Does anyone know where the surname Mcclough came from.?

Question

Does anyone know where the surname Mcclough came from.?

Answer 1

Ultimately from the Norse, from the sons of a viking or two named Olaf, the name being a shortened version of Mac Olaf.  Or so I have heard.

Answer 2

I suspect that McClough is a variant spelling of McCullough,

although I could be wrong, but I cannot find McClough anywhere. It might also be from Clough, with the Mc. prefix added early in either Ireland or Scotland ???

The McCullough Name Meaning and History

Irish (especially Ulster): Anglicized form of the Gaelic surname Mac Cú Uladh, a patronymic from Cú Uladh ‘hound of Ulster’. Compare McNally, which is from Mac Con Uladh, genitive form of the same name. It has sometimes been erroneously associated with Gaelic cullach ‘wild boar’, and some families in County Sligo have translated it into English as Boar.

Clough  

Last name origins & meanings:

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a precipitous slope, Middle English clough (Old English clōh ‘ravine’).

Welsh: nickname from cloff ‘lame’.

Link to Irish Names

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik...