Boy's name
Éigneachán
“EYE-na-khawn”
a diminutive of Éigneach
The story behind the name
An old Tirconnell name, peculiar, Woulfe says, to the O'Donnells, the O'Dohertys and a few other Donegal families, who said it locally as Eighneachán or Ighneachán. In English it was replaced with Aeneas or Ignatius.
Where the name belongs
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