Quoting....."rosemarie benson" <irish_clones@hotmail.com> >Hi, >Is the surname Cairns Irish or Scot ?? CAIRNS: O'CAIN (carn = "a heap") anglicised Cairn, MacCairn, Cairnes. Kearin/s, Kearns, Kerin, Kieran, etc.. Descended from FINACHTACH of the O'Hart pedigree, as did CAROLAN, DONNELLAN, and FLANAGAN. All Ulster families. >From "Irish Pedigrees", by O'Hart Patrick Traynor, in California's gold-rush country. tray@jps.net