Mc Girr: The surname in its Gaelic form Mac-in-ghirr is first cited in the Annals of Loch Ce in the year 1365, Clogher Valley, Co. Tyrone Mac Girr is the most usual form of the name Mac an Ghirr and as such belongs to the border area of Armagh and Tyrone. In the former it occurs as a “principle Irish name” in the “census” of 1659 and it is also recorded in the Hearth Money Rolls (1664) of Tyrone . Three families of the name also appear in the Hearth Money Rolls of Co. Monaghan. The family were in Co. Armagh and well established there before the Plantation of 1603 and is recorded in 1602 as MacEghir; as MacGhair and Mac Gerr and we meet them again in the Ulster inquisitions of County Tyrone in 1628 and 1639. Shane MacGirr of Fintona in Co Tyrone was one of the Jacobites exiled to America after 1690, settling in South Carolina. All modern birth registrations show Tyrone to be now its location and there are a number of modern day McGirr’s to be found in Donegal in the region of Raphoe, parish of Taughboyne. The variant MacGeer is found in North Leinster. There are a few families of the name in Connaght but not enough to justify any form of it being regarded as belonging to that Province. “Woulfe” mentions Short, Shorthill, Gayer, and McGarr as variants and synonyms of MacGirr. Short is the semi translation of Mac an Gheairr (Gearr meaning short, of small statue). MacGirr literally means “son of the short man”. This form of the name is sometimes used in Tyrone.
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