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Help[Surname] Re: MACKELO
in reply to a message by Mags Adams-Aston
My Irish surname book has it alternately spelled as MacKellow, possibly from Scots Mac Killoch ...a toponymic from Ayrshire ...
McBain's Irish translation site has the following:
ceall
g. cille, a church, so Irish, Early Irish cell; from Latin cella, a cell, a hermit's cell especially, whence the Gadelic use. Hence cealloir, superior of a cell, and the name Mackellar. "A retired spot"
Best I can do ...
McBain's Irish translation site has the following:
ceall
g. cille, a church, so Irish, Early Irish cell; from Latin cella, a cell, a hermit's cell especially, whence the Gadelic use. Hence cealloir, superior of a cell, and the name Mackellar. "A retired spot"
Best I can do ...
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