(_For the Mirror_.)
_Macnamara_, son of a sea-hound.
_Macmahon_, son of a bear.
_Brien_, the force of water.
_Kennedy_, wearing a helmet.
_Horan_, the gold of poetry.
_Sullivan_, having but one eye.
_Gallagher_, the helper of Englishmen.
_Riordan_, a royal salmon.
_Lysaght_, a hired soldier.
_Finnoala_, white-shouldered.
_Una_, matchless.
_Farrell_, a fair man.
_Mohairey_, an early riser.
_Naghten_, a strong person.
_Trayner_, a strong man.
_Keeffe_, mild.
_Keating_, a shower of fire.
_Kinahan_, a moss trooper.
_Kearney_, a soldier.
_Leahy_, a champion.
_Macaveely_, son of the hero.
_Ardil_, of high descent.
_Dermid_, a god in arms.
_Toraylagh_, like a tower.
_Cairbre_, a royal person.
_Flinn_, red haired.
_Dwyer_, a dark man.
_Docharty_, dangerous.
_Mullane_, broad head.
_Cullane_, broad poll.
_Flaherty_, a powerful chief.
_Lalor_, or _Lawler_, one who speaks by halves.
_Tierney_, a lord.
_Bulger_, a Dutchman.
_Dougal_, a Dane.
_Mac Intosh_, son of the chief.
_Mac Tagart_, son of the priest.
_Mac'Nab_, son of the abbot.
_Mac Clery_, son of a clerk.
_Mac Lure_, son of a tailor.
_Macgill_, son of a squire.
_Macbrehane_, son of a judge.
_Mac Tavish_, son of a savage.
_Goff_, or _Gough_, smith.
_Galt_, a Protestant.
_Gillespie_, the bishop's squire.
The whole of the above are literal translations without having recourse to
_fancy_, or _torturing the originals_; thus, _Macnamara_, called in Irish
_Mac Conmara_, from _mac_, a son, _con_, the genitive case of _cu_, a
hound, and _mara_, the genitive case of _muir_, the sea; and so of the
rest. It is proper, however, to observe, that although the name of
_Keating_ sounds exactly in Irish a "_shower of fire_" yet as the Keatings
came at first from England, this cannot be the real origin of that name.
All the rest are literally correct.