McCrory Family Crest, Coat of Arms & McCrory Name Origin

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Origin of the Name McCrory

The ancient history of the name McCrory was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Variants of the Gaelic name McCrory include McRory, McCrorie and Rogers. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as evidenced by the Tudor Fiants and by the census of 1659 and other records, this name was both numerous and ubiquitous. In modern times it is relatively rare. The true Gaelic sept of MacRuaidhri, from which these names are derived, belongs properly to County Tyrone. A branch of this sept was established in County Derry where they became erenaghs of Ballynascreen in the barony of Loughlinsholin. Cardinal McRory, 1861-1945, was of this sept. Descendants of McRory are still found in Counties Tyrone and in County Leitrim, while McCrory and McGrory are mostly found in parts of Ulster. In the fourteenth century some families of the name came to Ulster from Scotland as Gallowglasses.