Quote Originally Posted by O'Callaghan View Post
The main migration of Gaels to Scotland from Ireland pre-dates surnames, so even where the name is similar or related there is often no link atall, but of course there were movements in both directions.

Kennedy is a particularly interesting one, as there are not merely two Kennedy clans, but three. As well as the Scots clan, and I suppose all Scottish Gaels were of the Dalriada, there were Irish Kennedys of the Dalcassians and of the Eugenians, these all being tribes of Gaels, for which I have given the anglicised versions of their names. Callahan is a Eugenian name, but the really famous Kennedy clan (think US politics) is Dalcassian, not Eugenian, so not of my tribe. The name Kennedy is simply the anglicised form of the first name Cenneidhe, of course, which I suppose must have been a popular name. Most Gaelic surnames were formed that way. Of course, not all the Scottish clans were Gaelic, whereas I think generally the Irish ones were, but that's another matter.

Not a historian or in any way qualified in what I am talking about, LOL!
There were also Scot Kennedys who moved over to Ulster in fiarly sizeable numbers and I am sure Irish Kennedys who moved to Scotland as there large Irish colonies in some areas. I think the Chief of the Kennedy clan , the Highland iteration, had declared that all kennedys from all families have a home in the clan, so that's cool.