In the same province we find the Mac Dermots of Moylurg divided into three distinct families the head of whom was, _par excellence_, styled the Mac Dermot, and the other two who were tributary to him called, the one Mac Dermot Roe, _i. e._ the Red, and the other Mac Dermot Gall, or the Anglicised. In Thomond we find the Mac Namaras split into two distinct families, distinguished by the names of Mac Namara Fin, _i. e._ the Fair, and Mac Namara Reagh, or the Swarthy. In Desmond the family of Mac Carthy split into three powerful branches, known by the names of Mac Carthy More or the Great, Mac Carthy Reagh or the Swarthy, and Mac Carthy Muscryagh, _i. e._ of Muskerry. Beauford asserts with his usual confidence that Mac Carthy Reagh signifies Mac Carthy the King, but this is utterly fallacious, for the epithet, which is anglicised Reagh, is written _riach_ and _riabhach_, in the original annals of Inisfallen and of the Four Masters, and translated _fuscus_ by Philip O’Sullivan Beare (who knew the import of it far better than Beauford) in his History of the Irish Catholics published at Lisbon in 1621. The O’Sullivans split into the families of O’Sullivan More and O’Sullivan Beare; the O’Donovans into those of O’Donovan More, O’Donovan Locha Crot, and O’Hea O’Donovan; the O’Kennedys of Ormond into those of O’Kennedy Finn, O’Kennedy Roe, and O’Kennedy Don; the O’Farrells of Annally into those of O’Farrell Bane, _i. e._ the White, and O’Farrell Boy, or the Yellow, &c., &c. The foregoing notices are sufficient to show the nature of the surnames in use among the ancient Scotic or Milesian Irish families. It will be now expected that I should say a few words on the effect which the Anglo-Norman invasion and the introduction of English laws, language, and names, have had in changing or modifying them, and on the other hand the influence which the Irish may have had in changing or modifying the English names.