The story
- Old Irish · derived fromdéorad“stranger, outlaw”
- Irish · derived fromMac an Deoraidh“son of the stranger”
- English todayMcAdory
Anglicized form of Northern Irish Mac an Deoraidh (“son of the stranger”), from Old Irish déorad (“stranger, outlaw”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.