Irish: variant of McGrath, which is based on the personal
name Mac Raith, of which this is a phonetic development; the
-th, having been pronounced in the early period, became silent
in later Gaelic. Compare McRae.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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