Scottish and Irish (Ulster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish),
patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant of (the Virgin)
Mary’.
Irish: in Armagh, reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Giolla Mhura ‘servant of St. Mura (of Fahan, Donegal)’ or, in
Sligo, of Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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