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Killen

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coilín ‘son of Colin’. According to MacLysaght, the name was that of a gallowglass family from Scotland taken to Ireland by the O’Donnells.

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