Ó Begléighinn

Ó Beigléighinn or Beglin was the name of a hereditary medical family of County Longford.

Situation

The Irish surname of Beglin/Beglan is a rare name of Counties Meath, Westmeath and County Longford situated in the Irish Midlands, in the province of Leinster, originally these counties was situated in the province of Meath. The ÓBeigléighinn were an ancient Irish Sept of the clann of Tellach Cearbhallan from the kinship of Conmaicne rein in the Kingdom of Bréifne.

Derivation

The name derives from the ancient Gaeilge surname Ó Beigléighinn, which translated means descendant of the little scholar, the Ó, Ua or Uí prefix meaning "descendant of", Beig or Beag meaning "little" and Leighinn meaning "Scholar or scholarship". The O'Beglin family were one of the ancient Gaeilge hereditary medical families of mediaeval Ireland first recorded in the ancient historic texts of Ireland which are now kept in Cork University.

This name should not be confused with the other Irish surname Begley which derives from the ancient Gaeilge name Ó Beaglaoich (meaning beag "little" laoich "hero"), which are a different Sept from Donegal.