The
Gaelic surname Mac Suibhne is a patronymic form of ''
Suibhne'' and means "son of ''Suibhne''".
The personal name ''Suibhne'' means "pleasant".
[ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) p. 1804; Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 2604.]
Anglicised forms of ''Mac Suibhne'' include: ''McSeveney'',
[ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) p. 1806; Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 2604.] ''McSeveny'',
''
McSween'', ''
McSweeney'',
''McSweeny'',
''McSwiney'',
[ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) p. 1808; Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 2604.] ''Sweaney'',
[ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 2604.] ''Sween'',
''
Sweeney'',
''Sweenie'',
''
Sweeny'',
''Sweney'', ''Swiney'', ''
Swinney'', A lenited variant form of ''Mac Suibhne'' is ''Mac Shuibhne''.
Anglicised forms of the latter Gaelic name include: (possibly) ''
Mawhinney'',
[ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) p. 1726.] ''
McQueen'',
[ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) p. 1804.] ''
McQueeney'',
''McQueenie'',
(possibly) ''
McWhinney'',
''Queen'',
[ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) pp. 1804, 2192.] ''Queeney'',
''
Wheen''.
[ Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) p. 1804; Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 2876.]
One particular family that has borne the surname ''Mac Suibhne'' is
Clann Suibhne. Members of this Scottish family settled in
Ulster
Ulster (; ga, Ulaidh or ''Cúige Uladh'' ; sco, label= Ulster Scots, Ulstèr or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kin ...
as
gallowglass
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warriors in the Middle Ages.
People
mac Suibhne
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Dubhghall mac Suibhne
Dubhghall mac Suibhne (fl. 1232 ×1241 – 1262) was a Scottish landholder in Argyll, and a leading member of Clann Suibhne. He was a son of Suibhne mac Duinn Shléibhe, and appears to have held lordship of Knapdale from at least the 1240s to th ...
, 13th-century Argyllian magnate
Mac Suibhne
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Aodán Mac Suibhne, 21st-century hurling referee
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Aodh Mac Suibhne, 16th-century Irish gallowglass
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Domnall na Madhmann Mac Suibhne, 15th-century Irish gallowglass
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Eóin Mac Suibhne, 14th-century Scottish nobleman
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Micheál Mac Suibhne, 18th-century poet
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Murchadh Mac Suibhne
Murchadh Mac Suibhne (died 1267) was a leading member of Clann Suibhne. He was a grandson of the family's eponymous ancestor Suibhne mac Duinnshléibhe, Suibhne mac Duinn Shléibhe, and a nephew of the family's mid-thirteenth-century representati ...
, 13th-century Argyllian magnate
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Suibhne MacAnrahan, brother to the High King of Ireland, who built Castle Sween in the late 11th century
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{{surname, Mac Suibhne
Irish-language masculine surnames
Surnames of Irish origin
Scottish surnames