I’ve always thought of mór (as in an Gorta Mór) simply as an Irish vocabulary word. So I was a bit surprised to learn that it was once used as a female name:
In the late middle ages, the name Mór (meaning great or big) was very popular for a woman. Although given the 21st century [...]
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Irish Names from the Middle Ages – Dubchoblaig, Flaithbertach, Mór, Nuadu