Irish Translation Forum

Irish McManus Extracts
Mìneachadh Sloinn MacMaghnusa na hEireann

I found this and thought you might be interested

http://members.aol.com/manus/mcmdoc_1.htm

still not sure where the Mac Maghnais variant fits in

From what I can gather from Googling and looking in a few reference books - It appears to run as follows

Mac Maghnais - old form

Mac Maghnusa - later form

Mac Manusa - modern rendering after the reform of spelling

Take your pick.

thanks for the many replies,
I've visited many of them, very interesting.

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I'm just another american looking for his roots!
Can't seem to find a definite origin, although my grand father has mentioned the name Thomas Bellew McManus before, I belive someone mentioned that in a earlier post.

Tomás Beilliú Mac Maghnais/Maghnusa
Thomas Bellew McManus (old/middle)

This would probably get you some good results (seeing as you're going for roots, the name'd probably be in an older form.)

~Adam.

oisin718 wrote:Is that just from memory, or do you have a handy reference book that I should consider investing in?

Not from memory, (although I did know that at one stage, cos I almost had a brother-in-law from Fermanagh, called McManus who explained it all to me), just good old www.google.ie, the best reference "book" you'll ever find