Gaelic sept

Considine

Mac Consaidín

“son of Constantine”

🏔 Clare · An Clár Source: Woulfe, Irish Names and Surnames (1923) ↗

The sept's historic heartland, highlighted. People moved — a name can be found far from home.

The story

Son of Constantine — a Roman emperor's name, taken up in Ireland as a Christian flourish and worn by a Gaelic family who were anything but Roman. Woulfe makes them a branch of the O'Briens in Clare, descended from Domhnall Mór Ó Briain, King of Munster, who died in 1194. A cadet line of the royal house of Thomond, in other words, holding the country of the Fergus estuary and carrying an emperor's name into the Irish record.

Their world Around 1450 — The Gaelic Resurgence. Plague, absentee landlords and Gaelic recovery shrink English Ireland to a fortified strip around Dublin.

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What the name is made of

Mac Consaidín
Mac — son of (Mc is the same word, contracted)
Consaidín — the ancestor, trade or place the name is built on

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Is Considine an Irish name?

Considine is a Gaelic name: it was formed in Irish, from an Irish ancestor, before English was spoken here.

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From Wikipedia — “Considine”

Considine is an Irish surname anglicised from the Gaelic form Mac Consaidín meaning "son of Consaidín" being derived from a foreign Christian name; meaning "son of Constantine". According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the MacConsidines were one of the chiefly families of the Dal gCais or Dalcassians who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC. The family were based in Kingdom of Thomond, much of which later became County Clare.

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Neighbours — other names from the same counties

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Quick answers

Is Considine an Irish name?

Considine is a Gaelic name: it was formed in Irish, from an Irish ancestor, before English was spoken here. In Irish the name is Mac Consaidín.

What does the surname Considine mean?

Considine (Irish: Mac Consaidín) means “son of Constantine”. Origin: Gaelic sept.

Where in Ireland is the surname Considine from?

The historic homeland of the Considine name is Clare. People moved, so the name can be found far beyond it.

What is the Irish for Considine?

Mac Consaidín.

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