fitz-ursulas

Updated: May 10, 2025

"The MacMahons in the north were anciently English, to wit, descended from the Fitz-Ursulas, which was a noble family in England; and the same appeareth by the significance of their Irish names. Likewise the M'Sweenies, now in Ulster, were recently of the Veres in England; but that they themselves, for hatred of the English, so disguised their names." Spenser's View of the State of Ireland.

James Anthony Froude - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.