Considine Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Considine Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Considine

The Considine family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Cossentine. The prefix Mac is never used with this name nowadays, but MacConsidine is found in old documents in English. In Irish it is Mac Consaidin, an example of a Gaelic surname formed from a foreign Christian name, meaning 'son of Constantine'. These were an illustrious Sept of Dalcassian origin but records of their exploits are seldom found in Irish history or literature, though they appear frequently in the local histories of County Clare as people of substance. In 1627 Cornelius MacConsidine was among the distinguished Irish exiles in Brussels. There was also a Norman family of de Constentine, one of whom founded the Priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Tristernagh in Westmeath, in the thirteenth century. They had no connection with the families of Thomond, who were a branch of the O'Briens.