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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Airchinnigh ‘son of the overseer (of church lands)’, Gaelic airchinneach, often Anglicized as erenagh. The surname arose in different places, notably Munster and Roscommon.

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