title: Mac Gafraidh
text: # Mac Gafraidh
  
  Mac Gafraidh was the surname of a Gaelic-Irish Brehon family.
  
  ## Overview
  
  The Mac Gafraidh family were ollamhs to the Maguire of Fermanagh. The surname is now generally rendered as Caffrey.
  
  ## Annalistic references
  
  * M1478.12 Macrifferty, i.e. Ciothruadh, Ollav to Maguire in poetry ... died.
  