ELLICOTT

ELLICOTT. In old Irish records this name is written inditi'erently Mac Elligott and 2Iac Lrod. "The family originally came to Kerry in consequence of an early marriage of one of the Fitz -Maurices, Barons of Lixnaw, with an heiress of that name ; and by reason of this connection Fitz-Maurice is said to bear a tower in his coat of arms ; and a parish of Kerry, near Tralee, is called Bally-Mac-Elligott." D'AIton. The name took the form of Ellicott in the seventeenth century.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.