Boy's name
Conn
“KON”
possibly 'chief' or 'hound'
The story behind the name
Conn Cétchathach, 'Conn of the Hundred Battles', is the legendary ancestor of the Connachta, and of half the dynasties of the north and west. Conn Bacach O'Neill was the first to accept an English earldom in 1542, beginning the slow end of Gaelic Ulster.
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