ac
Cean-tyre; Mac Cean-tyre
was the old Gaelic word now known as Kintire, the area in which the Scottish MacIntyres
settled after sailing to the district of Loarn
in Kintire in galleys. Tyre is the same as the Irish Tir-, meaning land. the Cean
prefix means in this location name. (Loairn?) The name Mac Cean Tire,
when anglicized, would have dropped the C
in Cean, becoming Mac EanTire, Mac Antire, or even MacIntyre.
Cold is the wind across Islay Warriors of Cantire are coming They will commit a ruthless deed They will kill Mongan, son of Fiachna. Cold is the wind across Ile, which they have at Ceann Tire; They shall commit a cruel deed in consequence, they shall kill Mongan, son of Fiachna.
Scottish Clan Ross: The "clan" ROSS was founded by Paul MacTire [or McIntire] starting in the C12th by uniting with the Rosses seven sler clans or septs; namely, the Andrews, Andersons, Gillanders, MacTires, MacTears, MacTaggart and Taggarts.. McIntire was simply a variant of MacTire, rather than the other way around, as is commonly supposed..In this pedigree, Paul appears as "Paul Mac Tire" or Paul the son of Tire. But Alexander MacBain, says: Tyre was not his father, as usually is supposed but Mac-tire (meaing "Wolf', a common name in his day and earlier; the name is Paul Mac-ic-Tire.
The Earls of Ross received a grant of North Argyll from Alexander II in 1221; could a branch of this family, the MacTires of Clan Ross, have settled in Kintire at about this time… the MacIntyre of Scotland surname is not derived from the Irish phrase Mac an t-Saoir. They were hereditary foresters under the Stewarts and the Campbells of Kintire. A MacIntyre of Craignish, colm, signed his name to a bond of man-rent in 1612, as "colm M'Donchie Vc Intyre Vc Coshem." In this document the clan name is given as "Clanntyre Vc Coshem." And variants of the surname found in Scotland are most commonly MacTire, MacTyre, etc. the clan name called Clanntyre the clan name translated means: children of Tyre. …This form is also quite common in Ireland, ie., clann Lochlan, the children of Lochlan. In each case, the word following the clann is a personal name. So the clan name of the MacIntyres would indicate they were descended from an ancestor named "Tyre." Tyre is not a common personal name, but MacTire occurs in both Scotland and Ireland, and means literally "son of the wolf." And Paul MacTire, of Clann Ross, was in some accounts, surnamed named MacTire. Ross Septs, the Cineal Loairn of Dalriada and Fortriu, the Érainn of Moray, the Érainn of Cianacht, Clan Nechtan
The 'ic' here is a second 'mac' forming with Tire the 'son of a wolf' meaning. It really should be written Paul mac Mac-Tire, but when spoken, the second M would tend to drop out of the name, resulting in the form quoted by MacBain. possible that MacIntyre is simply a form of Mac-ic-Tire or Mac-in-Tire, in shortened form, simply MacTire or MacTyre. Trying to pronounce Mac-ic-Tire …A clan map of Scotland, the lands of the Clan Ross were far to the north of Kintire in Argyle, making a descent from this historical Paul Mac Tire doubtfull, unless one takes into account the fact that the Clan Ross were granted lands in northern Argylle in 1225 by Alexander II. The MacIntyres are said to be descended from MacDonalds of Kintyre and a MacDonald called Cean-Tire (pronounced Kintyre and meaning 'headland'.) who possessed land there. His son, John, upon acquiring the lands of Deghnish in Lorn was then known as John Mac-Cein-Teire-Dhegnish. from which location they derived their name, Mac Cean-Tire.