McElvenny


Variants McElvenna, McIlveen, Kilbane. This name in Irish is MacGiolla Bhain and the latter variants are the anglicized forms of this. This 'sept' came from County Sligo. A 'sept' or 'clan' was a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory. This 'sept' is of the Hy Fiachrach and are located in the Parish of Dromard, County Sligo. In county Moyo the name has become Kilbane. It appears in the 1659 census as MacElveaine in the baronies of Dromahair and Rosclogher which are at the northern end of County Leitrim. The form McIlveen is found in South Down and it appears frequently in the County Armargh Hearth Money Rolls of 1664. McIlvany, McElvenna and Gilvany are found in North-East Ulster.

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