Murnane Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Murnane Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Murnane

The origin of the name Murnane was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The name Murnane in Ireland is derived from the native Gaelic O'Murnain Sept that was located in County Limerick but which can now be mostly found in County Cork . In mediaeval times this name was sometimes rendered as Iwarrynane and also became anglicized as Warren. When Gaelic names were anglicized during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they were often changed to Anglo equivalents that sounded most like their original Gaelic name. Over the centuries names were changed according to how they sounded and were pronounced with the same name often being both spelled and pronounced differently in neighboring towns and cities. Other anglicized forms of this old name include Murnan, Murnin, Marrinane and Marnane.