Interestingly, the Gaelic name for Myaugh in C. Wexford is also Maigh Eadh, which threw me off the carpenter meaning and made me think the man found religion in Ireland. Just a coincidence that Monzie was rendered this way, I suppose.
The clan system had been destroyed, but only a few decades earlier. I can tell you that clan mottos are on old and new gravestones in Nova Scotia so the pride didn't die nearly as quickly as the system.
Natan Easbaig Mac Dhòmhnaill, FSA Scot
Past High Commissioner, Clan Donald Canada
“Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we, in dreams, behold the Hebrides.” - The Canadian Boat Song.
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