Ó Muineacháin

Rev Patrick Woulfe
1923

Ó MUINEACHÁIN—I—Menehan, Menahan, Meenehan, (Monahan), &c, Thornton; an attenuated form of Ó Manacháin, which see. It is popularly supposed to be connected with 'muineach,' thorny, and is consequently in some places 'translated' Thornton.

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