Occasionally recorded as synonyms these two surnames are of different origin. MacEntee is Mac an tsaoi (pronounced Mac on tee as in the anglicized form). The Irish word saoi is used to denote scholar or simply a cultured person. The MacEntees, formerly more numerous than today, were always located in Oriel, and the name occured there as MacEntee, MacEtye, MacYntie, MacAtee etc., in the Chancery Rolls, Fiants, Hearth Money Rolls, and other sixteenth and seventeenth century records, especially in counties Monaghan and Armagh. MacGinty (Mag Fhinneachta in Irish) is a Donegal surname, now found chiefly in the south-eastern part of Donegal bordering on Tyrone and Fermanagh. It is also (without the prefix Mac) fairly numerous in Co. Mayo; this probably represents the result of the great migration of Donegal families to north Connacht at the time of the Plantation of Ulster. It does not appear in the 1659 "census" or in the Elizabethan Fiants. Jervis MacEntee (1828-1891), a noted American landscape painter, was of Irish ancestry.