Blair Collection > Surnames & place-names of the Isle of Man

40 Manx Sitrnamcs.
Quarry, contracted from Mac Guaire, ' Guaire's son.'
'GUAIRE fled' at 'the battle of Carn Conaill, fought on Whit-
Sunday, A.D. 646.'*
Compare (Gaelic) Mac Quarrie.
It is a very uncommon name in the Isle of Mann.
Mac Quarres [1504], Mac Wharres [151 i], Quarry
[1684].
QuiNE, contracted from Mac Coinn, or Mac Cuinn,
' Conn's son ' {Conn, ' counsel '). ' Conn, of the
hundred fights,' was one of Ireland's greatest
legendary heroes.
' Mac Cuinn, son of Donnghaile, royal heir of Teathbha,
died A.D. io27.'t
A.D. 1403, 'The king, to all, to whom, etc.,
greeting, Know that we have conceded of our
especial grace to Luke Mac Quyn of the Island
of Mann, scholar, certain alms called particles in
the Island aforesaid, and which were given, con-
firmed, and conceded perpetually to the scholars by
our predecessors, former Kings of England. . . .'J
Compare (Irish) Quin, O'Quin.
Mac Quyn [1403], Quine [1504], Quyn [1511].
Braddan, Marovvn, Maughold, German, Lonan (c), else-
where (u).
QuiNNEY, contracted from Mac ' Connaidh, Connaidh's
son.' (Connaidh, 'crafty,' is the adjectival form of
Conn.)^
Compare (Gaelic) Mac Whinnie, (Irish)
Mc Weeny.
* Chron. Scot., p. 91.
t Four Mast., Vol. II., p. 814.
J Manx Society, Vol. VII., p. 223.
§ By Manx-speaking people this n.i:ne is pronounced as if spelt
kUNYAH.