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MacNamara
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<p>MacNamara or McNamara is an Irish surname of a family of <a href="/facts/County_Clare/X5WVnehn">County Clare</a> in Ireland. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the MacNamaras were one of the chiefly families of the <a href="/facts/Dal_gCais/mr02U7pX">Dal gCais</a> or <a href="/facts/Dalcassians/mr02U7pX">Dalcassians</a> who were a tribe of the <a href="/facts/Erainn/w46MKvS2">Erainn</a> who were the second wave of Celts to settle in <a href="/facts/Ireland/35vYxXdP">Ireland</a> between about 500 and 100 <a href="/facts/Anno_Domini/NmQwnQNj">BC</a>. </p>