![]() ![]() Meanwhile some Scots Irish McCormicks made the reverse journey back to Scotland during the famine years.Īmerica. McCormicks continued on the Isle of Mull until the 19th century when the Clearances caused an exodus. However, McCormicks were mainly to be found on the west coast of Scotland, close to Ireland, where they had been subsumed under the McLeans of Lochbuie. Gilchrist mac Cormac, the first bishop of Dunkeld in the early 12th century, is thought to have been the progenitor of the MacMillan clan. ![]() The McCormick name was also to be found in Derry while one McCormick family traces itself back to 1749 and John and Jane McCormick of Drumbane in Donegal near the border with Tyrone. His family subsequently emigrated to America. The best-known of these McCormicks was Captain James McCormick who fought on the Protestant side at the siege of Londonderry in 1689 and was granted a coat of arms featuring a mailed fist clutching a spear. Tradition has him as the builder of Kanturk castle in NW Cork.Īnother McCormick base in Ireland was county Antrim in Ulster where Scots McCormicks had come from the Isle of Mull. ![]() Donogh McCormack, however, was killed in an ambush in 1601. There was, according to the Annals of the Four Masters, a McCormack sept in the Fermanagh-Longford area during the 14th and 15th centuries.īy the late 1500’s the McCormacks were recorded as one of the leading gentry in county Cork, with those of Muskerry being powerful enough to raise a large force to assist Desmond in the Elizabethan wars. McCormack is more common in Ireland, McCormick elsewhere.įamily of Cyrus McCormick and the McCormick Reaper. The main spelling variants today are McCormick and McCormack. The name was also popular in Ireland during medieval times – in part due to Saint Cormac, the first Bishop of Cashel in southern Ireland. The surname McCormick or McCormack is an anglicized form of the Old Gaelic patronymic MacCormaigor or “son of Cormac,” Cormac being a personal name from the Celtic corbmac meaning “charioteer.”Īn early mention of the name occurred in 880 when the monks of the Abbey of Iona off Scotland recorded the demise of their abbot Fedorach MacCormaic. ![]()
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