Glen Lonan

[Baird]

This is a long shot but does anyone know of any connection between the place name Glen Lonan between Oban and Fort William and the surname M'Lonan or McAlonan or MacAlonan?
Apparantly the name originates around Lochaber but all McAlonan and variant trees go back to the Ballymena area of County Antrim after 1746. I believe they were a sept of Clan Cameron of Locheil and I'm wondering if they " did a runner" after Culloden.

[Macac]

The McLennans steadfastly maintain that McAlonan is a variant of McLennan. I am not so sure and whilst I have not yet investigaed thoroughly, their seems to be some suggestion that the name could have originated in the Isle of Man.
I would be interested to hear from others on this
Cheers
Chris

[Baird]

Thanks Chris, I would be interested in a "time line" for the I.O.M.  My earliest record is from Islay but all McAlonans nowadays are traced back to around Ballymena but only after 1746 .

Baird

[Macac]

Baird,
I am no authority, but there is a parish "Lonan" on the east coast of I. of M.
I believe that Lonan was a nephew of St. Patrick, so this gives you some sort of a time line.
Remains of Kirk Lonan (the old "church") are still there.
I may be in fantasy land of course. I had always assumed that my McAlonans had come over from Scotland in the 1700s as I have only been able to trace them back to Ballymoney late 1700s. The origin of the name had always been a side issue for me.
There is also some talk of St Adamnan....... based I think on the island of Iona and the author of a biographyof St Columbine. St Adamnan was around between 600 and 700 AD
Happy to discuss this further if you wish you can contact me directat 

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[Graeme Macaloney]

I have been researching Macaloney, McAlonan and Glen Lonan. There is a definitive and repeated link between Macaloney and McAlonan whereby both Scottish and Canadian Macaloney's were called McAlonan before they left Ballymena, Co. Antrim. The Macaloney's are definitively Cameron's and I have found no connection to MacLennan's.

Graeme Macaloney

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[Baird]

Hello Graeme,
                   I would agree with you regarding Lochaber and a being sept of Clan Cameron. My theory is that this led to a departure to County Antrim particularly around Ballymena after 1746.

regards,
Baird