Comiskey Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Comiskey Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Comiskey

The ancient history of the name Comiskey was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include McComiskey, Cumiskey, Comaskey, Comesky, Commiskey, Cummiskey and Comerford. These names are derived from the Gaelic MacCumascaigh sept that was originally located in County Monagahan but was later found in Counties Longford and Cavan. A sept or clan was a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory. 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. The name appears frequently in the Hearth Money Rolls between the years 1664 and 1666 in County Monaghan. It is also found in the Ormond Manuscripts in the seventeenth century. In County Down a lot of Comiskeys have kept the prefix 'Mac'. In Cavan some families of the name Comerford have changed their name to Comiskey.