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(from www.irishsurnames.com)
(from www.irishsurnames.com)
The Irish name, McDermott, is derived from the native Gaelic Mac Diarmada Septs of which there were three, all based in Connaught. The Roscommon Sept was located in County Roscommon and led by the 'Prince of Coolavin'. The other main Sept was known as 'MacDermot Roe' taken from the Gaelic word meaning 'red'. "Diarmada" is loosely translated in Irish as "warrier god".
If you are a Healy, Healey, Hely, Haly, Hailey etc., the chances are you are a member of that distinguished historical family from Co. Sligo in Ireland, the Muintir ui Heilide.
The Ui Heilide took their patrimony from Drumrath, where Donnacha McDermott with O'Connor, O'Reilly and McRagnall families, won a famous victory and the Lordship of Tyrrerrill, in Southern Sligo. To honour his victory, McDermott gave the lands of the Western shore of Lough Arrow, to his brave warlords, and the name Healy, or "claimant" was born.
If you know the saying, "The Fighting Irish", or "Getting Your Irish Up", it's from brave families such as the Healys that it comes from. But the Healys were more than just McDermott's mercenaries. Up to the 17th century Cromwellian confiscation, they were known as among Sligo's nobility. As front-line stock troops, they received their lands, 100 sheep, 100 pigs, 100 cattle etc. Dermot Og, killed in 1309, was known as "Loyal and Princely", Muirchertach Og, killed in 1403, was "Rich and Prosperous" and Dubessa, died in 1328, as not only daughter of the "Best Warrior", but married into the Royal Household of O'Connor.
www.users.bigpond.net.au/hardiehistory/namemeanings/Names/mcdermott.htm
and
www.healyfn.com/healy5.html.
