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Ó Scannláin is the name of a number of Gaelic-Irish families, all unrelated. The most noteworthy were located in
Munster Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" (). Following the Nor ...
. Nowadays rendered Scanlan, or Scanlon. In The Book of Munster Scannláin mac Eochaidh mac Ailghile mac Toirdhealbhach (a quo Uí Thoirdhealbhach) is given as the ancestor of the Uí Scannláin and other septs, it is possible this is the origin of the family in Clare.
Tadhg Ó Donnchadha Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (1874 – 1949) was an Irish writer, poet, editor, translator and a prominent member of the Gaelic League (''Conradh na Gaeilge'') and the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was editor of ''Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge'' (The ...
,"An Leabhar Muimhneach", 1900, page 307, https://archive.org/details/leabharmuimhneac01odon/page/306
This would make the family a sept of the
Dál gCais The Dalcassians ( ) are a Gaels, Gaelic Irish clan, generally accepted by contemporary scholarship as being a branch of the Déisi Muman, that became very powerful in Ireland during the 10th century. Their genealogies claimed descent from Tál ...
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See also

* Mac Scannláin *
Ó Scannail The surname Ó Scannail (English: Scannell) is both an ancient Irish name and a clan who were a sept of the Eóganachta. The name derives from the Irish word ''scannal'', originally meaning quarrel, contention, fight, or dispute. Etymology There a ...
* Ó Scealláin


References

* ''The Surnames of Ireland'',
Edward MacLysaght Edgeworth Lysaght, later Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght, and from 1920 Edward MacLysaght (; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986) was a genealogist of twentieth-century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Rev. Pat ...
, p. 17,
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