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

50 Manx Sutt^amES.
form of Mac Corcurain, ' Corcuran's son ' {corcur,
' purple')-
'The Clan Ruainne, of the flowery roads,
A sweet, clear, smooth-streamed territory,
Mag Corcrain is of this well peopled cantred
Of the white-breasted brink of banquets.*
' Cathasach Ua Corcrain,' ad. 1045.'!
Donagh Mac Corcrane was one of O'CarrolFs
freeholders in 1576, when O'Carroll made his sub-
mission to Queen Elizabeth.
Compare (Irish) Corcoran, Corkan.
CORCAN [15II], CORKINE [1521], CORKAN [1611],
CORCHAN [1720].
It was never a very common name in the Isle of
Man.
Marown, German, Michael (c), elsewhere (u).
Allen, probably from Alainn, 'handsome.'
' Killing of Dor, son of Aedh Allan,'J a.d. 624.
The Stuarts were descended from the great
Norman family of Fitz Alan.
Allan, according to Train, was Governor of the
Isle of Man in a.d. 1274.
'Alan of Wygeton has letters of presentation to the
Church of St. Carber in Mann, vacant, and in the King's
gift,'§ a.d. 1 29 1.
Allen is not a common name in the Isle of
Man, being chiefly confined to the parishes of
Maughold, Andreas, and Bride. Many of those
bearing the name are probably descendants of the
five successive vicars of Maughold, the first of
whom came from Norfolk.
* O'Huidhrin, p. 133. t Four Mast., Vol. II., p. 849.
X Chron. Scot., p. 79. § Manx Society, Vol. VII., p. 113.