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The name McCoy is both Scots and Irish. The name derives fom the Gaelic "Mac Aodha". It is anglicized McCoy by a family in Co. Limerick which migrated there from Ulster. MacAodha is also found in Co. Galway and of Scottish origin in Ulster. (Sloinnte Gael is Gall, P. Woulfe).

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