Etymology

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Irish Mac Fithcheallaigh
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromMac Fithcheallaigh“son of the chess player”
  2. English todayMcFeely

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fithcheallaigh (“son of the chess player”), from fithcheallach (“chess player”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.