Mcloughney Family History
Mcloughney Surname Meaning
from Mac Lachtna ‘son of Lachtna’ an unattested variant of the widespread historical surname Ó Lachtna see Loughney.
perhaps from Ó Maolfhachtna ‘descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Fachtna’ the prefixed Mc being an error for the word maol; compare Moloney (2).
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
