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Mac Amhlaoibh (McAuliffe)

McAuliffe family tree (common to lines from James son of John)

McAuliffe is also a good Irish name with “Mac Amhlaoibh” being its correct form in Irish (son of Amhlaoibh). An important branch of the MacCarthys whose chief was seated at Castle MacAuliffe near Newmarket, County Cork. It is almost peculiar to County Cork and is scarcely found outside Munster. The name is purely Irish, being derived from an old obsolete personal name. In studying Irish names it is important to go back to the original Irish form due to the fact that during the period when the names were being Anglicised they were given many forms by civil servants in Dublin or London.
McAuley is sometimes used as a variant form of this Gaelic name.
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