King of Thomond - North Munster, who is the ancestor of the Siol Aodha. This includes also the O Gradys, the Mac Clancys, the O Deas, the Mac Inerneys, the O Meehans, the O Caisins and many other Dalcassian Septs. The Mac Namaras were also the tribal Chiefs of Clann Cuilean descending from *Culean who was their Chief in the 8^th Century AD and they ruled over the east of Co. Clare in their own right for 600 years until the 17th Century AD. In 1542 AD Sheeda - Siodha Mac Namara along with the Ui mBriain leaders of the Dal gCais took up English titles and were knighted by them. All of the ancient Irish Family lands belonging to their Dal gCais people under the Irish Celtic Brehon Law was then granted to them as subservient individuals to and by the English and they soon found that they also had to become Protestant to hold on to it. This saw the beginning of the end for the Dalcassians as an individual Gaelic Irish Family Sept as the Dal gCais Clanns were then basically leaderless. The Mac Namaras were great Castle builders and built the most in any County in Ireland and Siodha “Cam” Mac Namara who began the building of the Quinn Abbey as his last resting - place is buried therein. See also Mack. Ancestor *92.Caisin.

Mac Namee or Mac Conway - Irish - Mheic Conmidhe - ( Descended from a son of the hound or warrior of Meath) A Sept - Family branch - who had their territory in Co. Derry & *Co. Tyrone in Northern Ulster and were poets and Ollavs - Brehon Lawyers to the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn "Northern" Ui Niaill.

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