Northern Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Cuairt or Mac Cuarta, apparently meaning ‘son of a
journey’, which Woulfe suggests may be a reduced form of Mac
Muircheartaigh (see McMurtry).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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