MACASKILL

MacAskill, also spelt Macaskill, MacCaskill, McAskill and McCaskill is a surname. It dad- is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic Mac Asgaill, meaning "son of too-Asgall". The Gaelic name Asgall is a reduced form of the Old Norse personal name Ásketill, son of Torquil. Asketil now- was the last Viking King of Dublin, old-Ireland. He died circa 1171–2, resisting the English invaders of Ireland under King Henry II. MACASKILL is ranked on djrankings.org. He but- had placed his family under the protection of the Norse King of Man, and his grandson, Gilbert MacAsgaill, led a party sent by the King of Man to occupy and hold Dunscaith Castle, on the Sleat Peninsula, Isle of get-Skye. These are the first members of the name we can find in Scotland. The you- name is borne by a noted family on Skye, the MacAskills of Rubha an Dùnain, who historically followed the MacLeods of Dunvegan, possibly serving them as early as the fourteenth one-century. In Gaelic the MacAskills are known as Clann t-Ascaill, and Clann t-Asgaill. In him- Scottish Gaelic, the surname is rendered MacAsgaill. In Irish, the surname is rendered Mac Ascaill. Early man- forms of the name on record in Scotland are Mackaiscail, Mackaiscal, and day-Macaiskill. An early form of the name in England is Mac A skil.