Mac Keighry - Kells
Mac Keighry or Mac Carey - Irish / Mheic Fhiachra. A Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht. Although previously anglicized as Mac Keighry, Mac Kehery and Mac Keaghry they have now nearly all changed to Carey.
Keightley. English name used as a synonym for Gately, which see.
Mac Keigue. Used as a variant for Mac Keague, which see, in the east of Co. Galway in Southern Connacht.
O Keily. See O Kiely.
O Keiran. A Sept / Family branch, who had their territory and were Chiefs in Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province.
Keirsey or Kiersey / Ciarasach and / or de Cearsaigh. Norman toponymic origins in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province in the 13th Century AD. Not connected to de Courcy.
Mac Keith. Highland Scottish origins in the Ulster Province in the 17th Century AD after the confiscation of the 3,500,000 acres of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill territories there and the foreign non - Catholic plantations there.
O Kelaghan or O Kellahan. See O Kealahan.
O Keliher or O Kellaher. See O Kelleher.
Keling -
Kell. See Kells.
Mac Kell. See Mackle.
Mac Kellan. Heremonian Dal Cuinn 3 Colla Sept / Family branch, who used it as a variant for Mac Killan, which see, in the kingdom of Orghialla / Airghialla / Oriel in the Ulster Province and nearby in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster. Ancestors: 87.Eochy / Echu Doimhlen, *86.Cairbre Liffeachair - of the Liffey the 117th King of Tara / Ireland.
Mac Kellan. Used for Mac Callion, which see, other then in the 3 Colla kingdom of Orghialla / Airghialla / Oriel in the Ulster Province and nearby in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster.
O Kelledy or O Keleedy or O Kalladie or O Keeledie - Irish / Ua Callada / callaid (crafty). Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Cenel Rochada Fernmag (Fer Fermaighe / Farney Sept / Family branch, who had their territory at Farney in Co. Monaghan in Southern Ulster and Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster in the kingdom of Orghialla / Oriel. Ancestors:110.Lethlobar, 109.Fogartach, 108.Murray / Muireadach, 107.Laidgnen, 106.Fogartach, 105.Duncan / Donncuan, 104.Fogartach,103.Ruadrach, 102.Maoilfothartaigh, 101.Artrach, 100.Aitheachda, 99.Mailduib, 98.Maoilfothartaigh, 97.Cronan,96.Fergus, 95.Nadsluaig, 94.Cairpre Daim Argait, 93.Eochy / Echach, 92.Criffan / Crimthainn Leith / Lethan, 91.Feicc, 90.Dega Duirn, 89.Rochad / Rochatha, 88.Murray / Muireadach Colla Da Crioch / Focrith - of the Two Countries, 87.Eochy / Echu Doimhlen, *86.Cairbre Liffeachair the 117th King of Tara / Ireland.
O Kelleher or O Keller - Irish / Ua Ceileachair (dear companion). Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough Muintir Cheileachair Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in Co. Clare in the north - west of Tuaiscert Mhumhain / Thomond / Northern Munster. (Directly descended from a nephew of *105.Brian Boru the Dalcassian 175th High King of Ireland in the early 11th Century AD.) They eventually migrated to Co. Kerry and Co. Cork in Desmond / Southern Munster in the 14th Century AD, and continued to have territory in the Munster Province from the 12th to the 15th Century AD. Donough O Kelleher was a successor of St. Ciaran of Saigher the Bishop of Ossory in 1048 AD. Ancestors: 106.Kelleher / Ceileachar a brother of Kennedy / Ceaneidigh the ancestor of the O Kennedys of Co. Clare in the Munster Province, Ormond and Co. Wexford 105.Duncan / Donncuan a brother to Brian Boru, 104.Kennedy / Ceaneidigh, 103.Lorcan / Fingin, 102.Lachtna, 101.Corc, 100.Anluan, 99.Mahon, 98.Turlough (Ui Turlough), 97.Cathal, 96.Aodh Caomh the King of Munster, 95.Conall, 94.Eochy / Eochaidh Baill Dearg, 93.Cairthenn Fionn Oge Mor, 92.Blood / Blod (Ui Bloid), 91.Cas the King of Thomond. (Dal gCais).
Keller. German origins. See also Kelleher.
Kellet. Northern English toponymic origins into Ireland after the William of Orange Invasion and the English land confiscations and were granted land in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster and Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster.
O Kelley -
Kelloch. See Killough.
O Kellog or O Kalloch. Irish - Ua Ceallaigh. See Killough.
Kells or Kell . Norse (ketill or cauldron) Scottish toponymic origins. Known as Kells in Co. Cavan and Co. Monaghan in Southern Ulster and as Kell in Co. Antrim in the north - east of Ulster Province.