Not a separate name so much as a local way of saying one. Woulfe records it as a West Connacht form of Murchadh, anglicised there, as Murchadh often was, as Morgan.
Meanings follow Ó Corráin & Maguire's Irish Names and Woulfe;
pronunciations give the commonest Irish-English form.
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