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Mac Mathghamhna
Extracted from the Wikipedia article McMahon clans.
McMahon, also spelt MacMahon (Irish: Mac Mathúna, traditionally Mac Mathghamhna), were different Middle Age era Irish clans. Their name is derived from the GaelicMacMathghamhna meaning 'son of the bear'. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the MacMahons were one of the chiefly families of the Dal gCais or Dalcassians who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC. The same historian stated that another group of McMahons were a chiefly family of the Oirghialla or Airgíalla tribe who were in turn from the Laigin tribe who were the third wave of Celts to settle in Ireland during the first century BC.