Mainéar Uí Chuinneagáin

Manorcunningham takes its name from the manor estate granted to James Cunningham, an Ayrshire laird, in 1610 during the Plantation of Ulster. The Irish name, Mainéar Uí Chuinneagáin, translates directly as "the manor of the Cunningham family," reflecting the Anglo-Scottish colonial settlement that reshaped East Donegal in the early seventeenth century. The name Cunningham itself derives from a...