MUIRIS

Rev Patrick Woulfe
1923

MUIRIS, genitive — id. (the same), Maurice; Latin — Mauritius, Moorish, a Roman name for a man of Moorish lineage; borne by the captain of the Thebean legion who was martyred, together with his companions, in Switzerland, by order of Maximian, in the 3rd century; common among the Anglo-Norman settlers in Ireland.

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Note: The old Irish letters used in the original text* have been converted to the Roman alphabet for this online version, and the lenited (or dotted) consonants changed to their aspirated equivalents, i.e. the dotted 'c' has been altered to 'ch', the dotted 'g' to 'gh', and the dotted 'm' to 'mh', etc. For example, in the name Caoimgin (Kevin), where the 'm' and 'g' are both dotted (ṁ, ġ) in the old Irish lettering, the name has been converted here to the modern Irish equivalent of Caoimhghin.

* Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall: Irish Names and Surnames by Rev. Patrick Woulfe, 1923.

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