Family Names with Dublin Origins Taylor Casey Hennessy Wilson Plunkett Tourist Sites Quiz Given a famous Irish tourist spot, find it on the map of Ireland, see how you score. Challenge your friends! Irish Country Quiz Have you ever found yourself looking at a map of Ireland, knowing which co...
In the north Derry area, between the towns of Garvagh and Dungiven, a district known as Glenullin (glen of the eagle) might give us a clue as to his origins. In the middle of a field in the remote townland of Slaughtaverty, is an area known locally as the ‘Giant’s Grave’ but...
"The remote origins of the UiNeill are far from clear: they dominated the midlands and the north-west in the seventh century, but claimed in their legends and genealogies to be kings of Tara since the time of St. Patrick and before. Nobody quite knows what the kingship of Tara was: it...
Family Names with Dublin Origins Taylor Casey Hennessy Wilson Plunkett Tourist Sites Quiz Given a famous Irish tourist spot, find it on the map of Ireland, see how you score. Challenge your friends! Irish Country Quiz Have you ever found yourself looking at a map of Ireland, knowing which co...
Irish surname origins are not always connected to direct patrilineal genetic origins, and neither are genetic origins always connected to single surnames (Fitzpatrick and Fitzpatrick 2020). Nash (2008) further describes how the assumption that a specific family name defines a clan misrepresents the ...