McGeachie (mag eacaro), MacGaugh (mag eacada), MacGeagh (mag eacada). McCaughan an Anglicized form of the Old Gaelic MacEachain, son of Eachain. An Ulster surname, recorded in the Counties of Antrim, Down, Londonderry and Tyrone. Some families of Mc Caughen changed their name to MacCaughey, itself an Anglicized form of the Ulster name Mac Eachaidh, son of the Horseman or Horse Lord. The Scots names MacGeachie and MacGeachy are also derived from Mag Eochaidh. McGachy, McGeachy. An anglicized version of the Gaelic 'Mac Eochaidh'. A surname in both Ulster and Scotland. William McGaheye settled in York, Virginia, in 1653, and Alexander McGeachy,
Moran (surname) in north Mayo, surrounding the modern town of Ballina. Following the Norman invasion, their territory was usurped by the Barretts and Burkes and the sept lost its central organisation. The modern distribution of the surname within Mayo suggests that the Morans spread southwards and today are chiefly found in the central area of the county, particularly in the barony of Carra. Moran (surname) Moran () is a modern Irish surname and derived from membership of a medieval dynastic sept. The name means a descendent of "Mórán". “Mor” in Gaelic translates as big or great and “an” as the prefix the.