De Bacún

Rev Patrick Woulfe
1923

de BACÚN—XIIde Bacoun, Bacon; Norman 'le Bacoun,' i.e. the bacon, the pig, reminiscent of a time when 'the bacon' meant the live pig; the name of an English family who came into Ireland soon after the Anglo-Norman invasion and settled in Co. Meath. Compare with Puirséil.

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